Gandhi-Mandela-Freire Fellowship Programme
Self and Eco-Socio-Spiritual Transformation.
The Grounding of Peace, Reconciliation, Civic Engagement, Sustainability, Social Communication, Creative Regeneration and Engaged Spirituality in Compassion . Fostering Dialogical and Inclusive Community, Common Good and Eco-Socio-Spiritual Futures in Public and Private Spaces.
Jointly initiated by the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, India and the Loyola Institute of Peace and International Relations, Kochi, India. The Indian Social Institute holds a Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The fellowship has been further developed, nurtured and now based at the Multiversity Platform, Loyola Extension Services, a registered charity as well as the social lab and incubation centre of Loyola College of Social Sciences (LCSS), Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India. A (growing) number of like-minded institutions have offered moral support for this effort. (Note: This website belongs to the Multiversity Platform, Loyola Extension Services/LES Multiversity, Loyola College of Social Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram, India.)
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Learning Ecology > Learning Journey > Learning Encounters
A flexibly structured learning journey of diverse learningful encounters with educators who will share their life, experience and expertise.
First Stage
Who Am I? Who is the Other? Critical
Self-Exploration/ Critical Examination of Othering/Deep Social Immersion.
Where Am I Really Heading? Do I Know What I Want? Am I Living Somebody Else's Life/Future? Do I Know What I Am Doing? Do I Need To?
Some Pathways to Find Oneself. And Other Selves. Deschooling. Decolonisation. Counter-Hegemonic. Deep questioning. Embodiment. Senses Grounding. Body Grounding.
Tools of Self Inquiry/Self--Non-Self Discovery Practices. 'Root Skilling'. Challenging Cognitive Foundations. Hacking. Rebooting. Zen Tangling. Journaling. Seeking the Totality. Mindfulness. Frames Mapping.
Humanist Traditions/
Beyond Humanist Traditons/Dialectical-
Cosmological-Totality/Transdisciplinarity/Transformative Learning/Civic Engagement/ Understanding the World of Children and Indigenous People
Becoming an Eco-Socio-Spiritual Seeker? Or Nothing?
Taking the Highway?
Or a Diversion? Reclaiming Authentic Self?
Mysticism/Shaminism/Spirituality/
Art/ Poetry/ Religiosity/Others
Second Stage
Six Pathways to Compassionate Orientation? Being Compassionate?
Self and the Other?/Otherness? Are We Cruel? Are We Guided by a Deep Bio-cidal Complex? Are We Capable of Compassion? Can Compassion Be Taught? Deeping Eco-Social Immersion?
Self-Other Relationship? Mediation? Sameness? Difference? Harmony? Conflict? Brokenness? Wondedness? Social Healing? Spectacular and Everyday Forms of Action? Praxis? Metaoxological Totality? Pedagogies of the Oppressed, Non-Violence and Reconciliation?
Social Methodologies?/ Conscientisation?/Humanisation? Deschooling?/
Decolonisation?/
Counter-Hegemony?/
Structured, Critical Mindfuless?/Political Economy?/
Transdiscilinarity?/Narratives Analaysis? Who am I to Being Me? Tools
Making Sense of Compassion? What is Compassion? Reaching Out? Empathy? Sympathy? And Other Related Realities. Doing Compassion? Being Compassionate?
Social Ecology of Suffering?/Sites of Pain, Suffering and Death?/Trans-border Realities?/Toxic Narratives? Genocides?/Bio-cidal Complex?
Social Ecology of Compassion?/
Worlds Beyond the Human?/ Indigeneity?/Movements?/Critical
Citizenship & Civic Engagement? Or Disengagement?/Confluence?/
Tapestry?The Cosmic?The Sacred?
Third Stage:
Project for Public Good
(With Earlier Preparatory Stage)
