Tag: professional development

  • Why is a CoVersity Journey highly practically and immensely rewarding for youth?

    Why is a CoVersity Journey highly practically and immensely rewarding for youth?

    We did a live with a CoVersity Guide to discuss the various aspects of a CoVersity Journey that put the youth in focus, empowering them to self lead their professional journey. There’s rigour, intense work, structured planning as well as ample flexibility and support on this journey which let’s them go all out in their…

  • Plans not working is a big part of a CoVersity Journey

    Srijani has been working on perfecting her buttercream recipe and wanted to serve it to bakers for their expert opinion. Read on to know on her experience when nothing worked in her favour and how she coped with it. I made these cakes yesterday. They turned out beautifully but there is a big back story.…

  • Clients are surprised that I started my own company at 20.

    Sahil, an open learner, has been financially independent since he was 18. He started his own digital marketing firm at the age of 20! His journey started with interest in photography at the age of 13. He started immersing himself in intense doing right from an young age, working with seasoned photographers and taking up…

  • What can deliberate practice do to you?

    A CoVersity Journey deeply emphasizes on deliberate practice to upgrade one’s skills by applying it in a sustained manner until one is comfortable using it. Boot Camp members get a glimpse of it by taking up a self challenge in their respective domains where they focus on one skill for the next 5 days. Joshua,…

  • How can parents guide their youth’s professional journey?

    Whatever we do is facilitation. Even not doing anything is facilitation. In some ways we cannot not facilitate. We may not like what we did or we may not like the result we got – but anyhow we are always facilitating. Let’s assume our / a child is physically hurt and crying:We may rush to…

  • Give a year to your self, your passions and see how many things will start flowing – Live with Manish Jain

    Give a year to your self, your passions and see how many things will start flowing – Live with Manish Jain

    In this live session, Manish has beautifully touched upon so many aspects when it comes to youth and their career. While it was very difficult to pick anyone highlight from this conversation, he added a very beautiful perspective which summarises as follows – “Career often takes centre stage for youth and their families in that…

  • As a youth, gain as much exposure as possible.

    As a youth, gain as much exposure as possible.

    19 year old Aswathy has deep dived into filmmaking, entrepreneurship and psychology. She says each experience adds value to the next endeavour and one also discovers many new facets to their personality. In this live session, she talks about how deep diving in filmmaking for 4 years transformed her deeply at many levels. After working…

  • Can Youth take responsibility of their professional journey

    This is a persistent concern with parents if their teenager can take charge of their life – professional & personal. Having this conern is a good news. It is an opportunity to look at Responsibility from multiple windows. When children turn 13, or come to us who are 13-14-15-etc years, we tell them – do…

  • Expanding the scope of a domain.

    When we begin to take liking for a particular domain it is primarily due to the fact that we are instantly enamored by the most visible and celebrated facet of our interest. We go about exploring our domain with this rather narrow view and understanding of the possibilities in our domain. We also rate ourselves…

  • Observation is key to Imagination

    The new cohort began this week and we got into action from day 01. The cohort members started their planning by detailing their daily workout or challenges in their domain. They also started fleshing out the finer details of a project that can be completed in 2-3 weeks and one that has an outcome at…