What is Bareec?
The brainchild of Her Royal Highness Shaikha Intisar Salem Al Ali Al Sabah – the Founder and CEO – Bareec for Positive Thinking & Wellbeing is the first values education school program in Kuwait and the Arab World based on positive psychology.
Bareec empowers schoolteachers with training, tools and curriculum to educate students with experiential classroom-based positivity exercises for greater academic excellence and individual wellbeing, endorsed in 2018 by the State of Kuwait Supreme Council for Planing and Development in the Five-Year State Development Plan (New Kuwait 2035) under the Pillar of Creative Human Capital, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
Vision
Bareec envisions Improved Human Capital Outcomes through Inspiring Values Education for a Brighter Future.
Mission
Backed by scientific research studies in positive psychology and an evidence-based methodology, Bareec envisages a brighter future for Kuwait by investing in youth today, while equipping them with essential emerging skills to contribute optimally to Kuwait’s national progress as responsible global citizens. Bareec envisions enhancing classroom-based education through essential life-skills and educational values; promoting social, emotional and psychological wellbeing; and boosting academic excellence to enable future generations to make meaningful differences in Kuwait’s long-term economic development, workforce and community.