Workshop on Peer Education

Education plays a major role in bringing about a change in society at large It not only creates new awareness, but also provides an environment for children which is safe and stress free.

Considering this, Expressions India held Mind Smart 2019 The Annual Adolescent Peer Educators Leadership Course in Life Skills & Wellbeing. The first of four interactive workshops was conducted on 8 May 2019 at the National Science Centre. Tanya Trehan and Arav Dimri (XI-E), Gurliv Kaur (XI-D) and Shaumita Dasgupta( IX-B) participated in the programme. The workshop was attended by peer educators from various schools of Delhi- NCR. The chief guest of the day was Mr. Vineet Joshi, Director General of National Testing Agency and former chairman, CBSE. The other dignitaries were Dr. Jitender Nagpal, Director of Expressions India and Ms. Rekha Chuahan, counseling Psychologist at CBSE.

The session commenced with Dr. Nagpal interacting with the peer educators and discussing the areas where peer pressure is observed. He also suggested different ways of dealing with the same. Students who acted as Peer Educators in the last academic year spoke about the roles they played in their schools in order to deal with the different issues. Students showed a lot of enthusiasm when Dr. Nagpal discussed life skills with them. He appreciated the life skills mentioned by the participants and encouraged them to do better.

Next the audience was addressed by Mrs. Chauhan. She began with an ice breaking activity. She played a song on happiness and asked all the students to sing along with her. This made for a light moment that was eagerly awaited! After that she randomly divided the students into 9 groups. Each group was given a life skill and they had to present it as a role-play. This type of division gave an opportunity to the peer educators to mingle with each other.

The presentation of each group was preceded by a play staged by the members of Paigam, the Dramatics Society of our School, and the students of Dev Samaj Model School. Aryan Singh, Dhruv Rathi, Arya Khanna and Harshit Verma( XI-B), Kush Kalra and Vidit Sharma (XI-C), Pratyaksh Epari (XII-C), Mayank Ahuja (XI-E), Hemangi Srivastava and Rishabh (X-B) represented our School. The presentation of each group reflected team work and a clear depiction of each life skill.

Students felt delighted to be a part of such a workshop and look forward to the rest of the workshops.

Tanya Trehan XIE