One favorite references from the Good Book, while on our empowerment mission in schools, is 1st Peter 4: 10 which simply says, “Use your God given gifts to serve others.” It doesn’t say whether you do it for free or you charge for the services. We take this reference amongst others rather seriously. Why?
While in high school, some of us studied Christian Religious Education – CRE for 2 good years. In one year, we covered African Religious Education. Here we learnt the culture of various African Societies spread across different parts of Africa. Favorite lessons for some of us, were from the book titled “Facing Mt. Kenya,” authored by Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the first Kenyan President.
There were great lessons on the culture of the Kikuyu and more particularly their religion, where they had strong beliefs especially with regard to their connections with Mt. Kenya. The second year involved lessons on St. Luke’s Gospel which details how Jesus was born like every African Child. He was named and even taken through circumcision like most African children experience.
In other words, Jesus grew up normally just like any other child, until the commencement of his Christianity mission. It is this background that has enabled some of us, to perceive biblical principles as mainly cultural and historical perspectives of the people of Israel or the Jews.
While pursuing university education, we were exposed to numerous areas of study as is the nature of American Education System. One of them that has greatly influenced my life ever since, is Philosophy. Simply put, philosophy is the search and dissemination of knowledge for the improvement of the welfare of humanity. Further, we should all be contributing towards the improvement of the welfare of humanity. How? Simply using our God given gifts to serve others, isn’t it?
In pursuance of life guided by the said principles, there are other great lessons from the Good Book. Galatians 6:9 says “Never abandon doing what is right, as rewards will follow you at the opportune time. Why share this information?
The knowledge on philosophy helped me understand that no matter how much Kenyans are trained, on how to conduct or manage business (as my area of specialization), there will still be great performance gaps. That is naturally occasioned by their failure to pursue the right empowerment strategy, while in school. Entrenched mediocrity becomes a reality and the human being never leads towards optimizing performance of the other resources, associated with productivity.
As such, there will be no unleashing of the human performance potential as articulated in the KICD approved concept titled “Career Dynamics in the 21st Century.” So, influences by those philosophical and biblical principles, have made our contributions towards improvement of the welfare of humanity a reality and quite inspiring. Why say so?
Our writings continue circulating variously and influecing Kenyans in different ways. Empowerment Seminars have also been embraced variously in schools spread in different counties. The last but one week of 2022 2nd term for example, we had planned to visit Nakuru County after a long while. Alongside, the journey was cut short by seminar engagements for 2 days.
So, this week, we set to complete the visit to Nakuru County. We interacted with quite a number of institutional managers. Particularly, there were great discussions about the transformation of education through the Competency Based Curriculum – CBC. The main concern was whether it was going to work. Largely, the challenge of CBC is how the implementation was formulated. That is precisely what needs to be corrected. Double intake for secondary schools in January 2023, was for example quite a misconception, as revealed @ https://youtu.be/5vIR69v50Ss
Meanwhile, since our empowerment strategy has always been about helping Kenyans to transit from 20th to 21st Century Mentalities, not only through our publications, but also seminars, it becomes easy to be engaged by those who understand the continuing direction of the education system. Most importantly, who doesn’t want to experience improvement of performance and alignment of the future leaders under their care?
That is why we are occasionally, hijacked for empowerment seminars for not only students, but also teachers. That happened twice in Nakuru County this week. As such, never tire of doing what is right; rewards will keep coming your way at the opportune time, isn’t it?
FYI
The schedules for this 3rd term are rather tight. However, our empowerment mission is a continuous process. That is why we had 2 engagements in Nairobi County, in the first week. One was for teachers and the other for students in 2 different schools.
This second week attracted 2 empowerment seminars for students as well, in Nakuru County. The good news is that some schools understand our empowerment strategy very clearly.
The seminars immediately transform the attitudes, focus and reading culture of students. This naturally leads to reduced indiscipline and improved performance, isn’t it? More engagements especially for the Form 2 and 3 Classes as well as teachers, are still very welcome.
Rgds
Mwangi Wanjumbi (MKIM)
Personal Empowerment Coach,
Speaker/Trainer/Consultant on Strategy, Performance, Change Management and Leadership.
Seasoned Trainer of Trainers,
Competency Based Curriculum-CBC Architect,
Author of 1. KICD approved Career Dynamics in the 21st Century, 2. Living Beyond Survival:No More Tiptoeing in Life
- The 21st Century Student:Are You Creating The Future Today? Also, Retired 5 Year Monthly Strategy Columnist (2013 – 2018) for The SME Today Magazine Phone 254772516210
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