Experiential Education in India - What Works

Experiential Education with its repertoire of activities: (1) Adventure Sports – Back-packing, White-water rafting; Rappelling; Mountain Climbing etc, (2) Challenge Sports – High Ropes, Low ropes, Rock Climbing, Cross country hiking; (3) Outdoor Activity – Barrels & Planks, Obstacle Courses, Raccoon Circles, provides opportunities for creating experiences for participants – POWERFUL MOMENTS for learning and leap-frogging forward in effectiveness in one’s own life and work.

Processing and facilitating such experiences is a science and an art. In the Indian circumstance – the increasing incidence of well educated workers, demands for performance on a calibrated scale, increasing organizational challenges – have led to experiential education being used increasingly. Hear from one of the pioneers in experiential education in India, Vishwas Parchure, on what works and what’s do-able.

About Vishwas Parchure Vishwas Parchure (Vishwas) is a pioneer in experiential education in India. With over 12 years of corporate experience and another 28 years in experiential education, he is adept at facilitating Leadership & Team Development, Building Peaceful Communities – in organizations and Society, Experiential approaches in Education, School Leadership, Designing Experiences for Groups. Some of the organizations which have benefited from his work are: IBM, BMC Software, Honeywell, Polaris, CISCO, HP, SAP, SUN Microsystems, ICICI, Siemens, GE, Whirlpool, A Raymonds, SHELL, Hindustan Petroleum, Ernst & Young, ISRO, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, L’Oreal, Perfetti, amongst others.

He is on first name terms with international leaders in experiential education such as Colin Beard, Laurie Frank, Simon Priest, Karl Rohnke, Steve Simpson.

Vishwas is Dean – Experiential Education, Kaveri Group of Educational Institutions, Pune.