Reflections #0032

Last week I had an opportunity to share my learnings in a Tedx format at Delhi Public School, Chandigarh. It was an honourable moment for me as I represented my Sanjhi Sikhiya Community and addressed Punjab’s youth leaders.

I spoke about ‘Discovering your SuperPowers in three simple steps.’ Here is a brief outline of what I shared -

1. A Hero’s journey, according to Joseph Cambell, is full of challenges and mysteries. Each is an opportunity for self-discovery and learning to use one’s gifts.

2. Taking a challenge head-on is a three-step process that entails Awareness, Aspiration and Action — Becoming aware of your habitual responses towards challenges, getting in touch with your deepest aspiration and taking small steps towards your growth.

3. Your three superpowers will help you through — Trust, Care and Responsibility. Trusting in one’s abilities, expanding your circle of concern and choosing courageous action can help you thrive in any unknown situation.

This process and principles have come from the last four years of my experience of working towards the leadership development of young people in Punjab. We learn by practising these in real-time in our work of improving education service delivery in rural government primary schools.

We are a community of 50 young people working in 3 districts and 1000 schools. With your support, we wish to expand to 100 young leaders, 22 districts and all 13000 schools by 2025.

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