VICKERS, Adi

Italy / Ireland

Adi Vickers is an educator, teacher trainer and school director. She co-founded Asana International School in 1993, a holistic language school exploring relationship with Self, Other and Place. She has an MSc. in Spirituality , Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology, and is currently doing a PhD in applied transpersonal psychology. In 2021 she developed and delivered an online programme for teachers /facilitators entititled ” Integrative Practice for Heart-Centred teachers”. She is now embarking (together with Rahul Nagar in India, and Michelle Fitzgerald in Ireland) on a project called ” A place for us” – a global research project funded by Alef Trust as part of its Conscious Community Initiative. This Integral Education project takes place in Ireland and India, and is aimed at supporting young people between the ages of 11-17 who are experiencing rural marginalization.

Ibiza I.

SOCIETAL CHANGE

May 26, Friday

11:30 – 13:30

Budapest (CEST)

'A place for us' - integral education

We would like to share our journey of co-creating and delivering ‘A place for us’, an integral education two -year programme for rurally marginalized young people based in both Meerut, UP, India (teenage children of the poor farm laboring class, experiencing abject poverty) and Cahersiveen Co. Kerry, Ireland (local Irish teenagers coming from homes where there is substance abuse, mental illness and economic challenges, plus newly arrived Ukrainian teenage refugees who are suffering from trauma, displacement, rural isolation and lack of integration into their new community).

Our project is part of an overarching research project funded by Alef Trust, UK, which is supporting four two- year projects related to global change making. As well as introducing integral education to these different groups of teenagers, we research‘key factors in ongoing participant engagement in a two-year integral educational programme’.