Category: Facilitation
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What Kind of Listening Builds Connection with Your Child?
Being truly connected with your child is one of the most powerful ways to help them feel safe and confident in facing life. But what does connection actually look like? A real connection with your child starts with active listening. As parents, we often feel we know our child inside and out—after all, we’ve known…
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A Multicourse Learning Menu
Ever noticed how we plan our restaurant outings or everyday meals? We pick new spots, try different cuisines, and make sure to consider everyone’s choices—vegan, dessert-lover, or the “I’ll eat anything” type. Every meal is an experience. But when it comes to learning, we often serve up the same bland dish every day- same books,…
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Learning Beyond Reading and Writing
If you’re a parent who’s ever worried because your child doesn’t want to read or write, I can relate to you. My 10-year-old hates reading and writing. And as a mom, I was panicking. During his school time every parent-teacher meeting was a repeat: “Your child needs to read and write more. You need to work…
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One gift every child deserves
If you could give your child just one gift, what would it be? Unconditional love? Freedom? Maybe just being their best buddy? At Aarohi, we think the best gift ever is support. Support to discover who they are, to explore their strengths, and to grow into their unique selves. It’s about standing by them, believing in…
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Curiosity drives the child’s learning
Is your child’s education or learning driven by school or curiosity? In today’s curated lives, learning has also become highly structured. Here is a slice of the day from a family – Children often come home from school and immediately rush off to their tuition classes. While academic performance is crucial for child’s development, excelling…
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How can children deal with boredom – Question from a parent
A parent raised the following concern in our WhatsApp Open Learning Community “ I’ve been feeling a bit bored lately and sometimes I just don’t feel like learning or doing anything. Has anyone else felt this way? How do you stay motivated and make learning fun, especially in Open Learning? Any tips or advice on…
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How to create a Curriculum for homeschooling / open learning
In one of the communication groups of Parents from the Aarohi community, a parent asked “What is the best curriculum for homeschooling children”? In her words “My child is saying better put me in building school as I don’t know what to do at home and get bored. What is your suggestion here” The curriculum…
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Reflecting on Daily Investments – for parents and children
Do we need to reflect only in terms of our success or failures. Can we use reflective practice just to bring self-awareness and being more observant of ourselves. How about getting deeper insight of our day? Self-reflection opens up new windows to provide a better view of ourselves.
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Divided by Subjects, United by Knowledge
Can we break our knowledge into subjects? What happens when we imbibe the knowledge without these boundaries? Let’s explore
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Exposure-Exploration-Collaboration – Ikigai of Learning
Exposure sparks curiosity, and what ignites our interest becomes the fuel for exploration. Collaboration shapes and aligns the exploration to our learning goals.
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The gift of “I don’t know”
Children readily accept both knowing and not knowing. We, on the other hand, often prioritize knowing above all else. Yet, in this intricate world, the unknown is what truly fuels the joy of living. The uncertainty of not knowing empowers us to ask questions and challenge our existing beliefs. Why is it so difficult for…
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Workshops for Teachers
You are here because you run a school as Director or Principal or HM or you are a school coordinator. You know the importance of continuous learning for your team of teachers and you want to value add to the team’s development – since it directly impacts children of your school. Ratnesh, co-founder, Aarohi Life…
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Reflective Insightful Quizzes
Reflective & Insightful Quizzes for Parents, Teen-Parents and Teenagers.We have three of these using google forms – each with 8-10 questions – no response is right or wrong – since the idea of each question is to help you delve into deeper self reflection.
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Stop Teaching to Activate Learning
Let’s stop being Teachers to Start learning for Children. Our job is not to teach or preach but to reach.
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Unsettle the minds – Thinking
My idea of Education is to Unsettle the minds of young and inflame their intellect. Robert Maynard Hutchins After finishing my institutional education when I started my own organization I started looking for people to work with me. Over the period I realized people pursued knowledge too much. May be our education / societal structure…
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Myth of Teaching Grammar
Understanding learning through Grammar usage. Using Grammar to explore a potentially bigger, and deeper myth about learning. We use grammar as a crutch to dig into this yet unnamed myth.
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Uncage Child’s Potential
Can we change the potential of a child? Or we can facilitate the children to find their own peaks. Can we see a limitless child who can manifest his / her potential?
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Reflective Questions
Reflection brings clarity. One of the way to reflect is to question. Let’s create our own question bank to reflect on various aspects. Ask question to oneself and to children. Have a conversation around such reflective questions with family and friends.
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Why Math, Why not Music?
Subject – Math / No Music? Is it our choice of subjects or the child’s interest? For some Math can be Music and for some others Music can be Math. Lets respect the choice as well the subject and create limitless living for children.
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Facilitation by Creating
To live is to create. Facilitation itself is an act of creation. Let’s explore creating some aspects of facilitation which can open kaleidoscope of possibilities for whom we facilitate and for ourselves.
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Facilitation by observing
Observation is one of the most powerful tool to learn and to facilitate. As an observer are you a CCTV camera or a cameraman who instructs you what and how to do.