 Transformation in our generation begins with transformation in our mindset. These are not my words, but those of Annabel Gesure, a lady determined to create a positive impact to the society through her mentorship program. We transform generations through mentorship, coaching and counseling and also empowerment. I have a motto of nature, empower and transform. So I have to nurture the young ones who are the children, the young adults and the teenagers. Then I empower them with different skills so that I'm able to transform them holistically. We mentor individuals through our online programs and also the physical programs. But we also work with different counties to plan for the empowerment of different young adults and also different schools. I've worked with schools and churches who bring all the young adults and the children together so that we are able to teach them more of the life skills. The most common cases in the counseling system sexual abuse for children especially in this era and career coaching whereby they need to actually find what they need to do after school. Career coaching to help them find what they are called for, what is their passion. I think those are the two major cases that I deal with and I'm running the empowerment program of physical development and sexuality for girls and boys to help them discover themselves more because of the gap I've noticed under the sexual abuse. Her experience growing up influenced the target group she's chosen to work with under her organization. Chose empowerment because for all of us we need to be transformed at one point and if we can connect with all adults most of us came to know ourselves to discover ourselves when we were about 25 because we never had a chance to do it when we were younger. I'm feeling that gap of I don't want children to grow the way we grew. I want them to discover themselves before they are adults because the moment we change the children we transform the adults of tomorrow. My life when I was growing up was I have had a good life, I would say I'm blessed. I went to some of the best schools but I had a disconnection in the family system whereby I was trying to discover myself so what is quote-unquote rebellious. So you rebel against all norms to be able to discover yourself and through that I came to know myself when I was about 18-20 and I said no other child, no other teenager would go through that so I'm able to empower the parents to be able to understand the child from their level because most of the children when they are rebelling they are trying to tell you please listen to me and that is my voice was not heard and so I chose my voice to be heard by I demanded for my voice to be heard and I don't want any other child to go through that that is why I'm feeling in the gap so that I'm able to empower the child as I'm also empowering the parents to be able to understand them from their level and pick them up from their point of discomfort With most of our clan tell being parents and children Annabel fills the need for parents to be more understanding with her children For the children I would paint a picture of a parent-child relationship Most, like what have just said Most clients who are children are brought up when there is a disconnection between the parent and the child The parents are not understanding why the child is running away from home They are not understanding why the child is actually not listening to them and they are trying to control their life They are trying to control the teenager but at that time they are rebelling because you are imposing your values on them and at this point they want their space and that is why most of the families with the teen dimensions they tend to say that is the most rebellious stage but it is because the child is growing and you also have to grow with the child but what most of us do is we are not letting them go that is the stage where you as a parent supposed to let them go let them go by supporting them through the process of their career, of their passion She is an enthusiast of mentorship and transformation Annabel therefore makes me understand how this has been of benefit to the society I'm glad because of the mentorship sessions they are helping them to discover themselves more you find a child actually getting into the path of realizing their passion they are able to take music classes and what is most fulfilling they are able to have a good family atmosphere because as a child they also empower the parent so they are able also to understand their children better which is the key role because as I mentor the children they also go back to the parents so if I mentor the child alone and leave the parent we are mark timing around the same challenge but I'm proud that I can see the transformation through what how they are viewing life and how they are actually transforming their own lives through getting into what they love and also through mentoring others we've seen transformation before and after because after going through the three months of the rehab services they are able to understand themselves better and before they are able also to change their ways of living before as they come in maybe they are deep in alcohol so we are able to replace that with an activity that can actually present their life and as they are present in their life they are able also to help the other individuals around them many people my age they don't know what they want to do so through Annabelle's program I was able to see my change my influence in the community can be done through various ways being a good role model to people my age people can come and talk to me and say I have a problem here and here can you help me I also believe that many people my age they might not know what their purpose is so they end up going to school to study for their parents which is not ideal I would encourage everyone to go to university or whatever they are pick something that you love something that you are passionate about something that when you wake up every morning you feel like this is what I am supposed to do backing up her good cause are various partners whom she works closely with we treat and rehabilitate people with alcohol and drug abuse problems our program is a holistic program sorry where we treat body, soul and mind and also look at the spiritual aspect of a person when you look at somebody who has gone through addiction they have lost all aspects of their wellness they are not taking care of themselves physically they are not eating well they are taking maybe a shower like they should they have lost their emotional well being they are not able to control their emotions every time they get happy they want a drink every time they are sad they want a drink they don't know how to normalize their emotions when you look at now the spiritual aspect you will find that most of them do not even go to church or do not identify with any religion or spiritual well being and also know mentally they are not strong to say not to their drink the element of the homeostatic adjustment that finally our brain will realize something resembling the normal we can't pull those our way through what? sometimes we have this element or this situation whereby we want to build our house in one day or sometimes we want to climb the tree from the top Annabel has a lot of a wide network with the youth, with the young people and as I say prevention even as they say prevention is better than cure so we are trying to tap into her network to be able to reach out messages on drug abuse and alcoholism, the dangers and the prevention part of it then Nuweva Esperanza which means New Hope in Spanish so it's a rehabilitation center whereby we inspire and also transform the clients holistically by holistically mean emotionally physically and also through their medical records we are able to transform them through life skills impacting life skills to them also making sure they have the right medication and we are able to bring sobriety and the new home to them through the counseling field and through coaching them and also supporting them through the transforming process addiction has become so rampant in today's society hence the need to be addressed as you may be aware drug abuse and alcoholism is a big big problem into our society and we are just doing the little we can to try and elevate that problem in the society to remove pain from families because you know addiction is a debilitating disease it affects families, it breaks families it brings a lot of conflicts to the families so our days start very early in the morning at 6 a.m. where people just wake up we encourage them to do their own personal devotions for those who are Christian and they are willing then after they take their shower we have breakfast then after we have breakfast now we have what we call our common morning devotional our morning assembly we are guided by AAAs, alcoholic anonymous or narcotic anonymous so we have like topics that we go through every day messages of encouragement so we read them and we read the scripture and just get to know each other how are we doing our emotions, our feelings how am I feeling how is my journey so far the journey to recovery because for me I was starting a journey of sobriety a journey of recovering from alcohol and drug abuse then after that we usually have what we call psychoeducation classes the classes are on life skills classes are on sobriety on addiction to know what was aiming you we have group activities and then after the group activities we also do everybody is allocated a counselor an individual counselor the individual counselor works with you mentors you and becomes your lifelong partner in the sobriety journey your lifelong sponsor where you will be able to walk a journey with you until you stand strong on your feet Annabel has experienced some challenges along the way in her service to humanity but she is determined to keep going I would say the major challenge is blending by blending I mean I'm a counselor and a coach they are two different dimensions so blending them in a coaching context you might you might live out one as a counselor my background profession is counseling and in counseling you do not you do not guide, you support but in coaching you guide so blending them in a session it's challenging but as a professional you have it I am geared towards bringing info in life empowering someone else supporting them and holding their hand to show them this is the right path everyone is fulfilling I would do it every day, every time though at the moment there are no sponsors Annabel says they are always welcome most of it is individually funded but we have partners who partner with and midarizes but most of it is individually funded for any sponsor you are welcome to partner with us and sponsor us for this project as a parting short here is her advice to the consent parties my advice to the young people the first thing is to for them to identify their trap by trap that means the talents they have the resources they have at hand the abilities they have and what is their passion they actually outline that and in one way or another it will lead them to what they are looking for and what they love let us invest in our children let us invest in them understanding themselves more knowing themselves more because they are future generation and for us to have a better tomorrow we need to invest in them today