Episode 26: Reimagining Education Through Indic Knowledge Systems and Sacred Relationship with Suparna Diwakar
In this episode:
Extraordinary educational and developmental leader and facilitator, Suparna Diwakar imparts her wisdom on reimagining education. She brings back a sense of purpose for youth through the understanding of sacred relationship with the larger whole and living systems that we all belong to.
Through ancient Indic knowledge systems and concepts such as The Pusharta that guide human behavior, young people are taught the importance of tempering human desires such as economic growth within a context of wellbeing, sustainability and regeneration.
Businesses and organizations in turn can be looked at as living systems instead of extracting, transactional machines. Systems thinking when expanded to living systems prioritizes relationships over mere connections. This is a pathway to introduce and activate a regenerative paradigm in which all can benefit on an individual, societal and planetary level.
About Suparna:
Suparna has worked extensively in the development sector in India for over thirty years. Her work has been at different scales ranging from the grassroots to being part of policy making bodies. Suparna has also co-founded organizations in the social sector the most recent one being Indian School of Development Management. As Dean at ISDM, she led the integration of wellbeing in the curriculum.
Over the past few years she has been exploring the idea of regeneration for thriving and flourishing of all life on Mother Earth, and the contributions that Indic Knowledge Systems can make for Universal Wellbeing. She has recently designed and run a course on Regenerative Leadership, and is facilitating organizations to embed principles of regeneration in their design and practice.
Suparna consults in the education space and is currently a member of a Task Force set up by the government for the implementation of India's National Education Policy 2020 in the state of Karnataka. Till recently she held the position of Director, Centre for Regenerative Development at Rashtram School of Public Leadership.
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