Day 34- AL Jazeera Airways

The students were sent a message to come to a place right next to the airport, to come to Jazera Airways. Immediately rumors spread about an important to trip which turned out to be just a rumor. We were invited to take a look at the Jazeera headquarters including a private tour and a look into their planes.

When we think about just a normal tour of airplanes we think just well look we might learn but the lesson learned seemed to be much deeper. From what the students were asking and how they were reacting to the tour the lesson learned was how there more to something than what just meets the eye.

There a lot behind the simplest of things like sitting on a plane that goes on just to get you at the point.

The amount of work, the amount of people, the amount of time. It’s all just to get a on a plane, it puts things in perspective. And we take the simplest things for granted and not realise all that goes into what’s going on. The students seemed to realize that and were grateful for that, so we thank Jazeera Airways for everything.

Day 33-Rana’s Activity & Project Work

Day 33-Rana’s Activity & Project Work

On an article to guide the youth of tomorrow, Mentor Rana took the future generation under her wing. Today was all about article reading and discussions.

The notes entitled: The Most common mistakes young People make spoke about the common things that we tend to do as young adults and the mentality we tend to have at such an age. And tendency to bear the burden about worrying about our future selves, what path we should take and how to get there.

The article quotes “ Everything that happens in the future is a direct result of what you do today” lets not forget that “ You are the coach of your future, You are the ONLY coach of your future self”

She assured the students that mistakes and change are inevitable, and one must not be afraid of when it happens, but to embrace change and accept and learn from our mistakes. Who we are today is a direct result of the decisions we made when we were young and that there is always time to take the risk and change towards a better version of one’s self.

And with loving and caressing she showed how the protégés is built on that foundation the protégés family are and will always be here for support, & guidance.

Thereafter it was time to set the structure of the teams and the financial plan along with the logistics and marketing campaign that bring the project to life.

Entrepenurship Day

CEO of tap Mr.Ali greets the students welcomingly at Ali Yousef Al Matrouk Building.

Tap Provides online payment platforms for businesses from micro-business to corporates

through web platforms & applications.

Tap examines and studies all online payments methods and aims to achieve the easiest web payment methods that enables users with the best user experience for online transactions.

Mr.Ali starts by explaining the companies goals and visions,

TAP’s main business goal is to Simplify web payments for consumers through APU ( Application Protocol Interface ).

The students were given a product that they had to first market, publish on a platform on the web and sell it through online payment methods.

The students had to come up with a platform, inventory, payment method whilst constructing an online marketing scheme to sell the product.All constricted within a tight time frame, it was all or nothing and go big or go home. The students made their through the maze of online marketing and e-commerce.

One of the protégés states spoke about her experience “i learnt about the mechanics of selling and the importance of time management, cause a millisecond makes a world of a difference in the digital market”

Day – Subliminal Messages

Today, was all about Media &Film industries subliminal messages. How the media industry tactics to convey a message hidden within the content being delivered. There are things that we tend to be unweary of at the start however if we zoom in on and take a closer look at the wider picture we will realise them and how they are cleverly hidden behind the content frame thus the name given to session subliminal messages. And terms such as conditioning and target audiences known in advertisements.

They started firstly with a pen and paper in hand, and took to the pages for an explosion of thoughts,

Firstly and foremost before we start any exercise analyzing the advertisements and media from magazines and political speeches., what is Love ? How far would you go to do something that you love? How do you express that love?

Mentor Yarub tied that question in with how the media industry managed to make the purchase of expensive wedding rings the norm of expressing love.

When such a thing ceased to exist a mere decade ago.

The media industry had managed to connected happiness and love towards buying an expensive be seen as a normal way of expressing affection.

Afterwards, they analysed a speech by Salah Al Deen Al Ayobi with an Egyptian film realsed in the Late 1950’s and how it’s name was directly linked to governor at the time, despite it being a non-political movie.

Then Mentor Yarub explains how people in the music industry tend to gain success from their lyrics as music is widespread in mainstream and the messages behind them relate to a common goal between each one of us for example/ Micheal Jackson’s song Heal the World from his 1991 album Dangerous.

A perfect end to a perfect day.

A day with Lambah

When creativity bursts from a color magnum, today was a collaboration between Lambah Co. and Miss. Wala Al Muhaiteeb Colour Consultant and Founder of the color Recipe.

Co-founder of Lambah Miss. Lulu AL Omani gives a brief introduction about Lambah and how it started.

Miss Lulu Al Omani then goes about explaining how the brain records and recalls memory in the different forms of memory we tend to store

1. Visual memory

2. Recording memory:

3. Emotional Memory

4. Sense Memory

She explains How what we think affects our attitudes. An dour output in our work. It very important to have a positive mindset as it is the drive to healthy livehood.

She then explains how All ideas have imagination and innovation. And states that

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” and “The fuel of creativity is imagination”.

She then goes about explaining where we get our ideas from :

1. Inspiration
2. Brainstorming
3. Identification

Then the first activity began named Mission Protocol, the activity saw the students arrange into three teams and each team needs to have the following in their thinking tanks:

The Observers

1. Leaders
2. Presentors
3. Evaluators

This idea was to add value and add an electric shock to an idea of a project that conveys a message and then create a presentation about it.

Winning group will head back to Lambah HQ have their idea implemented.

Then afterwards it was time for a color dosage with Miss.Wala who explained the color cycle in her color recipe. She begins about explaining how the coolors we choose wether it be on our garmets, furniture or others affect our mood and the message we portray to strangers.

She explains what it means if we have a tendancy to lean to certain colors more than others, For example/

“People who feel happy when they see the color blue their Energy comes from expression and speaking their thoughts”

She even explains the meaning behind the colors chosen in mega-succesful businesses from the blue in IKEA to Red in Mcdonalds all have a certain vibe and energy to it.

Thereafter the session continued with yoga and healing through the colors, the lights were lowered and two color light tanks were turned on and a soothing song used in the therapy was sang. The students felt refreshed and rejuvenated after the session ended.

Day- Human Rights

Touch Down Kuwait. on the first day back the students were thrusted to a session full on Human Rights. Led by Dr.Ebtihal Al Khateeb.

The session started with the students watching a documentary on the history of human rights and it’s foundation and assessed and examined the human values that can be constituted and considered as a human Right. Whether it’s the right to education, shelter etc.

“Human Rights differ from Era to Era “ Protégé Boshra states .

“ The problem is that each country has their own set of beliefs it can be okay to do something in one country however would be considered a violation in another if the bill of human rights is applied it will slowly ease the process of solving the problems between each country” Replies Protégé Tarik.

Devising a unique set of activities for the students. Dr.Ebtihal starts by dividing the protégés into groups of four for an activity of The Human Rights Tree.

Students had to draw out the most important Human right they collectively agreed on and then arrange the rest branching out forming a collective tree of human rights.

After finishing up all three groups presented their tree’s and all had one right in common that formed the Roots of the Human rights tree and that was the right to freedom and life.

Then afterwards she started another activity where she asked the students to “ Imagine us as 25 are going to a new planet and you have to create a constitutional law for that planet based on civic rights, what you do?”

In their teams they discussed and filtered the most suitable rights too include in a bill of rights that can serves as a constitutional bill of rights for the people.

And after each team presented their bill rights it was time for further analysis to filter out the best.

The next activity saws the students acting as judges as Dr. Ebtihal handed out a worksheet for the students that had a set of actions and they has to determine which human right was violated inn such an act. This helped the students be more weary and conscious of how even sometimes the simplest of acts can violate a human Right.

And to conclude a day filled with assessing what human Rights are, the students received postcards from different paintings and arts from the era and were told about the story and author behind each one getting glimpse of the past through postcards.

Travel Day Back To Kuwait

On the way back from Sweden the protégés made a quick stop at turkey. Despite having only a tight time-frame of only 3 hours at the airport. They utilised that time wisely with a continuation of the outside of the box session. Reading literature work of Shel Silverstein. Wearing props and costumes of each character in the story.

They discussed and analysed the characters of each novel Mr.Grumpledumsong and Shadow Wash.

Protégé Watha Al Dabous shared her insight on change and how to influence the people around you and how she achieved that from the novel.

“ I think that you have to make the change within before you make the change to the people around you”

Day 20- Ikea Tour Excursion

Today was an exceptional day, early birds woke up to find that not only they were

going on a cross-country bus trip, feasting their eyes to the picturesque landscapes

of cross-country farm life in Sweden and neighboring sister Denmark but added to

that was their destination, the head of industries giants the one and only retail

supplier IKEA HQ located at the heart of tilsammans.

Ikea’s new clan

During the 4 hours they sang, shared stories with the chancellors and mentors,

indulged in sing-alongs and grasped the brisk of summer breeze with meadowing

cows and galloping stallions forming a picturesque scene of the countryside.

Archiving imprints of scenic imprints of the countryside joining Sweden and Denmark

Making a wish on a wishing wall

After arriving at IKEA they were given an introduction to the companies history, it’s

value driven workforce and the structure of the company. The students were shown

two short documentaries relating IKEA’S initiator to his hometown

Following up from a condensed session the protégés were generously invited to

dinner at a black smith’s house where they got to taste local Swedish food served

the IKEA way .

Mentors mohammed Al Munaikh and Yarub Burhamma alongside chancellors Dalal

Al Sulaiti and Abdulwahab bo haimedand with the protégés expressed in the form of

a song a tribute to Mentor Shamlan’s greatness and never ending act of giving.

And thats a wrap for the day

Day 19 Innoversity

Continuing on their project at work they   were assisted by Miss. Suzzane who conducted a special course on innovation, work dynamics and how they can effectively manage themselves into into teams that yield maximum outputs.

Miss Suzanne conducted a couple of activities that outlined

with the students that helped outline the significance of understanding and evaluating each member of the party in the workforce, to find areas of common interest, areas of common skills and areas, interlapping goals.

And after a short Lunch break the protégés underwent a thorough interview process where they spoke about their experiences, what was the protégés impact on them and the strong relationship they formed with the mentors.

Protégé Shaha AL Hunaidi states that “ When I needed someone to direct me in my life where I can grow and develop and be a better version of myself and on the first day after I returned from the first session I was scared and I knew that this program will bring out the real me beneath and I was scared and I knew I will discover great talents I never knew I had in me and after I am very very happy with the experience and I’m glad it happened, The mentors are people I now know I can retreat to when I am lost, when I need someone to direct me and advice me and not simply give me the answers but helps me and teaches me how I can find it on my own, he helps me identify who I really am. And one day I will give a speech in the united nations and when they ask me why are you here and I will look back and give the credit to the protégés”

The Proteges working on their assigned task

Day 18 -Tabco DAY

Now, mystery houses, urban rangers, and cross-fit bootcamps aside. This day were to be embellished and fine tuned the TABCO way.

Tabco representative Mr.Ali Ashkanani, introduced himself to the students. Him and his team of Miss Amal and yoga intructur Miss had an interesting day planned ahead.

The team began by explaining what Tabco really is, it’s underlying message behind their value- entitled work-force and business criterion in the market.

The student, got to see a different form of business ethics and a new livehood of trust-bonded and fonded businesses within Tabco.

And as the session fired up Mr.Ali asked the students to get up, get ready and hey team lets get going !

Park just a mere 22-minute walk from the hostel where Miss. Amal awaited she helped the students through her activities explore the realms of their interpersonal principles she showed through her activity how diverse and how wide the range spectrum our principles can spread as it is what our actions are built upon.

Then it was time for another therapeutic session when the students performed a tailored 1 hour session of yoga under the shades of Denmark woodland.

One protégé, Miss Wathha Al Dabous expressed the liberal state of mind she felt after the session was done .

Then it was back to the hostel for more project work….