The college of Nursing organizes a workshop on general culture and its role in building conscious personalities

The Continuing Education Unit at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Baghdad, organized a specialized workshop entitled “General Culture and Its Role in Building Conscious Personality” presented by Dr. Khatam Ghazi Attia with the active participation of faculty members and undergraduate students. The workshop focused on enabling participants to understand the mechanisms of building a conscious personality through the development of general culture and providing them with practical tools to employ diverse knowledge in analyzing reality and making sound decisions.
The workshop aimed to distinguish between specialized knowledge and general culture and the role of each in shaping intellectual vision, analyzing the impact of culture on the development of critical thinking, cognitive flexibility, and values of tolerance, as well as applying mechanisms to link scientific, literary, and social fields to deeply understand contemporary phenomena and design personal cultural maps. This ensures balanced cognitive growth that adapts to the life goals of participants. The workshop sought primarily to change the mindset of students from mere performers of university tasks to learners who aspire and study with a conscious and cultured mindset by instilling the values of reading and in-depth follow-up.
The workshop concluded with a set of recommendations that emphasized the need for intentional diversification of knowledge inputs and the transition from casual consumption of information to specialized research and the building of an independent cultural identity, stressing that culture is the lens through which humans view the world and that their constant motto is to strive to be more aware day after day, because a mind that stops learning and connect and discover is a mind that loses the essence of its existence. The workshop organizers also called on attendees to take practical decisions toward reading and learning about new worlds in order to build the greatest thing that humans possess, which is the conscious mind.
This activity is part of the college’s efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 4 (Quality Education) by providing comprehensive education that goes beyond traditional frameworks, and Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) by strengthening cultural and knowledge links that contribute to building a knowledge society and developing comprehensive community awareness