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
Travellers’ University was not born from a blueprint.
It emerged slowly like a question that ripens over time from years of walking, listening, and living alongside communities across India. After my journey with the 52 Parindey Fellowship, I felt a growing need to create a space where others, too, could step outside prescribed paths and begin learning from life itself.
In 2018, I co-founded Travellers’ University a space for self-designed, experiential learning rooted in personal inquiry, collective healing, and systemic transformation.
It is not a university in the conventional sense, but a living ecosystem where young people explore what it means to learn, live, and work in alignment with values like dignity, justice, ecological belonging, and interbeing.
Over the years, we’ve facilitated learning journeys for over 300+ youth, designed nine transformative workshops, and mentored 25+ individuals in crafting intentional paths that reconnect self, society, and systems.
We’ve worked across geographies and themes from rivers and regenerative livelihoods to personal resilience and inner leadership.
Travellers’ University invites learners to question dominant narratives of success, development, and education — while offering them companionship, structure, and support to walk their own questions. As co-facilitators, we don't offer answers. We offer presence, context, and reflection trusting that real learning arises from immersion, friction, and inner clarity.
This initiative is not separate from my own journey.
It is a continuation a space where the listening deepens, the healing becomes relational, and the work of reimagining is done together.
In a world accelerating toward collapse and disconnection, Travellers’ University remains an offering a slow, quiet space to ask again:
What does it mean to live meaningfully now?
What does dignity look like in action?
And how might we walk each other home?