A webinar on ‘Stress Management and Wellness through Sahaja Yoga Meditations’ was conducted by Mr. Chandrakant Deoda - Senior Technical Delivery Manager - Visteon Corporation Pvt Ltd. Also present on the occasion was Ms. Mithila Bagai, HoD, Department of Political Science, Maitri College, Delhi University. Mr. Deoda shared at length the thought behind Sahaja yoga and meditation that is thoughtless awareness state. He also shared at length about the seven energy chakras and the various aspects of spirit and kundalini. Students were also given practical exposure on how to meditate and bring their chakras to work for their benefits.
A lecture by Dr. Mala Bhandari, Director, SADRAG was delivered on ‘Post COVID-19: The Emerging New Normal of Social Sector & Youth Engagement’. While addressing Dr Mala said that Covid 19 has shaken economic foundations and brought many challenges in the sector of health. It also led to social/ community disruption and also interrupted social mobility and reduced social protection. “It has changed our life at very fast speed and changed the role and responsibility of youth. It also affected the individual relationships and institutional operations,” said Dr. Bhandari. She added that there are three top priorities for social sector during and post Covid 19 including social impact, economic viability and capacity to deliver. Work from home has many limitation and fear of losing ground contact is constantly there. Each organization has some priority issues which are getting compromised.
Dr. Bhandari also shared how Robbery, Domestic Violence, Child Marriage and many problems arising due to this pandemic. Social sector never sleeps but many people related to this sector have not all the required technology. “We need youth to come forward. Youth should come in the role of researchers, activists, innovators and communicators. Youth have to be innovative and have to find ways to adapt to the changing scenario. They have to define new normal and change the narrative around social sector. They know the power of collectiveness. They need to address emerging needs of the community like Misinformation, Innovation and Stigma of Quarantine. Youth can use social media tools and use it for spreading good and effective message for communication with maximum potential,” averred Dr. Bhandari.
A lecture by Dr Dheeraj Bhardwaj, Group CEO, Arnab Mobility/ Mawared Energy was delivered on ‘Digital Innovation- Look Out for Unexpected Opportunities’. While addressing Dr Dheeraj said that Innovation means different things to different people and organization. It could be as simple as" successful commercial exploitation". Research and Development is transformation of money to knowledge while innovation is transformation of Knowledge to money. “Research is necessary but not a sufficient condition for innovation. Economic value is only created by successful innovation and business strategy drives innovation strategy. There are six levers that underpin innovation that are value proposition, value network, target customer, product/services, process technologies and supporting technologies. Often organization focus overly on business model or technology leavers of innovation, best results can be achieved by using both set of leavers - Business Model Innovation and Technology innovation,” said Dr. Bhardwaj. He added that defining and understanding digital is next step to win. Digital is not just about the technologies but is about new ways of solving problems, creating unique experience and accelerating business performance. Digital transformation is bringing disruption through the power of innovative business model and putting the nail in the heart of customer needs. Digital revolution is creating a shared economy and reducing marginal costs by dramatic spike in efficiency, improvement in productivity and reduction footprint.