Proposed Activities

Proposed courses and activities at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre are broadly structured under three groups as follows.

1. Behavioural Excellence and Life Skills:

1. Mind Management (Concentration, Handling failures & difficulties, overcoming stress, etc),

2. Dealing with functional aspects of the mind – intelligence, will, emotion and memory,

3. Managing inter-personal and social relationships,

4. Karmayogi – Developing a superior work culture,

5. Safe engagement with the Digital world,

6. Lessons in cultivating virtues,

7. Developing leadership and team skills,

8. Approaches to social service,

9. Studying the life practices of great men and women,

10. Restrained engagement with entertainment,

11. Yogasanas, Pranayama, Meditation, Diet control and health.

 

2. Vocational Skills:

1. Spoken English communication,

2. Drafting skills in Kannada,

3. Creative writing in Kannada and English,

4. Public presentation skills,

5. Basic computer knowledge,

6. Study Centre focusing on Competitive examinations for Higher Education and Jobs: Library of books, computers for accessing online content and preliminary classes/coaching,

7. Career counselling.

3. Cultural Knowledge:

1. Overview of Indian history through its culture,

2. Understanding the universal spiritual ethos of India,

3. Universal prayers,

4. Training in vocal music and selected traditional instruments,

5. Traditional home remedies for health.