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Welcome To Lotus VOICE!

This document provides an introduction to the Lotus VOICE training program. The program aims to equip and engage people in Krishna conscious education, culture, and devotion. It consists of 10 classroom training sessions and 10 assessment sessions on topics like teaching skills, conducting seminars, counseling, and developing an action plan. After completing the training, participants can get involved in activities like conducting life management seminars, personality development courses, developing educational curriculum, and leadership cultivation programs. The document outlines the admission criteria, classroom norms, and important contacts for the program.

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Welcome To Lotus VOICE!

This document provides an introduction to the Lotus VOICE training program. The program aims to equip and engage people in Krishna conscious education, culture, and devotion. It consists of 10 classroom training sessions and 10 assessment sessions on topics like teaching skills, conducting seminars, counseling, and developing an action plan. After completing the training, participants can get involved in activities like conducting life management seminars, personality development courses, developing educational curriculum, and leadership cultivation programs. The document outlines the admission criteria, classroom norms, and important contacts for the program.

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Introduction to Lotus VOICE

Welcome to Lotus VOICE!

WHAT?
TO EQUIP & TO ENGAGE, oneself and others, in KC education, culture and devotion.

CONTENTS of this course:


1. Vision and mission of ‘Lotus VOICE’ 5. Contact, Cultivation and Care
2. Getting equipped as teachers 6. Assessment and certification
3. How to conduct DYS (/ pre DYS) (Initiation criteria)
4. From layman to disciple – step by step 7. Action Plan and Next Steps
evolution plan

Stages in the life of a group


FORM ideas, people, talents, resources - from dormant to manifest
STORM opinions, perceptions, allocation of people, talent and resources
NORM standardize the standard activities; what gets measured gets managed.
PERFORM to transform complexity and specialization into performance – job of management

Admission Criteria
1. Must be chanting 16 rounds for at least 6 months.
2. Recommendation from counselor.
3. Has practiced public speaking before. Has desire and willingness to learn and teach KC.
4. Should give 4 hrs in week for this service (includes attending regular weekly meeting, homework
based on course material and preparing for assessments)
5. Committed to be punctual and fully present for at least 80% of the sessions.
6. Regular attendance in Sunday feast program.

Classroom Norms
1. Punctual and fully present, mobiles on silent mode.
2. Regularity in Homework n assignments
3. Hand raising for contributing in the discussion
4. Keep our commitments that we make – especially no of hours to be invested in getting
equipped and offering substantial service subsequently.

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VISION

Equip and engage, oneself and others, in learning and offering, Krishna conscious education,
culture and devotion.

MISSION
 To enable leaders and teachers to understand and live principle centered life.
 To increase their character, competence and capacity to exemplarily serve their wards.
 To synergize & embellish their wisdom & practices empowering them to offer practical holistic
solutions to the perils of modern society.

ENGAGEMENTS
1. Life management Seminars
2. Personality development courses n workshops – VOICE & ISKCON Courses
3. Value Education – (Developing educational materials & Teaching)
4. Educational Curriculum development –our software and schools hardware
5. Leadership excellence program - cultivating leaders in all walks of life
6. Vedic expedition tours, Introduction to Vedic culture, ISKCON Temples
7. Cultural activities, Contest & Competitions – Sanskrta, Sanskrti, Samskara dept.
8. ANY OTHER

10 sessions for classroom training & 10 sessions for assessment


1. Introduction seminar - Mission & Vision of 1. Assessment 1 (onetime seminar-1)
Lotus VOICE 2. Assessment 2 (onetime seminar-2)
2. Art of teaching seminar 3. Assessment 3 (onetime seminar-3)
3. Facilitation skills – 10 criteria for assessment 4. Assessment 4 (onetime seminar-4)
4. How to conduct Onetime Seminar 5. Assessment 5 (DYS-1)
5. How to teach DYS 6. Assessment 6 (DYS-2)
6. How to teach, counsel and manage oneself 7. Assessment 7 (DYS-3)
7. How to teach, counsel and manage others 8. Assessment 8 (DYS-4)
8. Care and cultivation/ follow up 9. Assessment 9 (DYS-5)
9. Miscellaneous question and answer session 10. Assessment 10 (DYS-6)
10. Action plan and concluding session

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After Lotus VOICE training ---- What next? What should I do & How?
There are seven services/engagements waiting for you. You can choose one or more. Let us see how we
can render each of the services one by one.

1. Life management Seminars (One time seminars)


 Select one or two suitable schools, institution, society, association.
 Get the permission for one time.
 Conduct one time (two programs) with the help of your devotee partner.
 Analyze attendees and the feedback forms. Categorize attendees into four categories- Gem, Few
questions to be answered, some push is required and not interested. Conduct further preaching
and follow up.
References:
1) Hear priority management lecture and read documents from the Lotus VOICE database.
2) Hear Contact, Care and Cultivation lecture of HG BalaGovind pr.
3) Prepare thoroughly for one time programs and DYS.

2. Personality development courses n workshops (Conducting VOICE courses/


ISKCON courses)
 Follow all the standard procedure documents from Lotus VOICE database.
 Pay specific attention to gems and develop personal relationship with them.
 Club DYS pass outs (from 2 or 3 batches) together if needed and start a Positive Thinker course.
 Appropriately introduce them to temple and senior devotees.

3. Value Education
 Select one or two suitable schools.
 Get the permission for Value education for 7th or 8th standard students.
 Our additional aim is to make teachers into devotees. Spot out good cultured teachers, develop
relationship with them. Start cultivating them.
 Never give unprepared or last minute prepared classes thinking “these are children, I can make
it”.
 Aim is to prepare the value education books from LKG to 12th std for outside schools. We have a
team of devotees who are working on it. There are varieties of services like writing, editing, lay
outing, designing, printing and publishing.

4. Educational Curriculum development


 For age 6 to 16 yrs preparing academic, extra-curricular, personality development, spiritual
syllabus. Soliciting audio, video, text, materials; contacting talented teachers, organizations who
can help teach our syllabus topics.

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5. Leadership excellence program (One to One Cultivation)
 Select Sreshthas in the society around you.
 e.g. education officers, farm owners, village heads, Govt. officers, ministers, politicians,
teachers, industrialists, bankers, friends, well wishers, colleagues, anyone and anywhere.
Method of preaching varies from person to person, field to field etc. You can take one time,
DYS, or bring to temple, offer balaji puja, give culturally KC. You have to decide based on time,
place and circumstance.
References:
Hear Contact, Care & Cultivation lecture of HG BalaGovindpr from Lotus VOICE database.

6. Vedic expedition tours, Introduction to Vedic culture, ISKCON Temples


 On weekends different groups of people from schools, companies, clubs etc. visit the temple for
getting introduced to the culture, philosophy and lifestyle of ISKCON. They are introduced to
ISKCON, its activities and what ISKCON can offer for them and what can they offer to society at
large.

7. Cultural activities, Contest & Competitions


 Krsna Painting- Guinness book world record, Gita contests, Summer camp
 Club/ School visit for festivals, Food festivals, cooking competitions, Dramas and musical events,
 Rathyatras, Kids and adult stall in fairs, Pune Krsna festival, Media presence

You can have your own target of making five or eight people into ‘favorable one round chanters’ in
next six months. Pray to Krishna for help and at the same time do your best.

Important contacts: For help and support


Jagannath Dham Dasa: 9422927654
Hari Chandra Dasa: [email protected] 9096881429
Bh Varsha Mehendale: [email protected] 9881722728
Bh Phani Karthik: [email protected] 9822912815
Bala Govinda Dasa: [email protected] 8888810437

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