We all are facing challenges in our lives, with the changing environment. It becomes an important for each to adapt to the change and cope up with it. Keeping a positive attitude and moving forward is very essential to survive and achieve something. The capability of an individual to deal with these challenges with a positive attitude and conquer them efficiently is known as life skills. According to Macmillan Education, “In a constantly changing environment, having life skills is an essential part of being able to meet the challenges of everyday life’. Higher Educational institutions are using different practices, techniques and activities to develop life skills among the students along with curriculum. Among the different practices, motivational speeches from different achievers in various are also one of the identified as Institutional Distinctiveness practices.
Motivation is the driver of guidance, control and persistence in human behaviour. Motivation being the key factor in an individual’s daily life, without it they will not be able accomplish anything in life. Motivational speeches in the college can inspire the students in budding stage of their life. Motivation in education can have a dramatic impact on students’ performance and results. Jim Rohn said that "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
In this regard the overall development of student’s personality is the motto of our institution and adhering to this motto, all efforts and initiatives have been taken under the Jeevan Darshan Programme. Our institution is intended to develop the student’s personality by organising motivational and inspiring speeches from eminent and achieved resources persons of different fields.
The inspiring divine spirit of this distinctive programme of institution is Sole Trustee of our institution His Holiness Shree Gavisiddheshwar Mahaswamiji, Sri Gavimath, Koppal who is intended to develop the student’s with clear concept of life and life skills.
Our institution is committed to student’s centric policies and practices. This programme is designed and implementing in the context of our college logo statement which says – "Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya". Its meaning is to eradicate the darkness, ignorance and illiteracy of this region through means of the education. It is through the process of higher education; a student’s personality can be best mould and shaped in a right perspective.
Main objectives of Jeevan Darshan Programme :
A Jeevana Dashana‘s speaker is basically achiever‘s speech programme. They not only gives speech but also they intended to motivate, encourage and inspire the students with their live examples. Selected eminent speakers like Sri Basavaraj Patil Sedam, was served as Rajya Sabha member, Academician and Visionary Personality of Karnataka, Dr. J.S Patil, Vice Chancellor, served as a first Vice Chancellor of Karnataka State Law University. Dr. Gururaj Karjagi, Bengaluru, is the founder and Chairman of the Academy for Creative Teaching (ACT), Bengaluru. He is presently a member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission and Chairman of the Committee on Teacher Education, Sri Shankar Bidari, retired DGP & IGP, president award winner, Sri Nirbhayanandaswamiji, International Orator, and President of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Ashrama. All these speakers share their ideas on life skills, self confidence, positive attitude towards life and they enlighten the students.
All these speakers in Jeevana Darshana Programme try to convey to the student is to be optimistic. This is so because; being optimistic can be the key to attain success in any of respective field. They gave examples how to come out of depression to look at their lives in a positive way. When students are not in a proper state of mind about what is life, speakers explained the clear concept of life with different examples.
Along with routine curriculum, becomes very monotonous for students that time motivational speech from achievers create different outlook in their life. Students participate in these activities and become more confident and independent thinkers. They learn to interact and work as a team.
It is an opportunity for Jeevana Darashana speakers to share their lot of knowledge and life skills to share with the students. These sharings will help to betterment of education, employability skills of students.
The Jeevan Darshan is a programme which is regularly organising in the open platform, in front of the college library building. The one hour distinctive speeches delivered by the eminent resource persons is attended by our college students, staff, some of the alumni, parents and media persons. All the students of colleges under the SGVV Trust more than 4000 students and staff witnessed and take the benefit of the programme.
After concluding motivational speech, Institute organize a special interaction session with achievers in seminar hall. In this programme selected student interact with achievers, where students can interact with the resource person. They can clear their doubts, questions, which came across during their speeches.
The institution has imbibed the qualities of right combination of value education and personality development of our students through academic, co-curricular and extension activities. The aim of this programme is to make our students more enlightened about the practical life situations.
SGVVT Management is generous in organizing such motivational programme intending towards the development of the student’s personality.
As per our mission statement “To provide relevant education by integrating the best faculties and infrastructure so that the students can withstand the test of time and be of utmost benefit to the society”, Institution is rendering different type of service to the overall development of the student. Among all these programme “Jeevan Darshana Programme” is unique and distinctive programme of the institution. It is a unique and distinctive composition of education and enlightenment of the students.