As part of inculcating leadership in the Grades 6 cohort of Saturday Art Class students, we started training students to enable them to become facilitators in and outside the classroom. At first, these trainings looked more at building leadership skills such as public speaking, enunciation, facilitation etc. Eventually this led to children leading art workshops for adults as part of corporate employee engagements at establishments like SOHO House in Mumbai and Agrocel Pvt Ltd.

Our student leaders conducted workshops with the focus on Social Emotional Learning and art inspired by Artists like Yayoi Kusama and Coco Davez for adults.Inspired by the art of Yayoi Kusama and infinity nets, our students facilitated a session on self awareness and self management experiences based on their reflections and learnings from how they have behaved in the past and connected it to Kusama’s meditation practice of infinity nets

Another session on Coco Davez’s self portraits were facilitated keeping in mind the relationship building and self awareness aspect resulting in teaching adults Davez’s style of Self Portraits with the message of self love.