Cultivating a Resilience and Positive Mindset

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.

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Learning Outcomes

• Become oriented to the major schools of psychology: Behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic.
• Reflect on the impact that the proposed methods of these schools have on their personal needs for growth and change.
• Improve their 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 (through working in groups and by appreciating challenges faced by others during a visit to an Non Governmental Organization working with a marginalized community). 

Duration and Location

• Two weeks: July 1 - July 11, 2024 
• Sessions will run daily: 
  •  First week: from 9 am to 4 pm
  • Second week: from 9 am to 3 pm  
• AUC New Cairo campus
• Fridays and Saturdays are off
• AUC holidays will be compensated for with extra hours

Fees

• EGP 4,900 (price includes materials needed)
• The following discounts are offered:
  • 10% discount for siblings
  • 10% discount for AUC faculty and staff
  • 15% discount for AUC alumni  

Egyptian students can pay the tuition using

Who Can Apply?

Students aged 18 - 25 years.

Certification

All the bootcamp participants will receive a certificate of participation from The American University in Cairo (AUC).

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 teaches educational, counseling, personality and general psychology since 1998. She is also a member of the Learning Disability Committee and the Community-Based Learning Advisory Committee, 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