EARTH-SHASTRA – Community in the age of Climate Emergency – Youth Alliance

The final application deadline is 1st May 2023

Youth Alliance facilitates transformational journeys of (un)learning, healing and inquiry to support young people to lead and build a world that fosters deeper harmony with oneself, others and nature.

We are amidst Climate Emergency. Global temperatures are set to rise at alarming rates, leading to rising sea levels. Huge areas inhabited by living beings are being submerged. If you look around, you would have been impacted directly or indirectly with one or more climate related disaster, like cloud burst, floods, epidemics etc. For us, young people who are to inhabit the world of the future, it is imperative we take a pause and understand what’s happening from a holistic perspective.

Earth-Shastra takes thirty young changemakers from across India on a 9-day immersive journey – to do precisely that. Slow down and make sense of the climate emergency and converging crises (rising economic inequity, political polarisation etc) of our times. Its a leadership experience to orient one’s life path as a response towards greater harmony with oneself, others and nature. After five remarkable editions in Palampur, Palghar, Udaipur, Uttarakhand and online, we are launching the Sixth edition that shall happen in Kumaon region, Uttarakhand from 3rd – 11th June, 2023.

We deepen our lost connection with nature, deconstruct the current economic system and understand the ongoing economic and environmental crisis from an integrated lens. The focus is to develop the capacity to understand the big picture and the humility to start with small actions. It inadvertently involves focus on personal transformation and nurturing deep community over the 9-days and beyond. The immersive journey will involve nature connects, reflective circles, hands-on activities, creating everyday solutions.

The vision is to build ourselves into a community that fosters ecological way of being; inspires and amplifies constructive action.

This edition is being created in partnership with Kautik (a Kumaon based conscious retreats company) and Tautik (our friend-mentor in the Himalayas).

Details

Dates

• 9-day immersion program
• Begins at 11 a.m. on 3rd June in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand and ends at 7 p.m. on 11th June 2023 in Kathgodam, Uttarakhand.

Location & Weather

• We will be in Rudrapur and Nainital region of Uttarakhand.
• Temperatures shall vary predictably between 22°C to 42°C.

Travel & Accommodation

• Food, stay and all other mandatory requirements during the program will be taken care of.
• Stay will be basic with shared accomodation and baths.
• Participants will have to reach the venue by Day 0 night or early morning on Day 1 on their own.

Financial ContributionPutting together all the different parts of this whole program incurs significant financial cost, which includes costs of Facilitation, Program Design, Food, Accommodation, Transport, Material & Logistics, Mentoring etc.

The cost per participant for 30 participants is 40,000 INR. The range of contribution is Rs 15,000 to Rs 40,000 to accommodate varied paying capacity of our participants and we fund-raise the deficit. To make it accessible for participants from difficult socio-economic backgrounds, we are open to five scholarship slots.

We believe that as we learn and grow together we take care of all those who offer us their gifts while also fostering a spirit of care for all the people in our communities.

Know more about the contribution model here  

Cohort Composition We are open to have participants from all kinds of backgrounds. The preferred age is 18-35 y/o (exceptions case to case basis).We have 20% total diversity slots for individuals from disadvantaged communities. We encourage individuals from region, religion, ethnic, sexual, and cultural minorities and people from other such structurally marginalised groups to apply.