Programme
INTENSE • FULL-TIME • RESIDENTIAL
Residential Learnings
Residential Learnings
‣ Self-awareness.
‣ Integration of the heart, body, mind and soul.
‣ Harmonisation of the Self with the Community and the Environment.
‣ Indigenous principles of sustainability.
‣ Appreciation of the abstract.
‣ Interaction with leaders (the visiting faculty, our Gurus) of politics, economics, ecology, development, arts and culture, social experimentation, technological breakthroughs and transformational movements.
‣ Communication skills that are impactful and unique.
In-Situ Immersions
In-Situ Immersions
‣ Socio-economic understanding through travelling across the country.
‣ Exposures to innovative and sustainable practices.
‣ Unique insights and experiences through internships with role models in politics, business, administration, social sectors and other aspects of public life.
‣ Collaborative work with complex conflict situations to learn to move beyond failures.
Dream Missions
Dream Missions
Each fellow articulates a Dream Mission, which is their primary manifesto — a critical problem or gap they will take on in their constituencies — as they build a movement and a mobilisation around it from the ground up. The approach to the mission is to be a channel for change rather than the owner of a goal.
During the programme, they focus on conceptualising the mission, designing it and preparing the ecosystem for the launch. When they return to their ‘karmabhoomis’ or constituencies, they begin to actualise this dream. This prepares them for the next level of leadership.
The engagement with the candidates continues well beyond the programme as they activate their Dream Missions.
Who Can Apply
All Resident Indians who believe they have the following:
‣ Passion towards nation-building.
‣ Compassion to serve.
‣ Willingness to unlearn and learn.
‣ Ability to listen, even to contrarian points of view.
‣ Readiness to commit and take responsibility.
Age
21 years and above.
Educational Qualification
Anything
Language
Working knowledge of English and / or Hindi is desirable,
but not a prerequisite.
We
‣ welcome people of all political, religious and social beliefs;
‣ welcome all diversities of age, gender, class, creed, caste and education;
‣ seek cohorts that are truly representative of India’s demography;
‣ run democratically without the rigidity of a conventional institution;
We do not offer any certification or job placements; rather we promise to be co-travellers on the journey that our fellows undertake as future nation-builders.
Currently, Disom Fellows for 2022-23 are going through the 15-month programme.