What you do

The Gandhi Fellowship is an intense & full-time, residential, two-year Leadership Programme.

Do not come to the programme if you are only looking to extend the campus phase by another two years. Gandhi Fellowship is serious business. It is also strenuous business. We are serious about you seeing yourself in a new light. And we do everything that it takes to make men/women out of boys/girls.

India needs change leaders and we want you to become one in the times to come. We want you to realise your dreams during these two years. Which means you better be serious about your reflective process and calibrate your motivations towards driving change: big change. India is going through a high and productive economic phase, but the disparity is growing as well. We want you to begin to see potential in yourself by the end of two years.

While your active workplace is the school, we are not trying to make educationists out of you. You have your personal dream and we want you to begin to see it in the context of the public reality. And we want you to dwell on your dream if you are really serious about it. The group processes will propel you to explore your private dream and the private reflections will ensure you develop the skills required to turn it into a reality.

You will have a roller-coaster ride through long hours of arduous days during this programme. Visit schools, work with headmasters and teachers, teach children and then come back to reflect on the subtle issues that you encounter. On top of that there is the evening curriculum - readings and case study discussions, which take you closer to taking your first steps towards bringing change.

"There is never a dull moment in the life of a Gandhi Fellow," said a former GF,  who passed out in July 2010. "Every moment is packed with challenges and everyday presents new issues. It is the empowering experience of the 24 months, which gave me the power to dream big and land a job comparable to the best in the industry," he wrote.

 So you have to commit to do the following, and that is the minimum:

• Committed two years of your life to the Gandhi Fellowship.
• About 12-14 hours every day for planning, acting, reflecting and personal growth.
• Working everyday in schools and supporting the process of developing leadership of Headmasters and thereby contributing to the process of making a significant impact towards effective change in the public education system.
• Committed to self reflection, self awareness and to recognise your life goal that will contribute significantly to equity and justice in our society.
• Committed to the idea of personal change because you accept that it is through personal change that we can change the world.
• Committed to working with each other, in a team and supporting each other.
• Committed to taking the stretch that the Fellowship entails; that stretch can be in the form of living and working in areas that are outside your comfort zone. Working with people who are different from you , working on tasks and processes that may not provide instant gratification; tasks that are repetitive and demand resilience and patience from you.