Week Stay at Campus to Experience Open Learning & Aarohi


Visiting and staying at Campus with Aarohi community is a wonderful way to start / enrich your family’s OpenLearning, HomeSchooling, UnSchooling Journey.

It is also a great way for teenagers and their parents to experience CoVersity.
 
 
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 what to do – right from playing music to reading and writing literature to exploring nature, doing adventure, playing all kinds of games, doing drama or dance or making things from electronics to masonry to carpentry to making friends others or with pets or doing art or photography or bake cakes and breads or do barbecue or grow vegetables and work in the fields or gaze into skies into eternity …or simply do nothing!

You experience 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. Add to this the flavor of community living – which is a transformative journey for many of us.

Please note: Stay visits have to be planned a minimum of two weeks in advance of the Monday that you want to visit. Kindly do not push us for a visit just a few days before a Monday. Kindly plan stay visits in advance.

  • SOME NOTES
  • You as a family (Either both or altleast one parent with Children) choose any of the above weeks as your starting stay-week. For first week – the option of only child coming to campus is NOT available.
  • After one week the Child / Parent can extend stay by one or two weeks in which either the whole family can stay or only the child(ren).
  • The experiencing week is for families or adults who are:
    • Wanting to explore Open learning / CoVersity
    • Interested in Joining Aarohi / CoVersity
    • Already doing or interested in open learning or homeschooling or unschooling
    • Wanting to do internship with Aarohi
  • 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 Leela of Aarohi on Whatsapp: 99009-62936

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.

TO REGISTER for a STAY-VISIT:
It is required that you have attended at least one online Saturday meet-up on Open Learning before you come for a visit. Ping us on whatsapp for zoom link for meet-up.
After filling up the registration form below 
> 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

We believe you would easily need a week to experience and understand open learning and Aarohi.
If, however, both parents cannot stay here for the whole week, atleast one parent and children can stay for the whole week, while the other parent can get a glimpse for a few days.

You can attend to some urgent / low time demand mandatory personal or office work. But it is definitely advisable to visit during a week where you do not have office / personal work and hence can engage with the community and experience open learning. Coming to campus with your office work hence is neither helpful for you, not for children and others here, further it kind of effects the whole learning culture of the community. Kindly plan to visit when you do not have office work.
The real way to understand open learning is by doing stuff; DOING things that you like, especially what you’ve never tried before. The experience of doing something new, and that too with those around you is an essential ingredient of open learning.

It is highly recommended that either you come to the campus when the child has holidays from online school or you take a break for your child from his/her online school. Please do not mix school work with a visit to experience open learning.

Our current schedule of the week is from Monday morning to Friday evening.
So ensure that you reach Campus BEFORE 10am on Monday morning.
If you’re booking your flight / train / bus tickets – kindly plan in such a way that you reach on Monday (and not on Saturday/Sunday).
Similarly plan to leave campus by Friday evening after 3pm or worst case Saturday morning. 

Q5  
Food: 

Fruits and basic simple Veg Food for all meals are provided in  Community Kitchen. Only if you have any specific  food need which you think will not be available in our kitchen please connect during orientation meeting scheduled after your registration.
You can bring any home cooked snacks or food items for the whole community, but definitely do not bring personal snacks. If you have a toddler any specific food needs for the child you can bring and also cook.

Stay: We all stay in Dormitory Style room – living together and experience community Living.
Campus has enough common basic bedding needs (bedsheets, pillows and blankets), so its optional if you want to bring your own beddings / sleeping bag. 

Laundry: We have basic facilities to wash your own clothes manually.. 

Essentials to Bring – Travel light – Apart  from your regular personal stuff – ensure you bring

  • Individual water bottle.
  • Separate notebook / stationary for each member of the family.
  • Outdoor shoes
  • Light jacket is recommended.

Mostly campus like to have more trees – so saplings of any fruit tree is welcome. Preferably plant the sapling yourself when at campus.

  Guest Visit Registration Form (Use this link if form below is not appearing properly):