Workshops

Sukrut conducts bespoke workshops for education systems on challenges such as Redefining Discipline, Understanding the Adolescent, Teacher Sensitivity, and Compassion. The outcome from such workshops helps teachers to deliver holistic perspectives to students and enrich skills for well-being. School Psychology is not a specialization in graduate and post-graduate courses in India. This has left a huge gap in understanding children and adolescents, and their struggles through the formative years, without any formal, informed support from teachers and parents.

Sukrut offered the first-ever “School Psychology” workshop to train key teachers and role-holders from client schools. A UK-based Consultant conducted this course in August 2018, drawing on practices from the UK. The central aim was to develop the capacity and skill-set of Psychologists to enable them to act as consultants to the “school-as-a-whole” system. Ultimately, this enables the Psychologist to move from a child-focused referral model (where problem ownership and responsibility are “passed” to the Psychologist by over-stretched school staff) to a consultation model, in which, at a key meeting the most concerning students are discussed by the group.

Sukrut offers workshops in the administration of Rorschach. This initiative was first offered in 2013, and is repeated at regular intervals. Psychodiagnostics is the technical term for what is sometimes called character reading. A “modern scientific extension of the ancient arts of physiognomy,” the field of psychodiagnostics has been said to be the “most complex branch of psychology” (Gordon Allport). Etymologically, the term “psychodiagnostics” means “to have seen through to the psyche.” As a clinical phenomenon, it is the process whereby a psychotherapist comes to “know” the character structure of an individual.