• Art of Living - Introduction

    AOL

    Welcome to the Course Art of Living: For Exploring the Beautiful World

    It has been perceived from the different evaluations that intellectual ability needs to be exercised in an effective way through scheduled practice and performance.

    Success comes not just from the knowledge and skills but also from behavior which can create distance between success and failure. And we can achieve expected behavior only by learning and unlearning ways of thinking that finally craft body language and ensure effective living in this beautiful world.





    Objective of the course

    The Objectives of this course are –

    • Self Confidence: All learners will have a strong belief that we all are inborn genius and that any dream is possible to achieve to create a difference.
    • Boldness: They will become strong with critical thinking & creativity to accept the unacceptable in the face of unavoidable challenges in daily life.
    • Equity with Empathy: They will have fundamental human & life skills including conscious self-awareness to learn and find how to do things in an empathetic and equitable way - a way that pleases the Creator.
    • Questioning: They will not hesitate to ask any question to unleash inner genius and the genius of local & global collectives, towards building a Just Daffodil, Bangladesh, and World.
    • Values: Learners will set, feel, and realize core human values and act with or reflect those in their daily life.
    • Learning to learn: They will learn how to learn & will be able to criticize themselves.
    • Peace & Mutual Happiness: All learners will achieve Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to create harmonious relationships with parents, family, friends & community in order to experience a good, peaceful, and mutually happy life.


    Final Outcome

    At the end of the semester SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) – 

    • SWBAT know the necessity of Questioning, How to question, core values, and theories on goal setting for life. 
    • SWBAT create empathy, broaden the conception of people, moral concern, a sense of honor and decency, and strengthen responses to unjust conditions. 
    • SWBAT make humanitarian qualities as the basic tools for enjoying the journey from “I” to “We” to promote effective living in this precious world. 
    • SWBAT achieve competency to cope with rapidly changing world considering university as a place and platform to create knowledge and skills for their meaningful survival. 
    • SWBAT set her/his own goal for life with core values and can break down big goals into short term attainable goals. 
    • SWBAT evaluate situations & problems and can act like a resilient with empathetic and equitable way

◄Chapter 8 - STYLE OF LIVING: Youthful living, Meditation and Holistic MindfulnessMID-TERM EXAMINATION►

Chapter 9 - Mind Mapping

  • Chapter 9 - Mind Mapping

    Objectives:
    • To learn about mind mapping and practice in daily life and living with an objective to think and remember better
    • To learn about creative problem solving and action in need 

    Contents to be covered: 
    • WHAT IS A MIND MAP? 
    • WHY MIND MAPS WORK? 
    • HOW TO DO A MIND MAP 

    Overview and Rational:
    A lot of researches have been done in order to develop and strategize the effective ways on the process of learning for students. For developing students with creative thinking in a modern world of today, we need to always be well ahead of everyone and that is why the mind map concept is important to students who want to achieve their dreams. 
    This method is a thinking process which involves graphical way in representing ideas and concepts. It is like a visual thinking tool that helps you structure information, analyze a topic much better, comprehend, synthesize, recall and also generate new ideas easily. In other word, the information through mind map is structured in such a way so that it can help your brain work faster.
    Some of the elements that make the mind map method important is the simple and short text used enabling someone for easy understanding it’s content, along with it’s not too small font size so that eyes will not feel tired when looking at it, plus also not feeling bored because of reading it. 

    Mind Mapping Sample

    Graphical signs being used in your mind map such as arrows, squares and round shapes definitely help someone to create network interface for easy understanding of certain topics. 
    By adding picture drawing or sketches for explaining certain content in selected topics will provide easy understanding, plus also strengthening memory on each of the related pictures/topic involved.
    When a student has mastered the art of mind map techniques, they will be able to acquire analytic skills on whatever sketches or symbols they intend to portray in the mind map notes. This is important because all of this exercise will in the end generate an analytical attitude to the students.
◄Chapter 8 - STYLE OF LIVING: Youthful living, Meditation and Holistic MindfulnessMID-TERM EXAMINATION►