Vikalp Kriya
  • who we are
    • anju uppal
    • prabir bose
    • savyasachi anju prabir
  • what we do
    • facilitate workshops
    • design resources
    • practice theatre
    • research & document
    • make films
  • who we work with
  • testimonials
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facilitate workshops

At Vikalp Kriya, our workshops explore how participation can become both a way of learning and a way of living. Inspired by the pedagogy of the oppressed, we see facilitation not as teaching but as creating spaces where dialogue, reflection, and action meet. We facilitate processes that nurture critical thinking, collective analysis, and the questioning of dominant power relations. Our work engages with rights, gender, participation, and communication to challenge the pervasive “culture of silence.”

Through Learning Needs Assessments (LNAs), the design of modules and handbooks, participatory workshops, mentoring support, and documentation of learning journeys, we collaborate with organisations and academic institutions to co-create meaningful learning experiences. Our workshops bring together community volunteers, development practitioners, activists, government representatives, theatre and media practitioners, students and educators, children and young people, farmers, and workers, and anyone seeking to reflect, reimagine, and act toward social and ecological justice.

To host or participate in a workshop, write to [email protected]

Triennial, National Workshops
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​Five-day Residential


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December 2025
Monday, December 1 to Friday, December 5
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December 2026
Dates to be announced

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December 2027
Dates to be announced
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An Immersive, Five-day Residential Workshop

Third Edition

mid-2026
To be announced

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2 workshops, back-2-back
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3 + 3 Days Residential

Fourth Edition

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No Child’s Play

Reimagining Participation of
​Children, Adolescents & Young People
March 2026
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Square Pegs, Round Holes

Reimagining Life Skills for
Children, Adolescents & Young People
March 2026
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bespoke workshops for organisations

Cultural Transformation to Mainstream Gender, Diversity & Inclusion (GDI)

Facilitating a process to develop a Theory of Change together with a year-long strategic intervention to create a supportive and enabling environment with the organisation - through ongoing capacity-development, designing communication resources and preparing guidelines to review modules through a gender lens.

Women Entrepreneurship

Facilitated a visioning exercise for the Beautypreneur programme, with partner organisations of Godrej Good & Green.

Persons with Disability (PWDs) & Life Skills 

Facilitated a visioning exercise with team members of Youth4Jobs, a partner organisation of Godrej Good & Green, on a rights-based approach to skills training for persons with disability (PWDs) at Hyderabad.

Change Leaders!

Conceptualised and facilitated a process-oriented approach to capacity development of senior field associates of Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The process involved ​four residential workshops (seven-day each), project-based learning (PBL), mentoring support and field-level handholding over a one-year period.

Life Skills for Empowerment

​Conceptualised and facilitated visioning workshops with team members and partner organisations of Salon-i programme of Godrej Good & Green in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

our range of workshops

Skills for Life

learning to live with dignity as free, equal, rational citizens
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​5 days

No Child's Play

beyond tokenism; ensuring child participation in decision-making
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​5 days

Whither Development?

demystifying "development" in the context of the constitutional framework
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​10 days

Communication for Social Transformation

treating people as subjects and not as beneficiaries, target groups or audiences

​​7 days

Integrating Gender

negotiating expectations & implications in interventions and at the workplace
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​3 days

Media Par Paini Nazar

critical media literacy

​5 days

our past workshops

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Facilitating Participatory Communication
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on Ecology & NRM
In partnership with Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), a nine-month long process that involved learning needs assessment, residential workshops of six-days each for team members and community leaders (farmers) followed by providing handholding support and designing communication resources.
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In partnership with Bharat India Jodo, Reliance Foundation, facilitated a series of workshops for their team members from across the country and community leaders (representatives of farmers groups) - in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.

Participatory Research
understanding Participation & Social Discrimination
Anju has been facilitating workshops for the Youth Fellowship initiative of PUKAR for more than five years now.
Child Rights & Participation
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Facilitated a five-day residential workshop for team members of partner organisations of UNICEF and district administration of Sivasagar, Assam.

Design and development of a handbook on Child Rights and Child Participation for UNICEF Assam, followed by capacity building of team members from Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust (KGNMT), Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University (KKHSOU) and Sadou Assam Moina Parijat (SAMP) at Guwahati, Assam.
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Child Friendly Panchayats
Facilitated a workshop on Child Friendly Panchayats with children and young people, together with team members of Sadou Assam Moina Parijat (SAMP) and North East Social Trust (NEST) in Golaghat district, for UNICEF Assam.

Children as Media Producers
Facilitated a 10-day residential workshop with children and young people in Sarguja district as part of the Children As Media Producers initiative of University of Hyderabad and UNICEF Chhattisgarh.

Empowered Children : Inclusive Development
Facilitated a state-level consultation - Empowered Children : Inclusive Development - with key stakeholders on strengthening child participation in Bihar.

Gender & Life Skills
Over the last five years, facilitated over 20 workshops on gender, life skills and facilitation of communication resources for programme managers and skills trainers from partner organisations of Godrej Good & Green.
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  • who we are
    • anju uppal
    • prabir bose
    • savyasachi anju prabir
  • what we do
    • facilitate workshops
    • design resources
    • practice theatre
    • research & document
    • make films
  • who we work with
  • testimonials