Summer at Woodstock – Leadership

Become a leader for change 

Our Leadership course takes a practical approach to values-based leadership for change. This caters to young people who are passionate about making a positive difference in the world. The course also introduces tools for visioning, planning, and record-keeping. Most importantly, the course helps participants identify for themselves a core set of values to guide decision-making.

“The Leadership course gave me a new perspective about so many things. I got an opportunity to explore myself more and know what goes with me and what doesn’t. I now know that there’s so much more to learn out there in the world and how restricted I was with my thinking.” - 2019 participant

 

Who should take this course?

This course will introduce multiple forms of leadership to learners, enabling learners to reflect on their personalities and add new dimensions to become good leaders. Thus this course is for anyone who seeks to be a positive force for change. This course is also for individuals that seek to reflect on their current personality traits and improve themselves.

 

What skills and knowledge will participants gain through the course?

Through experiential learning, this course will introduce students to many aspects of leadership, such as creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and reflection. Participants will not only understand leadership approaches and processes in detail, but they will also learn soft skills that will enable them to become better individuals and leaders.

 

Highlights and Course Description

The course will introduce different forms of leadership through experiential learning. The course will also allow participants to identify and reflect on their personalities and to explore various dimensions of leadership through games, outdoor activities and other projects. By being presented with real-life complex problems based on real global issues, participants will be required to experiment, apply their learning, collaborate and develop creative and out-of-the-box solutions to this world’s challenges.

 

Week One

Understanding Self

What is leadership?

Communication

Interpersonal Relationship

Learning to learn

Week Two

Empathy

Decision Making

Managing

Collaboration – Group Work

Real-life Challenges

AGE RANGE: 14-18 years

DATES: June 2-13, 2025

             July 7-18, 2025

COURSE FEES: INR 190,000 (exclusive of GST) along with Application Fee of INR 7,500 (non-refundable)

Shrey Nagalia

Shrey Nagalia

Shrey Nagalia is Head of the Language and Literature Department at Woodstock and for the past two summers has enjoyed teaching the Leadership course to students who travel from different parts of India and the world to attend Summer at Woodstock. He has been a boarding school teacher for the past 15 years and likes to believe that he has some insight into how modern teenagers interact with the world around them. “Leadership” often emerges as an area of interest for students who either want to engage with some kind of leadership at school or who want to cultivate leadership skills for future roles. He considers leadership not as some inborne quality but as a set of skills and values that can be consciously learned and practiced. Drawing from his own academic and professional experiences, he helps students recognize and understand some of the ingredients in leadership and ways in which they can create their own styles of leadership.