the 5th space

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the 5th space

Our interventions are based on our understanding of youth hood and young people’s worlds. Pravah Traditionally, since independence, in both urban and rural India, four such spaces have pulled in youth by offering the right kind of ambience. The first is home, the second space is livelihoods/career or a study institution (school/ college/ vocational course) that prepares them for a career. The third is leisure and lifestyle, where young people participate sometimes as actors, though mostly as spectators. This space includes sports, the performing arts, religious/ cultural occasions etc. The fourth, and undisputedly the most attractive hang out zone for young people, is with friends. All young people, in differing degrees, seek out the company of somebody they can bare their soul to, somebody who makes no judgments about their journey, is in fact in the same boat as them. It is in these four spaces, mostly, that an Indian youth today divides her time, devotes her entire energy, puts in efforts, and spends her resources. These four spaces define almost her entire ocean.

There is on the margins – a 5th Space – where young people discover themselves by engaging in social action and engage in active citizenship, volunteering and much more. The 5th Space focuses as much on the self-transformation of youth as it does on transforming the society through them.

The 5th Space approach takes the young person on a self to society journey that focuses as much on the self-transformation of adolescents as it does on transforming the society through them.

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The 5th Space approach

The 5th Space approach takes the young person on a self to society journey that focuses as much on the self-transformation of adolescents as it does on transforming the society through them.

The 5th space approach builds the leadership of young people via the adoption of following principles

  • Ownership: Enables young people to learn to take ownership of common spaces via collective decision making, learning together and building each other’s capacities and sharing rewards and consequences.
  • Co-creation: Enables young people to work in partnership with communities and other stake holders groups by coming together to envision goals, learn to create culture and processes for inclusive decision making.
  • Refl-Action: Enables young people to reflect on their own actions, learn from mistakes and apply the learnings in the real world to create learning individuals and learning communities.
  • Organic Renewal: Enables young people to support all the new people who come in to take ownership, and charge of the space.
  • The Space should empathize and heal: Enables young people to develop the ability to empathize by sensing feelings and resolving conflicts by taking 100% responsibility of their actions and inspiring others too to take 100% of their actions.
  • Take people from what they know to what they don’t: Enables young people to learn about themselves their aspirations, purpose and then connect it with larger social causes and vice versa.
  • The Space should foreground the Now rather than the future: Enables young people to focus on the current emotions, needs, desires, and aspirations emanating from their immediate context.
  • Without markers, the journey can be a long and winding road to nowhere: Enables young people to set Specific, measurable, and realistic milestones and goals and continuously and critically assess its purpose and its progress.