KARMA-YOGA: Leadership Experiential Project
"That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership"
(James MacGregor Burns, 1978: 462).
The project, guided by Dr. Venkat R. Krishnan (Director, Yale-Great Lakes Center for Management Research), is a unique medium for students to connect with ground realities and experientially learn transformational leadership. The LEP creates a mutual win-win situation for both the students and the villages. While the villages get budding managers to enable the villagers to lift themselves into their better selves, the students acquire a first-hand understanding of what it means to create followers and transform them.
There are 20 villages surrounding the institute's campus that have been adopted by Great Lakes for the LEP. Students visit these Karma-Yoga villages every week. The mission is to enhance the self-esteem and self-efficacy of the villagers (i.e., to empower them), so that they are able to lead a better quality life.
In this attempt by Great Lakers to transform people belonging to nearby villages, the key focus has been in the fields of education, health, agriculture, and small business. Over the past years, Great Lakers have been involved in organizing health camps, financial inclusion programs, agricultural training programs, activity-based learning programs, etc., in association with leading hospitals and several NGOs. Karma-Yoga project runs throughout the year and has been quietly transforming the lives of the people around the institute's campus.
Click here to see the village-wise details of the various activities undertaken by the students.
Click here to watch a video on Karma Yoga activities for the year 2011-12
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