Engaging the Modern Conscience
International Fellowship Certificate Programme on “Compassion and Social Communication: Caring for Our Common Home” at Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB), India, from January to May 2020.
Mobilising Our Conscience for an Inclusive, Common Good
An online educational initiative during the pandemic times. Started with the involvement of young people from all over. [I especially thank Nirmal from Nepal and Sandra from Mexico (who designed the logo)]. It involved sharing a story (videos).
Being in the world of learningful encounters...In an ecologically, socially, and spiritually challenged world, we urgently need to find ways back to our 'Common Home', the 'Home' we have strayed from.
GMF (Gandhi--Mandela-Freire) Fellowship Programme
Multiversity Platform, Loyola Extension Services, Loyola College of Social Sciences (A), Kerala, india
Learning Journey 1: Conscience and Compassion (9 Months, Online/Onsite, Blended): Initiating a Deep Self and Eco-Socio-Spiritual Transformation. A learning journey to reimagine self-other encounters and praxis through the pedagogies of the oppressed, emancipation, reconciliation, non-violence, peace, and hope. (This is also grounded in the integration of conscientisation. deschooling, decolonisation, counter-hegemony and socially engaged spirituality within the context of transdisciplinarity, transformative learning and civic engagement.)
Dialogical Democracy
Compassion and Dialogical Democracy Initiative (2025 - ), Centre for Constitutional Values and Dialogical Democracy, Loyola Extension Services, Loyola College of Social Sciences (A), Kerala, India
The Dialogical Democracy Initiative (DDI) is an engaging youth programme focused on 'learning and livelihood. ' It provides a comprehensive experience that includes transdisciplinary citizen journalism (or journo-social work), understanding global realities, compassionate citizenship, dialogical democracy, eco-social entrepreneurship, and socially-engaged spirituality.
STEP 2026 (Summer Transformative Experiential Programme/Synergistic Transformative Experiential Programme) for students of the undergraduate programme (FYUGP) at Loyola College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
This programme will be developed into a global initiative that promotes compassionate global citizenship.
