The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) social development department is implementing the Adepts school training programme to motivate children to become leaders.
In the second semester of the current academic year (2015-2016), the programme has covered 12 schools in Doha, Al Shamal, Mesaieed, Dukhan and Al Jumailiyah.
The programme is “designed to create a leader, an effective and productive personality among schoolchildren, thereby producing a generation that believes in the vision of its nation and aligns itself towards that vision”, according to a statement from QRCS.
The initiative is carried out under QRCS’s school programme.
Rashid bin Saad al-Mohannadi, director of the QRCS social development department, said: “Adepts comprises a series of interactive lectures and educational workshops that deal with different topics and issues related to the lives of youth, solve their problems, broaden their minds and instil useful attitudes and thoughts in them, building upon their experiences, tendencies and mental- and age-related faculties.”
To that end, al-Mohannadi added, diverse methods of teaching are used such as discussion, experimentation, role-playing, group learning and extracurricular activities. “These combine educational aims, personal innovation and hands-on practice, instilling in their minds the desirable values and attributes that would be beneficial for them both now and in the future.”
The Adepts programme has three dimensions: abilities that will create an innovative personality; morality to promote ideals such as timely observance of prayer, honesty, truthfulness, benevolence, tolerance; and proper management to acquire personal and practical skills such as mind mapping, teamwork, smart goal setting and executive planning.
The programme’s staff help the trainees realise that insightful strategies are the key to success, stressing the need to have a positive self-image, enjoy work even under pressure, be proactive and open-minded, master the art of dialogue, pursue flexibility and problem-solving techniques, be aware of consciousness and the subconscious, deal with strengths and weaknesses by perceiving their own schema, be interpersonally intelligent and interactive by perceiving others’ schemata, understand the negative and positive aspects of problems, know how to shift from the negative to the positive aspects, and assimilate and copy success stories through modelling, the statement notes.
Teachers and parents are also covered by the programme in order to enable them to bring the young men and women up in a positive and constructive way.