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NonViolent Communication is about understanding feelings, knowing needs and making a request. Two days with Reena were satisfying and reflecting to understand self and needs. A session with kids – We used videos as tools to identify needs, feelings and solving problems. Self-Empathy dance floor gave us another perspective in problem-solving. The self-empathy floor gave…

JOY of doing in multiple ways! The joy of doing in many different ways using multiple intelligence. First explored how different ways we can use HANDS…make shapes, create objects, feel, see the logic, observe lines, relate with nature and so on. Activity – peeling Averkai How to bring mathematical joy while peeling? Estimate, predict, guess…

Can a campus teach? Can living be learning?Yes, We believe a campus can be the very lap of learning. if it offers constraints to children which make them think, do, learn, and live differently. A campus that teaches children to be self-sufficient by itself being self-sufficient: say, use water only from land and recycle all…

A torch is an essential tool at the campus. Many of us buy them, use them and throw when not working. We also have many nonworking torches. This brought a need to understand torch. A session was announced to understand torch. Some of the questions What is torch? What is light? What is the source…

We dream we encourage kids to dream. With a paper collage, we gave visual form to our dreams. We selected pictures which we connected with and made our dream and vision collage. Sometimes we had a dream and we were searching for that specific image, sometimes we saw the image and dreams were triggered. Overall…

It’s nice to know ‘scenes behind ‘. The trip to a village and to the milk collection point gave us glimpses of the life of a cow, calf, and milk. Drama at the end brought various emotions and expressions.

Sandesh – A community that works with, and for, the members of our society who have intellectual disabilities. Each individual is different and unique and we respect this. Members who have intellectual disabilities need more protection and care in every way. They are not aware of their rights as the citizen of this country so…

Cradle to Cradle workshop with Susanne -She brought few bags full of ‘waste’ for us to explore how product designing can make a difference the way we produce waste.We segregated products based on the life span….a packaging box of the bulb has a life of less than an hour, while the life of steel glass…

How many of us mean when we say NO? How many of us clearly communicate ‘No means No’. Does it matter when NO comes from our inner voice? We worked on ‘yes and no’ through drama. A concept introduced to us by Parul from Shaishav. Shaishav, is a volunteer organization committed to the rights of…

AKD – Aarohi ki DUkaan was introduced to fulfill the needs to buy. And when buying comes, maths comes. And when maths comes, we get the opportunity to bring maths in different forms. Intrdrocuded the concepts of area, patterns, and computations in various forms. For an hour we were involved in calculating in various forms…

My introduction to glass was in my chemistry class – I learned what is glass (silica), how it is made (high temperature melting in a kiln). I used glass in my day to life (cutlery, building, vehicles etc). But when it came to cutting the glass during one of the projects at Aarohi, I operated…

LOGO programming with Prashanth – maths is all about finding patterns. The session was not only about programming, nor just about computers, but also about developing critical thinking and observations.It was about Observing shapes and patterns in our environment and notice the ‘shift in your thinking’. What is language?It is a way of expressing. Expressing…

Chloe, a volunteer from France, has been travelling since last 2 years and she likes to see different communities around the world. She is a practicing gymnast for last 8 years and a really curious and open-minded person. Her favorite skill was cooking and she had been a kitchen hand in Australia, and back in…

This is not played with fire – Its just exploring Hulahoop with LED lights.

The power of visualization or law of attraction with Durgesh Nandini. She began with a thought on thought – What is a thought? What happens to a thought? How to channelise our thoughts? She shared “Thoughts create feelings, feelings lead to behavior and behavior leads to habit and habits leads to action”. She believes”Only dreaming…

Working with a desire to create another working space at the campus. A hole was dug to make mud house. to house our tools, we planned a roof -on that hole to make some more working space. Kids named it blackhole. Stanzin from Swaraj who likes working with mud took up this project to give…

No planning, No occasion…It began with ‘Punjabi’ food in our menu’. It just needed a spark. Some felt like decoratingas Dhaba. some made til ka laddoo to go with the kite festival around, some wanted to create Rangoli, some made a kite and flew for days, and some just joined.

When you think of kite, what all words come in your mind? Some of the words – Space, persistence, friend, supports, challenges, control, thread, the wind, up, sky, high, technique, stitch, tail balance, color, happiness, interest, joy, precision…the list continues. ‘Kite’ was the theme for our planning. We reflected using the analogy of kite and…

Every person visiting the campus bring fresh energy and many learning opportunities for the community. Two Khoji’sfrom Swaraj were no different in adding value to our ecosystemof learning. Stanzin, brought a lot of harmony with his attitude for work and living in the community. He adapted to our culture within a day and was part…

When we think about community, often we think only about humans. In thought club, we explored (through drama) other members of the community…nature, animals, and other resources became alive and part of our community.

Few kids growing up – few watching others. Talk about sex are not very openly expressed, they get a hushed up space. Some kids at Aarohi are comfortable to talk, while some talk with hesitation about the topic. As we sensed the need, for one hour every day for one week, we read various books…

Rules are part of life, they bring direction in life and sometimes blocks in life. Most of the times rules are misunderstood and misused. When they stay as it is they start stinking. At Aarohi like anything else rules also does not stay as it is, they keep evolving. In the process we reject some,…

One child found a wooden stick, he made emotion stick for himself. Watch video to understand this tool.

Two kids working on Forest fire presentation as part of campus training.They knew all about the forest fire, they had experienced it few times, and they also had gone through the training. New for them was making of presentation, which involved compiling of all the information and experience they had in presentable form. It was…

Art is often restricted in our lives till the age of 6-7 yrs. Kids draw, they paint and then they forget. Few who believe that they are good, continue the journey, rest all discard the artist in themselves. We read about the artist, we see their paintings and often they are either a story for…

The govt model school opposite to our campus invited all of us their celebrations ofPONGAL. We felt welcomed, cared and part of this school’s eco-system. No words for the love and joy we felt together.

Each one has one paper, follow instructions (4nos) and see the different results. Each one sees the same dot and it tells many different things to different people….The planet, tip of a pencil, aerial view pond, cup, boat going around, bindi, round sand pit, ring, meditative point, top of a cylinder, balloon flying in the…

“You are dumb” “You are so slow” “Hey, you piggy” “You are not a fast runner” “You got burnt” Various expressions by kids to each other are commonly heard in conversation among kids. As kids shared “These are the expressions that fulfills many needs like revenge, jealousy, self-fulfilling proficiency or simply fun”. For example when…

It began with a session with Mrinalaini. It was all about questioning and understanding through those questions Why do we need nutrition in food? What is the primary purpose to eat? Why do we have three meals? Why do we get hungry every 4-6 hrs Have different species different food and timings? What happens to…

Bean bag needed a wash. That means emptying and then washing. The process of emptying created non-stop chit chat about the ‘beans’. What is bean? Are Thermocol balls beans? Then what are the beans which we eat? How many buckets of beans inside a bag?How many KGS of beans?How many number of beans?How much comes…