Creativity and Innovation - a workshop

VIT Vellore, a 3 hour workshop/talk on 'Creativity and Innovation for Entrepreneurship' was done for the students as part of Entrepreneurship awareness program. (Seen in photo, K. Bhaskaran, with a section of the participants during the session, on 2 Mar 2011.) Also had a visit and overview of the Entrepreneurship  Promotion cell and Technology Business Incubator facilities and infrastructure at VIT.

On Jan 29th 2013, a one-day (about 6 hours) MINDWARE for students was held for Chennai Harishree Vidyalayam school's 9th grade students exposing them to several aspects of the mind and its mechanisms, nature of creativity, and awareness on mind-body system as a holistic entity for development of competencies. Several interesting activities and exercises were introduced to make it more fun at the school level, to illustrate the aspects of communication and mental models, creativity development exercises, and insights into the aspects music for expanding one's thought space, as a mind-body exercise. The students enjoyed it thoroughly at the same time imbibing several take-aways which from their feedback, would be very useful in future. They also expressed interest in follow-up programs based on the success of this event. There were several questions and interesting discussions throw up which would need follow-up sessions to do justice, for example just on the topic of 'career choices' based on the student;s innate interest, potential, skills and attitudes. It was also pointed out that one need not always look at one's pet interest only as a 'career' since many times, doing an art as a career might involve compromises which do not have to be done if you are pursuing it not necessarily for making a living out of it, and might even result in a greater satisfaction, superior quality, and heightened experience. Though this specific logic need not be always true, many students felt that this had opened up a new level of awareness on their outlook towards their career and life goals and pursuits.  Examples like Chetan Bhagat, or Howard Gardner helped to drive home the point ; at least one student seemed really illuminated by the discussions and seemed to know she wanted to do, and how to discuss with her parent on the choice of career.

Overall a good experience.  Hope more school children invest their time and energy into such awareness-building programs.  Then they would be able to handle their pressures better, and also handle their decisions better, take ownership and responsibility for their actions and decisions.

A three -hour MINDWARE based Holistic Development workshop was held for the new batch of engineers for a Government department in Jam Nagar, on 1 st Sep 2013.

The workshop experience was enjoyed and appreciated by the participants as well as the management as a significant value addition to the 2 -week induction training program about the roles, activities and scope of operations of the department.

NEN Week Celebrations - Talk by K Bhaskaran

Talk on "Mind, Music, Creativity, and Health' talk delivered at Ramachandra Medical College, in Feb, on the valedictory day of the NEN Entrepreneurship promotion week. K. Bhaskaran, the ideator behind  BILVAA Learning, gave the address, and the students enjoyed the interaction and the thought-provoking lecture. Here is a video  clip of this lecture, an extract of the first part.  Feb 9 th 2013,  10 AM.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SVtozl_Tw

English Comprehension for primary school level- completion milestone

The kids of the last batch of the english language empowerment classes of BILVAA Learning completed a milestone and celebrated with their tutor, Varalakshmi Bhaskaran, last week. Here are some photos, of the cake cutting and the fun-filled evening.