What am I doing now?

I live in Ahmadabad, India with my partner Nidhi. I regularly write weekly notes and occasionally write blog posts. You can read my raw notes and ideas here at my digital garden.

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.

(Part time engagement)

Learning Facilitator / Khojbeen Mandali (<– check out the offering page)

We (Mihir & Nidhi) are facilitating experiential learning journeys for children and young adults:

Age 3 to 11 years

(Nature Exploration, Theater, Senses Development, Stories, Music, Children lit, library)

I regularly take sessions with this age group in my full-time job at Balgokulam. (ongoing)
Nidhi will engage this age group if she joins CEE full-time. (Starts in February 2026)
We are starting a reading club + Nature Club + children’s library soon. (Starts in late January 2026)
Apart from this, I want to write stories, poems, and drama for children and work actively on Gujarati children’s literature. (ongoing)
Working with the Children’s University team to develop integrated learning modules. (ongoing)

Age 12+ years

(Projects, Self designed learning, Citizen Science, Theater, life skills, Future of work & life, local Khoji, Climate Action, Third Space)

I am actively seeking organizations where I can engage directly with this age group or contribute to program development/curriculum development.

Learning Calls:

Nazaria Art Collective: Providing inputs for their summer filmmaking program around project-based learning and self-designed learning. (Starts in February 2026)
Sajhe Sapne: Contributing inputs to their overall curriculum. (Ongoing)
Project Circuit: Once in a month call to provide inputs for travel based learning program for young adults (Starts in late January 2026)

Other Projects:

Next three - four month I will be focusing on documenting my past experiments in learning & education. (ongoing)
City as a lab: Every year I review projects done by children participated in city as a lab programs (this year’s review is done)

Mihir Pathak | મિહિર પાઠક