Sahyadri organizes one day Faculty Development Workshop on Mentoring Skills
05-Mar-2019
A one day Faculty Development Workshop titled “Understanding the Millennial, Where do we start?” was organised for teaching faculty with a view to equip the faculty with better mentoring skills so as to enable them to have better connect with students. The resource persons for the workshop are two influential icons in the field of psychology; Dr. Rameela Shekhar and Dr P.V. Bhandary.
Dr. Rameela Shekhar is a Mental Health Professional and Trainer at Manashanthi Counselling, Research & Training Centre. She is the Dean (Retd.), from School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya. Mangaluru. Dr P.V. Bhandary is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Director in A.V. Baliga Hospital, Udupi.
Dr Rameela Shekhar explained the various destructive behaviors that are commonly seen in the teenager and the various internal and external environment factors responsible for it. She also helped our faculty understand the milennials better and how as a teacher, one can approach the students and help them out. Dr P.V. Bhandary explained about the various psychological problems that students face. He explained the factors contributing to the problems and also helped understand the reasons for suicidal tendencies and debunked the many myths about suicide.
The workshop provided the much needed clarity about understanding the millennial.
