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At Vikalp Kriya, we facilitate processes that encourage open dialogue, critical analysis, and the challenging of prevailing power dynamics. Our work delves into exploring rights, gender, participation, and communication to challenge the pervasive ‘culture of silence.’

Our services encompass comprehensive Learning Needs Assessments (LNAs), the design and development of modules and handbooks, workshop facilitation, hands-on support, and meticulous documentation of the learning processes.

Diverse participants converge in our workshops, including community volunteers, non-profit development workers, representatives from donor agencies and government departments, activists from campaigns and movements, theatre and media practitioners, students and faculty members, children and young people, farmers, and workers.

Embark on an exciting, engaging, and enriching learning journey with us! To host or participate in any of our workshops, reach out to us at [email protected]

Triennial, National Workshop

Five-day Residential

Dates
December 2 to 6, 2024

Venue
Leslie Sawhny Centre
Deolali, District Nashik, Maharashtra

Language
Bilingual (Hindi & English)

Facilitators
Anju Uppal & Prabir Bose

Fee
₹25,000/- (Inclusive of GST)

Inclusions
Shared Accommodation, Veg & Non-Veg Meals

Limited Seats
on first-come, first-served basis

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In the context of an all-pervading culture of silence, how do we facilitate liberatory processes and practices that enable groups and communities to build critical thinking, assess their everyday reality, challenge dominant power relations, reclaim control over collective spaces, and tell their own stories and sing their own songs for cultural action?

Informed by the works of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal, the workshop - rehearsing change! Facilitating Participatory Theatre for Social & Ecological Justice - will adopt an experiential learning approach to create thought-provoking dialogue around social and ecological justice.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have practiced participatory play-making, performed theatre pieces, and honed their skills in facilitating theatre processes with groups and communities.

With the belief that each one of us have the right to “act,” we welcome development actors, theatre activists, and anyone passionate about reimagining a better future, and interested in exploring theatre as an empowering process to rehearse change, including:

programme managers, trainers, facilitators, researchers working in social change initiatives
community mobilisers, activists, volunteers, and those working with groups and communities
teachers, academics, students, and those working in the education space

About the facilitators:
Anju Uppal & Prabir Bose

Anju and Prabir have been theatre practitioners for over 30 years, dedicating their work to scripting, directing, and engaging in community theatre. Their journey includes participating in an amateur theatre group, facilitating theatre workshops across the country, and using theatre as a medium for social dialogue and transformation.

Prabir has served as visiting faculty at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) for over 20 years. Together, Anju and Prabir have co-facilitated the course Participatory Theatre for Development at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) for the past 15 years.

Recently, they were invited to perform Conversations Around a Dilemma as part of Theatre From The Streets, a pilot project by New Perspectives Theatre Company in New York, collaborating with artists from Palestine, Lebanon, Venezuela, and India.

Their one-act play, Superman ka Best Friend, written and directed by Anju and Prabir, explores the theme of children as silent observers of the world around them, even when their voices go unheard. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic, the play creates a space for both children and adults to engage in a deeper conversation about “development” and reimagine a better world. Performed in an intimate theatre format, the play is staged for small audiences in alternative venues, such as academic institutions, workplaces, neighborhoods, and even people’s homes.

June 10 to 14, 2024

An Immersive, Residential Workshop in Goa!

Mazedaar!

That one word captures the intense five-day process of our recently concluded residential workshop in rain-soaked Goa: Welcoming to Belonging! Engendering DEI through Participatory Practices.

The participants represented a wide range of organisations: Avaazein Foundation, Breakthrough Trust, Deep Griha Society, Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Foundation for Social Transformation (FST), SNEHA Mumbai, VSO International, WWF India, and other individuals from across the country—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Manipur.

Facilitated by Anju Uppal & Prabir Bose and hosted by Vikalp Kriya.

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2 workshops, back-2-back

3 + 3 Days Residential

SECOND EDITION

No Child’s Play

Reimagining Participation of
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Mar 3 to 5, 2025

Square Pegs, Round Holes

Reimagining Life Skills for
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Mar 6 to 8, 2025

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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

5 days

No Child's Play

beyond tokenism; ensuring child participation in decision-making

5 days

Whither Development?

demystifying "development" in the context of the constitutional framework

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

3 days

Media Par Paini Nazar

critical media literacy

5 days

our past workshops

Facilitating Participatory Communication
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.

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

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.

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.