Learning and Development Workshops

 Development Methods, Experiential Education, HR, Learning Lounge  1 Response »
Apr 242009
 

Been involved with some workshop or the other for quite some time these days. As I networked with people about them, I realized that there are many people interested in attending these workshops, but rarely come to know about them in time to enroll. Planning to rectify that.

Soon, I will be starting a new newsletter for those interested in learning and development programmes. This will not only contain programmes announced by Wide Aware, but programmes conducted by other organizations and people I respect in this field and I am hoping that this turns out to be a valuable resource to those who otherwise would find it difficult to find opportunities to work with T-groups, unconscious processes, appreciative inquiry, and any of the many valuable windows that infrequently open up.

If you would like to be included in this list, I suggest you comment on this message using your real email ID, and I will pick it up from here when I get around to setting it up.

If you already get our newsletter, don’t worry. When this list is set up, the next regular newsletter will have information about it, so that you can simply adjust your subscription to include this list if you like.

Looking for feedback from you guys about what you think of this idea, and if it would really be of use to you.

 Posted by Vidyut at 9:06 pm  Tagged with:

I Facilitate – the Discovery

 Experiential Education, HR, Learning Lounge  No Responses »
Jan 252009
 

Yeah, I am a facilitator,
So what do I do?
I facilitate.
What’s that?
I enable, I encourage groups to realize their objectives
hmmm….. How?

Well I….. just do it.
How?
By helping them see issues creating problems.
Problems for whom?
For them, of course.
So you know their issues more than them?
Don’t be ridiculous!

What about things they know?
Well…… those are important too
Too?
Actually, they are more important
So what do you do?

I help them explore
Explore what?
Never mind. I help maintain an environment where they can learn and grow.
Who decides that?
I do – I can only speak for what I think.
Hmm…. and you ask them to feel.

I feel too. I share it.
And?
It helps them. It gives them honest data.
And the rest?
Okay, I get them to see the issues I find
What of the ones you don’t see… or don’t want to see…?
What of them?
How do you know that they will not be more important?

See, I sense there may be relevant stuff they don’t see
Of course. What we don’t see is infinite. Its always there!
Yeah, but I sense it
So you know what from the infinite that they don’t see is relevant?

Hey!!!! Gimme a break. I’m human too.
But still….
See, I understand these processes more than them
How come?
I’ve studied them, experienced them, worked with them.
And they haven’t?

Not in so many words, no.
So you know more than them?
Not more, different.
But a more important different than theirs?
Not….. really
And you will not resist it?
Not unless they are avoiding something
Hmmm…. who decides that?

I do, from my experience with them
And that’s foolproof?
I don’t know everything, okay?
Funny, I thought you would – you sounded like that

But I don’t. I’m not all that different from them!
Really?
Yeah, the group does what it does.
Where does that leave you?
With the group – learning and growing!

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Phase B

 Experiential Education  No Responses »
Jun 042008
 

This is an interesting life I have. Just as I begin to believe things are sorted and settled, a new twist comes up. Just as I begin thinking of myself as average, I see how I am exceptional. This time is no different.

I had gone to attend the Phase B of my professional development programme as a T-Group facilitator with the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science, and expected to have a steep learning curve full of struggle and difficulties and discovering things that are not nice about myself to have to deal with and work through to emerge victorious and was prepared for all the melodrama. I was surprised to find myself flowing with the learning, discovering new horizons of learning and awareness.

I am now in the internship that precedes the acceptance by the board members into the professional membership and faculty at ISABS. :)

 Posted by Vidyut at 2:12 pm  Tagged with:

Human Behaviour Processes

 Experiential Education  No Responses »
May 132008
 

Those who are in touch with me know that I have a keen interest in human behaviour processes and am actively pursuing my self-development journey with ISABS.

Its Summer, and its time for the National Event being held in Goa. After a lot of anxiety about being able to complete my logs and get them approved in time, I have finally been cleared two days before I am supposed to leave.

Needless to say, this is an exercise in pressure to be planning a trip to Goa two days before departure in the holiday season. Keeping fingers crossed and hoping for the best.

This time, I will be doing my Phase B of the Professional Development Programme. This is going to take two weeks, and hopefully I will be emerging on the other end intact and wiser.

I am a little anxious about my ability to cope with the intensity of the process work and can hardly believe that I made it this long. Seems yesterday that I attended my first Human Processes Lab. Time certainly flies when you are celebrating it.

Will keep ya’ll posted on proceedings and my condition :D

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Finally on my PDP journey with ISABS

 Experiential Education  2 Responses »
Dec 212007
 

Isabs is an important part of my life now. I find that I believe in the process of development through T-Groups and the ISABS methodology more than any individual facilitator there, and I would like to become a certified trainer with them.

I have finally taken my first step in that direction when I completed my “Phase A” which is the first part of their professional development programme which leads to the certification of behavioural trainers through the T-Group methodology. This is the only kind of certification available for T-Groups in India.

The programme was full of insights and shifts in myself, as well as the way I see things. Strangely, the more I accept that my emotions and experiences are the property of the group and a part of our learning, the more I can acknowledge them and look at them freely and learn from them.

This Phase A comprises of two labs of the usual length and was far more eventful for me than all my previous labs. Part of this is also because I was far more ready to understand my behaviours and experiment with shifts that could lead to changes I desired. This readiness and acceptance of what I was, as I was led to me flowing and changing freely with very little stress.

I may or may not eventually write about my learnings, but they are an inseparable part of me now. I am living by them.

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Umang 2007

 Experiential Education  No Responses »
Oct 152007
 

I am just back from another ISABS lab. This is the second time I did my ALHP. This event was very special and very different in many ways.

This was a low budget initiative aimed at making ISABS and the T-Group processes accessible to sections of society that cannot afford the high budget programmes that usually happen in resorts and are willing to live in basic comfort.

This was completely different from previous experiences for me. Normally, participants live in comfortable air-con rooms on a twin or triple sharing basis, with separate areas for dining and laboratories. Here, the entire community was accommodated in four dormitories, which also doubled as labs and one of the dormitories was used as the dining room as well.

All through the duration of the community, there was a constant churning of participants among the group. You sleep with some of them, meet different people at meal times, attend your lab groups with still another set of them, prefer some of them for company in the evenings……. a constant shuffle of people you’re with, but no such thing as an isolated space for anyone.

I had been very apprehensive about this lack of space, but got so swept in the flow, that I don’t remember what exactly it was that I had been apprehensive about.

Ok, the food could have been better, the fans could have worked, and small comforts could have been missed by some, but the phenomenal community feeling was….. indescribable. People had just knitted together so close, that we had turned into one big family.

It was also an amazing experience to have such a large representation of people from the NGO sector in the community, and a valuable insight into perspectives we had never really been very close to.

I may write more about this eventually.

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Umang 2007

 Experiential Education, Outdoor professionals  2 Responses »
Sep 122007
 

Just as I was sad about how I missed the regional event and how it would be expensive to now go for a National event, I got the newsletter from ISABS that announces a new regional event that is IN Mumbai, very low budget and coming up soon.

I guess my ISABS journey is destined to go on without delays.

For folks in Mumbai, this is an unparalleled opportunity. The Umang 2007 event is from the 10th Oct to the 14th Oct 2007 and takes place in Malad – Aksa beach and overcomes one of the major hurdles for the common man to participate – money. Accommodation is dormitory type, but that is what brings it within reach.

So, where I was planning to go, my husband is also planning to join me this time with his BLHP.

Seriously folks, don’t miss this one. For more information, go the the ISABS website.

 Posted by Vidyut at 12:47 pm  Tagged with: , , ,

Missed the monsoon ISABS event

 Experiential Education  No Responses »
Sep 072007
 

How dumb of me. I’d completely forgotten about the annual monsoon event ISABS usually has. I wanted to attend, but sigh! It already began on the 4th September. I’d completely forgotten about them, and whn I remembered and rushed to visit their site, I found that the event had already started. I’ll probably go for the next event. I was hoping for this Mumbai regional one – it works out cheaper than the national events.

I rarely write about this, so the posts are probably buried among others. For the curious, my previous posts about my ISABS journey were about improving myself after my BLHP – Basic Lab in Human Processes, and then when I was just back from my ALHP and when I went all sentimental about my journey continuing.

For those who are clueless about what I am going on and on about, ISABS is the Indian Society of Applied Behavioural Sciences. They conduct a variety of laboratories (as they are euphemistically called I guess – they are anything but impersonal) oriented toward self-discovery and interpersonal skills including facilitation skills with groups. The series of programmes are collectively referred to as a journey in the sense of self-discovery and improvement.

I honestly recommend these programmes to anyone interested in self-improvement.

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