Yesterday, I presented a workshop at the Qatar Leadership Conference, a conference associated with THIMUN that consists of 3 days where students can attend a series of workshops, ranging from workshops about THIMUN procedure to MUN tips and then lastly, leadership.
My workshop was called Set Your Trend.
Interestingly enough, when I was working on preparing this workshop, I remember constantly thinking about the trends we teenagers set everyday. When I set a hashtag on a tweet or an instagram photo, I don't immediately think about if it'll trend the next day and become something a lot of people use - yet, I find that it does happen, and not just to me but to everybody.
So when is a trend a positive trend? I gave my workshop on it, I know, but I solely focused on trends that could be used to shed positive outcomes on growing issues around the world, but what about the social trends.. what makes a social trend, a positive one?
Moreover, what are we as a generation doing to create positive trends?
The three things I spoke about being the reason teenagers should be setting trends was that I thought well we have time - no kids, jobs or houses to take care of right? And then it occurred to me that we are all a part of a clique, one way or another at school, and we all know that every clique must have one or two people that usually make more of the moves than others (it's true!).. and then lastly I thought, we are the technological generation right? We are the ones who made facebooks at 8 and faked our ages, we are the ones who spend our lives tweeting about it no?
So why would we not use these utilities to make positive trends?
You are capable of setting a positive trend. You are capable of making a difference, even if it's a small one. So make one.
At the workshop yesterday, I had the students write up either a cause they would stand for, a trend they wanted to set, or if they had already thought about this - both put together.
Do the same and start your action plan.
Set - Your - Trend.
- I've placed a few photos below of what some of the student responses were.
What trend do you set Ms. Kahlout?
ReplyDeleteI apologize for the delay in replying, it's been a hectic week. As teenagers, we set more trends than we notice, so I'm not entirely sure. I will try and answer to my best capability though. I think that I set a positive trend through ambition and strong aspirations. I don't like the idea of giving up and I know that I try my best to give that same vibe to the people around me - not only by trying to make them believe in themselves but just believing in them myself. Inshallah, I'm currently in the process of planning out a CAS activity at Qatar Academy, and if it works out - it will be a positive trend, following the leading theme in my workshop in QLC - I will stand for an issue and set my own trend.
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