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About helena

Helena Pretorius BA Hons. (Psychology), MBD, HOD, NLP Helena’s passion is to help children help themselves. Early in her career as a learning support teacher, she came under the impression of how important it is for a child to believe in their abilities to reach their goals. Children with learning difficulties, who focus on their cognitive abilities only, tend to feel worthless and lose their confidence and suffer from low self-esteem. To help all children realize their full potential, she developed the Self-Development program to guide them to acknowledge their positive traits, make the most of what they have, improve in all areas and fulfil their dreams. Understanding emotions makes academic and interpersonal winners. Therefore Helena developed an Emotional Intelligence program to help children improve this vital skill to assure success. Because bullying had become such a problem, she developed the Bully Prevention program to help children stand up for themselves to become assertive and integrate all the tools to negate life with confidence and ease. This program successfully guides children to understand their behaviour as knowledge is the beginning of change to become compassionate and able to get along with all people. Helena truly cares for children. Her deep understanding of children, the development of self-esteem and metaphysical science gave birth to Empowering Lives.