Remodelling Desire2Win Mindset Transformation (MT)

21 Aug

Desire2Win Mindset Transformation (MT) is updating the model and content to be more interactive, deliberate, and intuitive in exploring the components needed for an impactful emotional health and well-being workshop.

The youth transformation themes will now incorporate five modules that connect the emotional health components to common issues impacting young people's daily lives. It will include spiritual enrichment, not for religiosity but to build character, overcome limiting beliefs, challenge moral values and principles, and improve the quality of life.

What is Emotional Health?

Emotional health concerns how you think and feel about your well-being and your ability to handle life's challenges. A healthy emotional outlook also considers how you behave and respond to different situations and relationships. Much of emotional ill-health results from being stuck by past events that reappear in your conscious mind, making them seem current.

Why is emotional health so important? Because it governs your thinking, which is the mechanical drive of everything you do.

What are some of the characteristics supporting good emotional health?

Having good self-esteem, self-worth and confidence
Ability to build resilience
Helping others
Being able to cope with change.
Personal development and reaching your full potential
Being able to talk to someone about your feelings.
Saying no without feeling guilty
Being aware of what positive relationships look like
Feeling contentment in your own space
Being aware and able to decode negative emotions.
Cultivating healthy habits
Recognising your strengths and weaknesses
Recognise when your thoughts are feeding your emotions
A few challenges that make a healthy emotional state difficult to reach

Not having the ability to:

Express the way you feel.
Know when to ask for support.
Understand why you have sleepless nights.
Understand why you feel anxious or distressed.
End unhealthy friendships.
Say no.
Communicate effectively.
Recognise negative thought patterns and the lies you tell yourself
Stop repeating poor patterns of behaviour
Deconstruct the false stories buried in the subconscious mind

Emotional health is sometimes mistaken for mental health. The question is, is there a difference?

‘... mental health is linked to a person's overall well-being.’ This involves making logical decisions, organising and using your memory, and having the ability to reason. Having a mental health condition can also lead someone to display irrational behaviour.

Emotional ill health occurs when your thoughts and your perception of reality become intertwined. Remembering a burdensome event, past trauma, grief, or disappointment can cause emotional instability, leading to outbursts of anger, sadness, and withdrawal, which may then result in social isolation.

Emotional health helps you to manage your mood, feelings, thoughts, and behaviour, giving you control over your daily life.

Both mental and emotional ill health are interchangeable and will significantly affect a person's overall well-being.

What are ways you can manage your emotional health?

Before accessing resources, you need to understand the difference between emotional and mental health and identify the causes or triggers you may be experiencing so you can receive the appropriate help to manage yourself. However, if your emotional health is not a major concern, there are ways you can support yourself holistically.

Here are a few things you can do:

Focus on Positivity
Connect yourself to a community that will build you up
Make sleep a priority
Take regular exercises (remember baby steps can create quantum leaps)
Be grateful even for the small things
Set boundaries for yourself and others around you
Prioritise your time so you can manage your responsibilities
Treat and pamper yourself, visit a spa centre or take a relaxing bath
Take up an interest that you desire and stick to it

Desire2Win (MT) themes include all the positive elements of Emotional Health and Well-being.

The Development and remodelling of the Desire2Win MT Initiative

Returning home to the UK in 2022 and discovering a vast number of children and young people destabilised and in a desperate state of mental ill health was heartbreaking, and the mental labelling was overwhelming. Mental health issues worsened after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

It became clear that the Desire2Win MT emotional health content needed to be updated to include the latest developments in emotional health and well-being. We had to study and engage with vulnerable children to ensure we understood their current issues, concerns, and desires, and to deliver an inclusive, well-informed emotional health and well-being initiative.

Changes and inclusions to Desire2Win MT Initiative

We intend to provide more interactive training, allowing participants to explore their thoughts and feelings to focus on managing poor patterns of behaviour that produce emotional pain. Desire2Win MT will provide a therapeutically led environment to support participants where mental labels have eroded their confidence and emotional stability.

Mindset transformation for advancement allows participants the space and opportunity to recognise the limiting beliefs that prevent them from becoming the best version of themselves.

Being inclusive is central to Desire2Win MT. We are keen to include any group, individual, or community-based assembly capable of completing a 7-week focused training. The modules serve as scenarios, enabling young people to explore and connect with everyday situations, and openly express their emotions for maximum impact. Our constructive parenting theme is designed to improve parent-child relationships.

We are open to discussing specific locations and groups with funding bodies and collaborating with organisations that can benefit from our service as an additional part of their enterprise.

Henry Ford's quote, 'What the mind conceives and believes the mind will achieve,' emphasises that when you believe, you can succeed. However, from Desire2Win MT's standpoint, being inclusive means supporting those who may not believe but are willing to take risks for their emotional health and well-being. One of Desire2Win MT's core principles is led by Truth, and the key to this is reframing and resetting your mindset, turning negatives into positives.

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My Support Network – NHS National Institute of Mental Health

Post: Amended on 4th September 2025