2008 - 2020
Our SmilingOne Founder Karina Andersen offered an intensified process to about 250 inmates (directly) of which 34 inmates were selected to take on an in-depth coach educational training with her (3 years minimum). These became the Change Agents.
Hand in hand with these 34 Change Agents 'in the making' thousands of inmates have been exposed to the path of awakening on the enabling platform offered by the SmilingOne Team - provided the opportunity to study and deepen themselves in the The Responsible Individual™ (TRI) Depth Coaching Methodology, building self leadership & entrepreneurial toolkits.
Upon reintegration the committed Change Agents were supported to build the bridge back home to their families and communities. Today they are running their own organisations, businesses and some our still working alongside Karina, bringing the transformational approach of SmilingOne into prisons, schools and communities.
2018 CELEBRATION (10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY)
Please note more inmates have joined the educational path since then... the numbers featured here were 2018 numbers
2020 AND BEYOND
We would love to scale our approach which works absolute MAGIC!! We are focused on applying for sponsorships to invite partnerships so we may bring our enabling platform, teams of Change Agents and our personal values-based leadership program to many more prisons across the country... we develop leaders in some of our most challenged environments.
WHY
We are on a mission to activate South Africa’s full potential by addressing one of its biggest challenges: CRIME… through crime diversion (targeting prisons) and crime prevention (targeting schools & families). In many communities in South Africa we experience many of our people locked in a scarcity mindset... it often leads to crime, abuse against women and children, inequality, racism, addiction, teen pregnancies, school drop outs, unemployment etc. We are in dire need to break these systemic and continuous cycles, to move beyond the victim mentality, to fully own ‘the experience’, embracing responsibility and stepping into self leadership.
OUTCOMES
Evidence Based
- The Responsible Individual - I practice the art of self mastery. I self observe, self regulate/elevate. I awaken the leader within me.
- The Apprentice - a Mindset for growth and a toolkit for leadership. "I regard challenges as my GYM to get fitness for the new version of ME. I am a caring, teachable, self motivated individual who is in the driver’ seat of my life. I ask myself: do I harm or do I build and how can I rebuild. I break the cycle of crime and gender based violence."
- CRIME DIVERSION & PREVENTION & SOCIAL COHESION
- The Role Model: Teams of Coaches & Change Agents to be activated within the high risk communities to address scarcity mindset.. breaking cycles of crime, violence, GBV, abuse, addiction, poverty etc. I am a positive Role Model who feels strongly about serving my family, my community and society - I leverage past experiences, use them as a vehicle for change. I help prevent youth from falling through the cracks.
- We have amazing evidence from our work the past 15+ years:
- those in educational training inside prison supports the training in their immediate environment, they become part of creating the enabling platform for the program in each learning hub, while still incarcerated - they beat the drum of change by being the change
- upon reintegration deploying our SmilingOne Change Agents in South African Schools in high risk areas… to journey with the high-risk youth for crime prevention/diversion and assist the youth in elevating themselves onto a growth path, instead of feeding the scarcity mindset, nurturing an abundance mindset. The Change Agent is a relatable adult who deeply understands the challenge of growing up in a high risk community.
- Job Creation… those who have trained on our platform can be given contracts in our project to assist the growth of the approach and/or bring their own ideas/innovations to the platform.
