What am I doing now?
I live in Ahmadabad, India with my partner Nidhi. I regularly write weekly notes and occasionally write blog posts.
Work
Full time engagement
learning Facilitator / Balgokulam Foundation , Ahmadabad
I work with curriculum designers, researchers, learning facilitators and children to design and test the experiential learning curriculum for children age 3 to 8yrs.
I am attending online course on ‘Indian Aesthetics’ as a part of my work.
Side Project
- खोजबीन मंडली (Mihir & Nidhi) :
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Experiential learning initiative for children and young adults. We facilitates camps, workshops, long term programs using Arts, Nature and Place based projects.
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Research, write, translate and publish educational material around experiential learning / project - art - nature based learning.
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Sharing & collaborating with fellow practitioners and orgs.
Current initiatives in Khojbeen Mandali :
- Work with children of Tatvic office
- Work with children of priti ben’s learning center
- Work with Mitali ben’s school
- Collaboration with Nature Classrooms (for translating book called ’there is nothing there’, Piloting ‘Nature Education Assessment Framework’)
- Developing env education module for middle school children
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Sakha Fellowship : Self exploration journey for young adults from Vadodara. We will be co travelers, friend, guide, supporter in this journey..We will do real life projects, exposure visits, work on our dreams, finding our passion & be the gift for this beautiful world..visit this insta handle to get more details. About sakha fellowship, Session log | 5th June 2025 (Team : Rameshwari ben, Ashish bhai, Nikita ben, Saurabh bhai, Suraj, Nidhi & Mihir)
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YouCAN - Earth Education Fellowship - learning Pod : Here I try to sharing my insights with fellows from my nature education work with children.
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Sanjhe Sapne - weekly learning Calls : I share my experiments and insights on self-designed learning and my work with youth with the Sanjhe Sapne team.
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Faculty member / Child Development, learning & special needs course - Eklavya Foundation, Bhopal (Batch 7 - 2024 - 25) (Not doing much work here currently)
Misc
- Preparing for employee engagement session at Tatvic office.
Personal Projects :
- I write weekly notes, blog posts and maintain this website. (Colophon for this website)
Wish list + Work on pause :
- Documenting my past work and write articles about the same (How about seeing BLR, Time exhibition, Voice of vishwamitri, local khoji)
- Developing module / workshop around ‘Geo inquiry projects’ or Using maps for geo inquiry projects’
- Working on activity module on nature education for kindergarten children
I’ve been thinking of taking a break from my full-time job for about 2–3 months to engage in an internship or volunteer with meaningful projects.
I’m especially interested in research, interventions, or facilitation work around the following areas:
- Nature education
- Development of environmental aesthetic sense, especially from an Indic perspective
- Exploration of the affective domain with primary grade children
- Project-based and integrated learning approaches in early childhood education
Anything related to environmental education, Aesthetics, Indic Perspective, Neuroscience
There are no monetary expectations from my side for this project. Since I haven’t been part of formal college education, I’ve felt the need over the years to find learning opportunities beyond professional, outcome-driven roles. I long for a phase where I can simply be a student again.
(I have started one learning journey with Dr.Srivi Kalyan on above topics. I will update more detail soon)
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Inspiration: nownownow.com | last updated on 5th Aug 2025