Workshop on Family Health Education To Deal effectively with Sexuality Issues, At KERALA SAMAJAM MODEL SCHOOL, 9TH AND 10TH NOVEMBER, 2012
Feedback of the educators

•  “This workshop helped me to change my aspect of dealing with the word “Sex”. Now I can talk openly and clear the queries of my students then and there as needed.” - Sukhvinder Kaur, NML Public School.
•  "The workshop helped me to overcome the whims and inhibitions of sharing sexual knowledge with children. The things I learnt in this workshop are as follows:- potent threats faced by adolescences, counselling techniques and age-appropriate knowledge sharing and Behavioural responses of adolescence. A eye-opener to the extent of damage video games can cause. A learning experience with plenty of interaction. – Mrs. Divya G Nair, DBMS English School.
• "A wonderful experience like to have my friends to be exposed to such seminars.” - Mrs. Reshma Rodrigues, Carmel Junior College
• "This workshop helps me to step my inhibition and be open in explaining various parts of body organ. Stepwise manners of dealing with various socially exploited issues. Be firm and determined teacher and mother. How to handle various cases. The two day session was very informative. It helped us to grow more”. - Bhawna Singh, Kerala Public School Gamharia

EMPOWERING YOUNG MINDS AT LADY QUEENS OF THE MISSION SCHOOL, 7TH NOVEMBER, 2012

Feedback of the students

• “I liked the session a lot. The topic was very interesting. I liked it and would like to have one of such sessions soon. The session was very enlightening and it was a very good start to my day with such inspiring ideas. Hope to see you all soon”. - Atiya Ali IX A
•  “The session was very interesting and we enjoyed a lot. The topic was awesome. Thanks a lot for coming to our school and spending your precious time with us. Do come again”. - Alia Mohsin IX B
•  “We all got to learn a lot from this workshop. It was indeed very helpful and satisfying. We learnt about interpersonal skills and how important they are to help us to succeed in life”. - Shreya Chamaria X B
•  “It was a real eye opener for me. It kind of educated and enlightened me about the pros and cons of the various decisions I take daily. It has also helped me take in some self-analytical skills as well. It was a wonderful communication session”. - Sreyoshi Guha X A

Mutual Fund Round Table 2012 Empowering Success

A paper was presented by the Director of Ummeed, Mrs. Salony Priya on Ingham and Luft's Johari Window Model - Has been used by Ummeed psychologist for creating self-awareness, personal development, group development and understanding relationships.

Knowing Myself – Employing Johari Window in Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
We share here how this tool can enable and empower people of all age groups and enhance their personal effectiveness.

5th National Conference on Education Don Bosco Guwahati, 23rd October 2012

Dear Mrs. Salony Priya, Congratulations and thank you for the wonderful presentation today on the theme - New Leadership Skills for 21st Century' to the participants of the 5th National Conference on Education, organised by Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati. I have no doubt that the participants of this National Conference have truly benefited by your dynamic, highly inspiring and motivating presentations on how to become true leaders, councilors and mentors of children/youth with the much needed skills to lead them to a fascinating, challenging but promising world. With deep appreciation,

Johnson Parackal
Executive Director

Empowering Young Mind at South Point School Moving Ahead In Life by Using Interpersonal Skills on 12th, 16th and 17th October 2012

Feedback of the students

• “Ummeed” organized a very interesting and nice workshop. It was successful in instilling very valuable skills in all the students. I learnt to be adjustable, friendly and polite. I will try and decrease my anger. Try to be a good member of a team. Try to take good decisions Have assertive communications. In all I have learnt a few ways of becoming a good and complete person. I have also known how to be rich spiritually. Thank you and all the best” – Ritwika Mitra
•  "The workship was really good and enjoyable one, we got several things to learn like communication, aggression, anger and several other inter personal skills. We were given opportunities to answer and share our opinions. There were some more enjoyable activities like team work. Over all I enjoyed this a lot and was an unforgettable experience for me” – Suryaraj Bhaduri
•  “I learnt that how we can grow a healthy relationship with our surrounding people by that communicating easily, controlling anger, having confidence and having decision making skills. I will try to improve myself by following the tips that we got in this workshop” - Debarshi Polley
•  “This workshop is totally awesome. I enjoyed every bit of it and specially the activities. I learnt that teamwork can help us to accomplish anything and everything. Anger, aggression, oversmartness, over confidence can lead us to bad relationships with each other. Most of all I learned how to improve our relations and make it a healthy relations” – Akash Chakraborty

Empowering Young Minds At South Point School Steer THEM TO “Communicate Effectively” 9th to 11th October & 17th October 2012

Feedback of the students

• "Today there was a workshop where they taught us the ways to communicate and the differences between listening and hearing. They also taught us how to talk with others. From this I learned that we should always talk nicely to everyone and never talk rudely and never interrupt between important speeches which could help us to improve ourselves in communication”. Sumana Kumar
•  “I learned how to communicate with others by listening to them attentively and carefully and by avoiding fidgeting, maintaining eye contact and not to use distracting words while talking to them. In future I will try to improve my communication style and also improving my gestures, expressions and body language. I will try to listen attentively when someone is talking to me. I will try to solve the problems which my friends express to me. In my class I will try listening to my teachers and understand what he / she Is telling. I will always try to talk face to face with the other person”. Anushna Das
•  “I really liked this workshop. I have known many new things, and learnt its meaning. The phase of the life of a child from the age of 13 to 20 is very important. These phases are the paths that lead a child to be an adult and further success in life. Learning about communication will be a great success in future. the processes and attitudes which this workshop has tried to tell me were great. I can improve my communication style by respecting elders, listening to them with attention and enthusiasm”. Shinjini Das
• “From today’s session we learnt about different types of communication like verbal, non-verbal and written communication. We can improve our communication by staying focused, listening carefully, trying to see their point of view responding to criticism with patience etc”. Samiruddin Thunder

Empowering Educators at Mahbert High School 8th October 2012 Discipline By Design To Handle Adolescent Issues in Classroom

Intervention strategies based on “Love and Logic” :

• “The workshop helped me to work in a better way in future. To understand the weaker students and to help them to improve their weakness. We should listen to the students what they say.We must understand their problems. We should be kind and generous” - Sashi Giri
•  “Helped me to understand a few general problems faced everyday by us in the classrooms or with children. Try to reason out their problems instead of questioning the problems” - Mrs. Mrithya Kheti
•  “It helped me how to understand the problems of the students of different classes or age group and how to deal with those problems. To listen to the problems of the students. To find out the solutions for each problem. To have patience. Very Good” - S. Pradhan
•  “It helps a lot. A bad child can be a good child. How to make a child truthful, accepted by all and loved by all ? Very good” - Mrs. Durga Das
•  “The workshop helped me to gain a better understanding of students/teenagers. It helped me realize that students’ minds should be delicately handled with love and care. Students’ problems, students’ needs and how to parent them or guide them in the correct path. I feel grateful that I have had such an opportunity to understand the needs of the teenagers of this generation that would help me to guide them become responsible citizens of tomorrow” - Uma Karmakar

Empowering Young Minds at Mahbert High School, Siliguri

Feedback of the students

•  “I liked the extra activities, I learned how to communicate, what is communication, what is life skills. I had a good time here. I liked the games that we were playing and I found the Counsellors good to us” – Anosh Thapa
•  “The workshop was interesting and today I have learnt that communication is very important in our daily lives. The most that I liked today is the relay race through which I understood that listening is also important as, if 1 person listens wrong and spreads that, everyone will be hearing wrong. Everything what was shown to us was interesting as it was my first time I enjoyed a lot” – Shristi Dalmia
•  “Tooday I learned that we should believe in ourselves. Failure is the first step to achieve goal. Time management is also very important for our life, if we don’t know how to manage time, we will never get that time back. It is also said that time and holes waits for no one. So from today I will utilize time as much as possible” – Dimple Bansal
•  “Firstly I have enjoyed a lot and learned many things like we have to work hard for anything that we want to become or to achieve something. Secondly, time is very precious we should make our timetable for our studies or anything and should not be distract by certain things like facebook, computer, television etc – Pooja Saraf

Empowering educators on Leadership skill and Positive Classroom Management skills 4th-6th October at Sunbeam School Varanasi

Feedback of the parents

• "Happy to learn so many ways to empower my teaching strategies. Learnt a lot about politicizing peer pressure. Surely this will make us work in right direction in points like misbehavior, discipline, teamwork, organising etc.” - Vibhuti Burman.
•  "An understanding of how Indian Schools are changing and developing and becoming more ‘international’ in a sense”. - Inger Wikland Jha.
• "I had understand about the value of counsellor and how to manage the class with the help of students only.” - Akhil Shaw.
• "I learnt that learning is an instinct and not a process. I also learnt that I as an individual can make a difference if I am determined.” - Neha Tripathi.
• "I came to know about various aspects of teachings. It will help us to be careful in our approaches to control those students whom we think have ‘gone out of control’. We have to be careful in our approaches as a teachers.

Empowering Educators at South Point School Discipline by Design to Handle Adolescent Issues in Classroom Intervention Strategies Based On “Love and Logic” September 29th 2012

Feedback of the educators:

•  “The workshop helped me realize that as a teacher I am really the future of the country and therefore I should be ever patient, careful and dedicated. The value of patience, trust in the essential goodness of a human being and the best way of dealing with an adolescent was my learning today. Very Helpful session, thanks to Salony mam” - Anjana Mukherjee
•   “In my teaching career I have never faced this type of workshop like your. I have a strong confidence in my teaching but I find myself incomplete in some respect as I participated in this workshop. I have to re-think; reformative in fact I have to give more attention to students’ behavior than subject teaching” - Pulak Kundu
•  “It helped me understand the perspective of child better, helped me in understanding how a teacher can really make a difference in a child’s life. The workshop conducted was based on realistic approach and practical matters, which can be implemented in classroom situation” - Debanjana Sinha Roy