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facilitate workshops

We facilitate processes that encourage dialogue, analyse and provoke a rethink on the dominant power relations
and explore rights, gender, participation and communication to challenge the "culture of silence"
We carry out learning needs assessments (LNAs), design and develop modules and handbooks, ​facilitate workshops, provide handholding support and document learning processes

our triennial, national workshops

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Five-day Residential Workshop
In the background of an all pervading culture of silence, how do we facilitate ​liberatory processes and practices whereby groups and communities build critical thinking, assess their everyday reality, challenge dominant power relations, reclaim control over collective spaces, tell their own stories and sing their own songs for cultural action.
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facilitating participatory communication

Five-day Residential Workshop
What do we understand by social change? How do we understand groups & communities? Are we adequately prepared for a paradigm shift in enacting social transformation? How does the nature and extent of participation influence communication processes? How do we define participatory communication?

What is facilitation? Can dialogue lead to reflection, action and enrich learning? How do we facilitate empowering processes with children, adolescents, youth, women, persons with disabilities...? Is there a scope for creative engagement with communities ​that are experiencing and shaping processes of social change? ​How to collaboratively design tools, methods and processes that groups and communities ​can own, access and control?

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facilitating participatory workshops

Five-day Residential Workshop
Do you believe that learning is an organic process (and not a mechanical one)? Does learning demand an ongoing engagement with oneself, to be able to relate with the immediate environment and consciously respond to the socio-political and cultural reality? Is participatory facilitation crucial ​in supporting and enabling a learning process for change?

What then is our role as facilitators in creating meaningful learning situations for groups and communities? How do we plan enriching learning opportunities? How do we design, adapt or adopt tools, exercises and methods that provoke a critical and creative thought process?

other 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

Integrating Gender

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


Communication for Social Transformation

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


Whither Development?

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


Media Par Paini Nazar

critical media literacy
5 days


Our workshops bring together participants from diverse backgrounds.

Our past workshops have been attended by community volunteers, 
development workers from non-profits,
donor agencies & government departments; activists from campaigns & movements;
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theatre and media practitioners; students and faculty members.

We invite you in this exciting, engaging and enriching learning journey!

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If you would like to host or participate in any of our workshops, please email workshops at vikalpkriya dot in

our past workshops

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.
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Facilitating Participatory Workshops
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on Social Discrimination
Facilitated a six-day residential workshop for mid-level academics, NGO professionals and government employees from north-east and eastern India, organised by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Tezpur University, Assam

Participatory Research
understanding Participation & Social Discrimination
Anju has been facilitating workshops for the Youth Fellowship initiative of PUKAR for more than five years now.

Visioning Workshops
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.

Life Skills & Disability

Facilitated a visioning exercise with team members of Youth4Jobs from across the country on a rights-based approach to skills training for persons with disability (PWDs) at Hyderabad.

Women Entrepreneurship

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

Community-based Gender Resource Centres

Facilitated a visioning exercise with partner organisations of Godrej Good & Green.

Child Rights & Participation
Facilitated a five-day residential workshop for team members of partner organisations of UNICEF and district administration of Sivasagar, Assam.
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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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exploring sustainable alternatives;
practising cultural expression & action

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  • who we are
    • anju uppal
    • prabir bose
    • savyasachi anju prabir
  • what we do
    • facilitate workshops >
      • 2 workshops, back-2-back
      • fpw 2023
    • design resources >
      • vikalp ki kahaniyaan
    • practice theatre >
      • Superman ka Best Friend
    • research & document
    • make films
  • partnerships & collaborations