The primary goal of the Change for Tomorrow program is to create a supportive community which blends people of diverse backgrounds into a unified group with a common vision of spirituality as the basis of one's life.
Students will engage in activities that lead them to a deeper understanding of the system created by Baha'u'llah for the redemption of mankind, beginning with the responsibility for personal transformation and leading to ever more sophisticated capacities to evaluate and control self, contribute to family and friendship groups in a productive, creative, peaceful way, and to see and respond to the needs of our own society and the broader world.
The foundation of the program is a curriculum design to help the students examine and put into practice moral leadership capabilities:
Capabilities that contribute to personal transformation
1. The capability to evaluate one's own own strengths and weaknesses without involving the ego: self-evaluation.
2. The capability to learn from systematic reflection on action within a consistent, evolving conceptual framework.
3. The capability to take initiative in a creative and disciplined way.
4. The capability to endeavor, persevere and overcome obstacles in the achievement of goals.
5. The capability to oppose one's lower passions and egocentric tendencies by turning towards higher purposes and capabilities: self-discipline.
6. The capability to manage one's affairs and responsibilities with rectitude of conduct based on moral and ethical principles.
7. The capability to think systematically in the search for solutions.
Capabilities that contribute to improve interpersonal relations
8. The capability to imbue one's thoughts and actions with love.
9. The capability to encourage others and to bring joy to their hearts
10. The capability to participate effectively in the process of consultation in group decision making
11. The capability to be a loving and responsible member of a family
12. The capability to create and promote unity in diversity.
Capabilities that contribute to social transformation
13. The capability to create a vision of a desired future based on shared values and principles, and to articulate it clearly and simply so that it inspires in others a sense of commitment towards its fulfillment.
14. The capability to understand relationships of domination and to contribute towards their transformation into relationships based on reciprocity, sharing and mutual service.
15. The capability to contribute to the establishment of justice
16. The capability to commit oneself to the process of empowering educational activities
17. The capability to serve on institutions of society in ways that assist their members to develop and utilize their talents and capabilities in service to mankind.
18. The capability to perceive and interpret the meaning of present-day social processes and events in the light of an appropriate historical perspective.
The moral leadership capabilities were first identified by professors at Nur University. We are eternally grateful to them for their work.
