SMART Couple Workshop

Life Planning for married couples and couples in relation

(A HELP FOR MARRIED COUPLES AND COUPLES IN RELATION TOWARD UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER AND PLAN AHEAD FOR THEIR LIFE WITH PRACTICAL STEPS BASED ON SCIENTIFIC AND THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED CAREER DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS)

What is Career Development?

Career Development is the ongoing process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future. It is the lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as well as contextual influences shaping one’s career over the life span. As such, career development involves the person’s creation of a career pattern, decision-making style, integration of life roles, values expression, and life-role self concepts

What does Career Development have to do with Marriage?

Married couples report work-family balance, financial issues, and partner employment among top overall relationship problems
Primary issues for young couples will be career-related
Partners often have different views about household, and child rearing responsibilities, and roles expectation in general (PARENTING IS PART OF YOUR CAREER PLAN)
Lack of understanding between career and relationships
Unrealistic expectations about stress levels in dual-career marriages
Future career planning
& Much more
What is the workshop about?

The workshop will directly address the above problems causing differences and increase your knowledge and skills enabling you to build better relationships with your spouse, and help on setting-up a SMART lifelong Plan. It is delivered by experienced facilitators who will help on creating a new line-of-thinking & atmosphere enabling couples to explore themselves & their own potentiality, and desires & Needs; allowing them to also understand their spouse potentiality, and desires & needs and make the best integration to fulfill needs and desires of both and increase the understanding level between them for a healthy marriage life.

***Why you should attend this program?

Do you suffer from ongoing problems affecting your relationship with your spouse?
Does your arguments about your/ their responsibilities and roles expectations frustrates you?
Do you feel overwhelmed with stresses because of your relationship with your spouse or your marital responsibilities?
Do you know what personality style you have?
 Do you know what the best interest area is for you?
 Do you know what is your values?
 Do you know how your personality style & your interest reflect on your relation attitude?
 Do you know that your value affect the way you interact with your spouse?
 Do you know what the values, personality style, interest of your spouse?
 Do you understand your needs and desires?
 Do you know the needs & desires of your spouse and how you can fulfill it?
 

Objectives:

Learn more about yourself and your spouse and develop new ground of common understanding & mutual fulfillment in all aspects of marriage before damage occurs.
 Learn and develop new practical skills which will help mitigate the stresses in your marriage
 Be a positive role model for your spouse
 Improve your life balance skills with practical tips
 Learn how to set a lifelong plan for marriage and help your spouse on his/her plan.
 Learn how to overcome any current understanding issues and eliminate the possibilities of any future miss understanding issues/conflicts.
**SMART Couple program is a set of workshops series, following-up activities & Assessments, and one-to-one sessions; We are inviting you to attend our first one day workshop on Saturday, 24th December at the Live Theater, Discovery Mall basement, Al soor street, Kuwait City , to do and learn the following:

SMART Couple personal life flower (PLF) o What is the main elements of our personality o What we need to know about over selves before we set our life objectives o What we need to do to enhance our relationship skills
What is the real meaning of career development and how it will help in relationships & other roles in couples lives
Life stages
Personality styles
New SMART PLF
desires (orientation)
Interest profile (orientation)
Values (orientation)
What is the next step
Closing

SMART Couples workshop will be conducted by:

Ahmed Mostafa Kamal; International career development advisor and mental health facilitator with the following credentials, International NCDA CDF Master Trainer,GCDF & CDFI,JCDC,JCTC

He is the Assistant Executive Director of the Career Development Network & Director of MENA Operation (San Jose, CA) & he is the CRG Sole Licensed Associate in the MENA region, NCDA Affiliate, & Leader.

Mr. Mostafa is the ONLY accredited career development advisor, who is certified and eligible for conducting & developing Career Development programs in English & Arabic in the MENA region. He is also the ONLY advisor who can teach career counseling/facilitation/coaching programs in English & Arabic and certify the graduate applicants from the following organizations: 1- National Career Development Association (NCDA- USA) 2- Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE- USA) 3- Career Development Network (CDN - USA)