Ever calculate the number of hours you spend in attending or conducting meetings, workshops, conferences or trainings, that are full of Powerpoint presentations, speeches or panel discussions? Do you find these energising or boring?
I invite you to pause for a moment and recall your experiences of attending or conducting such programs. Do you feel disengaged? Do you feel energy drain during such programs/sessions? Do you find such sessions unproductive? Do you worry why content taught in such programs is hardly translated into actions or changes in behavior?
If you are nodding while reading these questions, you may like to learn about how Vibha uses unique engagement processes and liberating structure – simple tools and methods that hold just enough shape to create safety and clarity, while leaving enough openness for creative thinking, co-creation and wisdom of the collective. And the end result is a highly effective, efficient and productive. You may read more types of workshops here.
Commonly identified as a Facilitator, Vibha works in domain of Organization Development (for organizations) and Wellbeing (for individuals). Thematically, her work is for social-emotional learning. Her facilitation method is rooted in systems thinking, the Whole Person concept and Indic wisdom.
Based on problems presented by client organizations, Vibha designs solutions, workshops and facililates group’s knowledge through carefully crafted activities and questions. Her approach creates life-nurturing conditions, that facilitate maximum learning and motivation for action.
Workshops and trainings are primarily conducted to share knowledge, build skills, change attitudes, generate new ideas or to build consensus. However, often these programs are conducted in such a manner that knowledge and experience present in the room cannot be tapped fully.
Often, the set-up is such that only extroverts get to speak; the schedule is too packed and leaves no time for reflection, absorption of content and questions; sometimes trainer’s behavior makes participants feel judged or excluded and that too hampers learning.
People are at their best when they are engaged as a whole person, integrally and not just mentally and intellectually. Through her facilitation, Vibha taps full potential of participants, by engaging their emotional (EQ) and spiritual potential (SQ), in addition to mental intelligence (IQ). Additionally she taps left/right brain and cosmic intelligence. This in totality makes her facilitation efficient, inspires for action, promotes creative thinking and inclusive by design.
Vibha is Founder of non-profit TaraSri Foundation, (link to a documentary describing her vision for the Foundation and its projects), Initiator of Global Gratitude Mission, Board Member of the World Happiness Foundation & its India President. Since 2011, Vibha has been leading assignments and has facilitated 400+ workshops/speaking engagements, catering to organizations in India, USA, Russia, Netherlands, Thailand, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, UK, Germany, Norway, Nepal, Costa Rica, Mexico and Argentina.
Prior to this, she worked in social-development sector for almost two decades, with SIFPSA, United Nations Population Fund, Population Services International, CCP-Johns Hopkins University and Room to Read.
From her youth days, Vibha has been inspired by the teachings of Swami Vivekanand. In addition to a lifelong devotee of the Mother’s, a practitioner of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Integral Yog, Vibha has been a student of Psychology and Composite History (Lucknow Univ.),Science of Meaningful Life (UC Berkeley), SEE Learning (Emory Univ.), Genuine Contact Program, Appreciative Inquiry and Circlework Leadership. Here is a link to her recent podcast that provides overview of her being and doing.