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how to take one’s PASSION for animals, forests, wilderness, conservation, etc forward into profession and life? Here are some resources to explore: For all age groups: Bird watching – Most cities have bird-watching groups that do free walks iNaturalist to spot, document biodiversity around us Nature walks/Tree walks in your city conducted by multiple organizations…

Vimal 10 yrs old and Mishti 8yrs old are not too small to lead their dance Klub – they come together every Thursday, dance practice together, teach each other and Leela is around with them to sometimes bring resources, sometimes just watch and relish or stimulate their thinking. They call it Dance Klub. Mukunda, Shaunak,…

GIFT FACTORY –Gifting is beautiful! At Aarohi, we began with the need for gifting for our volunteers. Gift factory was born to cater to the needs. We started exploring handmade gifts, gifts which can be given to travelers (most of our volunteers are the traveler with tight spaces).The need for giving created space for us…

GIFT FACTORY –Gifting is beautiful! At Aarohi, we began with the need for gifting for our volunteers. Gift factory was born to cater to the needs. We started exploring handmade gifts, gifts which can be given to travelers (most of our volunteers are the traveler with tight spaces).The need for giving created space for us…

Bhaval, mother of Krishiv sharingAround 3 weeks ago, Krishiv decided to make a bat. The complexity of the model was really high for him.The first entire week he focused on one model spending almost 3 hours each day. End of the week, the model didn’t take shape at all. With so much calm he shared…

CHANGE was the keyword today in teen KlubWhat is changing? – Mind, body, thoughts, and feelingsWe started with the question “as you grow what changes?” and also brought the “how does it feel?” Initiation to talk about not so much spoken topic in the public “does the feelings for the others changes?” “what about romantic…

Our youngest DONOR, AVANI, 9yrs old, We are blessed to receive gifts in many different forms, here is one more story.A note fromLakshmi, mother of Avani, Right since Avani’s birth till now, whatever money she has received in the form of blessings from different people, sometime… a couple of years ago, Avani and myself planned…

According to us this loss of academic interaction is GOOD NEWS. Here is an opportunity for schools to invite learning to be not driven by teachers, but be child-led. We can stop being teachers. Let children teach themselves or each other. We can play the role of mentors or guides. We can be available to…

From the diary of parents, Aparna and Ganesh, AchaleshRamana is having an Awesome Learning Journey at Aarohi Life Education Community. It has been nothing short of “Pure Unadulterated Blissful” Gratitude (PUB G)! AchaleshRamana doesn’t Walk, Talk, Balk: He Flies, Sings, and Jumps-in. He consciously-intentionally-wilfully practices, among other things that we as Parents attach lots of…

When we started homeschooling Asawari, we identified her talents – art and dance. We met the best artist in the city and drew the roadmap for her to be an artist by the age of 25yrs. She was 10yrs old then. We thought 15yrs is a good time to spend on any talent and glow.…

TALENT – one word, one image, one perspectiveUsed QUESTIONING as a collecting experience in the community to just share QUESTIONS coming in mind with the concept of Talent. here is this what we harvest How many years of practice is required to become talented in any particular field? What to do if your talent and…

If I am hardworking, I may feel that my child is getting exposed to being hardworking. I may also expect unknowingly that not my child is exposed to “hard work”, my child too will imbibe this value of being hardworking. But I miss to see is that my child is also seeing the other side…

We all do reflect for many reasons and in some ways. What all are our reasons What all can be additional benefits How do we usually do reflection How else can we do it / other interesting ways? We invited learners to participate in pondering “why, how and how else we can do reflection”And together…

Last two weeks we have been working on revised planning for Dhrupad with his revised needs. And we could not do it in a day – every day he spends some time bringing a thread together. Some of the things which brought these changes are His Bangalore training started – so travel needs it space…

My little son, who is no more little, said last week in the family reflection space “I am 16yr old and I want to share my plans” I want to “go for becoming a student-athlete in the USA” and these are my reasons and this is my research and this is my findings and this….…

Learning happens in three stages, Broadly the learning cycle is: I DECIDE – The child decides what to do/learn based on the multitude of exposures the child has. Here is what we offer – a world map – where the ‘world’ is defined by whatever one can learn in this world! We have divided all…

When one thinks about interest/passion/ future/career…We can explore many points of view, and maybe share/ talk/discuss/explore many different points of view with our kids… it’s not about the destination alone, it’s also about the journey. It’s not only about singing, but it can also about the music,It’s also not only about music, it’s also about…

From a parent’s diary Children are CAPABLE A small change in my approach:Usually when sessions are there after lunch, I keep reminding Advay about them and ask him to quickly finish whatever he is doing (most of the times, it is lunch). After number of reminders, I get irritated of the fact that how many…

When people come and ask us “do you grow all your vegetable here in the land”, we say no, the land is rocky and taking to rejuvenateToday I realized that even then with consistent efforts of the last three years how RICH have we become Although we are not able to harvest vegetables for the…

Often we set larger goals like becoming a pilot or an artist or even short-term goals like make a painting or bake a cake.And often this doing is result-oriented.And then Either my painting is good or bad, my cake is nice or horrible.But there is something else happening apart from the end results.DOING and this…

CHIDLREN Are CAPABLE To Dream, To Think, To Decide, To Do, To Fail, To Achieve, To Assess, To Learn, To Enjoy, To Live.Even if for a moment you think the child is not capable, would you not like the child to be capable? And if we want them to become capable, then we need to…

My story of music learning II grew up listening to music with no ambition to sing. In college, I saw a few of my peers singing on the stage, and ambition of singing grew but I left the idea of thinking “this is too late to start to learn singing”. stopped me from taking any…

In the last two years of growing up these boys only with football, we have met many people in the field, talking only about one thing “sports”, got respect from people who gave them inputs on food, exercise, yoga, breathing, fitness, food….and every stage sked these boys “do you want to go ahead with it?”…

When i walk slowly, I see more. When i eat slowly, I relish more. When I swing slowly, I sing more. When I read slowly, I imagine more. When I do slowly, I think more. When I achieve it slowly, I enjoy it more. When I learn slowly, I learn more. Poorvais learning slowly. She…

ASHA, SUNITHA, and SMRITI Meet 3-Generation together to know their journey of learning. More and more parents are choosing or thinking of choosing unschooling or homeschooling or open learning or free learning for their children. It is not just dissatisfaction from conventional schooling, but also the immense options and satisfaction one can get when one…

Community learning is all about connections, collaborations, and contributions. And that is what we experience in Aarohi-X. X stands for extending the concept of open learning to home – with all the benefits of being part of a community – connections, collaborations, processes and support Its joyous when we all learn and grow together. It…