Global Leadership & Advancement Programme (GLAP)
Global Leadership & Advancement Programme, GLAP, is a one-of-its-kind advancement training programme tailor-made for undergraduate students of Tung Wah University of Hong Kong. It encourages student participants (Glappers) to start to know more about their inner self, then go through a path of self-discovery to be built up as strong leader with values, wisdom and virtues. Students are inspired to explore outward and reflect inward, uncover their unique inner strength; and then shine and commit to make the world a better place for all.
Through a diverse mix of training methodologies and experiential learning opportunities in one academic year, the Programme enables our students to strengthen their relationship with self and other, broaden their perspectives in global and local concern, challenge their boundaries and uncover attitude, knowledge, ideas and practical soft skills that they will contribute to the advancement of the human society.
Upon successful completion of the GLAP, Glappers become GLAP Champions. These GLAP Champions then go on to serve and support the younger Glappers during their training period.
Self-Understanding and Personal Development
- Be able to have deeper self-understanding and to discover the direction and value that they embrace.
Relationship Building with Self and Others
- Be able to further build up their relationship with own self and relate with people with a sense of equality and mercy in a pluralistic society; understand the needs of others who are brought up in different cultural background.
Horizon Widening and Connecting to the Globe
- Be able to look at things from different angles and respect different voices and perspectives; extend horizon to see themselves, others, the local community and the globe not as comparisons but as a whole.
Horizon Widening and Connecting to the GloLife Planning and Commitmente
- This wraps up the aforementioned learning outcomes: after achieving the above, students will be able to know who they are, be courageous in responding to challenges; through good planning and step-by-step practically, to actualize their commitment to others, the College, community and mankind.
Mentoring Session (Life Reflection and Growth)
- GLAP GATHERING
Kick Off & Be Ready
- High Table Dinner
- Advancement Camp
Grounding & Goal Setting
- Social Awareness in Action
Local Issues Outreaching
- Global Awareness in Action
Global issues Outreaching
- Life Engagement Workshop-1
Learning & Experiencing one's Inner World
(Mid-Project Assessment)
- Life Engagement Workshop-2
To listen and to write Life Story
- Outbound Study Tour
- GLAP Dinner
Celebration & Wrap up
- GLAP Gathering served as a kick-off of the programme. It provided a platform for mentors and mentees to get to know each other while they had done matching and exchanged contact with each other at the same time.
- High Table Dinner was an event for students of TWCGSA and GLAP to meet up with each other and to officially appoint the students as Student Ambassadors on the TWCGSA Swearing-In Ceremony.
- Advancement Camp was a 3-day-2-night camp for students to have deeper self-understanding and to discover the direction and value that they embrace.
- Social Awareness in Action was an activity that participants would learn and investigate local issues in Hong Kong.
- Global Awareness in Action was an activity that participants would learn and investigate global issues in Hong Kong.
- Life Engagement Workshop aimed to provide opportunities for students to learn and experience their inner world. They had listened to guests’ sharing and be inspired to write their own life timeline and life story.
- Outbound Study Tour aimed to provide opportunities for participants to expose to different global issues, history and culture of different countries and learn from the experiences of guest speakers in different fields and perspective.
- GLAP Dinner was the last event which aimed to celebrate, recognise students’ effort & achievement and wrap up the whole programme.
- Mentoring sessions in small group from November to April with at least once a month.
Activities Snapshot
GLAP Guidebook of AY25/26 could be found here.