Monthly Report January 2023
Dear friends
January marked an exciting month witnessing scholars’ gradual growth towards success and well-being through group counselling meet and personal engagements with students. As STBD (Small Towns Big Dreams) is growing and moving ahead, our engagements are finding new meaning where through our personal engagements we are identifying areas of development and challenges and addressing the same during monthly group counseling sessions and regular WhatsApp follow-ups.
Students have been having a hard time managing “time” for both academics and extra curricular club activities, both of which are extremely important for our “all-rounder” scholars. Issues like managing a hectic schedule, academic load, sleep routine, etc. has been acting as barriers in this initial journey.
As shared in the last report as well, the focus of next few months will remain to ensure that our scholars maintain high levels of self-confidence and adopt better techniques to adjust into college rigor. Our counseling focus remains to proactively look out and address signs of withdrawal or worry.
Manish Sharma
Youth Dreamers Foundation
Highlights
01. Monthly Group Session
The January group counselling session revolved around strategies and techniques of time management, prioritization and routine development.
The session had a scholar satisfaction score of 5 out of 5
Since, scholars were struggling with productive time management, this session addressed:
- principles of timetabling
- identifying and utilizing the Most Productive Time (MPT) of the day
- setting Big 3 goals
- Pomodoro technique etc.
View the video sizzler of the group session below
02. Focus Session
Rishi Bhargava, Co-founder of Descope and an IIT Delhi alumni was invited to speak on how to “manage time” to “manage success“. Rishi shared his time management philosophy for effective use of energy and time.
He also shared personal anecdotes around how to manage the “breaks” in between classes.
Apart from planning for the week, Rishi emphasized scholars on having time to entertain oneself and be happy which is extremely important to carry on in life.
The session was well received by the scholars with a satisfaction score of 3/3
View the video to know more about Rishi’s take on time management
03. Scholar achievement / progress
This month, it was the first time that we listened to our scholars transforming their learnings from group sessions into action with confidence.
Scholars shared:
- “Initially I did not proactively approach others, but now when I see my teammates not playing well, I proactively share how their game could be better”-Khemraj
- “Earlier if I could not understand during class, I used to stay quiet and thought that when others will ask, my doubts will get cleared as well, but now I think why others, why shouldn’t I ask today”- Abhishek
- “When I go to play Hockey now. I feel that my interaction with team and coach has increased manifold”- Jyoti
The session was well received by the scholars with a satisfaction score of 3/3
View the video to listen to our scholars growing
Counsellor’s Note
Rahul Shah
‘Don’t stress, do your best and forget the rest.’
We understand that we are still new to this, but we are committed to evolving and learning alongside the scholars”
Feb Month was the focus month for exams. We shared critical tips on exams that helped them to get the best of themselves.
Wrap up exercise to manage their onset sleep, Pomodoro technique to manage distraction and increase focus and strategies to help in channelizing their mind chatter so that they can conserve their energy.
It was great to see scholars getting settled in dealing with their exam pressures and managing their academic calendars. It was motivating to learn that scholars going beyond academics and scaling heights in sport field too!
- Academic – Medium (Scholars are getting comfortable with academics however they need to push their scores from average to high and have some work on that front)
- Social – High (Sports activities are helping them connect with seniors)
- Emotional – Medium (Scholars still needs to work on Emotional Resilience)
Coordinator’s Note
Devesh Kumar
“It has been a very hectic month, with all the scholars being occupied with their exams. We understand the stress that they were going through and as a result, we decided to minimize our engagement while focusing on evolving as their support system. We planned to connect with them through check-in calls after their exams and in the meantime, we communicated with them via chat, providing motivating pointers to boost their morale. Our primary focus is on the holistic development of scholars, and as a result, we have been providing counselling and emphasizing the importance of experience and learning.
We understand that we are still new to this, but we are committed to evolving and learning alongside the scholars”
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“I strongly believe in the cause.”
Arnav Rath
“I believe there are loads of hidden talent who can outstand others but lack behind due to financial support and fail in achieving their dreams . This is in memory of my elder brother who came from a small town and achieved his dream.”
Raj Shekhar
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Gokul Maheshwari
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