Integral Education

Towards a New Renaissance: Cultivating Soul-values

BhāratShakti Writings, Education for New India, Past Works, Renaissance Ebooks

Renaissance E-book 1 Author: Beloo Mehra Released: April 2023 “Towards a New Renaissance: Cultivating Soul-values” is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. It weaves together selected insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on twelve qualities from the Mother’s symbol and presents them in the context of original write-ups

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Teacher Education for a New Age: NEP 2020 and an Integral Approach

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: January 21, 2023 Venue: Auro University, Surat Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti and Editor, Renaissance, was invited as an expert speaker to participate in a 2-day National Seminar organised by Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center at Auro University, Surat. The seminar’s theme was – NEP 2020: The Pathway through Integral Education. About 200 educators

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Educating the Vital – Art Education for Inner Harmony

Art and Spirituality, Education for New India, Guest Lectures, Insightful Conversations, Past Works

Date: October 21, 2022 In her essay on the Vital Education, the Mother writes: As a sign, perhaps, of the decline of civilisation and social decay, a growing vulgarity seems to have taken possession of human life, individual as well as collective, particularly in what concerns aesthetic life and the life of the senses. A

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Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Social Philosophy

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: September 8, 2022 Venue: Savitri Bhavan, Auroville Watch the recording of the talk HERE. As part of its celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Auroville Foundation and Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised a 5-day programme called ‘Integral Yoga Week’ which aimed to highlight a few essential insights from some of

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Bringing Indian Culture in Schools: An Educationist’s Experience and Insights

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: May 21, 2022 Venue: Online One of the greatest secrets revealed by the Indian spiritual knowledge is that only when a human being finds and lives from the inner self, can he or she most embrace the universal being and become one with it. Only when one becomes truly independent, self-possessed and self-ruler (swarāt, master

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Learner as a soul-in-evolution and Dharma-centric Education

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: May 6, 2022 Recording of the talk available HERE. On May 6, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based on the idea

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An Orientation Programme for Pondicherry University School of Education

Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: April 29, 2022 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society On April 29, 2022, a group of 38 university students and research scholars visited Sri Aurobindo Society for a 2-hour orientation programme. The group included M.Ed. students from School of Education, Pondicherry University and from NIEPMD (National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities). The visit

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The Timeless Tradition of Storytelling – An Art that Educates, Inspires and Elevates

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: April 21, 2022 Venue: Online For this month’s Insightful Conversation, we speak with Ms. Deepa Kiran, an award-winning storyteller of international repute. She share with us some thoughts and perspectives on how storytelling can be a powerful means to entertain, educate, inspire and elevate. Ms. Kiran is the founder of Hyderabad-based Story Arts Foundation,

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Exploring Indian Culture and History through Curated Heritage Trails 

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations, Past Works

Date: March 21, 2022 Venue: Online It is often said that there are three main ways to know India. First, and the best way, is to aspire to realise the truth behind India’s profound and life-affirming spiritual thought. Second is to identify with the deeper truths behind India’s countless stories, particularly the stories told in itihāsa-s (Ramayana

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Workshop: Cultivating Character and Inner Beauty through Arts in Education

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Dates: March 12-13, 2022 Aurovidya Seminar: NEP 2020 and Integral Education Title of the Workshop: Cultivating Character and Inner Beauty through Arts in Education Designed and conducted by: Dr. Beloo Mehra, SAS and Ms. Jayashree Ashok, Creative School, Bengaluru As part of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations, the Hyderabad-based Institute of Human Study and

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Cultivating Inner Beauty through Arts in Education – An Overview of the Workshop

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

Date: January 8, 2022 As part of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations, Institute of Human Study and Sri Aurobindo International School, Hyderabad organized Aurovidya Seminar, a 2-day workshop plus seminar exploring the integration of New Education Policy 2020 and Integral Education as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This intensive program was scheduled

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A Creative Gurukul for a New Age

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: October 21, 2021 Venue: Online “The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost.”  (The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 120) For this month’s Insightful Conversation section, we are happy to bring a deeply inspiring conversation on a topic close

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Art that Refines, Heals and Transforms: Insights from the Practice of Integral Education

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

As a follow-up to the session held on August 31, 2021 on “Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education”, another session was organised on September 7, 2021 by the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Auro University, Surat in which Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti engaged in

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Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education

Art and Spirituality, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

On August 31, 2021, Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society was invited by Auro University and Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Surat, to speak on the topic – “Role of Art and Beauty in Vital Education.” This webinar was organised as part of the University’s Lecture and Workshop Series, Part II of the

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National Workshop on Integral Education

Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Workshops

A 2-day National Workshop on ‘Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Education’ was conducted in collaboration with the School of Education (SOE), Pondicherry University (PU). This workshop was held on March 25–26, 2019 at the School of Humanities Building on the Silver Jubilee Campus of the university. The workshop planning took about a month and a small team

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