Fellowship

TOUCHING LIVES TEACHING FELLOWSHIP 2024-2026

A journey of Self-Work*, Seva and Sadhna

As a Touching Lives Fellow, you will be teaching and mentoring children / youth. The children come from challenging socio-economic environments. The role involves ‘developing curriculum’ based on the in-house learning-teaching model of Touching Lives and teaching English, mindfulness and value education through activity-based methods. The fellow provides a safe environment for quality education and mental health. The Fellow gets an opportunity to learn life-long hands-on tools of the Self-Work* Model through which they can engage in their own self-healing and self-development. 

PROJECT STRUCTURE:

Currently, the team is working in hybrid mode, conducting some of the sessions with the children online on Zoom and some in-person. For 2024-25, we will continue hybrid model until we rebuild the physical learning space. The learning center is in Dahisar, Mumbai.

FELLOWSHIP OPEN FOR :

The Fellowship Batch of 2024–26 is open for Beginners program, Discovery program and Dream program.

The Beginners program and The Discovery program aim to provide activity-based supplementary education to children living in slum communities in Dahisar and Borivali (suburbs of Mumbai). The age-group of Beginners program children is 6-9 years, and the age-group for Discovery program children is 12-16 years.

The Dream Program provides online education support to college-going students. The students are from slums communities in different parts of Mumbai, Delhi, small villages of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, not limited to a specific geography. The program is open for youth from any part of India living in challenging socio-economic background. The program aims to develop the skills these students need for the next steps in continuing higher education or seeking employment.

The Fellow commits for 2 Years of teaching, mentoring – assisting the educational development and mental health of the students. The curriculum includes – English, Life-skills, Healing and Self-work*, Technology, Global Perspective.

ROLE OF A FELLOW:

A Fellow undergoes a self-transformative journey through our Self-Work* training for their personal healing and self-development. A Fellow also undergoes our Teaching-Learning Method for learning innovative methods and pedagogy for education.

A Fellow –

• Develops class curriculum
• Executes creative activities
• Builds loving & healthy relationship with students
• Makes innovative resources
• Monitors and Assesses the development of the children
• Makes Healing for self and for children possible
• Maintains students’ progress
• Maintains activity and other relevant Reports
• Develops necessary interventions for the students’ education and development
• Develops strategies for class management and innovation
• Continuously upgrades and educates himself/herself in the field
• Executes whole program on time
• Commits towards the vision of the organization
• Meets the long-term and short-term goals for the classroom
• Crisis Intervention
• Nurtures self, children, community, teammates, world compassionately and consciously