SCERT-Nagaland organized a two-day training on Mindset Shift and Transformative Education with its faculties and officials on June 1 and 2 in the State Council of Educational Research and Training, Nagaland (SCERT) Office, Kohima, Nagaland. The training was facilitated by Bangalore-based partner Dream a Dream India.
A DIPR report stated that the objective of the training was to create awareness about social-emotional learning in the context of transforming education and mindset change. The training was designed to introduce a creative facilitation process for ensuring meaningful engagement, strengthening trust on own skills, building high-impact coordination, appreciating each other, and learning from own failures and successes.
The training also provided an opportunity for everyone to connect with their personal experiences to consolidate equity, dignity, and inclusion to translate the facilitation approach into practice to make the collaborative efforts grounded and impactful.
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Participants were engaged to nurture a space that honours each person’s authenticity and celebrated the diversity of various intersectional identities. Knowing how diverse perspectives contribute to our work’s depth, quality, and impact, we seek to value and enhance the differences in our identities and lived experiences.
Takatemjen, Joint Director, SCERT, shared how socio-emotional learning promotes mind-body wellness, “It helps improve a person’s flexibility, endurance, motor skills, mind-body connection, and wellness. He said it is well established to be among the best releases for tension and anxiety and facilitates emotional stability and resilience. “People who stay socio-emotionally active tend to stay more fit and productive lives as well”.
While inaugurating the training, Pekruzetuo Additional Director, SCERT emphasized the need for conducting such training continuously to shape mindset change and improve facilitation and interaction with teachers during training.
Nazia, Dream a Dream, co-facilitator, also shared experiences with the trainees.
