About Us

Pravasi Guidance Forum (PGF) is a non-religious, non-political Forum devoid of caste, creed or colour, formed to address the social needs of Non Resident Keralites ( NRK). It aims at bringing social, economic, cultural and educational betterment in the community. PGF is recognised by NORKA (Approval No 101/2015), a Government of Kerala Undertaking. It’s legally licensed under Pravasi Guidance Center(PGC) W. L. L. 

 

PGC is a leading educational center in Bahrain specialized in counseling and Youth Leadership Program.

Vision

To uplift, empower and transform the society thereby enhancing quality of life to experience it in its fullness.

Mission

To build confident people and a healthy community through the medium of personal counselling, awareness programs, mentoring and seminars.

Objective

  • Work for the social, cultural, economic, educational and moral betterment of the people
  • Offer counselling services to the Indian Community Members in the Kingdom of Bahrain and NRKs in Kerala
  • Conduct out-reach and awareness programs for those addicted to alcohol and drugs and assist to rehabilitate them
  • Organize educational seminars, fairs and road shows and personality development programs to the Indian students in the Kingdom of Bahrain and in Kerala
  • Conduct group counselling seminars for families
  • Offer career consultancy service to job seekers and students
  • Encourage the scholars in the educational, cultural, social and technical fields through PGF awards.

Our Values

  • We believe in the principles of integrity, justice & excellence.
  • We believe that every human being is unique and valuable.
  • We believe that all actions shall be guided by compassion, dignity and respect.
  • We believe in personal learning and growth.
  • We believe in working together in realizing peoples potential.

Our Members

Certified Counsellors either trained by PGF or by an international educational body who are residing or have been residing in Bahrain are eligible for membership provided they agree to abide by the rules and regulations of PGF.

PGF Office Bearers 2023-25

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

EX COM MEMBERS

CODING AND ROBOTICS (FOUNDATION)

  • Introduction to block-based coding/ Basic of coding
  • Grade KG to 12/ 8 classes/ 1 month
  • Simple pattern making animation/ Doodle project, Sprite & costumes making
  • Code your story, voice over , and dialogues/ Using conditional statements & looping
  • LSRW training and its significance in coding /Using Tools-control keys, Video sensing, pen
  • Code your math, science, and English lessons/ Using text to Speech in your project
  • Introduction to AI and its role in coding
  • Basic presentation / soft skills training

CODING AND ROBOTICS (INTERMEDIATE)

  • Grade KG to 12/ 24 classes/ 3 months
  • Create your own games/ Advanced visual coding
  • The Minecraft project / Using algorithms in your life
  • Code your happy place/ Create Sprites & Animate its behaviour
  • Button control, Shooting games, and Flappy bird/ The poetry project / Code your own poem
  • Sprite, behaviours, loops and conditional statements
  • Graphical projects/ Sequencing/ Create your story
  • Artist lab/ Geometry and 2D models/ The math project/ Puzzle game/ Car racing
  • Slide preparation and presentation / AI

CODING AND ROBOTICS (ADVANCED)

  • Grade 4 to 12/ 32 classes/ 4 months
  • Maps, Maze & sequencing/ Simple APP making
  • Code doodles & superheroes/ APP inventor
  • 1-level & 2-level games/ VR Robotics
  • Score point games/ Web development
  • Gamify your school subjects/ Basics of HTML, CSS, Javascript
  • Create your self evaluation tool/ create Logo
  • Create your 3D art/ CAD for kids/ Poster making/ Content creation
  • Microsoft Arcade games/ Create your own website
  • Digital marketing tools

CODING AND ROBOTICS (THE CHAMPION)

  • Grade 4 to 12/ 32 classes/ 4 months
  • Create your own APP
  • Create your own Chatbot
  • Poster making/ Content creation
  • Basic photo/ Video editing
  • AI extension in visual coding
  • 3D printing concepts in daily life
  • VR Robotics in daily life
  • Create your own website
  • Code an Arduino
  • Visual studio code and its applications
  • Python-Fundamentals and application
  • Map Python to Machine learning and Data Science
  • Create your own life skills mapped Python project
  • Create your own product photos/ videos
  • Create your pitch deck/ Personal profile
  • Email etiquette/ Google Workspace
  • Significance of Life Skills
  • Your final Project Presentation

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YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

  • A program designed for the beginners to develop the personality of students aged 9 to 18 years.
  • Weekly once for 2 hours for 10 weeks to suit the students availability.
  • Entry limited to 24 per batch to ensure personal attention.
  • Professional mentoring service offered exclusively to students with grey areas of development.
  • Ribbons of recognition to winners of each item and certificate of participation.
  • Online and physical meeting as per the convenience of students.
  • Affordable fee structure.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (BASIC)

A program designed for the beginners to the personality of students

Program Contents:

  • Prepared speech
  • Table Topic
  • Humorous Speech
  • Word Presentation
  • Etiquette Display

YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (INTERMEDIATE)

A program designed for those who attended YLP basic.

Program Contents:

  • Prepared speech
  • Table Topic
  • Humorous Speech
  • Book Review
  • Story Telling

YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (ADVANCED)

A program designed for those who attended YLP intermediate

Program Contents:

  • Prepared speech
  • Table Topic
  • Humorous Speech
  • News Reading
  • Speech Evaluation
  • Debates

YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (SUPREME)

A program designed for those who attended YLP advanced

Program Contents:

  • Human Library Darbar
  • Interview Attending Skills
  • IQ Quiz Practice
  • Presentation
  • Chintan Sivir
  • Prepared Speech

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DIFFERENTIAL APTITUDE TEST(DAT) & CAREER PATH

  • Program designed for students and youngsters who are confused about the selection of their career path.
  • Personal Career Counselling with renowned Career Guru.
  • Abstract reasoning
  • Language usage
  • Mechanical reasoning
  • Numerical ability
  • Space relations
  • Verbal reasoning
  • For children grade 8 onwards
  • Total 2 hours online test & 45 minutes career counselling

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WHY FEAR EXAM?

  • Paper Bag Therapy
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Recapping Therapy
  • Cleansing Therapy
  • Schedule setting
  • Exam Preparation period cautions
  • Total 4 ½ hours program for 3 days,1 ½ hours a day
  • For children grade 1 onwards

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I CARE ENOUGH

  • The challenges of teens
  • Combating Stress
  • How to stay organized
  • A MUST COURSE FOR ADOLESCENTS
  • Total 6 hours program for 3 days
  • For teenagers between 13 years and 18 years of age

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WHO AM I?

  • Total 6 hours program for 3 days,2 hours each
  • How to make a Study Plan
  • Basic Etiquette Training
  • Understand the Strong hours of Preadolescents
  • Program designed for children of age 8 to 12 years

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PRESENTATION SKILLS
COURSE

  • Preparation tips
  • Rehearsal techniques
  • Performance skills
  • Post- performance actions
  • Total 6 hours program for 3 days, 2 hours each
  • For all above 15 years of age

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BE AN EXPERT IN
PHOTOSHOP

  • Photoshop User Interface
  • Photo Mixing Techniques
  • Photo Manipulations
  • B&W To Color Photos
  • Basics Of Digital Drawing
  • Logo Making
  • Program designed for children 14 years and above
  • Total 14 hours program for 7 days,2 hours each

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SPOKEN ENGLISH

  • Appropriate pronunciation of words
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Oral expression of the language
  • Program designed for age 14 and above
  • Total 60 hours program for 30 days, 2 hours a day

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OCCUPATIONAL ENGLISH TEST

  • Experienced faculty with Doctoralqualification in English Language
  • Online support
  • Complementary makeup classes for resits
  • Practical worksheets
  • Practical speaking exercise
  • Phrasal verbs/Idioms
  • Review of tests
  • Final tips for success
  • Grammar overview
  • Vocabulary and role play exercise

OET EXTRA FEATURES

  • Specialized coaching based on syllabus
  • Focused training for vocabulary
  • Role play exercise

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INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TESTING SYSTEM

  • Experienced faculty with Doctoral qualification in English Language
  • Complementary makeup classes for resits
  • Online support
  • Practical worksheets
  • Practical speaking exercise
  • Phrasal verbs/Idioms
  • Review of tests
  • Final tips for success
  • Grammar overview
  • Vocabulary and role play exercise
  • 4 Weeks Crash Course, 2 hour session twice a week

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FOUNDATION DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING

  • Introduction & What is counselling?
  • Stress
  • Stress Reduction Techniques
  • The Concept of Human Mind
  • Counselling Skills
  • Stages of Counselling
  • Counselling Process
  • Transactional Analysis
  • Verbatim Writing
  • Family Counselling
  • Adolescent Counselling
  • De-Addiction Counselling
  • Premarital Counselling
  • Grief Counselling
  • Individual Presentation
  • Practical Demo Session
  • Program designed for 18 years & above to learn the basics of counselling accredited to KCCA and CTAA
  • Total Training Hours: 36 Hr

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ADVANCE DIPLOMA IN COUNSELING

  • Clinical Counselling
  • Different Schools of Counselling
  • Development Stages
  • Theories of Personality
  • Psychology and Psychopathology
  • Modern Transactional Analysis
  • Crises Counselling
  • Behaviour Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • PTSD
  • Geriatric Counselling
  • Counselling of Learning Difficult
  • Practical Demo Session
  • Total Training Hours : 36 Hrs.
  • Program designed to learn more advanced techniques of counselling accredited to KCCA and CTAA.

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HIGHER DIPLOMA IN COUNSELING

  • Human Development Stages
  • Professional Ethics of a Counsellor
  • Counselling the Suicidal
  • Counselling the Couple
  • Counselling the Sick
  • Counselling the Elderly
  • Program designed to become a professional counsellor accredited to KCCA and CTAA.
  • Total Training Hours : 16 Hrs.

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SINGLE SUBJECT DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Stress Reduction Techniques like

  • Acupressure Therapy
  • Count down Therapy
  • Recapping Therapy(Mindful Meditation)
  • Candle Therapy
  • Progressive Muscle Relaxation(PMR) therapy
  • Diaphragmatic Breathing Therapy
  • Mirror Therapy
  • Guided Imagery
  • Light Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Massage Therapy
  • Talk Therapy
  • Dissociation Therapy
  • Personification Therapy
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Mindfulness based Stress Reduction Therapy
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy(DBT)
  • Aversion Therapy
  • Role Play Therapy
  • Story Telling Therapy
  • Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy(REBT)
  • Exposure Therapy(ET)
  • Transactional Analysis Based Therapy
  • Program designed to specialize in Psychotherapy accredited to KCCA and CTAA.
  • Total Training Hours: 6 Hrs. for 3 days

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SINGLE SUBJET DIPLOMA IN TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS

  • Introduction to TA
  • Development of TA
  • Philosophy of TA
  • Goals of TA
  • Ego States
  • Modern Transactional Analysis Theory
  • Rules of communication
  • Rebuild yourself with TA
  • Total Training Hours: 6 Hrs. for 3 days
  • Program designed to learn Transactional Analysis certification accredited to KCCA and CTAA

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SINGLE SUBJECT DIPLOMA IN STUDENT COUNSELLING

  • Stages of Human Development
  • Categories of Students and their Issues
  • Student Counselling Techniques
  • Program designed for those who intend to help students deal with their stress and anxiety.
  • Total Training Hours: 6 Hrs. for 3 days

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SINGLE SUBJECT DIPLOMA IN DEADDICTION COUNSELING(SSDDC)

  • What is addiction?
  • Types of addictions
  • Causes of addiction
  • Identification Characteristics
  • Possible solutions
  • Addiction counselling
  • Practical demo of addiction counselling
  • Total Training Hours 6 Hrs. for 3 days
  • Program designed to learn de-addiction counselling accredited to KCCA and CTAA

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PRE MARITAL COUNSELLING COURSE

  • Voluntary Nature of Coupling
  • Balance in the Couple’s Relationship
  • Temporal Aspects of Coupling
  • Merging of Systems as Part of Coupling
  • Giving and Receiving of Support as Part of Coupling
  • Maintaining Separateness and Individuality in Coupling
  • Marriage as a Social System
  • Areas of Symptom Formation in Couple Relationship
  • Stages of Marital Conflicts
  • Characteristics of Marital Conflict
  • Family Systems Counselling
  • Guidelines for Enriching Marital Relationship

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GROUP COUNSELLING TECHNIQES

  • General Principles of Group Therapy

- One to one vertical interventions
- Interactional Here-And-Now Model
- Traditional Group Therapies
- Intensive Group Expressions
- Encounter-Group Therapy

  • How to Conduct Group Counselling

- Advantages
- Causalities
- Risk Factors
- Group Selection
- Self-Disclosure
- Facilitator's Role

  • Program designed to learn group counselling accredited to KCCA and CTAA
  • Total Training Hours: 6 Hrs for 3 days

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MONTESSORI TEACHERS TRAINING

  • Education principles
  • Maria Montessori Methodology
  • Child psychology
  • Exercises of practical life
  • Sensorial learning
  • Montessori apparatus
  • Mathematics
  • Language and story telling
  • Music, Art and movement
  • Yoga and Nutrition
  • Computers
  • Lesson plan and curriculum
  • The certificate is issued by INTESOL a worldwide famous education entity.
  • 3 months of total training hours.
  • Program designed for those who want to be Professional Montessori teachers.

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ARABIC LANGUAGE COACHING

  • Arabic letters, words, and proper pronunciation.
  • Handled by experienced Arabic language trainer
  • Learn a new language
  • Hybrid sessions
  • Basic and Advanced Batches
  • 16 hours of Basic level for 8 days
  • 15 hours of Advanced level for 10 days

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SUPERVISORY SKILL COURSE

  • Personal effectiveness
  • Coaching, Mentoring and Leading
  • Time Management
  • Appraisal Interviews
  • Quality Customer Service
  • Program designed for those who wish to develop their skills to meet the demands of an organization
  • Total 6 hours program for 3 days,2 hours each

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INTERVIEW ATTENDING SKILLS

  • Interview Skills
  • Before the Interview
  • During the Interview
  • After the Interview
  • General Interview Questions
  • For those who are planning to attend an interview
  • Total 6 hours program for 3 days, 2 hours each

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YOGA AND MEDITATION

  • Calm your body and soul
  • For those who wish to loose weight
  • Live a stress free life
  • Class conducted by Certified and experienced lady instructor
  • 1 hour weekly thrice

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DIPLOMA IN TRAVEL AGENCY OPERATIONS

  • For those who intend to work in travel agencies 72 hours course
  • 9 hours a week for 8 weeks

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Dr. John’s Educare Nest

Features:

An exclusive program for students of Grade 6 to Grade 12

4 Hours weekly, 2 days of a week

Lateral Entry (Entry and Exit any time)

Individual Attention

Aim to

  • Develop brain storming study habit
  • Observe systematic day plan
  • Make use of the strong hours of the day
  • Address learning difficulties
  • Enrich positive personality traits
  • Follow good manner
  • Develop interpersonal skills
  • Shape self-esteem
  • Avoid exam fear

BD 30 per month. Call 35680258 for registration

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