Thumb Switch for Life Foundation
Established on September 25, 2017 by Dwayne and Jacqueline Peace as a way to enhance the lives of Canadian youth.
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Thumb Switch for Life Foundation was established on September 25, 2017 by Dwayne and Jacqueline Peace. They wanted a way to enhance the lives of Canadian youth. The foundation has two arms; one is to provide scholarships to students for post-secondary education and the second is to support youth programs in schools. On June 18 we hosted an event for them to help spread awareness for their cause.
Thumb Switch is a term used to illustrate how awkward, uncomfortable or different change can be. This is a reference to what people will experience when they identify some of their negative habits or opinions and make a decision to change them into more neutral or positive ones.
To support the education of students from Grade 4-12 about a broad spectrum of modern challenges facing youth, ranging from personal mental health, such as self harm and suicide, and interpersonal conduct to the technological and substance-related risks prevalent in today’s schools.
Here’s an exercise, place your hands together interlocking your fingers between each other, noticing which thumb is on top. Research has shown that if you were asked to do this on 10 separate occasions you would do it the same way. This represents a habit. Such as always putting on your pants the same way, your shoes, the way you say please and thank you.
These are good habits and we need to keep them. However, we also need to look at our bad habits such as the language we use, the way we treat people, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, or any addiction pertaining to the digital world.
Continuing with the exercise, open up your fingers and realign all of them up one and place the other thumb on top. Most people will identify that it feels as described above, awkward, uncomfortable or different. This is called change. There is nothing wrong with doing it either way but when you change it up, it doesn’t feel right.
The foundations focus is to cause people to change those negative perspectives or understandings and make the switch to an alternative, neutral or positive view, thereby making a thumb switch. Thus the name of the foundation, Thumb Switch for Life.
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