Bridge the Gap

Build a lasting connection with your children! Learn how to understand the root causes of children’s behaviors, meet their needs, resolve conflicts and set boundaries! 

In collaboration with the Heya Masr Foundation, this three-day bootcamp provides parents and educators with useful techniques and resources for addressing children’s needs at different stages of development and resolving behavioral problems constructively. The bootcamp takes parents and educators through an exploration journey of the self and the child. Topics such as child development, identifying root causes of behavioral problems and communicating effectively with children will be covered using interactive methods like art, role-playing and games. Parents and educators will also delve into their own previous experiences that influence their behavior today and learn how to consider these experiences when responding to a child’s needs.  

The bootcamp aims to assist educators and parents in improving students' behaviors while creating a safe and engaging environment at home and at school. Over the course of three days, the participants will learn more about themselves and the children in their care and acquire the tools to create a supportive environment that promotes positive behavior and fosters healthy relationships between children and adults.

Note: This bootcamp is offered in Arabic.

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Learning Outcomes

• Understand the stages of the children’s mental and psychological development and learn to identify the child’s needs, circumstances (characteristics and attributes for every age), individual differences, and different temperaments. 
• Develop the ability to link motivation to behavior and understand the root causes of a child’s behavior. 
• Gain better control over managing the children’s emotions in a healthy way. 
• Understand the different love languages and acquire skills for building positive relationships between children and adults. 
• Adjust adults’ attitudes towards modern education methods and reconsider the long-held assumptions about children. 
• Build a deeper level of self-awareness and realize the impact of projecting problems on children. 
• Learn the principles of positive discipline (positive education) 
• Learn methods of enhancing the children’s self-esteem and confidence to protect them from daily challenges. 
• Develop the ability to create a secure and safe environment for children and help guard them from mental and physical harm. 
• Acquire practical and procedural skills and techniques to handle problems and develop the ability to turn them into specific actions that promote positive engagement and solve behavioral issues. Participants will be able to differentiate between discipline, punishment, and positive support. 
• Understand the signs of distress in the child and be able to identify and manage them through healthy communication methods.
• Develop an understanding of the challenges children face and learn how to protect them from challenges such as online and offline bullying and harassment. 

Duration and Location

• Date: TBA
• Sessions will run daily from 9 am to 3 pm
• AUC New Cairo campus
• Fridays and Saturdays off

Fees

• EGP 2,600 (price including materials needed)
• The following discounts are offered: 
  • 10% discount offered for siblings 
  • 10% discount offered for AUC faculty and staff
  • 15% discount offered for AUC alumni

Egyptian students can pay the tuition using

Who can apply?

Parents and educators of middle school and high school students. 

Certification

All the bootcamp participants will receive a certificate of participation from AUC.

Transportation 

The AUC bus service is available for extra fees. Details on the schedule will be shared before the program's start date.

Accommodation 

Accommodation is offered at the University Residences in case needed. 

About the Instructors

Fifi Romany Abd El Shahid 

Fifi El Shahid holds degrees in mass communication and psychology and an Art and Therapy Diploma. She believes that growth, progression, development, and the health of relationships in society will be achievable only if everyone accepts and transforms themselves first rather than condemning others, attempting to change them, or even employing oppression in relationships to gain control over others. Every transformation begins with acceptance. El Shahid facilitates workshops and training using arts and psychological support tools, such as awareness lectures and psychological support groups, as well as applied drama for empowerment and community health; she also employs participatory theater, therapeutic drama, and other arts-based tracks for recovery, and she promotes dialogue and societal transformation. 

Neama Attia 

Neama Attia holds a master's degree in psychological counseling from Cairo University (2021), a Psychological Counseling Diploma from Cairo University (2020), a Psychological Counseling and Behavior Modification Diploma from The American University in Cairo (2017), a bachelor's degree in the Faculty of Education Preschool Department from Cairo University (2016).

AUC Refund Policy

A 100% refund of the program fees will be offered in the following cases. If reported at least three weeks before the program's start date.

• Course cancellation  
• Medical withdrawal
• Visa denial