The Kiyan Prince Foundation is committed to educating young people on the transformative power of a positive mindset in shaping the future they aspire to achieve. Our boxing and life coaching programme focuses on instilling valuable life skills through self-improvement, emotional intelligence, self-esteem building, confidence boosting, and the development of integrity and good character with strong moral values.
Utilising the sport of boxing as a dynamic platform, we engage with young people to impart essential life lessons. Through access to dedicated life coaches and sports coaches, including those who have successfully reframed their lives after navigating challenges and making positive choices, we provide young people with exemplary role models who embody the qualities they can emulate to become better versions of themselves.
Through our educational programmes, we emphasise the existence of a proven blueprint for success that can be mastered through practice and dedication. By cultivating positive thinking and habits, young people can embark on a journey towards success and fulfillment, embodying the principles of resilience, perseverance, and growth.
Extract below from Public First / KPF Report April 2024:
As part of our research, we spoke to many young people who have been involved in the motivational boxing training sessions hosted by the Kiyan Prince Foundation. These sessions use boxing training as a way of positively engaging with young people to help to change their lives.
We found that many of the benefits of organised sport, and the desire for youth centre-style locations from young people to help them avoid crime, were reported back to us from the young people who attend KPF boxing sessions in Tottenham, North London.
One of the major benefits was the mindset change that the individuals reported after training at the gym. By combining the boxing training with the motivational leadership of Dr Mark Prince, we heard many stories of how young people had seen a major difference in their lives and mindset before and after coming to the gym.
Strikingly, combined with this mindset change was a sense from the young people that attending the motivational training at the gym was a good way of channelling their energy away from potential violence. Instead of lashing out at school or turning to violent crime, the young people described the motivational training as a constructive outlet for their energy.
Expanding on this sense of letting out energy in a constructive way, the young people we spoke to consistently raised the link that they experienced between working on building their physicality through boxing and the positive impact this had on their mental health.
Some individuals also mentioned the wider opportunities that they have gained from being part of a network through training at the boxing gym.
However, the young people we spoke to stressed that the benefits of the KPF gym did not come from boxing alone. We heard that it was the combination of the physicality of boxing and the mental impact of Mark’s motivation that had the positive benefit on the young people’s lives. Indeed, we had some young people tell us about examples that showed that boxing alone would not be enough to encourage young people to stay away from criminal activities.
