Managing Life Challenges: From Psychological Theories to Practice
Maintaining your mental health is essential to leading a happy life.
Learn strategies — grounded in psychological theories — on how to deal with and overcome life’s challenges to maintain and improve your mental health. With the difficulties that might come along each day, negative emotions such as anger, frustration and disappointment might develop, leading to negative beliefs of incompetence and hostility. The negative thoughts could eventually lead to impulsive actions that result in missed opportunities and potential. Through this bootcamp, you will learn how to challenge and replace these negative thoughts with positive ones. This will lead to better mental health, which will improve your relationships and pave the way to a better future. During the bootcamp, you will learn about psychological theories to facilitate self-perception more clearly, appreciate your strengths and acquire strategies to help you work on areas that you need to develop. You will achieve this by utilizing short presentations, group activities and discussions, videos and self-reflective journals. Furthermore, a guest speaker will be invited to share how they overcame life challenges successfully and the strategies they have applied.
Don’t miss this chance to continue your journey in self-discovery! Apply now to secure your spot.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic approaches and reflect on their impact on personal growth and change
- Improve your interpersonal skills, including their communication skills, self-regulation skills and more. As well as work collaboratively with other students in the class
- Demonstrate empathy towards diversity and understand unique perspectives through engaging with marginalized communities through meaningful NGO visits
- Apply behavioral change techniques and cognitive therapy methods to manage stress, improve relationships, and address challenges like procrastination, assertiveness, and phobias
- Foster self-reflection by practicing journaling to enhance self-awareness and monitor personal growth
- Reflect on group collaborations and the insights gained throughout the program
Program Highlights
- Interactive sessions, group projects and presentations to apply theoretical knowledge
- Guest speaker sharing a life-changing experience
- Visit to Sanad and A&A NGOs for practical exposure and reflection
- A unique focus on creating actionable strategies for personal and academic growth
Duration and Location
- January 5-9, 2025 (Jan 7 will be compensated for with extra hours)
- Sessions will run daily from 9 am to 3 pm
- AUC New Cairo campus
- AUC holidays will be compensated for with extra hours
Fees
- EGP 3,700 (price including materials needed and trips)
- The following discounts are offered:
- 10% discount for siblings
- 10% discount for AUC faculty and staff
- 15% discount for AUC alumni
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Who Can Apply?
Students aged 18 - 25 years
What to Bring?
Laptops
Certification
All the bootcamp participants will receive a certificate of participation from The American University in Cairo.
Transportation
The AUC bus service is available for extra fees.
Accommodation
Accommodation is offered at the University residences in case needed.
About the Instructor
Hala Abd Al Hak
Hala Abd Al Hak is an educational psychologist and disability and inclusive education consultant, member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS) and affiliate instructor at the Department of Psychology, AUC, where she has taught education, counseling, personality and general psychology since 1998. She is also a member of the learning disability committee and the community-based learning advisory committee at AUC.
AUC Refund Policy
The following cases will be offered a 100% refund of the program fees. If reported at least three weeks before the program's start date.
- Course cancellation
- Medical withdrawal
- Visa denial