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Open Mind Africa

Developing mindset, character and skills for academic and career success in Africa.

Open Mind Africa partner with academic institutions to provide training in Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to students and educators in Africa. We empower students with a range of tools to cultivate and develop mindset, skills, and character for academic and career success. OMA SEL programs help students learn to manage their emotions better, adapt patterns of excellence, and develop passion and perseverance for long-term goals.

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Our Work

Summer Camps

Open Mind Africa has been organizing annual summer camps for students in Ghana since 2017. The camp provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn different SEL strategies, receive academic guidance and counseling and enjoy international exchanges.

Campus Meetings

Open Mind Africa campus managers organize weekly and bi-weekly campus meetings with students at their respective campuses. On the first day of the 2018 camp, there was a conversation with the returning students about the past year’s campus meetings

Educator Summits

Open Mind Africa held its inaugural Educator Summit on July 21, 2018. Based on the success of the inaugural Educator Summit, OMA plans to continue hosting these types of trainings with as many educators as possible.

OMA Teaching and Learning Methodology

The philosophy behind this teaching and learning methodology is to give students the opportunity to construct their own knowledge and skills around a particular topic, ensuring that each concept is explored in relation to students’ own context. The methodology allows time for students to experience topics through a variety of individual and group activities.

1. (Re)introduction and exploration

The purpose of the first meeting in the cycle is to introduce a topic for exploration by OMA members. This topic will remain the focus of the rest of the subsequent meetings.

2. Socratic Seminar

The second meeting is an exercise in collective inquiry, participants work together to understand the topic more deeply and create new knowledge together through their discussions.

3. Sharing and Inquiry

Students have the chance to move from a group discussion to a more personal understanding and connection to the topic under exploration.

4. Debrief, Reflect and Plan

Students are now invited to develop some concrete ideas about how they could go forward with these new tools, techniques and concepts in their lives.
OMA recognizes that many of the topics and concepts in the curriculum come from perspectives and cultural contexts that may be very different from the perspectives and cultural contexts of its members. For this reason, the teaching and learning methodology is designed to allow students to critically examine these topics and concepts from their own individual and collective viewpoints in order to accept, modify or reject them.
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Our Videos

Edwards - NDSS

Bridget, Mavis, Perpetual and Ruth

How OMA Started

Isha - Notre Dame Girls Senior High School

Ndeebo - St. James Seminary & Senior High School

OMA Syllabus

Open Mind Africa syllabus is rooted in Social Emotional Learning (SEL). These researched-based concepts in our syllabus are proven and accepted by educators worldwide. The syllabus will provide students with essential skills for academic success, career development, and meaningful relationships.

Self-awareness

• Self-efficacy
• Multiple Intelligences
• Emotional States
• Character Strengths

Self-management

• Critical Thinking
• Outcomes
• Rep. Systems/ Submodalities
• Anchoring
• Framing & Reframing
• Mindfulness

Social awareness

• Empathy
• Appreciating diversity
• Meta Model
• Community building

Relationship
skills

• Communication
• Gratitude
• Rapport
• Perceptual Positions

Responsible
decision-making

• Analyzing situations
• Solving problems
• Evaluating
• Ethical responsibility
• Meta Programs
• Beliefs

Toolkits
for Educators

• Growth Mindset Toolkit
• Build Connections
• Expert Practice
• WOOP

Steps for Students

OMA Career Planning


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Outcome (Reflection
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Coaching (SEL Training, Exploration and Decision Making)

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Initiation
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Fine-tuning and
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Our news

Intelligence Plus Character - The purpose of education
17 jun

Intelligence Plus Character - The purpose of education

2018 Summer Camp & Educator Summit
15 aug

2018 Summer Camp & Educator Summit

BitGive Announces New Project with Open Mind Africa
1 apr

BitGive Announces New Project with Open Mind Africa

Students Comments

I want the camp leaders to know that what I saw, what I heard and how I felt have now inculcated a mindset within me that I poses very special potentials and abilities and I can develop upon it. This OMA camp has helped a lot. God richly bless them.
It will advice that friend of mine to come to the next camp because OMA is the best organization in the whole world and OMA can help him to develop a positive growth mindset which can help him to plan for the future and he can also make a lot of friends like KP, Andrew, Pious etc.
The camp was amazing. I enjoyed everything about the camp. And I have learnt so much, which will help my social life and academic life. Thank you OMA Camp leaders for the experience.
I felt happy because being my second time to come for a wonderful camp was amazing. Last year camp I applied some of the things we learned and it helped me a lot. To come to this camp was excited.
I would say that person should go on and sign up for the next OMA Camp because he or she will learn a lot and also will have many experiences to share. Joining OMA camp will help you achieve knowledge about how to manage your self and how to control your emotions and manage your time properly.
The session we had on our calling. I think this is what people holding a government position in the country should know, that they are not working for themselves but for the nation. This is the true meaning of LEADERSHIP.
I will tell them that Open Mind Africa is a very special organization, which really helps the student in Africa to know their goals in life and how to go about those goals they have set for themselves. So they can sign up for the next OMA camp.

Thought Partners and Affiliates

CHARACTER LAB
CASEL
GIVETRACK
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST
CSIR-IIR
COLLEGE FOR COMMUNITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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