Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE) Mysuru, a unit of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru, organised 24 one-day workshops and 10 residential workshops on Values Education and Personality Development for school and college students and teachers. The workshops were conducted for 49 days from 1st July to 30th September 2023 reaching 1266 male students, 1089 female students and 134 school and college teachers.
Institution | Total | No of Days | Ladies | Gents | Staff | |
1 | Balodhyana English Public School, Mysuru | 103 | 1 | 30 | 51 | 22 |
2 | GHS, H. K. Hundi, T Narasipura Tq | 49 | 1 | 24 | 20 | 5 |
3 | Government PU College, Varuna | 65 | 1 | 37 | 23 | 5 |
4 | JSS College, MSW Students | 43 | 1 | 25 | 16 | 2 |
5 | Marimallappa PU College Students, Mysuru | 752 | 10 | 332 | 390 | 30 |
6 | Oxford High School Students, Mysuru | 57 | 1 | 24 | 30 | 3 |
7 | Sapient PU College Students | 74 | 1 | 47 | 25 | 2 |
8 | Seshadri Puram Degree College | 74 | 1 | 32 | 40 | 2 |
9 | Shikshkarni High school Students, Mysuru | 130 | 1 | 75 | 50 | 5 |
10 | V V S B. M. Sri Educational Institution, Mysuru | 105 | 1 | 61 | 40 | 4 |
11 | Viveka Vidyalaya PU College Students, Mysuru | 205 | 2 | 83 | 100 | 22 |
12 | Spiritual Retreat for Women | 223 | 3 | 223 | 0 | 0 |
Non Residental | 1880 | 24 | 993 | 785 | 102 | |
1 | Karnataka Milk Fedaration Officers | 205 | 37 | 61 | 138 | 6 |
2 | Navodaya Vidyalaya Officials | 38 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 0 |
3 | Rastrothana High School Students, Bengaluru | 140 | 3 | 0 | 126 | 14 |
4 | Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala - OBA Retreat | 136 | 2 | 0 | 134 | 2 |
5 | Youth for Seva, Teachers Training | 90 | 2 | 30 | 50 | 10 |
Residential | 609 | 49 | 96 | 481 | 32 | |
Grand Total | 2489 | 73 | 1089 | 1266 | 134 |
The topics covered included: methods of effective learning, effective teaching, preparation for examination, thought management, putting values into practice, developing leadership qualities, learning life skills from Swami Vivekananda’s teachings, yoga and meditation.
All the participants were given a copy of either Personality Development (a collection of Swami Vivekananda’s thoughts on this topic), or Call to the Nation, or Spoorthi (life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda).