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Winter Event Nov 30 – Dec 5, 2009
Aastha Foundation for Human Learning and Growth
Aastha the Institution
Aastha’s Programmes
Winter Event programmes
For Young Professionals
Leadership & Beyond
Acievement & Fulfilment
Venue
Participant Organizations
Programme Staff
Contact Information
Faculty
The Aastha Invitation
In the increasingly fast paced world of today, work goals and personal pressures seem to have taken control of every space in an individual’s life……
Do you feel as if you are constantly running and often not sure where you are headed?
Do you feel that you are chasing activities all the time and do not have the time to make sense of it?
Do you feel the need to take a pause and re‐orient yourself?
In a world that focuses mainly on the “outer”, we need to sometimes deliberate on the “inner”.
Many a times we find that ‐ what is essential for our personal and professional vibrancy is often buried under daily pre‐occupations with non‐essentials ….
Aastha Foundation invites you to take a pause….engage with a vibrant and multi layered learning space that will facilitate, exploring some of the above mentioned questions.
The learning methodology will constantly challenge you to recalibrate yourself. It could be a refreshing and enriching experience when new action choices emerge for oneself
Aastha – The Institution
Aastha is a community of individuals whose mission is to:
✴ Foster wholesomeness and inner ecological wisdom in individuals, organizations and communities
✴Create spaces and processes for self‐exploration, experiential learning, perspective building for the above and develop facilitators who can anchor such spaces
✴Engage in action research, knowledge building and publication to facilitate understanding of human processes
Aastha Foundation is a not‐for‐profit Public Trust, established in 1995. Aastha’s membership includes Trustees, Institutional Members and Professional Members who are professionals in Management, Human Resources Development, Education and Applied Behavioural Science.
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Aastha’s Programmes
Aastha’s Winter Event is an invitation to take a pause and review one’s perspective and action in a complex and fast changing world.
The Winter Event provides a unique community learning space which is intense yet refreshing, for corporations and individuals interested in human processes
Great Discovery is ... not of worlds outside but seeing with new eyes.Winter Event is a learning space for a community of about 25 participants and a faculty team of 5 ‐10 members from all over the country. The community setting offers opportunities for learning about human processes. Participants would typically spend two thirds of a day in small groups and the rest of the time in whole community / informal sessions.
The Learning Processes are:
Experiential: The process is of experiencing in the ‘here and now’ as well as of
sharing experiences, reflections and reviews.
Wholistic: There is a constant beckoning to see the whole picture and what would be
meaningful for yourself and your work and family systems (especially relationships with parents, spouse and children).
Wholesome: Fostering the natural, fundamental need to be “yourself”, i.e. dealing with
internal contradictions and facilitating integration of thought, feeling and action.
Growth oriented: You choose what you wish to focus on, work with your own insights and
frameworks that suit you.
Stimulating: Through concept building from the group experience as well as from sharing
cutting‐edge perspectives on human processes.
Programmes Offered at Winter Event 2009
Programme for Young Professionals in Organizations(For young professionals aged about 25 to 35 years)
Leadership and Beyond (A Process lab for organization leaders and senior managers ready for leadership positions)
Achievement and Fulfilment(For managers in organization in the age group 40 and above)
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Programme 1 - Programme for Young Professionals in Organizations
For Young professionals aged about 25 to 35 years, in industry, government, social sector and those who are self employed.
PerspectiveYoung people enter organizations with lot of excitement and hope. Work, at this stage gives a meaning and purpose to the self. While organizations provide opportunities for fulfillment of aspirations and dreams, they may also throw up many challenges. For an individual, while the professional life can be heady and stimulating, it can be demanding and pressurizing as well. The real test seems to be how one retains the spirit and passion while adjusting to the demands of the role and the system. On the personal front drastic changes in role and expectations within the family can create conflicts such as:
✴ Self expectations versus role expectations
✴ Exercising self authority while acknowledging systemic authority
✴ Collaborating and competing with peers simultaneously
✴ Impact on people versus forthright communication
✴ Traditional affiliative culture versus contractual professional environment
ObjectiveTo provide opportunity for the participant to explore and review
✴ Different aspects of roles and relationships – expectations, satisfactions and disappointments
✴ Meanings held for the self, others and systems
✴ One’s own role taking processes
✴ Conflicting demands of various roles and one’s propensity in dealing with these
✴ Action choices that integrate role, self and organizational needs
Programme Fees Single Occupancy : Rs 35,000/‐
Double Occupancy : Rs 25,000/‐
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Programme 2. ‐ Leadership and Beyond
For CEOs, VPs, GMs in Leadership positions or for Senior managers preparing to get into one of these Leadership positions
PerspectiveMoving into a leadership position / role involves transition from being a worthy contributor to becoming a partner in the growth and well‐being of the organization. This requires a shift in paradigm from:
✴ Channelizing individual energy to channelizing collective energy – in terms of Efforts, Achievements, Goals, Aspirations etc.
✴ Being a Professional Member to being an Institutional Member i.e. moving from the role of an effective contributor to that of a co‐creator.
✴ Anchoring “micro elements in the organization” to anchoring “macros” for the Organization.
ObjectiveThe program is designed to facilitate:
✴ Review one’s own life space / experience of being the leader
✴ Review of one’s need for control and authority and recognize patterns
✴ Review patterns of deployment of power and authority in organizations. Discovering one’s wisdom and maturity to use power and authority with restraint and creativity
✴ Move from “visioning for self” to “visioning for the collective”.
✴ Find balance and rhythm within and thereby create balance and rhythm outside.
Programme FeesSingle Occupancy: Rs 40,000/‐
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Programme 3 ‐ Achievement and Fulfilment
For Managers in early forties and above.
PerspectiveSeen it all, been there ‐ done it all, what next, what now, that’s the question. This is a stage in life when people intrinsically feel the need to take a pause and use this opportunity for reflection, review and stock taking. In organizations one has had some experience of achievements, fulfilled some dreams and given up some dreams. At home too children have grown up and don’t seem to need as much time and attention. Attraction and lure of old dreams is behind oneself and there is a need to find new goals to aspire for. Redefinition and reinvention is the path ahead.
ObjectiveThe program is designed to enable the participants:
✴ Review one’s own life space/experiences to enhance self awareness
✴ Examine the nature of postponement in order to be socially desirable and successful
✴ Examine the nature of psychological security as opposed to social or material security
✴ Discover resources and potential within the self
✴ Touch the vitality of the self and thereby discover newer meaning and purpose
Programme FeesSingle Occupancy: Rs 40,000/‐
Double Occupancy: Rs 30,000/‐
The Venue
K Stars Woods Resort
Next to Karnala Bird Sanctuary, Mumbai Goa Highway, Vill. Kalhe Gaon, Tlauka : Panvel, Maharastra. Ph. 02143 ‐ 226101/02/03/04, Fax. 02143 – 226109
Set in the midst of lush greenery and peaceful silence, The Woods is only 60 kms. from Mumbai city on the Mumbai‐Goa highway. The Woods is situated right below the Karnala Fort and very close to the Karnala Bird Sanctuary. The natural environment surrounding the venue provides a perfect ambience for this kind of programme.
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Participant Organizations
Astra Zeneca India Pvt. Limited
Bharati Airtel Limited
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
Child Line India Foundation
Dabur Pharma Limited
Hewlett Packard India Pvt. Limited
Hindustan Lever Limited
Idea Cellular Limited
ITC Limited
Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited
Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited
Novell Inc.
Pearl Academy
Reniassance Strategic Consultants
Reliance Industries Limited
Programme Staff & Administration Information
Programme Director
Mohan Raja
Programme Co-ordinators
Farah Khan
Vivek Parchure
e.mail : [email protected]
website: www.aasthafoundation.com
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Registration / Nomination for Programmes to be sent to
Aastha Foundationc/o A Santhilakshmy, 002, A Block, Raheja Residency, 3rd Block, Koramangla, Bangalore – 560 034.
Contact InformationFor further information please contact:
Vivek Parchure (Pune) – 98500 86469
Farah Khan (Bangalore) – 98803 03171
Please note:✴ Payment of fees: By Demand Draft favouring Aastha Foundation, Bangalore
✴ Cancellation: In Case of cancellation, fees will not be refunded, but may be carried forward for future programme.
✴ Return Travel: Participants are advised to book return tickets in advance.
✴ Participants are advised to bring casual clothes, walking shoes and personal medication if any.
✴ The programme will be conducted with floor seating arrangements
✴ Persons with any history of continuous mental stress, psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy, coronary attacks should not be nominated to any Aastha labs. It will be implicit that the participant is joining the program voluntarily for growth not therapy and completely owns the responsibility of his/her own health.
Brief Profile of Faculty for the Winter Programme:
Mohan Raja has consistently been a high performer and has held senior level positions in organizations like General Electric (GE) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). He has vast experience in Sales, HR, Training and Organization Development. Mohan is currently the Managing Director of Synapse India Management Consultants Ltd. a fast growing consultancy company based at Bangalore. Mohan is a professional member of ISISD and a Trustee of Aastha foundation.
R. Rajgopal is an Organization Consultant with an understanding of strategy and financial aspects of Business. His organization experience includes Business and Human Resource functions. His consulting assignments include MNCs, Public Sector and Family owned organizations in areas like Organization Design & Structure, Performance Management, and Development Centers etc. Rajgopal is a professional member of ISISD and a Trustee of Aastha foundation.
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Minaxi Mathur is an Organization Consultant based at Mumbai. She has 16years of experience of consulting in organizations. Her consulting focus is to help individuals, teams and organizations focus on potential, change and growth. She holds a Masters Degree from TISS (1979) and is a professional member of ISISD and the Executive Trustee of Aastha Foundation.
Narpati Luthra is Managing Director of Kirloskar Consultants, and Head Group HR, Kirloskar Group. He is also a member Governing Council and VP, at KIAMS He is a B Tech (Mech) IIT Delhi (1970), PGDBM IIM Ahmedabad (1972)
Narpati was an IT professional who opted to move to HR function. He is a professional member of ISISD and a Trustee of Aastha Foundation.
M. S. Sambamurthy is an Organization consultant based at Chennai. He has had over 15 years of experience in Banking and HR with State Bank of India. Thereafter he was the Head of HR as well as the Corporate planning and Business strategy group in Sunderam Fasteners Ltd. Sambamurthy is a postgraduate in science with diploma in Human Resources. He is a trained Business Reengineering professional (Lucas Engineering systems UK.) and a lead assessor for ISO Quality Assurance. He is a professional member of ISISD and a Truste of Aastha Foundation
Institutional and Professional Members of Aastha
Anju Khanna, Delhi
Ashutosh Bhupatkar, Bangalore
Bela Sood, Bangalore
Chitra Sridhar, Bangalore
Farah Khan, Bangalore
Hemalakshmi T, Mumbai
Ishita Bose Sarkar, Bangalore
Jaya Narayan, Bangalore
Mehroo Kotval, Mumbai
Padmakar K, Mumbai
Padmavathi Rao, Bangalore
Pallavi Naik, Bangalore
Reva Malik, Bangalore
Shanthi Lakshmi , Bangalore
Savitha Karthik, Bangalore
Sr. Pushpika, Goa
Sujata Kumar, Bangalore
Uday Mazgaonkar, Pune
Vivek Parchure, Pune
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Trustees
Ashok Dutt, Head HR, ITC (Tobacco Division), Guntur.
Minaxi Mathur, Organisation Consultant, Mumbai
Chairperson, Executive Trustee, Aastha Foundation
Mohan Raja, Director, Synapse India Management Consultant Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore.
M. S. Sambamurthy, Organisation Consultant, Chennai.
Narpati Luthra, President, Kirloskar Proprietary Ltd., Pune.
Preethi Raja, Manager ‐ Diversity and Global Mobility, Dell International Services, India, Bangalore.
Director ‐ Development & Review Committee, Aastha Foundation
R. Rajgopal, Organisation Consultant, Mumbai
Rema Kumar, Director, Prakriya Green Wisdom School, Bangalore.
Director ‐ Administration, Aastha Foundation
Seetha Ananthasivan, Trustee, K.N.A. Foundation for Education, Bangalore.
Director ‐ Projects, Aastha Foundation
Aastha Foundation for Human Learning and Growth
e.mail : [email protected] | website: www.aasthafoundation.com
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