Summer camp at Aarohi O-Campus
Ratnesh Mathur
Inviting your child - coming summer holidays - to stay at Aarohi O campus - and live life Aarohistyle
What better way to spend holidays - Do what I want - I decide - I do - I enjoy.
(see slide show of pictures earlier camps here). Also see blog post of winter camp. See about O campus here.
When: Any number of weeks between 6th April 2015 to 1st May 2015
- Total of four weeks available (take one or few or all)
- Each week is counted as Monday to Friday.
- Children staying for more than one continuous week can, over the weekend, either continue to stay at campus or go back home (for the weekend).
Who: Any child without parents or any child with parents or Only parents or Anybody!
There is no age criterion - since child can be alone or with parents - any age child is welcome.
What will we do?
What they will do is DECIDE what to do. For a change there will be nobody but themselves to decide what to do, how to do, when todo, how much to do and they themselves will assess own work. So children will experience self-directed learning and living.
Children would have an almost infinite choice of what to do - right from playing music to reading and writing literature to exploring nature, doing adventure, playing all kinds of games, doing drama or dance or making things from electronics to masonry to carpentry to making friends with new children or with pets or doing art or photography or bake cakes and breads or do barbecue or grow vegetables and work in the fields or gaze into skies into eternity ...
or simply do nothing!
What all we offer?
- The physical environment of 5 acres of rural countryside with loads of resources.
- The mental environment of self direction, self exploration and self reflection.
- The social environment of community living.
- The emotional environment of sensitivity, listening and acceptance.
Reflection Process
What is of quite significance - specially as an experience to children - is the whole process of reflection (self assessment that aarohi follows) - on a daily basis. We use various tools and mediums and all together at the end of everyday reflect back on the day - what we did, how we did, what we liked / did not like, what we learned . did not learn, ... Reflect about our strengths, abilities, habits of mind, emotions, etc. Reflect also about peers, who we work, sensitivity towards others, material and environment etc.
How will this benefit children?
What Aarohi offers is a space, an environment, a culture of open doing and learning. This typically leads to child not only exploring many things, but more importantly exploring, knowing and discovering oneself.
Add to this the flavour of community living - which is a transformative journey for many of us.
Cost of program: Per Week cost:
Camp cost Rs1250 + Cost of Stay & food Rs2500 = Total Cost Rs 3,750/- per person per week.
(If you staying for multiple weeks and you would like to stay on campus for the in-between weekends also then add stay cost of Rs500/- per day per person)
Travel and stay details - see Camp Logistics
Need some clarifications - email back or call Ratnesh on 98450-45833:
If you are a teacher or you run a school - then you would like to consider
Samraddha - Teacher Enrichment program for your school teachers
We present a week long online course
to ENRICH your teaching
to re-frame learning and learners
to understand them in many more ways
to work with them more joyfully and
and to create that magic called - favourite teacher
Program from 18-23 May 2015 - details see here
Warm Regards