Training and courses
Learning Together for Change : Learning and unlearning are central to our work. Through trainings, workshops, and immersive courses, we create spaces for reflection and collective learning on gender, violence, mental health and well-being, sexual and reproductive health and rights, constitutional values, and feminist leadership. Our learning processes seek to deepen understanding, nurture leadership, and support transformative change.
Courses we offer :
Fostering strengths: A certificate course in psycho-social skill for working with youth & adolescents
Vishakha in collaboration iCALL and TISS is organizing a certificate training program, Fostering Strengths! It is a 3 month contact-cum-distance program meant for helping professionals working with adolescents and young people. The course has a uniquely designed curriculum, contextualized to the Indian socio-cultural context and is taught by diverse faculty and various experts from the field. Due to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fostering Strengths course could not be carried forward. We hope to resume the programme in the future and will keep this page updated with any new developments. The brochure shared below is from the previous edition of the course and is being provided for reference.
Kamarkathi
Kamarkathi is an intensive feminist pedagogy and facilitation process for working with adolescent girls and young women. Designed as a seven-stage learning journey spread over four to five months, it supports girls in moving from fear and shame towards courage, confidence, and active citizenship.
Grounded in participatory and experiential methods, the process engages with both personal and structural dimensions of change. It offers practitioners and organisations a rich set of facilitation tools and processes to strengthen girls’ agency, leadership, and pathways to justice.
The pedagogy is particularly relevant for those working with adolescent girls and young women on violence prevention, leadership development, and community-based gender justice initiatives.
For more information, training opportunities, or partnerships, please get in touch with us.
Training on gender , socialization, power & patriarchy
Gender is not separate from our everyday lives—it shapes our relationships, beliefs, behaviours, and institutions in visible and invisible ways. Understanding these processes is essential to making sense of how inequality, discrimination, control, and violence are produced and sustained.
Through dialogue and critical reflection, this training enables participants to examine social norms and power relations and build perspectives that foster equality, dignity, and more just ways of being and relating.
Training on gender transformation approaches
Meaningful social change is gradual and sustained. Unless we challenge the root causes of inequality and unequal power relations, it is difficult to strengthen agency, autonomy, and build more just societies. Gender Transformative Approaches (GTA) offer an important pathway for enabling such change.
Building on conversations around gender, socialisation, power, and patriarchy, this training explores the meaning and core principles of GTA. Through reflection and practice, participants learn to apply a gender lens and a gender transformative approach to their work, critically review programmes and institutions, and identify opportunities to deepen transformative change.
Training on Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace (POSH Act, 2013)
Creating safe, equitable, and respectful workplaces requires more than compliance. This training introduces the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, while encouraging organisations to reflect on power, gender, and institutional culture. The process supports participants and Internal Committees to strengthen prevention, response mechanisms, and accountability, and to foster workplaces rooted in dignity and inclusion.
Training on Counselling and Case Work
Working with individuals and communities experiencing violence and distress requires empathy, perspective, and appropriate skills. This training explores the basics of counselling, case work, ethical principles, active listening, crisis response, referral mechanisms, and trauma-informed approaches. Through reflection and experiential learning, participants are encouraged to strengthen supportive and survivor-centred practices.
Training on Women’s Rights and Legal Frameworks
Legal literacy is an important pathway towards justice and empowerment. This training introduces key laws and frameworks related to women’s rights, including the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA) and CEDAW. Through discussions and case-based learning, participants deepen their understanding of rights, legal remedies, and the relationship between laws, lived realities, and access to justice.
Contact Details:
Do write to us at bharatvishakha@gmail.com, info@vishakhawe.org,