Creating Character Bank of India.........EPCO, Bhopal

Initiatives of change

After a long gap of about two-three months, have got time to sit with me yet again and write something. Thanks to EPCO for organizing a workshop on a Sunday, and I could really make it.

Initiatives of Change (www.iofc.in.org), an initiative of MRA an organization based in Pachmarhi, Maharashtra, have conducted this workshop. A wonderful thought of creating ‘Character Bank Of India’ has reminded me of my research area; ‘Human Quotient’which has not given much attention in the recent past. The idea behind the workshop was to bring a change in oneself. The session began with a ‘Jana gana mana’ video which was awesome. It was shot at a school of the differently-abled children and the actions they were doing on the music of ‘Jana gana mana’ were simply amazing; so beautiful, so inspiring and synchronized that I was just lost in a different world.

The team comprised of eight members:

1. Mr. Suresh Khatri and Mrs. Leena khatri- life long volunteers at Initiatives of Change
2. Mr. Jayang Drojee and Mrs. Jisun Jung, a Tibettan couple
3. Ms.Trishael Lal-Law student from Fiji
4. Mr. Siddharth Singh-Trainer from Mumbai
5. Mr. Kiran Ghandhi-HRD, Veteran, Pune
6. Dr. Amit Mukherjee, stalwart from Jamshedpur

What I learnt from the workshop?

The PHUL (फूल ) concept

Absolute

Purity

Honesty

Unselfishness

Love

and to reach these absolute values ‘what works’ and ‘what doesn't work’ have to go through various dimensions of the very persona of an individual. The pointers that Mrs. Khatri gave were:

Connection

Correction  n

Direction

The 4 Cs

The  4 Cs that make the difference in your dealings and being a ‘change agent’ or being an ordinary man who complaints rather than being the change, to the best of understanding are as follows:

1. Conviction
2. Compromise
3. Convenience
4. Confession

Rather than doing things with Conviction we seek Convenience and Compromise with the wrong and unjustified and never reach to the stage of Confession.

Initiatives of Change: The four principles

1. Change Yourself
2. Inspire change in others
3. Create answers
4. Give hope to Humanity

The concept was taught through beautiful acts and songs. The problems we are facing today as a nation are created by us only: Inefficient Governance, terrorism, Violence  Corruption, Racism, Rape cases and what not??? Problems are many but where is the solution?, it’s within us; once we strive to make the world a better place to live for ourselves we could leave a better place for our future generations to survive.

It was a wonderful experience to be the part of this workshop and the take away was this touching song which I keep humming:

कल क्या रोटी मिलेगी पिताजी सो जाने से पहले ?

आपने वादा  किया था मिलेगी , याद है न क्या कहा था? 

कुछ लोग इतने क्यों हैं मोटे  और दुसरे हम जेसे दुबले ?

आपका बचपन ऐसा था क्या? हमेशा ऐसा ही रहेगा ...............