Workshops on 31st Jan 26

January 31st Conference
Workshops & Presenters

10:30a.m. to 1:15p.m.:180 Min

Mission Critical: An Intent-Based Leadership Simulation

This is a high-intensity, mission-driven leadership simulation where participants operate as the crew of a naval vessel navigating a rescue crisis under extreme pressure. Teams must make fast, cross-functional decisions while handling incomplete data, emerging threats, system failures, and unpredictable complexity.

The Captain can only provide intent, not instructions — forcing teams to step into a leader–leader model of ownership, clarity, competence, and accountability.

The simulation reveals real organisational patterns such as dependency on hierarchy, delayed decisions, risk avoidance, silo thinking, and lack of clarity. Through facilitated reflection, participants experience how distributing control to the “point of information” can drastically improve team performance, speed, empowerment, and trust. This session is immersive, energising, and directly applicable to how modern organisations must operate in uncertain environments.

Mission Critical: An

Intent-Based Leadership Simulation

Ameena Bukhari & Arvind Khinvesra

Experience Based T & D : 180 Min

Sport as a Medium for Social Justice

Can play be a pathway to justice? This immersive session invites participants to explore what justice means to them and how the energy and spirit of sport can inspire equity, inclusion, and collective empowerment. Through the session, participants will experience how sports can challenge bias, build bridges, and strengthen community bonds. By blending action with insight, the session demonstrates how sport—when facilitated intentionally—can become a powerful tool for social change.

Sport as a Medium for Social Justice

Dr. Subhomoy Bhaduri & Shikha Bohra

Inclusive Proctices: 180 Min

Let the Learning Happen - Do not Teach

(if you are a Corporate Trainers) Have you struggled to 'teach' a concept or topic to your audience? Whenever you 'teach' a topic, do you experience the energy in the room go down? When you ask a question in the room, did you see that only a few participant respond? Are you wondering how to make the learners learn a topic in an interesting-engaging manner? Then this session is for you. You will experience a few interesting ways in which you will be able to make the learning process for corporate audience interesting and engaging! The session is all about 'not to teach - Let them learn'!

Let the Learning Happen - Do not Teach!

Vivek Yatnalkar

Experience Based T & D : 90 Min

Where Quiet Grows

Where Quiet Grows is an immersive, nature-based creative workshop designed to explore the intersection of art, ecology, and wellbeing. It invites participants to experience nature as collaborator, guide, and healer through multi-sensory engagement and creative expression.
In this experiential space, participants will reconnect with their natural surroundings, engage in intuitive art-making with found materials, and explore how nature-based creative processes can inform therapeutic, educational, and community practices.

Where Quiet Grows

Ritu Dua

Nature based Practices : 90 Min

Designing Experiences That Stick: Tools for Connection, Reflection, and Growth

CORE is a powerful, experiential team-building workshop designed to strengthen the essential pillars that drive high-performing teams — Coordination, Ownership, Responsibility, and Engagement. This workshop takes participants on a journey from understanding team dynamics to practicing behaviors that build trust, accountability, and synergy.

The program integrates Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle, ensuring that every learning moment is translated into actionable workplace behaviors.
Whether your team is newly formed, navigating transitions, or looking to reignite its collaborative spirit, CORE offers a transformative experience that inspires individuals to align, own, and engage for greater collective results.

Designing Experiences That Stick: Tools for Connection, Reflection, and Growth

Sakshi Rawat

Experience Based T & D : 90 Min

12:15p.m. to 1:15p.m.: 60 Min

10:30a.m. to 12:00p.m.: 90 Min

Beyond the Adventure Wave—can journaling be a peak experience? Experience Me I See and reimagine reflection in indoor and outdoor programs.

Outdoor programs frequently emphasise the Adventure Wave and the role of peak experiences. This workshop challenges a common assumption by asking: can journaling, often positioned as a reflective tool, itself become a peak experience?
Participants will explore Me I See, an activity-based journaling framework that can be applied in indoor and outdoor workshops as well as in mainstream classroom settings. The session offers practical strategies for designing activity journals that support reflection and engagement across diverse learner profiles.

Beyond the Adventure Wave—Can journaling be a peak experience?

Sarabjit Singh Wallia

Experience Based T & D : 90 Min

Differentiated Pedagogies Through the Lens of Puppetry and Voice Modulation

Inclusive education thrives on inclusive tools. As educators and facilitators, we constantly seek approaches that resonate with all learners across language abilities, cognitive differences, emotional needs, and social contexts. This session positions puppetry and voice modulation not as theatrical novelties but as powerful pedagogical strategies for differentiated learning. Rooted in experiential education and inspired by play-based facilitation, the workshop invites participants to reimagine teaching through the expressive, relational, and transformative potential of voice and character.

Participants will will gain a clear understanding of the underlying principles and actively engage in hands-on demonstrations, experimenting with simple puppetry techniques and vocal dynamics to bring concepts to life, build empathy, and increase participation in their own settings.

Differentiated Pedagogies Through the Lens of Puppetry and Voice Modulation

Rinti Sengupta

K-12 : 90 Min

The Discipline of Subtraction

When trying to create effective learning experiences, facilitators often make things too complicated, thinking that more information leads to better outcomes. However, in complex areas, this approach causes Cognitive Friction and overwhelms the learner with multiple reflections making it hard to apply what they've learned.
This session presents a simple design method: The Discipline of Subtraction. It focuses on removing everything except the Minimum Viable Element needed to make an important decision. Using this simulation, we'll see how filtered concepts in their original form can remove cognitive overload and guarantee focus on One Core Outcome.

The Discipline of Subtraction

Nidhi Mittal

Experience Based T & D : 60 Min

Interactive Art, Theatre and Play as Experiential Pathways to Creating Safe Group Spaces for Sexuality Education

To make sexuality accessible, safe, contextual and experiential, The Sehmat Collective has spent the last 5 years building tools and techniques, learning from other experiential educators and improvising from what they have learnt. In this workshop participants are invited to witness and if motivated, to also express their sexualities as a collective. We will be using Expressive Art Installations, Theatre of the Oppressed tools, Play for Peace games and Dance Movement Therapy practices … to explore how these modalities interact with sexuality in consensual, safe and public spaces.

Interactive Art, Theatre and Play as Experiential Pathways to Creating Safe Group Spaces for Sexuality Education

Simran Sanganeria

Inclusive Practices: 60 Min

The Facilitator as Instrument: Exploring Embodied Presence in Experiential Learning

We often speak about facilitation as something we do the activities, methods, and designs we choose. But what if the real method is who we are while doing it? et, most of these reflections stay in the head. We think about presence instead of feeling it. This workshop invites educators and facilitators to explore that question through a different doorway — the body.

Embodied facilitation recognizes that our body, breath, and nervous system constantly communicate, often before words or methods do. How we stand, breathe, look, and listen shapes the emotional tone of a learning space more deeply than any technique.

The Facilitator as Instrument: Exploring Embodied Presence in Experiential Learning

Zuhail Babu. P

Experienced Based T & D: 60 Min

From Turbulence to Tranquility: Navigating Learning and Life with SEL

This workshop reimagines Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as every child’s entitlement—a compass that equips learners to face the future with confidence and courage. Moving beyond wellness or remediation, participants will experience SEL as the core of the core curriculum: a living practice that nurtures attention, empathy, and resilience while fostering deep engagement and reflective growth. Through experiential learning, neuroscience-informed strategies, and dialogue, educators will explore how SEL transforms classrooms into spaces of human flourishing—where learning is mindful, connected, and deeply, defiantly human. No prior experience needed, just curiosity and openness to growth.

From Turbulence to Tranquility: Navigating Learning and Life with SEL

Sumita Gowdety

K-12 : 60 Min

2:15p.m. to 5:30p.m. : 180 Min

Play as Resistance: Reclaiming Joy, Justice,

& Connection

In times of conflict, division, and uncertainty, Play for Peace believes that play itself can be a radical act of resistance, a way to reclaim our shared humanity. “Play as Resistance: Reclaiming Joy, Justice, and Connection” is an experiential learning workshop that invites participants to explore how playful facilitation can restore compassion, foster social justice, and build meaningful human connections across divides.

Through cooperative games, reflective dialogue, and creative expression, participants will experience how joy and connection can become powerful responses to fear, conflict, and exclusion. The session blends experiential learning with social-emotional reflection, helping participants discover how facilitation through play can model fairness, empathy, and inclusion, transforming play into a practice of peace.

Play as Resistance: Reclaiming Joy, Justice,& Connection

Sinthuja Shanmuganathan, Swati Bhatt & Agyatmitra

Inclusive Practices : 180 Min

A Social Emotional Learning Workshop Delivered through Play!

This workshop is about exploring the opportunities of SEL in any story. Take any classroom subject like history or geography and add more colour to it with reflective SEL questions. Learn how to come up with simple questions that fall in the categories of the 5 pillars of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, relationship management, responsible decision-making, and social awareness.

A Social Emotional Learning Workshop Delivered through Play!

Chetan Vohra

K-12 : 180 Min

Beyond Psychological Safety: Integrating Somatics and the Polyvagal Lens in Experiential Facilitation

Beyond Psychological Safety: Integrating Somatics and the Polyvagal Lens in Experiential Facilitation explores how embodied awareness can transform learning spaces into containers of genuine safety and depth.

This 3-hour experiential session invites facilitators, educators, and coaches to discover how the nervous system shapes engagement, reflection, and connection. Through movement, breath, and relational practices, participants will learn to recognize cues of safety and threat, and design experiences that foster co-regulation, presence, and transformation.

Beyond Psychological Safety: Integrating Somatics and the Polyvagal Lens in Experiential Facilitation

Diyanat Ali

Experienced Based T & D: 180 Min

2:15p.m. to 3.45p.m. : 90 Min

“Setting the Benchmark: Quality Delivery & Price Standardisation in Experiential Education in India

The workshop aims to bring together key stakeholders to collaboratively define standards for delivery quality and pricing in the rapidly evolving experiential education sector. As experiential learning gains momentum across schools, colleges, and corporate environments, inconsistencies in program delivery, facilitator competence, safety measures, and pricing have emerged as major challenges. On establishing core competencies for facilitators, sharing best practices in program design and participant engagement, and aligning approaches with global frameworks while staying relevant to the Indian context. It will also address the need for a transparent and tiered pricing model that reflects program value, cost components, and learning outcomes.

Setting the Benchmark: Quality Delivery & Price Standardisation in Exp. Education in India

Junaid Hussain

Experienced Based T & D: 180 Min

The Art of Learning to Learn
Invites participants to explore how learning truly happens—within the mind, body, and experience of the learner. It is designed for educators, facilitators, coaches, and anyone curious about deepening their understanding of how humans make meaning, retain knowledge, and transform through awareness. Through guided reflection, dialogue, and experiential activities, participants will uncover the processes that shape curiosity, attention, and understanding. No prior expertise is required—only an open mind and a willingness to inquire into one’s own patterns of learning. The workshop blends insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and contemplative education to make learning itself an art form.

The Art of Learning to Learn

Divya Arathi M

K-12 : 90 Min

The Synthetic Friend: When AI Listens but No One Else Does

invites educators to explore a quiet emotional revolution happening in classrooms as students begin to replace real connection with artificial companionship. In this immersive 90 minute session, participants will move through understanding, experiencing, and reimagining human connection in an age where AI has become the listener many young people turn to. Through reflection, storytelling, and interactive activities, participants will experience the emotional illusion of being heard by AI and contrast it with the depth of genuine human empathy. The session will end with designing practical and creative “human anchors” that restore presence, trust, and warmth in learning spaces. No prior technical expertise is required, only curiosity and openness to engage with the emotional realities of today’s learners.

The Synthetic Friend: When AI Listens but No One Else Does

Racy Shukla

K-12: 90 Min

Vishwas Parchure

His experience and application of experiential methodology spans 35 plus years, working with adults and children to have more exciting and meaningful classrooms. Expeditions of body and mind are common practices in his methodology.

He has the ability to manage large groups, creating for them powerful experiences short and long, so that the meaning emerges as a result of their own initiative and engagement. He also has considerable experience with Senior Leadership teams, and has designed experiences for teams in Peru, Costa Rica, Croatia and Sri Lanka.

Self Facilitation - Method or Art?

Vishwas Parchure

Experienced Based T & D: 90 Min

Self Facilitation - Method or Art?

A lot of attention is given to Facilitation as a method. What questions to ask, when and how to ask them. Maybe not enough around - WHO is asking them. The questions come from a person; their histories, beliefs, conditioning. The stories they tell and the stories they have been a part of. The person behind the questions therefore becomes a really important part of the act of facilitation.
Through activity and some concepts, the importance of who we choose to be is presnted as a possibility for our own development.

4:00p.m. to 5.30p.m.: 90 Min

Exploring The ObVerse -

The Other Side of Coin!

ObVerse is a deep dive into understanding - Why some of the Experiential Learning and Facilitation sessions land well while others don’t.

While the same Activity based processes used by different facilitators at different occasions or while the same session deployed by the same facilitator with different audiences at different times at different places land differently.

What are we as facilitators missing?
Despite typical checklists and robust preparations, we get different results.
What is in the play?
I researched a lot on this for the past 15 years, that
we prepare meticulously for the activities and processes and while we are deploying our neatly planned, curated, and customised sessions, we more often than not overlook human processes.

Exploring The ObVerse - The Other Side of Coin!

Yateen Gharat

Experience Based T & D :90 Min

Unboring History: Discovering the Stories Things Tell

In the age of AI, when facts are instantly accessible, memorizing historical data loses meaning. What, then, does it mean to learn history today? This session invites educators to move beyond content delivery toward cultivating historical thinking—the ability to look deeply, feel deeply, and think deeply. Together, we’ll explore how artifacts can liven up classrooms, encourage multiple perspectives and layered narratives. Participants will reimagine history education as a practice of inquiry, critical thinking, contemporary relevance and reflection that connects learners more meaningfully to place and to the human experience. The session will also include a case study of a classroom project implemented in an ICSE school, demonstrating how historical thinking can be brought alive through experiential, project-based and object-based learning.

Unboring History: Discovering the Stories Things Tell

Prachi Dalal

K-12 : 90 Min

Embodied Pedagogies: How Ritual and Belief Shape Learning Spaces

This session invites participants into an exploration of how belief systems, rituals, and ancestral wisdom can reshape the way we understand and facilitate learning. It begins not with explanation, but with experience. For the first 40 minutes, participants will enter a carefully designed space — an immersive environment curated to evoke sensory, emotional, and symbolic connection. Through sound, scent, and subtle ritual, they will be invited to surrender to an alternate reality crafted by the facilitator, experiencing firsthand how space, intention, and embodied awareness can transform perception.Following this immersive opening, participants gather in a reflection circle to process their embodied experience—noticing what shifted, what they became aware of, and how the facilitation choices influenced their state.

Embodied Pedagogies: How Ritual and Belief Shape Learning Spaces

Srishti Malpath

Nature Based Practices : 90 Min

January 31st Conference Workshops & Presenters

10:30a.m. to 1:15p.m.:180 Min

January 31st Conference
Workshops & Presenters