Hastor Foundation Fellows are often given the opportunity to reconsider their decisions, and they often reflect on their responsibilities and obligations as Hastor Foundation scholarships holders. Accordingly, the Hastor Foundation has prepared a lecture for the November monthly online student meeting that will help many scholarship holders understand the very concept of personal responsibility and how it can manifest in a variety of situations and circumstances.
On Saturday, November 27, 2021, a monthly online meeting of student scholarship holders was held. On a gloomy November morning, the light was brought on by this month’s lecturer Naida Duvnjak-Šehović, Human Resources Development Director of Prevent CEE, and a psychologist. Naida wanted to share, as she calls it, a morning dose of inspiration with our students that will motivate them and launch them to new victories.
Through an interesting lecture and workshop, Naida successfully demonstrated how different roles we have in life and the responsibilities we face can determine our future careers. What she emphasized as especially important is the issue of personal responsibility, ie. the responsibility we have for our own lives. In addition to the issue of personal responsibility, lecturer Naida, through interaction with fellow students, talked about how much each of them understands the segment of work they do, their responsibilities, and their willingness to take full responsibility for a business process from start to finish. Scholarship students came forward with their examples and remarks, especially when Naida explained the internal and external locus of control that interested them. The workshop prepared by our inspirational lecturer encouraged the students to think about many situations they often encounter and their responses to these situations. The responses can sometimes be wrong because, as the fellow students concluded, sometimes the external locus of control is responsible for a situation and the outcome is beyond our control.
The director of the Hastor Foundation, Seid Fijuljanin, also joined the discussion on the locus of control, commenting on the importance of responsibility towards oneself and the potential mark we will leave. The director emphasized that the impact students leave on primary and secondary school students through mentoring leaves an indelible mark on younger scholarship holders for whom older scholarship holders are a role model and motivation in their further education. In addition to the role model that younger fellows see in their mentors, the director talked about the great support that younger students see in student scholarship holders and how, over the years, they become just like their mentors who were their role models and inspiration. The entire Hastor Foundation family is especially proud of this because scholarship holders and former scholarship holders primarily grow into good, responsible, and hard-working people who enrich the society of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The director then spoke to the fellow students and announced the signing of scholarship agreements, when the students will finally gather in one place. Student scholarship holders are, as the director says, an army of change and positive things that will bring many useful things to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The principal concluded this month’s meeting with cordial greetings to all the fellow scholars and our lecturer Naida.
Prepared by: Aleksanda Đukić
Translated by: Vedin Klovo
