What is OTL?

Own–Thy–Life (OTL) is a social entreprise.

What is the core philosophy of OTL?

We believe in individuals’ capabilities and know they have indefinite potential to transform their lives for good and enhance the quality of their lives. We also understand the importance of culture and societal norms in the development of a personality. Therefore, we try to provide people with knowledge, understanding, training, and confidence in oneself to practice and absorb a change.

How this philosophy transforms into a goal?

To help people especially, youth, know, understand, and practice the positive ways to enhance the quality of their lives keeping unanimously accepted cultural norms and values intact.
This is as well to encourage and enable people to take the responsibility of their own self to promote a healthy, balanced, and rich cumulative social atmosphere.

This goal has various objectives to make it achievable;

• To bring about radical change in cognition (thought pattern) to enable people understand why a change in life pattern is necessary to minimize the risk of running into a psycho-social problem.
• To assist people take a confident step toward a healthy change in life style through training and practicing.
• To achieve a more persistent and cognizant change, youths should be included in advocacy and training through schools.
• To help children and youth keep compatibility with modern day demands they will be presented with creativity challenge contests in different areas for instance, social problem solving, scientific innovations, software programming, robotics, drawings, photography, essay writing etcetera, to habituate them to think.

How you are going to achieve these objectives?

There are several problem areas in our society. The core reason we assume is the neglect of parental training. The contemporary training lacks three basic constituents that parents supposed to provide to their offspring, lacking constituents include;

• Knowledge and understanding of life and living apropos unanimously accepted cultural norms. This information is not available to parents themselves so, they do not/cannot pass them on to their children.
• Curiosity to know thyself – this is the most important element in personal growth that helps in evolving self and developing a core belief system. This personal knowledge assists a person to understand the gravity of ecological connectivity
• Pride, Self-esteem, and dignity – for the association to a tribe/country/religion and be a component in the maintenance and enhancement of the true sense of dignity, self-esteem, pride

OTL is attempting to re-integrate these missing constituents into contemporary trainings and prepare trainers to further the knowledge accordingly. OTL is addressing only the missing components of training.

What programs OTL is organizing?

• Youths are our priority. To keep this effort intriguing for children we have utilized the untamed power of internet. A website provides children an opportunity to interact with each other, share information, put on their creativity in shape of above discussed contests and more. Internet has tremendous potential to bring about a change if used cautiously. This website is provided with certain rules and regulations and all the rules revolve around keeping with moral values according to our norms. This is our first step to approach children with our messages to be delivered in interactive learning sessions.
• Training sessions with children – teachers – parents are regularized to enhance understanding among troika.
• Trainings are regularized in communities as well, comprising psychological understanding of self, environment, and relationships; ways to coping with day to day stresses; learning strategies to minimize the risk of running into avoidable ailments.
• We have facilities available for psychotherapies with trained psychologist to help those who need support with specialized therapies prior entering a training session.