Heartfulness Education Trust

From Wonder, Wisdom

The HELP Program HELP

Heartfulness - Experience of Life’s Potential

HELP
Calm and
centered

Focus and Manage Time

Heartfulness Experience Life’s Potential Concentration

A 16 week cerificate course on Life-skills

Designing Manage Stress
integrated with Heartfulness practices Destiny

for self-development by
Heartfulness Education Trust
Sharing Holistic
for grade 10-12 students and Caring Well-being
Healthy
Relationships

Our Vision
Our vision is to enable teachers and students to live a balanced, purposeful, and a happy life using heart-based
practices, so that they are equipped to contribute towards a sustainable school reform and community citizenship.

HELP is a 16-week certificate course for students on life-skills and values that equip them with Heartfulness
practices, skills and knowledge for quality educational outcomes.

The HELP Program - Theory of Change

THE NEED THE INTERVENTION THE IMPACT
It is a well-known saying that “Our Children are HELP: ‘Heartfulness –Experience - Improvement in concentration
our Future”. These children, under the current Life’s Potential.” Impart the and focus levels in students.
system of school education, are largely being Heartfulness practices to
nourished by their teachers. students through a 16- week - ‘Centered 3 Students’: where
certificate course. ‘centeredness 4 ’ is defined as a
The result oriented education system puts a lot person who is confident,
of pressure on students as per UNESCO1 and The course will cover: emotionally stable and
NCERT 2. As a result students do not have time - Heartfulness tools and balanced.
and space to spend on other skill building activi- techniques.
ties including their fundamental values. - A life where stress is well
- Essential life skills like managing managed, leading to a joyful
While students develop well and become stress, time, conflicts, habits, etc. and happy society.
subject-matter experts, most of them lack the
basic life skills. - Basic human values and - Students displaying
positive relationships. qualities like compassion, love
There is little time to focus on values and and respect for each other.
morals. A slow downfall in the moral
standards of today’s youth is quite visible in our
current society.

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1
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/making-children-happy/article24222973.ece 2 http://mhrd.gov.in/suggestions
3
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centered 4
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/centeredness

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About Heartfulness Education Trust (HET)
Heartfulness Education Trust (HET) was born from the vision that the most effective way to transform
society in a generation is to provide teachers with the opportunity and tools for change and empower
them to transform their students. HET comes under the umbrella of a group of organizations, including Shri
Ram Chandra Mission (SRCM), Sahaj Marg Spirituality Foundation (SMSF), and Heartfulness Institute (HFI).
Together they work towards social transformation by offering Heartfulness methods for individual change. Our
self-development programs in schools and colleges are creating a culture of values for both teachers and
students, through practical methods of relaxation, introspection and meditation.

Heartfulness has centers in over 130 countries, serving more than one million people worldwide. To learn
more about the Heartfulness techniques, please visit www.heartfulness.org. Heartfulness is offered free
of charge, although educational institutions may contribute to out-of-pocket incidental charges. We
encourage participants in these programs to take up the Heartfulness practices if they like them, without
obligation. Programs can also be customised according to the venue, audience and sponsoring organisation’s
requirements.
Course Outline
The HELP program is a 16-week certificate course for students of grades 10 - 12. This course will be delivered as
weekly sessions, with one-hour per week as the delivery mechanism. Every session will cover a unique topic on
life skills and values, followed by practical experiential session on Heartfulness tools and techniques. A typical
session breakup is as follows:

• 20 minutes: Topic-related presentation and interaction

• 20 minutes: Experiential session on Heartfulness Meditation tools
• 5 minutes: Q&A and follow-up

Topic-related presentations will be guided by high-quality video content along with a booklet for students
with relevant content on these various topics. Topics will include various elements of science, activities, stories,
quotes and morals, which are built into the presentations. The video will equip the presenter with interactive
tools to engage with the students and communicate the message in a subtle yet powerful way, where the
students learn by listening and engaging actively. The booklet will help students with content and activities
related to the topics.
HELP in Andhra Pradesh
Government of Andhra Pradesh has recognised that the meditation workshops conducted in AP for more
than 50,000 students in the academic year 2017-18 have resulted in:
• Considerable reduction in stress and anxiety levels
• Improved concentration and memory
• Balanced state of mind
• Curbed unfortunate tendency of suicide among students in some residential junior colleges
This has resulted in the government recommending the HELP program for all the junior college students
covering all districts of Andhra Pradesh for the academic year 2018-19.
Impact Assesment
Monitoring and evaluation will be done with baseline and end-line measurements to determine the effect of
the program on specific qualities of the students. Monitoring will be done using questionnaires, interviews,
in-depth case studies, and additional psychometric tools. A comprehensive assessment framework will be put
in place that has all the measurement points, tools, and data collection mechanisms in place.

Contact Us
We have an experienced team who systematically roll out the HELP program and provide follow-up, while
an independent team will focus on impact measurement and the assessment report. To know more about
Heartfulness Education Trust and our offerings, please visit our website at education.heartfulness.org. For more
information, please send an e-mail to hfi.teachers.training@heartfulness.org

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