Colleges and Institutions

We believe that education spaces are powerful ecosystems for nurturing inclusion, creativity, and social change. Over the years, we have partnered with colleges, universities, and training institutes across the country to bring arts-based, experiential, and inclusive practices into classrooms, curricula, and conversations. Whether through workshops, talks, internships, or collaborative programmes, our engagements aim to inspire reflection, build capacities, and equip both students and educators to imagine more compassionate and equitable worlds. This following slides outline the various ways in which we work with educational institutions to co-create learning experiences that are engaging, inclusive, and transformative.

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Snehadhara Foundation had the privilege of being at Harsha College of Nursing for the National Conference on Mindful Compassionate Care and Empathetic Patient Engagement, where our Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Gitanjali G Govindrajan, was the Chief Guest and Speaker. This was the start of a year-long engagement with the college and with Harsha Institutions.

 

With over 300 nursing students and professionals attending this Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) programme, the session facilitated conversations that explored the neuroscience of empathy, narrative medicine, and the transformative power of storytelling and mindfulness in caregiving.
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Our Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Gitanjali G Govindrajan, graced the Valedictory Ceremony of Arthotsav by ECONTAGO, The Economics Association at Christ University Bannerghatta Road, as the Chief Guest! Dr. Gitanjali addressed a gathering of over 400 students from the economics department on the compelling topic of “Empowering Youth as Change Agents for Sustainable Economic Growth and Development.” She also felicitated the winners of the festival’s exciting two-day events.

2025

Snehadhara Foundation offered a Service Learning Training Programme at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus for 45 of their students.

The two day training dived into an interactive exploration of what service learning truly means. The group reflected on their own understanding of service, heard about the journey of Snehadhara Foundation, and engaged with the idea of seeing themselves as changemakers.“

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2024

Dr. Gitanjali G Govindrajan, Founder and Executive Director at Snehadhara Foundation, was at Christ University Central Campus, where she gave a talk on “Youth Skills for Peace and Development” in celebration of UN World Youth Skills Day 2024. She addressed over 100 students from various Christ University campuses during the inauguration of their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Cell. The event focused on the crucial role youth play in building peace and development through skill-building, and how this ties into the UN’s SDG goals. She covered topics including understanding conflict, conflict resolution, and the youth’s role in skill-building and being agents of change and innovators towards peace and development. She also highlighted Snehadhara’s approach to skill-building and its relevance to the overall theme.

 

Our Associate Director Yashaswini Gupta was a panelist at Vihaan 10.0, a flagship event of Udyam, the Social Responsibility Committee of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Bangalore, which serves as a platform for collaboration between corporate entities and NGOs. This year, the focus was on “Innovation to Drive Social Change in Rural India,” aiming to address the diverse challenges faced by rural communities and uncover innovative solutions for sustainable progress.
Yashaswini Gupta, reflecting on SF’s work and experience, highlighted how Arts Practices for Inclusion can serve as a platform for social inclusion among persons with disabilities, vulnerable groups, the elderly, and children in conflict with the law in fostering self-expression and community cohesion. Paving the way for modern and equitable conversations and collective action, she spoke on the use of creative methodologies like the arts to bring about social inclusion in rural and semi-rural areas.

2025

Snehadhara Foundation was at Jyoti Nivas College, Department of Psychology, engaging with over 100 students across psychology and related disciplines through our talk on “Harmony in Diversity: Embracing Neurodiversity through Artistic Expression”, organized by Manasi, The Psychology Association.

The session explored the importance of neurodiversity, equity, and inclusion, holding space for the idea that difference is not a deficit. Students were invited to reflect on shifting perspectives from fixing people to fixing systems in order to build more just and inclusive spaces.

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2024

Snehadhara Foundation was part of the ‘Promoting Inclusion through Arts and Creative Expression: A Path to Better Mental Health- International Conference 2024’, organized by EKA Educational and Charitable Trust and Jyoti Nivas College, as our Founder and Executive Director, Dr Gitanjali G Govindrajan, was a Speaker at the conference.
Dr Gitanjali spoke about Inclusion, what it means and what are the roles each of us have to play in the verb that is inclusion. She also took the group through a simple arts and movement experience which energized the group to participate as it portrayed inclusion in action. She spoke about how one needs to start with making a deliberate effort towards their participation in the process of Inclusion. She stated that unless diversity is welcomed, and relationships are consciously nurtured, there will be only a slight change in the learning process that each are part of.

2025

Dr. Gitanjali G Govindrajan led an enriching session on “Arts Practices for Inclusion in Schools and Teacher Education”, for the Fourth Annual Summer Course at Azim Premji University. The session brought together 20 teacher educators from across India—each one committed to rethinking inclusion and equity in their classrooms and institutions. With openness and curiosity, the group engaged with Gitanjali’s exploration of how arts-based practices can radically shift how we approach learning and belonging.
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Over a series of sessions titled ‘Inclusive Classrooms- Learning through the Arts’ worked with the MA Education students at APU, Bangalore. The objectives of the workshop series with the students were to understand inclusion in a larger perspective than as applicable to the disabilities sector alone; to welcome and affirm the learner from where he/she is without the burden of labels weighing upon the learning strategies and in the process reimagining learning spaces and facilitation through this lens of inclusion and to understand the role of the Arts in innovative facilitation, self-discovery and meaningful, compassionate, learning and in the process relook at ‘learning’ vs ‘treatment’.

Our work with this group was to primarily introduce the group to a vocabulary of creative arts-based techniques to examine the way one learns. So far we have worked with three groups and it has been a lot of learning for us to watch the youth with their ideas of change. The workshop series was filled with experiences, challenges, fun and risks the group took together.