Education consultant – Present

FSL India – Research, Program Design, content development and capacity building to develop the whole school culture.  Focus on teacher – student well-being to integrate students back to school post the pandemic

Therapy Practitioner – March 2018 – Present

Individual and Group Therapy for children and adults used multiple art forms, nature, and mindfulness, and Compassionate Inquiry.

Training Manager and education consultant – Secondary Schools Quest Alliance – March 2020 to March 2022

Capacity building – 

• Build a big picture capacity building strategy for different stakeholders of the program. Bring in experiences from the ecosystem around innovative approaches to capacity building 21st-century education, STEM mindset, bridge gender gaps in the Indian education system, teacher wellbeing, and creating safe, inclusive and compassionate classrooms in 10 Indian states.
• Designing the capacity building journey for different stakeholders in 7 states based on the individual state strategies for facilitators, teachers and headmasters and master trainers.
• Defining the approach to capacity building for the secondary schools program 
• Support the government engagement and relationship building process by integrating the master trainer strategy into the education systems.

Mastercoach for Teachers – 21st century Educators course Development – 

• Lead the user research, instructional design, and content development of an online teacher professional development course to become 21st century educators and enable 21st century learning environments. 
• Strategy for different models implementation based on state requirements and realities

Research consultant Program Manager – 100th Monkey – FSL-India – January 2018 – February 2020

• Research on youth development programs on life skills, youth leadership, and citizenship.
• Conceptualize and develop a strategic and innovative program design to suit the socio-economic realities of youth belonging to urban marginalized communities using the HumanCentered Design framework.
• Ideate, conceptualize, experiment, and innovate within and outside the project framework to bring in new dimensions to the program.
• Curriculum and instructional design by bringing global best practices in pedagogy and design to develop global competencies, socio-emotional learning skills, self-actualization, and active citizenship.
• Build capacity for different stakeholders – facilitators, government school teachers, and Heads and Education Department officials to create inclusive and compassionate classrooms in 5 Indian states.
• Facilitate relationships with the government school education department, government officials, funding partners, school heads, teachers, and social workers to enable partnerships and scale the program.
• Identify key areas of improvement through effective data analysis and support the stakeholders with refresher training and knowledge management

Arts-Based Therapy Practitioner – Govt. Boys home for Children with Mental Retardation – June 2018 – March 2019

• Arts-based therapy practice for 6 At-risk adolescents with mental retardation.
• Action research on therapeutic intervention and evaluation of the impact of the research project using standard evaluation formats and client observation formats.
• Provide inputs to the organisation on using Arts Based Therapy as learning and therapeutic intervention for the inmates of the organisation.
• Consolidate a report on the Action research titles “Study the impact of Arts-based Therapy on At-risk adolescents with mild and moderate mental retardation” and presented at the ABTconvocation. Received 3rd rank for the quality and findings of the research.

Teacher Intern- Bangalore Steiner School – August 2017 – February 2018

Teacher Educator – Kalap Trust – May 2016 – July 2017

• Build relationships with the community to develop a deeper understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural constructs of the community to introduce the need for contextual education and schooling. Identify the learning needs of mountain children to set up a replicable school for the mountains.
• Develop curriculum and facilitate learning experiences specific to the location and local history and culture, beliefs, and social constructs of the communities.
• Combine academic concepts with processes to develop the STEAM mindset, Socio-emotional learning, and mindfulness, and building a peer learning community amongst children.
• Develop assignments and assessments using project-based learning methodology and study their learning transference using multiple art forms.
• Create opportunities for self-exploration and expression, creative intelligence, and field biology skills for children of all age groups.

Project Assistant – Centre for Environment Education – September 2015 – April 2016

• Program conceptualization and design on environmental education for government school students.
• Curriculum and content development and create an instructional system for a teacher-led model and supported by volunteers by creating instructional manuals for teachers and a workbook handbook of activities for students and a repository of teacher resources and activities.
• Design and implement need-based Learning and Development programs for government school (200) teachers, and education department members to implement the program in government schools.
• Create monitoring and evaluation of the program implementation in schools and collate the process and findings in an impact report.

Therapist – Snehadhara Foundation January 2016 – April 2016

• Nature-based therapy program design and implementation for children on the autistic spectrum

Lead Facilitator and consultant Paatashaala Foundation – April 2008 – April 2018

• Consciously create safe and loving classroom environments for children and train facilitators to intentionally adopt practices that enable safety, connection, and compassion.
• Train facilitators on subject matter content, and facilitation, provide feedback and mentorship to improve learning processes, IEPs, and facilitation.
• Frame and evaluate processes to encourage active discovery and independent learning to achieve curricular objectives and building relationships, self-worth, and identity creation for each child using creative arts and experiential education.

Education Officer – Kalinga Centre for Rainforest Ecology – May 2013 – June 2014

Conference Coordinator – Centre for Experiential Education – September 2015 – December 2019

Alpha Brains Head – Content and curriculum development – May 2014 – June 2015

Freelance Wildlife expert – May 2012 – May 2016