Janani Eswar

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Entrepreneur and Educator | Community Experience Lead - Gifted World | Co-Founder - Sampoorna Ahara @ Gifted World
Janani Eswar's Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, India
About Janani Eswar

I work toward the alleviation of poverty. I'm a Social Entrepreneur, Educator and Facilitator and enjoy working in a complex world and enabling the people around me towards health and happiness. I am a director of The Fractal Entrepreneurship Foundation. We create powerful B2C social ventures that work towards sustainability by incubating people who would not have thought they could become entrepreneurs. We enable them to lift many others out of poverty by helping the less-abled do what only experts can do. We use an innovative incubation process and innovation process to achieve this.I enjoy the challenge of working with people to empower them to be leaders. I bring my skills and experience of 10 years as an educator to this project.I am also a Co-Founder of Sampoorna Ahara, A health Kitchen in India. We have innovated to find the best ways to cook food that heals. I was a young mother of a 2 month old when I started the bakery here and while there is now a wonderful team to manage it, I am privileged to be part of the impact that Sampoorna Ahara is making in enabling people to eat healthy and heal multiple lifestyle diseases. At the age of 12, I stepped out of mainstream education and started homeschooling with my family. Not having the limitations that curriculums and school systems usually have enabled me to grow and explore much quicker and in areas that I was actually curious about. At 16, I started working to connect children to nature.Once again, I found myself making my own trail since there wasn't really a college degree in this field. My work with GRIN (Growing in Nature) lead me to make impacts in international conversations, and conferences, and be featured in Richard Louv's book, "Our Wild Calling"Over the next 12 years, I have worked with over 60 different educational institutions. These institutions catered to various socio-economic classes, ages and locations, including the University of Minnesota and Azim Premji University. I have assisted multiple institutions in building curriculum and pedagogy to explore and build our human relationship with nature. I work through the pedagogies of Project Based Learning, experiential education, Play and Interdisciplinary learning.I was part of the team to set up the core curriculum and pedagogy of the first year of the undergraduate program at Atria University. The University is centred on Project Based Learning and building students' abilities to learn how to learn.

Janani Eswar's Current Company Details
Gifted World

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Entrepreneur and Educator | Community Experience Lead - Gifted World | Co-Founder - Sampoorna Ahara
Janani Eswar Work Experience Details
  • Gifted World
    Community Experience Lead
    Gifted World Jan 2024 - Present
    Building www.giftedworld.org, an online community to help talented students reach their full potential and emotional well-being. I bring together amazing mentors from around the country and facilitate interactions with motivated students in grades 4 - 12.
  • Fractal Entrepreneurship
    Director
    Fractal Entrepreneurship Mar 2023 - Present
    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    We create powerful B2C social ventures by incubating people who would not have thought they could become entrepreneurs.We enable them to lift many others out of poverty by helping the less-abled do, what only experts can do.We use an innovative incubation process and innovation process to achieve this.
  • Sampoorna Ahara
    Co-Founder And Visionary Entrepreneur
    Sampoorna Ahara Jul 2019 - Present
    Bengaluru, Karnataka
    SampoornaAhara.com is a group of entreprenuers, passionate to take whole-food, plant-based eating to the public. We are passionate about the right kind of social business and work to empower more people to eat this way. I've taken my love of healthy baking and creating tasty spreads to this group. Together we have been able to provide the healthiest possible food to hundreds of people, including over 50,000 meals donated during the Covid-19 Pandemic. For more, do visit www.sampoornaahara.com
  • Grin (Growing In Nature)
    Founder
    Grin (Growing In Nature) Jan 2016 - Oct 2024
    Bangalore, India
    GRIN has been the culmination of a few years of research and experimentation. We wish to ensure that every child in India is allowed to connect to nature so the next generation may grow to be happy and healthy. If you would like to see what we are up to, do visit http://www.growinginnature.com
  • Atria University
    Academic Consultant
    Atria University Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
    Bengaluru, Karnataka
    A new and innovative university in Bangalore, together with Siddharth Bharath, I consult with the AU academic team to- Assist in the design of their Sustainable Life Sciences Major- Identify learning goals, faculty members, curriculum design for the foundational year at Atria University.- Facilitate conversations between the AU team and other consultants to enable this vision.- Run workshops for the admissions team to be able to identify strengths in incoming studentsAtria wants our students to leave with supreme confidence that they have learned how to learn. They have recognized who they are and what they want to do in life. They are ethical contributors to future society as collaborators, leaders and problem solvers.At AU, students will learn by doing. Therefore, by the end of their education here, they are equipped with a portfolio of projects they have been involved in, and have knowledge in the context of the real world. A student leaving AU will know what it means to need rigorous knowledge that can stand up to the test of real world application, and not just a written exam. They will have the ability to be entrepreneurs.
  • Azim Premji University, Bangalore
    Visiting Faculty - Creative Expressions
    Azim Premji University, Bangalore Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
    Bangalore, India
    I developed, designed, delivered and assessed a creative expressions course for undergraduates titled, "Nature, Art and Human Beings." This was done twice, once with a class of 16 students and once with 20.Through embodied learning, we explored Ecopsychology, playing in nature, sensory practices, naturalist studies, theatre, and personal as well as societal level relationships with other-than-human beings.Each semester ended with a Mela or exhibition of a student projects. Each project was chosen by the individual students and represented a personal journey or enquiry for them. For example, we filled an entire wall with sketched of movement in nature, or created a piece of music inspired by alone time in nature. We even crafted a clay vessel, created a fire and made soup on it for everyone to taste. The course was designed to try and communicate these statements to the participants: 1. It is fundamental and peacemaking to acknowledge interconnection with more-than-human beings. 2. Your body, mind and self can learn, experience and celebrate these relationships in a beautiful, integrated manner.3. You are invited to share these experiences. They are cherished.4. Languages can be found to express these experiences - art and creativity fill this role when words become insufficient or restrictive.
  • Artyplantz
    Green Connect Leader
    Artyplantz Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
    Bangalore, India
    As Green Connect Leader in ArtyPlantz, I led a team of people to plan and execute events, presentations, and long-term projects aimed at connecting People to Plants. I was an integral part of the team that setup and ran Neralu - Bangalore's first tree festival. During this festival I created three audio walks (translated into two languages) that was listened to by over 8000 people from across the globe all of them finding it connected them deeply to the trees they were listening to. I also set up a monthly gathering at a local park where people came together to share their connection to Nature with each other. I spent this time exploring what nature connection does to all of us and where I am needed the most. My efforts reached an interesting conclusion when I realised that this next generation of Indians is growing up without anyone allowing them to explore and connect to Nature on thier own terms. This is where my project morphed into Growing in Nature (GRIN) which is now incubated on ArtyPlantz's platform.
  • Artyplantz
    Naturalist Intern
    Artyplantz Feb 2012 - Nov 2013
    I study all I can about the plants we deal with and pitch in whenever a project needs someone who knows about the plants. This could mean writing, making a manual on how to grow them, designing games based on them, photographing them or recently even video graphing.

Janani Eswar Skills

Photography Art Botany Communication Learning Quickly Flute Drama Wildlife Conservation Plant Identification Wildlife Biodiversity Environmental Awareness Science Environmental Education Conservation Issues Ecology Natural History Outdoor Education Climate Change Biology Taxonomy Blogging Leadership Environmental Science Research

Janani Eswar Education Details

  • Homeschooled
    Homeschooled
    Naturalist Studies, Psychology, Fine Arts, Business Studies
  • Shibumi (Alternative Education Centre)
    Shibumi (Alternative Education Centre)

Frequently Asked Questions about Janani Eswar

What company does Janani Eswar work for?

Janani Eswar works for Gifted World

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Janani Eswar's current role is Entrepreneur and Educator | Community Experience Lead - Gifted World | Co-Founder - Sampoorna Ahara.

What schools did Janani Eswar attend?

Janani Eswar attended Homeschooled, Shibumi (Alternative Education Centre).

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Janani Eswar has skills like Photography, Art, Botany, Communication, Learning Quickly, Flute, Drama, Wildlife Conservation, Plant Identification, Wildlife, Biodiversity, Environmental Awareness.

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