The Ashoka Centre for Well-Being: Pioneering Well being at Ashoka.

The Ashoka Centre for Well-Being embodies and continues to strive for excellence. Since its inception in 2016, it has steadily worked on providing safe spaces and opening conversations to build awareness on mental health and well-being. With its holistic approach and essential services like individual and group counselling, crisis intervention, walk-in hours, and readily accessible helpline, the Centre caters to the emotional and psychological needs of the Ashoka University students, faculty, and staff.

Through its community-based approach, ACWB focuses its efforts on promotion and prevention through the following:

Gatekeeper Training: to build First Responders in Mental Health Concerns

Through our flagship training program, we build supportive cultures and provide sensitivity training to student groups, RAs, cohort leaders, and various stakeholders, preparing them as mental health first responders. 

Well-being at Workplace

We believe in the importance of well-being in all places and organize workshops and awareness sessions which target staff members across different organizational levels. 

Advocacy

We recognize the importance of advocacy work and make dedicated efforts through print media, social media and organizing events- all endeavours to bust myths about mental health and reduce stigma through various student-led initiatives.

Internship

Centre offers interdisciplinary internships to students within and outside Ashoka University. Through the internships the students get an opportunity to understand aspects of and careers in Mental Health and the Counseling process, have interactions with counselors, engage in skill-building workshops, create mental health advocacy campaigns, and get an opportunity to engage in a research project in the field of mental health.

Living with Purpose: Lessons for Life from Psychology, Neuroscience and Cognitive Wellbeing

A cross-listed course designed exclusively for the Young India Fellowship. Led by Arvinder J Singh, this integrative course is put together by learnings from experts in the areas of psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness. 

Mental Health for High Schoolers

At ACWB we prioritize building awareness about mental health and extend our commitment to the larger community to include school students from grades 9 through 12, recognizing this as a pivotal developmental stage.

As a Centre for Excellence, our services and engagements are not limited within the community but also include outside institutes in the form of Research Collaborations, Trainings and Workshops and Capacity Building. We strive to broaden the ACWB’s impact and continue our mission of enhancing accessibility, inclusivity, and equity in mental health for all through awareness and capacity building within and outside of Ashoka.

Student Testimonials: 

“Stress and anxiety seem to be very dismissed at times, so it felt good to see an establishment of education actually acknowledge these issues we face but don’t talk about. It was really fun and interactive and helped a lot.”

“ I just wanted to thank you for all your help over the last two months. I graduated yesterday with Magna cum Laude honours, and it would not have been possible without your help. I am very grateful. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

“Today I am much more relaxed, way settled to take on any life challenges, see the world with a new lens and be more empathetic to the self. Your kind words and your belief in me have made me realize that I can face my life with much conviction, sharpen my resilience, and mostly love myself the way I am.”