Our Voyages

Adolescents

From Me to We: Builds leadership and life skills with in-school adolescents to help them understand social issues and inspire them to take up active leadership through social action projects.

Friendship Udankhatola Camp: A powerful interactive and experiential learning journey, which offers urban school students an insight into rural life, through hands on exposure with the rural community.

Curious Me!: Develops scientific temperament and a spirit of enquiry amongst adolescents; using the framework of MADS (mapping, analysis, development and synthesis).

Safe School Safe Cities- Challenging gender realities and enhancing safety through a leadership journey for adolescents.

Beyond Zebra: A learning and leadership journey which focuses on providing safe and meaningful volunteering opportunities to adolescents where they build their leadership capacities, develop a broader, more informed world view while creating social impact

Urban Community Exposure Visits- one day community visit designed for urban students to engage with urban resettlement communities, model villages, or urban slums to build their understanding of community life, local governance and issues of citizenship and identities.

My School Programme: A programme on building life skills, understanding social issues and inspire active citizenship amongst adolescents from marginalised socio-economic backgrounds. Students are supported to identify their own strengths and challenges, aspirations for self, their school and community at large.

My Life Mere Faisley: Building agency of young people (13-25 years), decision making capacities and supporting them to challenge the issue of early and child marriage in their community and own lives, through a 50-hour curriculum.

Prayasapna: to create an “Empowering space that nurtures and inspires adolescents to identify and fulfill their aspirations for a happy and healthy life”

Youth  

SMILE In-turn-ship is a 3-6 week long rural immersion program, where the young volunteers are placed in partner NGOs and grassroots movements across India, enabling them to gain a whole new perspective on how they see paradoxes of development and enable them to take social action while building their leadership, conflict resolution and self-reflection capacities.

SMILE Fellowship –6 month intensive learning and leadership opportunity for young people in New Delhi to build skills through designing and leading impactful social change

Inward Bound– open camps in colleges and schools on a series of experiences on understanding their personality and skills

A Rural Group Exposure is a week long engagement with young people where they challenge their own notions about ‘self’ and the world around them by experiencing a rural community and grassroots issues with a group of diverse peers.

Youth Addas on Sustainable Development Goals – regular open workshops designed on sustainable development goals to generate dialogue and discussion amongst youth, with ComMutiny-the Youth Collective, UNV, Restless Development

Reimagining NSS- Strengthening the NSS programme in New Delhi, Lucknow and Benaras; through a capacity building journey of NSS officers and volunteers in colleges, with YP Foundation

Be A Jagrik- Samvidhan LIVE… Live the SDGs led by ComMutiny- the Youth Collective-campaign to build constitutional  and SDG literacy among the youth through a five week interactive game.

YES Peace India SMILE Program (UNESCO-MGIEP)- an experiential journey for young people to be effective Educators for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Delhi and Jaipur, with CYC.

International Volunteering and Youth Exchange: Creating deep impactful volunteering journeys for the global youth to help them understand grassroots development, create cross-border relationships and gain a deeper understanding of self.

 

Early Stage Social Entrepreneurs  

Pravah Changelooms – Building Youth Social Entrepreneurship: Changelooms is a learning and leadership journey for early stage social entrepreneurs. Our journey with social entrepreneurship and collectivisation of social entrepreneurs has had some significant milestones and has impacted over 500 social entrepreneurs across 19 states.

Capacity Building and co-creation of programs with youth led organisations, professionals, potential employees and educators  (upon clicking on the respective section of the above concentric circles)

My Life Mere Faisle- (My Life, My Decisions) – building agency of young people (13-25 years),  decision making capacities and supporting them to challenge the issue of early and child marriage in their community and own lives. Running in 7 states with 11 partners across India, since 2016.

Caste in Stone programme – addressing caste based discrimination in 4 streaming partner locations by designing and implementing a curriculum for college youth to build inclusive identities.

Swa-Ankur– The Entrepreneurship development program – to create and nurture entrepreneurs working to address local needs by establishing micro enterprises in three streaming partner locations.

Saanstha– Strengthening Organisational Development within youth centric organisations– building the organizational capacities of 11 streaming partners as 5 th spaces who advocate for youth development and active citizenship work in their regions, by investing in the mentoring, learning and leadership journeys of these leaders

Abilities Beyond Skills:a curriculum aimed at bridging the gap between expectations of potential employers and employees; and equip potential employees with flexible, congruent wholesome leadership values, attitudes, behaviors and decision-making capacities. We are currently running this curriculum as part of the vocational courses of Ambedkar University, with fresh recruits in corporates, in ITIs, and we are training the employers and facilitators of young people.

Plan It Girls Programme– to build the capacities of government school teachers to create gender sensitive safe  learning spaces in Badarpur schools in partnership with the International Council for Research on Women (ICRW),

Mentor Teacher Training– Project undertaken to design and implement trainings and workshops with mentor teachers of government schools to create a 5th space and learning orientation through design and facilitation tools with the SCERT and the Delhi Government

HCL My Scholar Programme – create a safe space for young scholars and corporate mentors  (essentially employees of HCL) to engage effectively to augment learning and leadership abilities of the scholar.

Research & Knowledge Products: Over the years, we have created several curricula for training a wide range of audience on a plethora of issues (Link to Treasure chest page)

Open Programmes

• ‘The Big Ticket: A 5 day retreat  offering a deep dive into instructional design and facilitation for all learning professionals.
• ‘Ocean in a Drop’: A 6 day retreat  for Program leads and CEOs on Envisioning and embedding Innovative and impactful youth interventions in organizations.  
• ‘Get Real: A 3  day Deep Self-awareness retreat  for youth and youth facilitators in education institutions or development organizations.
• ‘Conflict Positive’:  A 5 day retreat on managing conflicts in a wholesome manner in order to break an unhealthy status quo and facilitate change in self, relationships and society.

 

Customized Leadership Journeys for Organisations

Youth Strategy development for organisations

Public Engagement & Policy Impact  (upon clicking on the respective section of the above concentric circles)

 

Annual youth festivals- like Music For Harmony, Jashn-e-Aghaz and the Changelooms Recognition events have been powerful platforms to bring together young people, families, partners, artists, journalists, activists from across borders to amplify youth voices on issues of peace, communal harmony, social hope and discontent, inclusion, social entrepreneurship.

 

My Space…My unManifesto   – A campaign to enhance young peoples participation in democracy in partnership with UNFPA and CYC was considered by many as a first of its kind initiative to crowd source a youth manifesto  which was presented to 100 representatives of  leading political parties.

Samjhotoh Express:  Friendship Beyond Labels – A leadership journey to inspire young people to address different forms of identity-based discrimination in society supported by Misereor and Oxfam India led by ComMutiny-The Youth Collective.

Samvidhan Live! The Jagrik Project – A learning journey of active citizens ( Jagriks) to learn about and live the values enshrined in  the Constitution of India and live the sustainable development goals through powerful self and social action projects in their communities led by ComMutiny-The Youth Collective.

Influencing National and International Youth policies

Contribution in growth of adolescent and youth development programmes in the country.