From Pain to Hope

   

Women trainees from the different Arab nations and South Africa participate in the different sessions and activities of this training program addressing the theme; “From Pain to Hope” aiming at empowering leaders to manage and deploy pain in their lives.

 

Whether physical or emotional, the state of experiencing pain is a universal phenomenon. How one reacts to the pain varies from person to person. Many factors influence one’s perception of the pain one has felt. Healthy leaders are those who learned, or are in the process of learning, to see and understand their pain correctly. They adapt and can emerge from their pain to a place of hope. 

 

Moving from pain to hope is a developed skill, not one naturally inherited. This skill takes time, sometimes beginning from the trenches of one’s pain, as does the progression from pain to hope. Pain often involves hurt, whether self-inflicted or caused by others. Women trainees from across the Arab world gathered together to discuss the topic of pain and to learn needed skills to emerge from their pain. Two leaders lead the sessions, addressing the issue of pain from a leadership, spiritual, and psychological view. 

 

Pain is hurtful, but it does not have to be harmful or associated with harm. Amid the pain, it is essential to distinguish between hurt and harm. Many women resort to distorted views of thinking because of not being able to differentiate harm from hurt. Such faulty thinking can result in negativity, passivity, a feeling of helplessness, self-protective rationalizing, one-solution thinking, and false-self thinking. All of these are detrimental to leaders and the person as a whole. From the beginning, AWT’s goal with these conferences has been to invest and equip leaders.

 

Our trainers usually are friends or partners to the ministry from various countries, such as Egypt, America, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada, in addition to Jordan.

In this program, speakers’ skills in leadership consultancy and counseling add a dominant element in addition to the presence of potential licensed counselors who can be available to speak to women privately. The level of interaction through games and activities, along with opportunities for networking, create an enriching atmosphere for all. 

 

Many women feel it, and we aspire that our precious attendees come away with fresh hope from whatever pain they faced or currently face. We want them to go back home refreshed by new ideas, perspective shifts, changed mindsets, and quality time with each other, ready to bring forth change to their communities.

 

The women may also have the chance to go off-site visiting some monuments or touristic attractions to enjoy a networking experience of tea and snacks fellowship, or watch a movie serving the conference’s topic together.

 

The beneficiaries who attend this conference year by year continually uplift us with the zeal they have for their home communities. The sessions we host motivate them, and we are grateful for their partnership with us. Through it, we can provide new material to women already in positions of leadership and help them on their journey. 

 

AWT implements a planned strategy of follow-up to hold Networkers accountable after having themselves worked out their strategic plan, touching the area/areas that need urgent change in their lives.

 

AWT desires to see those precious women reaping the fruit of change

and therefore impacting their families, and eventually, their societies.

 

 

 

For more information, visit our Leadership Training Program under women empowerment.