Programs for Adolescenets

OPEN SPACES: Annual integrated Comprehensive Sexuality Education program
Adolescents and youth need safe spaces to ask questions and share problems as and when they arise. They need to be educated and supported to make informed choices. The aim of the Open Spaces program is to provide such safe and open spaces for participants to share, enquire, learn, explore, question and discuss. Such spaces are seldom found due to stigma and shame.

Our Open Spaces Program:

• Focuses on self-exploration, sharing, knowledge transfer, skill practice and prevention.
• Increases knowledge and awareness.
• Increases early access to help from adults and experts in the field.
• Reduces barriers to seeking help, stigma, silence and conditioning.
• Aims to build healthy relationships in the future.
• Is held over the school year, with approx 12 to 20 sessions in a year.

Workshops:

Logistics of time, space, resources and finances make it very difficult to conduct the annual program at all sites. Certain organizations are interested in select few topics and not all. Seeds of Awareness offers customized workshops.

• Could be a 2 day workshop to a 15 week program
• Aims to lay the foundation of creating a safe open space
• Primary goal is knowledge transfer and introduction to skills
• Focuses on topics most relevant to the group
• Gender, feelings and violence are always integral parts of the program
• Aims to break myths, question conditioning, and reduce stigma & shame

Film & digital programs

Seeds of Awareness aims to create a safer future where young people engage in healthy relationships and make informed choices. This can only be achieved if the cycles of shame are broken and young people are provided a safe space to share, learn, discuss, question and debate topics on sexuality in an environment that is non-judgmental, friendly and introspective. 

Seeds of Awareness has shot a series of short films that will aid in conducting a digital program to sensitize young people. Filmmaker Leena Yadav (Parched, Shabd, Teen Patti) and cinematographer Aseem bajaj (Chameli, Shivaay) collaborated with Seeds of Awareness to make the films.

Capacity Building

Certificate/Diploma Course in Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Effective Facilitation skills

In India, there is a scarcity of comprehensive sexual health facilitators. These topics are extremely sensitive and it is imperative to have highly skilled facilitators. An intensive and rigorous training program onsite and in the classroom is essential to develop reliable sexual health facilitators.

This course aims to create facilitators who will be able to deliver comprehensive sexuality education programs to specific groups of children, adolescents, teenagers and young adults through various institutions or community based programs. It also aims to enable participants to support significant adults for building healthy relationships with the adolescents. Although, the course can be implemented with any age group given it is a preventative program, a special focus of the training will be on how to work with adolescents and young adults. This age range falls within WHOs definition of young people, between ages 10 and 24. The facilitators will be equipped with adequate content knowledge on CSE and skills to effectively facilitate by creating a safe space for participants on this topic. 

Training Programs

1. Focus on content
2. Provide intensive training on facilitation skills with experiential and creative arts methodology like Dance Movement Therapy, Visual Arts, Storytelling, Theatre etc.
3. Impart in-depth knowledge of topics related to sexual health
4. Provide on-site practical training
5. Include intensive supervision and feedback
6. Encourage work on awareness of self and self-exploration

 

For organisation

Our Short Course: These are intensive courses on specific topics. It builds a foundation for Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Effective Facilitation. It provides intensive training on facilitation skills with experiential and creative arts methodology like Dance Movement Therapy, Visual Arts, Storytelling, Theatre etc. It aims to build capacity of current professionals in integral topics such as gender, sexual health and violence.

Corporate:
We provide workshops for corporates / organisations on topics such as Sexual harassment, law and prevention; sexual harassment committee training; diversity training, gender sensitisation and violence (verbal, physical, emotional and sexual). One of our bespoke sessions is on position of power and privilege and its impact on leadership. We use experiential and creative methods to develop effective learning. These workshops and training programmes can be conducted in English, Hindi or Marathi.