Experience CoVersity – Empower your Teen to lead their life

What happens when teens are put in charge to lead their life? Visiting and staying at Campus with Aarohi community is a wonderful way for teenagers and their parents to experience self directed learning.

What Aarohi offers is a space, an environment, a culture of open doing and learning. This typically leads to you not only exploring many things but more importantly exploring, knowing and discovering oneself.

You would have an almost infinite choice of things to do. You may explore various interests like music, reading, writing, exploring nature, adventure, playing all kinds of games, drama, dance, electronics, masonry, carpentry, art and the list continues. There is also enough time and space to make friends or be with pets. You may try a hand at art or photography or baking cakes and breads or do barbecue. Get your hands dirty by working in the fields, growing vegetables, maintaining the nursery. Or simply gaze into the skies, into eternity and at times simply do nothing!

Teens lead their life by not only exploring many things but more importantly exploring, knowing and discovering oneself. Add to this the flavor of community living – which is a transformative journey for many of us.

Why should you consider Experience Week?

As a teenager, if you are not sure about your interests then you can use the experience week to explore different interests.

If you are keen to focus on any particular interest of yours then the experience week offers a great opportunity to dive deeper and do some serious work with the help of guides and facilitators.

For a week, you are in charge to lead your life by planning, doing and living your life as per your needs, choices and the freedom to make mistakes.

The experiencing week is for families or teens who are:
– Keen to experience self-directed learning by designing, doing and reflecting on your learning each day along with the help of guides, peers and community
– Already doing open learning or homeschooling or unschooling
– In need of guidance to choose their career path
– Interested in Joining Aarohi / CoVersity
– Understand how to design a professional journey in your interests

Glimpses of Experience Week

Key Points

Experience Week is for any youth between 13-21 years. There is no qualification or prerequisite required.
You join us at the campus for at least 1 week. You can extend your stay by one or two weeks based on your needs and availability.
Weeks are Monday to Friday. Weekends you can either stay in the campus or go back home / visit friends or relatives. Or plan an outing along with your peers.
Please note: stay visits have to be planned a minimum of one week in advance – please do not book or push us for a visit just a few days before a Monday.
If you need some clarifications before registering – connect with Kirtika on WhatsApp: 99009-13729

Support Circles

Guides/Facilitators will be around to push and nudge you out of the comfort zone. You will also get ample chance to interact with the current CoVersity cohort (digitally if they are in their internship phase). You can learn about their experiences, exposures and roadmaps at CoVersity. You will also be engaging with learners of different ages from the community as you share the campus and daily chores with them.

Family Participation

It is recommended parents also experience the Aarohi campus, community and open learning. Preferably at least one parent stays for the whole week.
Younger siblings can also join to experience open learning.
All family members experience open learning, the campus, and community as learners themselves while you are engaged with CoVersity.

Available Dates

~~Jan 22nd to Feb 2nd 2024~~
~~Feb 19th to Feb 23rd 2024~~
Mar 25th to Mar 29th 2024
Apr 1st to 05th 2024
Apr 8th to 12th 2024
Apr 15th to 19th 2024
Apr 22nd to 26th 2024
Jun 10 to Jun 14 2024
Jun 17 to Jun 21 2024
Jun 24 to Jun 28 2024
Jul 01 to Jul 05 2024

Whichever week you choose, you arrive at campus on Monday before 10 am and leave on Friday after 4 pm.

Stay

Contribution for Stay

Aarohi, being a charitable trust, has no source of income and hence expenses incurred on maintaining the campus, staff, food, stay have to be borne by all, including the guests.

Kindly plan your contribution for five days based on any amount within this sliding scale ₹7,000 to ₹10,000 for the week per person.
For children below 7 years ₹3,000 to ₹5,000
You can do payment either in advance or when you’re at the campus.

Payment options click here.

Registration

It is required that you have attended at least one online orientation before you come for a visit. Ping us on whatsapp for zoom link for meet-up.
After filling up the form at this link (link opens google form in a new tab)
> you will receive a confirmation via email and some important links to go through
>> As a family please go through the Visiting Aarohi presentation
>> Check FAQs below

WhatsApp 72040-66694 or call Kirtika on 9900 913 729 for any clarifications.

FAQ

For youth (13 – 21 years) who are keen to lead their life by explore multiple interests or do intense work in one area or families wanting to be part of a community – This is the starting point to experience Aarohi campus and community.

Do not come thinking of it as a camp to do some activities. Consider joining when you’re ready to live a week along with a community and participate wholeheartedly. Experience week is wonderful for homeschoolers, unschoolers as well as youth who have completed their 12th (regular college or NIOS)

For a wholesome and fruitful experience, commitment is needed from your end. You may not be sure of your interests which is completely natural and this is an opportunity for you to plan and explore different things.
There needs to be active participation with the responsibility to decide and work on yourself and respect the plan you create for yourself. You also respect the routine and working of the community and other community members.

An open mind and roaring spirit, for sure. The rest of it will be communicated during the online briefing meet-ups.

The experience week with Aarohi community involves full-fledged participation on your part to get a flavour of self directed learning where you take charge and lead your life. So, only plan your visit if do not have any other external work or commitments.

If you face any difficulties, we are always there to help you. However, we strongly believe in ‘Come with no expectations, leave with no judgments and enjoy to the fullest’.

Surely – children and adults have been living in this natural campus since 2013.
Do follow the campus safety guidelines strictly. Safety is extremely important at the campus to respect everyone’s privacy, emotional and physical well-being.