Education in its sublime form is a process of gradual exploration of the external world and the self. Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, good judgment and wisdom.

While the prevalent education systems of today are well-designed to offer knowledge and skill-based training, they lack in addressing the child's need for wholesome individual development. This unaddressed need can be seen a spiritual, mystic or simply as an essentially human need. It is the child's need to be better connected to herself; to understand the totality of the cosmos around her; to see events and relationships in perspective; and to grow up as a complete, confident and creative individual.

Our student development program for schools focuses upon developing wisdom, awareness and creativity among the students. The idea is to provide supplementary development program to students so that they can be better prepared for life.

The program proceeds through creating conditions, and providing the young learners such exposures that trigger the unraveling of the condensed knowledge contained within her, and hence result in a natural, deep and sustainable learning.

ADI ties up with schools to impart student development program to the entire batch on round-the-year basis. Our student development program becomes an integral part of the curriculum of the partner school.

An important component of the program for the young students is story-telling in various forms. Story, as a pattern, is a powerful way of organizing and sharing individual experience and exploring and cocreating shared realities. It forms one of the underlying structures of reality, comprehensible and responsive to those who possess what we call narrative intelligence. Our psyches and cultures are filled with narrative fields of influence, or story fields, which shape the awareness and behavior of the individuals and collectives associated with them.

Several life-inputs can be best understood by the child through the means of stories. Stories provide space for personal interpretation of the characters and the events, and this effort at interpreting is the key to individual growth.

Every child is an inherently creative and divine being. Hence there is a natural inclination in every child to explore, gather information, learn and form own concept of the world. This concept is something that is unique to every child. There is no set pattern of information/knowledge that can be deemed as sweepingly fit to be assimilated by all children of a particular age group. This diversity in perception and learning modes has to be appreciated the most by the educators. The repercussions of this simple premise are very far-reaching. We mean to say that even the most widely accepted truths (axioms) of the grown-up world should not be communicated directly to the children, let alone enforced. We define creativity as the spontaneous manifestation of this natural self of the child. It's an expression that the child relishes as his/her own.