The document summarizes the 1st Annual Critical Thinking Conference held at Heliopolis Modern Language School. The conference included sessions on topics like the Six Hats Model, GEGA Memory, Using SWOT Analysis to Improve Your Life, and The Self. It provides details on each session including objectives, presenters, and presenter backgrounds. The schedule outlines times for sessions, breaks and closing remarks.

1. Heliopolis Modern Language School
The American Division
Professional & Career Development Program Academic Year 2015-2016
1st Annual Critical Thinking Conference
Saturday, May 28th 2016

2. Mohamed Emam, Mr.
Official and Legal Representative [HLS]
American Division Provost
May 28, 2016
Critical thinking has been a platform through which we provided our
students with the essential 21st century skills. It has always been taught at
school since the opening of the American Division by different instructors. The
purpose has always been to try to help students gain more skills and unlock
their potential. We are living through a period of rapid change where our
knowledge needs updating regularly throughout our lives in order to remain
current. Lifelong learning skills therefore become important and enable us to
improve and keep up to date throughout our working life and beyond. Sincere
thanks to you for being a part of our journey and helping us towards achieving
our mission of bringing educational excellence.
Yours Truly
Mohamed Emam, Mr.
Official and Legal Representative [HLS]
American Division Provost
Conference Schedule at a Glance:
09:00 – 09:15 Admission and Entrance to the Conference Hall
09:15 – 10:00 Introduction: Why Critical Thinking? (Mr. Mohamed Emam)
10:00 – 12:00 Six Hats Model (Dr. Ashraf Morsy)
12:00 – 12:30 Break 1
12:30 – 02:30 GEGA Memory (Dr. Mustapha Abdel-Aal)
02:30 – 03:30 The Self (Mr. Abdullah Ibrahim)
03:30 – 04:00 Break 2
04:00 – 06:00 Using SWOT Analysis to Improve Your Life (Dr. M. Ghorab)
06:00 – 07:00 Closing Remarks and Rewards Distribution

3. The Conference Sessions
Six Thinking Hats is a system designed by Edward de Bono which describes
a tool for group discussion and individual thinking involving six colored hats.
"Six Thinking Hats" and the associated idea parallel thinking provide a means
for groups to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way, and in
doing so to think together more effectively. Topics presented in this session
include argument vs. parallel thinking and the advantages of parallel thinking.
In addition, learners will be introduced to how they can apply hats and use the
6 hats model in thinking. Finally, two workshop activities will be held. These
are "wearing the hat" and "playing the game."
The Presenter: Dr. Ashraf Morsy has more than 20
years experience in diversified tracks including
training, sales and management of pharmaceutical's
marketing business in reputable multinational
pharmaceutical companies in Egypt and KSA. He's
been certified as a Professional Certified Trainer by
the American University in Cairo in 2015. He has
executed a lot of innovative training and marketing
programs including organizational development
programs, students' development programs in
Alexandria University (college of Pharmacy), and
governmental staff training in the Ministry of Health in
KSA and Egypt. He's got certificates of developing, delivering, attending, and
awards of excellence in different soft skills fields from different institutes in lots
of countries including the U.S., France, Italy, Lebanon, KSA, and Egypt. In
addition, Dr. Ashraf has a Mini-MBA in "Notting Hill College – London, School
of Training – Egypt" in March 2016.
GEGA MEMORY is an accredited memory skills training course, created by
the memory expert Dr. Mustapha Abdel-Aal that enables one to learn
powerful techniques that will help enhancing thinking skills, boost the
memory capacity and make the communication more memorable. GEGA
MEMORY will enable you to: memorize all the books JUST BY READING
THEM, master the art of public speaking by memorizing your entire speech
with ease, and remember all the names of any number of people introduced
to you. Never again forget the birthdays or anniversaries of your family and
friends. Cut your study time by 50% or more and pass exams without effort.
Get more done by always remembering what you
have intended to do. Learn any foreign languages
much more easily. Remember facts, stories, jokes and
any list of objects. Dramatically boost your self-
confidence and your intelligence!
The Presenter: Dr. Mustapha Abdel-Aal has
graduated from Cairo University, Qasr El-Ainy College
and earned his MBBS of Medicine and Surgery in
2002. Then, he traveled to the U.S., where he worked

4. as a Doctor. He has always questioned how the human mind works and how
people memorize things while forgetting other important things. In 2009, he
traveled to London and studied the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental
Health at the King’s College, University of London. He went on studying all
about the human memory until he became a memory expert. He created the
Gega Memory course which will enable anyone to have Photographic Memory
to be able to remember all information just by reading it. Now Dr Mustapha
Abdel-Aal is back in Egypt and he works as Director General of the
Department Of Health in the city of M. Qanater, in Giza. He also teaches Gega
Memory to the Top students in Qasr El-Ainy College.
Using SWOT Analysis to Organize Your Life; There will be some special
situations; turning points in your lives, when you might have to choose
between alternatives, make/take a decision, or just handle a difficult problem.
In such situations, to make life smoother, easier, and less stressful, SWOT
analysis is best used. SWOT analysis (alternatively SWOT matrix) is
an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—and is
a structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a project,
business venture, or a personal decision. A SWOT analysis can be carried out
for a company, product, place, industry, or person.
The Presenter: Dr. Mohammed Ghorab is
a Professional Certified Trainer and
Instructor, Consultant and HR training
developer, Project Manager, Innovative
strategic player in planning, Quality and
Safety Manager with over than 10 years’ of
national and international professional
experiences. Most recently, Mohammed was
Training and Development Manager. There,
he set the strategic training direction and
develops soft and technical skills and
prepares HR trainings in both
Pharmaceutical Industry as well as in
Aviation Industry. Mohammed conducted
and delivered several training programs,
conferences, workshops and seminars to
employees’ in-house (Egypt Air), ATCO-
Pharma, as well as external clients within Egypt or abroad in: Germany, USA,
Thailand, Austria, Switzerland, France, China, and Hong Kong. Prior to this
role, Mohammed served at several international organizations as a consultant
community promoter in the Alumniportal-Deutschland one of the German
government projects, Comprise the Support of registered members of the
Alumniportal Deutschland and enhance activities, particularly in the field of
professional social networking, promotional activities, through his dedicated
work he made Egypt on the top list country activities. He has also experienced
being a university visiting lecturer for both marketing and management in
China, business researcher for online mobile marketing and E-Learning in
Germany. Mohammed outstanding strengths include innovation presentation
skills mixed with scientific backgrounds and international image of global

5. updated business information with motivation and coaching to all of the
training team.
The Self; everyone has a self. How much do you know about that self? Is it
really yours? For how long have you been together? Have you ever thought to
change it or get rid of it? Does it stay the same all life long? Why are you
always worried about losing it, always defending it? Do you have full control
over it? Can one live with more than one self? Do people wear different selves
according to the situation, time, and place? In this presentation, the presenter
tries to think loudly and critically asking everyone to go deeper into one's self
as a trial to get to know more about ourselves. The presenter thinks that
people tend to be busy criticizing others, while they hardly know about their
selves. He claims that people think that they are fully aware of their selves;
however, when asked a simple question to give their full names, they can
barely tell their names till the seventh generation.
The Presenter: Mr. Abdullah Ibrahim graduated from
faculty of Al-Alsun, where he studied English as a first
language and German as a second language. Then, he
worked as an Instructor of English from 2001 to 2003 in
the Wireless Institute in Al-Zeitoun and the Computer
Institute in Heliopolis. He has been working in Heliopolis
Modern Language School as an English teacher since
then. Three years after being hired, it was obvious he is
interested in the field of Human Development. He
became responsible for training the English teachers at
the school since then. After founding the American Division in September
2006, he was nominated to teach English Literature. Three years later, he
finished his book entitled Writing Techniques for SAT, a book that provides
feedback to students who study in the American Division. This is when he
started to teach English SAT both in Heliopolis Modern Language School
American Division and as a private tutor. In 2013, he was promoted to be the
English Language Department Co-Chair for Heliopolis Modern Language
School for both the Language Sector and the American Division. He also
became an Instructor of Psychology. In 2016, he was certified in Human
Resource Management by the School of Continuing Education at the
American University in Cairo. In addition to that, he has started working in his
Masters Degree in International Education in the use of differentiated
instructions in the English classroom.