The Leadership Retreat, spread over 2 days, set in the lush green campus at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, facilitates participants look at the bigger picture, understand each other and identify each other’s strengths as each other’s resource to jointly transition through to the future.
A workshop is an event where participants will learn some of the concepts and skills associated with the professional practices and self-leadership. The workshops will be a blend of:
The Leadership Retreat would focus on Infusion of a sense of ownership and collaboration across Senior Leaders by emphasizing on SOAR a component of AI concept:
This ensures both deeper learning and its translation into practice, with a deeper comprehension of the past & the present and its channelization towards achieving the envisioned future. During the workshop, the participants collectively
This is based on the following two important principles:
I hear & I forget, I see & I remember, I do and I understand
……..ConfuciousYou can know a person more in an hours play than in a years conversation
……..Plato
Having developed the model over many years prior, David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984. In his publications – notably his 1984 book ‘Experiential Learning: Experience As The Source Of Learning And Development’ Kolb acknowledges the early work on experiential learning by others in the 1900’s, including Rogers, Jung, and Piaget. In turn, Kolb’s learning styles model and experiential learning theory are today acknowledged by academics, teachers, managers and trainers as truly seminal works; fundamental concepts towards our understanding and explaining human learning behavior, and towards helping others to learn.
Event Details
Directorate of admissions and academic outreach conducted 2 days Leadership Retreat session on August 5th & 6th at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. Total 46 people from Malappuram and Kochi Metro Sahodaya group of schools attended the session. On 5th august, the program began with a formal inauguration at 9am, by Dr Sasangan Ramanathan
(Dean, School Of engineering, Coimbatore campus) and Dr Soman K.P (Dean, School of artificial intelligence, Coimbatore campus) followed by the Sahodaya presidents Mrs. Deepa and Mr. Abdul Nizar.
A Campus tour was organized from 10.30 and continued till 1.30pm, which included EEE Labs, ECE labs, Mechanical labs, and Aerospace Engineering labs. After the Lunch followed by Session by Dr Shoury Kutappa .The session continued till 6pm. The group witnessed Rainwater harvesting and swimming pool which they thoroughly enjoyed. The dinner was served at 7pm and wind up the day by 8pm.
On 6th august group reached the campus by 8.30 and after the breakfast the session started by 9.30am followed by library visit and the session end on 4pm. The Teachers appreciated the leadership retreat and thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and campus.
Testimonials
Mr Gopakaumar
Principal, Horizon Public School, Malappuram
The Directorate of Admissions and Academic Outreach conducted the first phase of the Leadership Retreat session 2024 on 22nd June at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus. The event saw the participation of 58 principals from the Coimbatore Sahodaya Schools Complex.
The inaugural function began at 9:50 am with the traditional lighting of the lamps. Dr. Nava Subramaniam graced the event as the guest speaker, and Smt. S. G. Kavita, Principal of Githanjali Public School from Sahodaya, delivered the introductory note.
Dr. Shoury’s session commenced at 10:15 am, following the inauguration. At 11:30 am, there was a 15-minute break during which coffee and snacks were served. The session resumed after the break and continued until 1:30 pm.
Lunch was served in the Boys’ common room. After lunch, participants were given a tour of the library and swimming pool, and a group photo session was held in front of the Nataraja statue.
The session resumed and continued until 4:30 pm. The day concluded with a valedictory note by Dr. Arasu Periyasaamy, Principal of ARB International School, at 4:45 pm.
Overall, the event was a great success, fostering leadership and collaboration among the principals.
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