Samvaad

The Praxis of Living: Embodying our authenticity

11th-12th March, 2023 (Saturday-Sunday)

With great delight, we invite you to Samvaad, a gathering of friends and colleagues to engage in conversations that matter. While we continued to create Samvaad online as the pandemic hit, it gives us great joy to hold the first physical gathering of Samvaad after more than 3 years.

SAMVAAD began in 2010 to encourage authentic “dialogue” as colleagues. The emphasis in dialogue is listening with curiosity and asking questions of clarification. When we allow our curiosity to be greater than our criticality, we create a context for new ideas to emerge from within. Each of us brings the gift of our own inquiry and the spirit of deep listening as we will take time to reflect and to engage.

Praxis - From the Greek word “Doing” which has evolved in usage to mean
“A practice or discipline for a specific purpose.”

POINTS OF REFLECTION FOR THIS YEAR'S GATHERING

  • What are the narratives, conscious or unconscious, that I live in my day to day life that enable or hold me back?

  • What are the practices in my living that I want to embrace or change to live the life I want?

  • What do I hope to contribute to the common good as part of my “Praxis of Living?” What supports that and what holds me back?

Principles of Samvaad

 
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Logistics

Date: 11th-12th March 2023
Timings: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on both the days

There is accommodation available on double sharing basis for those who would like to take it and others can join in for the sessions from morning to evening.

While your schedule may allow you to come on one of the days, in the spirit of continuous co-learning with a community and making the most out of this experience, we urge you to show up for both the days of the program.

Contribution

The Suggested Contribution is in the sliding scale of

  • Rs. 3200-5000 for people taking accommodation on 11th March and extra meals
  • Rs. 2500-4000 for people not taking accommodation


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, Saloni (saloni@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