Gandhi-Mandela-Freire Fellowship Programme
Initiating 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.
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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 LES Multiversity, Loyola Extension Services, a registered charity as well as the social lab and incubation centre of Loyola College of Social Sciences (LCSS Autonomous), Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India. A (growing) number of like-minded institutions have offered moral support for this effort. (Note: This website belongs to the LESMultiversity , Loyola Extension Services/LES Multiversity, Loyola College of Social Sciences (A), 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)
