Shivani Adhikari
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- Shivani Adhikari is the director and team-leader at the Jagrati Swayam Sahayta Group, a women self-help group based in village of Majkhali, district Almora, Uttarakhand, India. Recognized for its role in innovative leadership pedagogy, the Sahayata group received the ICIMOD mountain Prize (2020). The women organized themselves into a group in 2011 in order to collaborate with the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature, Majkhali and invite students from all over the world to experience life in the village. They offer residential courses on Resilient Leadership in the Himalayas to university students, so that students can experience first-hand how a traditional lifestyle is a holistic skillset and mindset that can inform all aspects of modern life. Since 2011, the group and the foundation has offered more than 30 2-week long immersive courses to over 500 students from across the world. Since 2018 the course has been recognized as a semester credit course by the School of Sustainability Studies, Western Colorado University.
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