Meet the Global Fellows 2025:

We are thrilled to announce that our next Global Fellowship cohort is here —a powerful group of 12 leaders committed to our mission of ending the cycle of violence through a trauma-informed approach. This new cohort brings incredible diversity, spanning North America, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and India. Meet the brilliant minds who will be driving change and healing in their communities and beyond!

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Responsibility

What does responsibility mean? Most of us want to be seen as responsible, and we like others to be responsible towards us but I notice that we rarely discuss or even define what this idea of responsibility might be all about.What does it mean in a given context, or is it beyond context? What is my responsibility, and what is not my responsibility? Who decided that it is my responsibility? I have realised that this absence - of understanding, of definitions - leads to a lot of ill effects: abuse, ill health, anxiety, depression and more. I believe that instead of saying “I am responsible”, it might be better to say “I am responsible for”. It makes a lot of difference when we become specific. Further, even when I say “I am responsible for” something, I have learned to ask myself if that is really true, and what might it mean if it were true. For example, it was believed for generations that cooking for the family is a woman’s responsibility. It is only now that we have started to questio...

Holding Many Realities at Once.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust Some conversations do not end just because the meeting ended. They remain with you, sitting quietly in your thoughts long after the zoom room has emptied. Over the past month, as we began our workshops with the Grameen Jyothi fellows, I have often found myself returning to the stories shared in the spaces, and I am noticing a shift in how I look at the world ( and myself, sometimes). These are stories of people working at the frontline, of women mentoring other women, of girls facing gender-based violence at home, in workplaces, and within systems that were never made to protect them. Honestly, each workshop feels less like a professional engagement and more like entering lived worlds that exist parallel to mine. I sit there less as a facilitator and more as a listener. Sometimes I am a mere observer from what feels like a vanta...

Acceptance

How does one get in touch with reality? What is reality anyway? Yesterday a friend shared a video on her page, which stated that reality is personal, in the sense that it is my reality and not the reality. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (the 5000 year old Indian scriptures which describe yoga) state that the way we perceive the world is dictated entirely by our mind and its tendencies and aberrations. We base our decisions on what we like or dislike. We mix up what we like with what is good for us. We seldom look at the process of how we came up with a decision regarding a situation, a person or even an object. It has been very tough for me to accept my reality the way it is. It took time and practice. It also took patience. The practices of Yoga are very simple and at the same time, they are very difficult. They are difficult because they demand patience, attention and consistency from us. A simple practice of observing 12 breaths four times a day took me weeks to bring to regularity. It r...

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