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A life-changing summer experience

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What happens when the odds are not in your favor?

We confront the odds and turn them to our favor. This is a very powerful life lesson, but one that is not taught early in schools to our children.

The mission to break habitual thought patterns that sabotage an individual’s future early in life, like “I am not good at Math,”, or “I am not as good as my sibling” or even gender generaliza­tions and self fulfilling prophesies like “I am just a girl” or “I am shy” inspired Cherry Africa, a Filipino expatriate trainer who’s based in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia the last 14 years to come back home and make a difference this time among Filipinos like her. “Our success stories abroad must burn here in my own country for Filipino game changers to emerge,” enthuses master coach Cherry who aims to see more Filipino youth participat­e in changing themselves, other people’s lives and their communitie­s.

Cherry Africa has set her goals to training more Filipinos in the next 5 years through a reverse engineerin­g mind coaching tool called Neuro Linguistic Programmin­g ( NLP), a technology of change and achievemen­t rooted on the psychology and physiology of success.

NLP is an empowermen­t tool that links conscious and unconsciou­s thought processes and language patterns to success. Largely used by successful people like Bill Clinton, Andrei Agassi and Oprah Winfrey, Cherry believes that NLP can also have far reaching and extensive applicatio­n among young children and young adults wanting to become achievers. Her goal in the Philippine­s is to establish a strong pool of 1,000 World Stage graduates to form the Mastermind base of Superstars who think, feel, move and believe in the Science of Success and Transforma­tion.

After a two-year hiatus in the Philippine­s, the Superstar Student Camp Editions are back, with exciting themes like Hunger Games, Divergent, Harry Potter, CSI and Half Blood. “The idea is to draw out life lessons from these movies and TV shows and infuse them to our own life situations. When it is fun for children, it ceases being a lecture or a workshop,” Cherry shares. In these camps, children learn about empowering mindsets, knowing when to sacrifice battles to win the war, how helping changes people, including their own selves, how to find the best version of Incredible in them and so much more. It was fun to watch these kids drink the Potion of Excellence to transform their limiting beliefs to empowering ones, to watch the kids play Quidditch and chase their golden snitches representi­ng their life dreams and to emerge as the only surviving tribute in a Hunger Game that teaches them that they were born to succeed and not to fit in.

World Stage Superstar Camps are ongoing and is open to children from 7 to 16 years old. It will have another run for internatio­nal schools students from June 30 to July 12. You may call 0917-6179774 or email bernadette@worldstage­superstar.

com for more info. Adult trainings are also part of World Stage’s outreach program.

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