Grounded within. Growing beyond.
GROUNDWORK
A LIFE SKILLS CAMP
Groundwork is a 7-day residential experience for young adults to build clarity, confidence, and real-world life skills.
What This Is?
Groundwork is an immersive, residential learning camp designed to help you understand yourself, build essential life skills, and navigate change with clarity and confidence.
Through workshops, reflection, movement, and shared learning, the experience brings together people from different walks of life into a space that is both structured and deeply human.
The Experience
What your days might look like at Groundwork!
The Six Areas Of Exploration
The learning journey unfolds across six interconnected areas:
Deepen The Roots
Exploring identity, learning styles, creativity, and independent inquiry — understanding how you work, think, and grow.
Grow The Branches
Building personal agency, communication skills, collaboration, and the capacity to work with feedback while shaping future possibilities.
Enrich The Soil
Working with body, breath, mind, nourishment, health, and healing — cultivating everyday practices that support wellbeing.
Nourish The Tree
Developing financial awareness, planning skills, and long-term resilience around money, security, and life transitions.
Navigate The Digital Web
Understanding digital life, AI, online engagement, ethics, safety, and responsibility in an increasingly networked world.
Expand The Canopy
Engaging with questions of service, sustainability, social impact, and our responsibility to the wider world.
The Learning Design
Learning at Groundwork happens through experience, reflection, and shared living — woven together across four interconnected approaches.
Learn from Experience
Stories, dialogue, and lived realities
Reflection and self-enquiry
Learn by Doing
Hands-on creation and experimentation
Activities that invite participation
Learn with Place & People
Nature immersion and outdoor learning
Community engagement and local insights
Learn in Community
Shared living and peer learning
Reflective films and facilitated conversations
Who Is This Camp Designed For?
This space is open to young adults(20-35 years) who are:
- Looking to build life skills beyond formal education
- Wanting to reconnect with self and others
- At a point of transition
- Seeking clarity or direction
No prior experience is needed—only openness.
Meet The Team Of Facilitators & Contributors!
200+ Years of collective experience
A multidisciplinary team of educators, coaches, artists, researchers and practitioners learning
alongside participants
Niraj Prakash
Founder & Director
"Bridging inner grounding with real-world readiness."
Arvind Dixit
Finance Educator & Mentor
"Bringing clarity, calm, and long-view wisdom to life decisions."
Pervin Bhasin
Learning & Development Practitioner
"Holding transformative spaces with empathy, courage, and joy."
Why Did We Create This?
Much of what shapes our lives—how we relate, make decisions, handle uncertainty, or care for ourselves—is rarely part of formal education.
In a world shaped by rapid change, burnout, and constant digital engagement, Groundwork creates a space to slow down, reflect, and build the foundations needed to live with clarity, resilience, and purpose.
Where Is The Camp?
Nestled amidst the serene foothills of the Himalayas in Thano hill forest, Dehradun, the camp takes place at Bodhigram Empowerment Centre - a space for reflection, learning, and dialogue in close connection with nature. Bodhigram is a sanctuary for growth, connection, and renewal.
Some Key Details
28 Nov – 05 Dec 2026
(Arrival by 2 pm on 28 Nov (Sat) and Departure on 05 Dec (Sat) in the morning after breakfast)
7-day residential program
Bodhigram Empowerment Centre, Thano, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
English
English will be the primary language at the camp. Conversations may occasionally include Hindi or other languages as they arise naturally in our shared learning spaces.
Comfortable double/triple sharing accommodation
There will be fresh, hygienic and nutritious meals every day — we will eat together, with tea/coolers and snacks between!
Fee & Participation
Fee for GROUNDWORK
At the conclusion of the camp, you can pay any amount based on what the journey meant to you and what is possible for you.
Your contribution helps carry this journey forward for future cohorts.
Participation at GROUNDWORK
Groundwork is limited to 15 participants. Apply early.
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Once your application is accepted, a place will be reserved for you.
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At that stage, please confirm your participation only if you are certain that you can join.
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As there is no waiting list, this helps ensure that every place in the cohort is meaningfully occupied.
Optional Pathways After The Camp
Groundwork is just the beginning. We imagine this as the start of a community—one that continues to learn, reflect, and grow together. Our further offerings are designed to support this journey, creating spaces to stay connected, deepen your practice, and move forward with intention.
