Inspirational Story-courageous Rahul

While most of us loose upon our hopes very soon and start feeling weak during times of distress and uncertainty. Then there are some normal looking individuals, we're getting to know them or spend even some moments, instills such a deep sense of realization, that even though life has been really unfair for a few but then those who are hopeful, those who are determined and for those who have their loved ones along, all get possible for them and they win over all injustice. 

Yes, such a courageous soul is Rahul, the one on the right in the picture, who is visually impaired from birth, but then inspite of his helplessness, he is somebody very knowledgeable, very learned and a much-seasoned music teacher. When he speaks he showers wisdom and when he sings he spreads the magic. In this journey of growing up as a profound vocalist, Rahul has always been supported by his parents, with his mother who is a classical singer and herself has trained Rahul with music. Above in the middle of the picture is Rahul's father, who is 75 years old and had specially come along Rahul to escort him for his training program. It's actually heartening to get to meet such strong people in life and all the more a responsibility to spread such inspirational stories further.

Personality Development Workshop at Dr. Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

In one of the recent two days personality development workshop, facilitated at the Dr. Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry on the 8th and 9th April'19, for the BSc (Horticulture) Final Year Students and for MBA (Ist year) students, some really invigorating tasks were lined up to ignite the spark within the young guns so as to unleash the various hidden traits of their personality and ways to enhance one's personality, by developing upon special skills of being patient, courteous, respectful, thoughtful and all the more resourceful.

Managing time well and optimizing one's priorities effectively was explained at a stretch and further the students were made to prepare their own schedule calendars, so as to understand where and how do they invest their time along with what can be more effective ways to enhance one's productivity time so as to feel less stressed up and channelize their energies effectively.

Guided Thinking session in the midst of nature, so as to instill deeper self-realization of one's own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats was a great hit amongst the students and provided them with an opportunity to understand themselves and their situations better.

Apart from the above the students were inculcated with more of sensitivity towards the needs of each gender and develop a stronger realization of how each gender is different from the other and needs to be respected for its differences.

Another the exclusive session was the musical session to provoke one's different emotions and realization of how each emotion affects our thoughts, ideas, way of working and most importantly our productivity. This musical session was a very critical part of emotion management, where students had also evaluated their own responses to their different emotions and have a stronger reflection of how an individual response can be managed well.

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Personality Development Life Skills Capsule

2 days Personality Development Life Skills Capsule Facilitated on 11th and 12th February'19 at NCC OTA, Gwalior for 100 ANO's as part of their pre-commission course.  This group of ANO's were in comparatively in the younger age group of 32 to 34 years, because of which witnessed more active participation along with much more exuberant energies from them.

To make it more practical oriented and to promote maximum experiential learning, the ANO's were actively involved in various outbound learning activities. While the learning outcomes of the same were unleashed and collaborated through dialogue, debate, and discussion.

Activities and Content to be delivered on the Day 1, i.e. 11th February'19 was designed in a way, so as to facilitate the ANO's, with the deeper introspection and stronger realization of their own strengths and traits as "Being an Indian Woman" which was further provoked through a session on "Self Awareness to instill Self Motivation". A session on Self Awareness was further enriched with a session where the ANO's were involved in various tasks and invoke ways to "Collaborate one's Personal Values with the Universal Ethical Values" and finally the Day 1 concluded with a session on the various ways, skills and qualities desired to "Being a NCC Brand Ambassador".

To achieve all the above mentioned within a day, the ANO's were put into various simulative situations and were made to participate in activities like "Draw your Fears", "Unleash your Potential", "Dodge the Ball", "What is Your Egg made up of", "Fill up the Bucket", "Blind Fold Walk". To further strengthen the impact of these activities, the ANO's were involved in brainstorming and open house discussion sessions and were further sensitized with various sensitive video clippings from some of the motivational movies like "Neerja", "Chak de India" and various other short stories and documentaries.

Activities and the content for Day 2, i.e. on the 12th February'19 was primarily designed in a way, so as to invoke the essential skills and ways to develop "Rapport building with the NCC Cadets", "Promote Socio-Emotional learning amongst the Cadets" and finally "Promote the role of Youth in Nation Building".  All these crucial learnings were imparted and invoked by involving various ways to enhance one's emotional intelligence.

Primarily to sensitize and to create awareness  about the various essential socio-emotional skills of "Self Awareness", "Social Awareness", "Self Management", "Responsible Decision Making" along with "Relationship Skills" the ANO's were once again made to participate in various outbound activities like, "Follow the Sequence", "The 3 Islands", "Forming the Balloon Train". 

To further enrich the experience gained from participation in all these activities, the ANO's were made to see various short clippings, from some inspirational movies like "The 3 Idiots" along with some other self-created videos to enforce the purpose of these games, activities and fun sessions.

Lastly, the ANO's formally presented their 2 days of learnings in front of the Commandant Sir, Brig. Shah and their respective training officers along with other senior officials at the NCC OTA Academy, in some of the more creative and stimulating ways in form of songs, poetry, role play and even as dance performances.

All in all, due to the wholehearted participation, involvement, and receptivity of almost all the ANO's, along with the utmost support and best of facilitation and hospitality extended by the Officials and other staff members at the NCC OTA, Gwalior, it was an enriching and enthralling experience for all of us.