facilitate workshops

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]

An Immersive, Five-day Residential Workshop

Monday, Sep 15 to Friday, Sep 19, 2025

Do you dream of a just and equitable world, where everyone belongs?

Are you willing to be challenged and challenge the status quo?

Welcoming to Belonging!
Engendering DEI through Participatory Practices
is your invitation to make a difference.

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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

4th Edition

No Child’s Play

Reimagining Participation of
Children, Adolescents & Young People

March 2026

Square Pegs, Round Holes

Reimagining Life Skills for
Children, Adolescents & Young People

March 2026

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triennial, national workshops
Five-day Residential

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December 2025
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December 2026
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December 2027
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Triennial, National Workshop

Five-day Residential

Rehearsing Change isn’t easy.

It requires the courage to dream, the resolve to identify the root causes of systemic injustice, the critical thinking to analyse, and the creativity to challenge and transform.

From Dec 2 to 6, 2024, our triennial five-day residential workshop, Facilitating Participatory Theatre for Social and Ecological Justice, was held at the Leslie Sawhny Centre, Deolali. It brought together a dynamic blend of:

Practising participatory play-making and performances
Honing skills to facilitate dialogue with groups and communities
Negotiating a collective vision to foster transformative approaches for social and ecological justice

This year, 19 participants from 11 organisations across the country came together, each contributing unique perspectives and a shared commitment to change: Cohesion Foundation, Cotton Connect, Deep Griha Society, Equal Community Foundation (ECF), Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Green Foundation, Lupin Foundation, Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA), Rainmatter Foundation, VACHA, and Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA).

Together, we’re rehearsing change and shaping pathways for a better future. The journey doesn’t stop here — it must go on!

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.