Nitya
Gurukula undertook a 2 day Workshop on Value Education
for Macmillan India Ltd., a well known publishing house on 3-4th
July 2007. This workshop was organised by Macmillan India Ltd.
for 88 school teachers in and around Coimbatore.
TA concepts that were covered
in the sessions were -
- Self awareness – Ego
states
- Relationship building –
Strokes
- Value of self and others –
Basic life position
- Emotional Intelligence –
To know and understand emotions
For Nitya Gurukula
trainers, this workshop was a very enriching experience. The
feedback received from the participants was also heartening
as they experienced a different kind of learning for the first
time. They also expressed that the knowledge gained would help
them to help their students beyond studies.
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Excellence
Workshops:
Since 2006, we at NG have organised a series of Workshops in Excellence
for students of 10th and 12th standards - facing crucial pubic
examinations - their parents and teachers at a local matriculation
school in Coimbatore. The intent of these workshops was to motivate
and inspire students and teachers to contractually work towards
excellence in public exam results and to most importantly, alleviate
exam anxiety. Basic Transactional Analysis concepts and innovative
studying techniques were actively used in these workshops. One
of the most gratifying results of this workshop was that this
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Empowerment & Training
of Barefoot Counsellors at Nagercoil:
A very enriching experience for NG is its association
with MALAR (Mahalir Association for Literacy Awareness and Rights),
a women’s empowerment group with a membership of around
30,000 women.
In March 2006, NG undertook an
assessment workshop for a group of field workers and village
co-coordinators of MALAR. This was followed by a training programme
in February 2007 with an evaluation and certification process
for 20 barefoot counsellors. An introduction to Transactional
Analysis (TA 101) and basic counseling skills was imparted in
5 modules in a period of 6 months. This training aimed at providing
basic skills to these rural women that would enable them to
become barefoot counsellors.
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The
success of this training can be gauged in the fact that -
- The participants gained skills
to undertake counselling work in a confident and professional
manner.
- After the completion of the
6 month TA 101 and Counselling Course, three participants
were selected as counsellors in a de-addiction centre at Nagercoil.
This employment validated the skills and the confidence gained
by these women.
- This proved that specialized
education could open newer avenues for income generation in
rural areas.
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Other Training Programmes:
Certificate Course on Counselling - Connecting, Contacting and
Contracting- CCC1
Nitya Gurukula equipped with more than a decade’s experience
in Counselling and training Counsellors, is now offering Training
and Accreditation in Counselling.
1st level Certificate Course on Counselling - CCC1 was launched
on 8th April 2007. Professional counsellors and social workers
from hospitals, educators from schools and colleges participated
in this workshop. This Certificate Course was designed to introduce
the participant to the field of counseling, its theoretical
and philosophical bases, historical antecedents and develop
competencies in basic skills and counseling process.
Supervisors Development
Programme- SDP 1:
SDP- 1 commenced with 20 participants on 7th of April 2007 at
a manufacturing company in Coimbatore. SDP-1 is the foundation
/first level program for supervisors. The purpose is to develop
supervisory skills which in turn will develop and hone their
communication and relationship skills at the workplace. Supervisory
skills are of utmost importance in any work place as it is an
efficient and effective tool to foster professional growth through
feedback.
Empowerment workshops:
Empowerment workshops for teachers were initiated in four schools
at Coimbatore. More than 75 teachers along with the school principals
participated in this workshop. The focus of these workshops
were to- Provide an opportunity to explore new teaching methodologies,
Role clarity - Not mixing the personal and professional roles
and responsibility - “teachers are a second mother for
the child”. There is difference between “mother”
and being “motherly”. Teachers need to be motherly
in their approach and attitude and not assume the role of a
mother to the student. Contracting before starting the class.
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Future
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Transactional Analysis Advance
Learning Group –III (TAALG-III)
TAALG-III will be launched in
August 2007 in Coimbatore. The target groups for this course
are –educators from schools and colleges, administrators,
HR professionals and organisational specialists from the corporate
sector and also, counsellors and social workers. Participants
in this course are exposed to in-depth learning experiences
in TA to equip them with skills and competencies to become better
in their own fields.
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SAATA 2007 -
It gives us great pleasure to announce the first SAATA Conference
to be held on 26-30 September, 2007 in Coimbatore, India. SAATA
stands for South Asian Association of Transactional Analysts
and is the nodal body of all transactional analysts practising
it in this region of South Asia.
We, at Nitya Gurukula are immensely thrilled as SAATA conference
to us, is special for several reasons:
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It is the
first ever SAATA conference It is the first conference that
Nitya Gurukula is organizing.
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It is also
the first time that the participatory action research model
is being used to organize, manage and run the conference.
We invite the conference participants to be part of the process
too....
Theme of the Conference:
In/Out…This/That….We/Them…Balancing Polarities
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