Workshop1: Teaching Beyond the Mind.
SEL Tools for Human - Centered Classrooms.

Guided by Indic Wisdom and Neuroscience - Building Regulated, Resilient, and Reflective Learners.

What if classrooms could become spaces where students don’t just learn—but truly thrive?

This experiential session invites educators to explore how simple, practical SEL tools can transform everyday teaching into opportunities for awareness, connection, and meaningful growth.

Grounded in classroom realities and gently guided by insights from Indic wisdom and neuroscience, the session focuses on nurturing the human dimension of learning.

Participants will experience and take back simple, ready-to-use practices that can be applied immediately to create calmer, more focused, and connected classrooms. Through these practices, educators will be able to support students to:

regulate their emotions and attention
respond to challenges with resilience
reflect, relate, and take ownership of their learning

Designed as a space for reflection, interaction, and application, this session offers not just strategies, but a renewed way of being and teaching—where education moves beyond instruction to truly shape who learners are becoming.

Sumita Gowdety

About the Facilitator

SEL Program Developer|Trainer|Author

Sumita Gowdety is a Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) program developer, trainer, and author with over two decades of experience across India, Australia, and the UK. Her work focuses on building human-centred school ecosystems through SEL, integrating emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and reflective practice.

She is the architect of LEARN@CHIREC, a K–12 SEL framework designed to strengthen self-regulation, resilience, metacognition, and relational intelligence across school communities. Her work spans curriculum design, educator capacity-building, digital well-being, and leadership development.

Sumita’s sessions are experiential, reflective, and practice-led, inviting educators to engage through dialogue, exploration, and lived experience. Participants often describe her sessions as engaging, relatable, and energising, with practical, real-life examples that leave them feeling confident and empowered to apply their learning immediately.

Her work is grounded in creating spaces where educators co-construct learning, build authentic connections, and carry back meaningful change into their classrooms—nurturing learners who are aware, resilient, and reflective.