Work in Motion
An Unfolding: Through Resistance and Listening, Toward Healing and Interbeing
The work gathered here is a living continuation of one unfolding inquiry: how do we move from stories of separation toward practices of belonging?
Each project, from reclaiming education to mentoring young changemakers—carries forward questions born from earlier steps.
Rather than isolated initiatives, these are connected movements: shaped by resistance, deepened by listening, sustained by healing, and committed to reweaving futures rooted in dignity, justice, and interbeing.
Dignity Fellowship, Central India, 2022-25

• Fellowship Duration: 1 year (2023–2024)
• Focus: Deepening and living the values of the Indian Constitution — dignity, justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity
• Role: Co-facilitator, learner, and space-holder
Key Contributions
• Co-facilitated emotional resilience and leadership workshops across India
• Held dialogue circles on power, patriarchy, vulnerability, and collective healing
• Supported fellows in reflecting on their inner contradictions and social locations
• Brought in lived experience from education, community work, and systemic inquiry
Core Practices
• Inner work: exploring masculinity, inherited power, emotional literacy
• Systemic reflection: reframing democracy as relationship and dignity as a daily ethic
• Community learning: Participatory processes rooted in empathy, listening, and co-creation
Reach & Impact
• Engaged with 30+ fellows across diverse regions and contexts
• Helped co-create safe, reflective spaces for personal and collective transformation
• Deepened commitment to ethical leadership and interbeing-centered change
Travellers' University, Across India, 2018-Present

Overview
• Founded: 2018 (Co-founder)
• Purpose: To nurture self-designed learning journeys rooted in dignity, justice, sustainability, and interbeing
• Approach: Experiential, inquiry-driven, community-anchored learning — addressing the meta-crisis by reimagining education, livelihoods, and leadership
Key Work
• Designed and facilitated 9+ transformative workshops on rivers, sustainability, regenerative livelihoods, inner leadership, and Alivelihoods
• Mentored 25+ youth in crafting intentional, values-based learning and livelihood journeys
• Built a learning ecosystem integrating personal inquiry with systemic understanding and regenerative action
Core Practices
• Self-designed, experiential learning journeys
• Regenerative livelihood (Alivelihood) exploration and practice
• Emotional and systemic literacy for youth changemakers
• Narrative building for reimagining education, work, and life beyond dominant development models
Impact
• Reached and engaged with 300+ learners across India
• Supported youth in designing work that heals — livelihoods rooted in dignity, ecology, and community
• Contributed to spreading the narrative of Alivelihoods as a response to systemic disconnection and the meta-crisis
52 Parindey Journey, 2015-17

Overview
• Distance traveled: 25,000+ kilometers across India
• Engagement: Lived and worked with 52 changemakers across diverse fields:
o Eco-architecture, river conservation, butterfly conservation, permaculture, weaving, oral histories, menstrual health, alternative education, bee conservation, social activism, community livelihoods, theater, and waste management.
• Documentation: Captured and shared 52 in-depth stories of regenerative alternatives.
• Publication: Authored a book compiling the narratives, reflections, and learnings from the journey — contributing to the wider discourse on regenerative livelihoods and social transformation.
• Outreach:
o Built a vibrant online community through storytelling campaigns.
o Stories featured in major media platforms like The Hindu, Livemint, The Better India.
o Reached 50,000+ people directly and indirectly through social media, community interactions, and media coverage.
• Core Inquiry:
o Understanding the depth of the meta-crisis.
o Rethinking life and livelihood as a young person with limited resources.
o Exploring how localized, dignified alternatives offer pathways toward systemic healing.
Cycle Yatra, Across Rajasthan, 2015

Overview
• Journey: One-month solo cycle yatra across Rajasthan (2015)
• Mode: Traveled without carrying money, packaged food, or digital gadgets — relying on trust, community, and simplicity
Core Intentions
• To slow down and listen to the inner calling beyond the structures of career and success
• To explore the difference between hard work and heart work
• To build personal resilience for a lifelong journey of social and systemic transformation
Core Practices
• Trust-based travel and hospitality
• Deep listening to self, land, people, and silence
• Practicing humility, vulnerability, and interdependence
Impact
• Strengthened emotional, physical, and relational resilience
• Clarified personal vision toward regenerative, dignity-centered work
• Prepared internal founadtion for larger healing journeys like 52 Parindey and Travellers’ University
Jaipur Rugs, Jaipur, 2014-15

Overview
• Role: Trainer, Facilitator, and Storyteller
• Focus: Building dignity-centered communication and emotional resilience within a diverse organizational ecosystem
Key Work
• Facilitated communication and emotional intelligence workshops for 400+ artisans and employees
• Led participatory sessions using theater, storytelling, and cooperative games to foster agency, empathy, and relational dignity
• Documented artisan stories — amplifying the lived experiences behind traditional craft
Core Practices
• Nonviolent communication and active listening
• Participatory facilitation and creative expression
• Storytelling as a tool for visibility, belonging, and systemic repair
Impact
• Strengthened relational culture within artisan communities and organizational teams
• Helped bridge gaps between traditional knowledge holders and modern organizational systems
• Deepened personal understanding of dignity as a living, daily practice within work ecosystems
Swaraj University, Udaipur, 2012-14

Overview
• Duration: Two-year self-designed learning journey
• Focus: Deep listening, unlearning dominant paradigms, building ecological, emotional, and systemic literacy
• Philosophy: Rooted in the doctrine of Swaraj — reclaiming agency over learning, livelihood, and imagination
Key Work
• Designed a personalized curriculum combining environmental literacy, emotional intelligence, facilitation, storytelling, and regenerative living
• Immersed in grassroots learning spaces like Puvidham, Marudam, and Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Studied Nonviolent Communication, documentary filmmaking, alternative development frameworks
Core Practices
• Practiced reflective reading of transformative texts (Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Small is Beautiful, Ishmael, Rethinking Development)
• Mentored and guided by Manish Jain, Dinesh Kothari, Chinmay Mishra, and Reva Dandage
• Engaged with slow learning, trust-based relationships, and systemic inquiry
Impact
• Internalized deep listening as a foundation for systemic change
• Strengthened philosophical grounding in dignity-centered education and regenerative futures
• Laid the emotional and intellectual foundations for future work across education, livelihoods, and healing
Shikshantar Sansthan, Udaipur, 2011-12

Overview
• Phase: Foundational journey of resistance and reimagination (Post-MBA exit)
• Focus: Challenging dominant education, economic, and development paradigms; practicing alternative ways of living, learning, and organizing
Key Work
• Organized Udaipur’s first Zero Budget Cycle Marathon with 200+ participants advocating sustainable transport
• Conducted and edited 16 interviews across 4 cities for Swapathgami Magazine, amplifying stories of regenerative alternatives
• Participated in flash mobs, street actions, and protests challenging systemic inequities
• Volunteered with grassroots movements like Narmada Bachao Andolan
Core Practices
• Frugal living to challenge dominant money narratives
• Creative public disruption and storytelling
• Community-driven learning and solidarity action
• Trust-based hospitality and slow living experiments
Impact
• Strengthened foundational values of self-designed learning, community resilience, and systemic critique
• Built early skills in facilitation, narrative activism, and regenerative thinking
• Laid the emotional and ethical groundwork for future journeys (Swaraj University, Cycle Yatra, 52 Parindey)