Hi, I’m Jaya Ramchandani. 

I love to experiment with new models of individual and collective learning for just and regenerative futures. In 2015, I co-directed India’s first interdisciplinary learning festival, The Story of Light, in partnership with the Government of Goa and UN’s International Year of Light. The festival explored the intersection of science, philosophy, and culture through art and design with the aim of making interdependence visible.

Seeking to understand the wider education sector, I spent a decade working with the United World Colleges movement in Japan and Wales and at the United Nations International School in New York, teaching physics and general science and most recently co-designing the new Systems Transformation Pathway. 

I believe systems only become just and regenerative when the people within them build personal, relational, and systemic capacities to intervene in meaningful ways. Education (lifelong & lifewide) must begin to center the following capacities (non-exhaustive) if it is to serve complex life:

I am currently experimenting with a guided workbook format to master one of these capacities. Design Your Own Learning's arc deconstructs the mechanics of learning through the lenses of adult learning research, behavioral science, and neuroscience into a practical roadmap for improving one’s agency. It is available on Amazon Worldwide, and its next iteration will explore an integration of the workbook format and AI as a learning coach. If you are from India, you can grab your copy here. 

I also partner with educational institutions and civil society organizations to create the conditions for connection and learning of any/all of the above capacities. I am available for long-term consulting or targeted, one-off engagements.

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