Over the last 10 years, we have been enriched by expereinces of creating nurturing spaces for young people. We are consolidating our learnings and beginning to offer structured programs for facilitation. In that process, we are delighted to offer our first facilitation program building on the priciples of Samvaad.
Samvaad
Facilitating Conversation that Matter
5th Sept to 10th October (Sundays)
Creating intentional community and facilitating spaces that allow for each of us to show up authentically has been a lifelong pursuit at Youth Alliance. We know this has been a pursuit for you too in your journey of facilitation and/or leading an organisation. We are hosting a six-week intensive Samvaad on “Facilitating Conversations that Matter.” Our goal is to create alternative structures of facilitation with the intention to create a dialogue for a new future.
This will not be a “training”, but a lived experience in which we challenge the existing structures of how we gather for conversations. We will explore questions and processes that transform our own thinking and how we relate to collective coexistence, learning and change.
We ask for your commitment and participation, as you are the “event”. What you bring to the conversation is what will create this Samvaad.
This is an offering to celebrate 10 years of existence of Youth Alliance. It is an attempt to nurture facilitators in service of creating a more harmonious world.
Principles of Samvaad
Pedagogy
We will learn from Peter Block’s work on “Community - The Structure of Belonging”, using small group pedagogy. Sadanand Ji’s work over the last 50 years and Youth Alliance’s philosophy of facilitation.
What to expect:
Recognise that 'how we choose to gather for conversations create the world we live in' Learn to invite people into a different structure of belonging Tools that help create accountability and commitment in communities / organisations A cohort of 25 diverse facilitators to learn withParticipants
This is an invite-only event and we are holding the concept of “facilitators” in a broad sense. If you facilitate groups in any context, if you are a budding facilitator or if you work with any kind of intentional community or organization, we welcome you to join us in this journey.
We encourage people to join in "pairs of two" i.e with a team member, a colleague from your space such that the learnings from these sessions can be taken as collective practice in your community/org.
Logistics
We will meet online for six sessions every Sunday morning starting from:
Date: 5th September until 10th October.
Timings: 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. (India Standard Time); 8.00 p.m.-10.00 p.m. (PST)
Language: The program language will be English.
Contribution
Suggested contribution is Rs 4500 - Rs. 9000. Samvaad is offered in the spirit of the “gift minded” economy, we invite you to contribute what you are able. We invite you to not make money a barrier to your participation.
Know more about the contribution model here and read this article to take support of how to make a decision.
Contact
For any queries or doubts, Anisha (anisha@youthallianceofindia.org) and Vibhuti (vibhuti@youthallianceofindia.org) can be reached out by email.Participant Testimonials
Shashank from the organising team also wrote a heart reflection - illuminating the gift of working with Sadanand Ji in this process and over the years. He writes “I have been thoroughly taken by SN’s ability to be curious. So many times, I would have judgements for my colleagues at Youth Alliance. And that would make me attached to my expectations for them. And my effort would be directed to convince them on my idea of growth for them or what they must do to meet the group’s need. And SN would show up, in a different way.“
Read more: The Gift of Intergenerational Co-creation