The Triple Challenge Framework

Awakening the sense of Progress

Developing tools

Emerging from more than fifty years of educational research and experimentation in Auroville, the Triple Challenge Framework offers practical tools that help transform experience into conscious development.

The Triple Challenge Framework invites young people to design, undertake and reflect upon meaningful challenges that strengthen the body, educate the life-force and expand the mind.

It can be adapted to many different contexts, including schools, universities, internships, apprenticeship programmes, youth initiatives and professional development.

It begins with a question:

How can a challenge become a conscious occasion of & tool for progress?

Why Challenges?

Unless we begin a conscious process of Yoga. Many of the experiences that shape us deeply are not planned. They arise through moments of difficulty, uncertainty, failure, sudden or emerging responsibility, surprising discoveries and the countless situations that ask something new of us.

The Triple Challenge Framework proposes that these moments need not be left to circumstance. In fact, by consciously choosing areas of oneself to work upon, and setting oneself challenges, young people may begin to recognise patterns in their own development, strengthen their faculties and gradually take greater responsibility for the person they are becoming.

Three Complementary Domains

Challenges are picked up in each of the parts of the instrumental nature

The Body

Developing health, vitality, discipline, resilience and conscious mastery through physical challenges.

The Life-Spirit

Developing courage, initiative, emotional balance, creativity, harmonious relationships and the joy of service.

The Mind

Developing concentration, discernment, synthesis, imagination, inquiry and independent thought.

and organised around

a Central Aspiration

A Framework for Progress

The Triple Challenge Framework provides practical tools that help individuals become increasingly conscious of their own development.

Among them are:

challenge mapping;
self-observation and reflective practices;
personal challenge design;
challenge portfolios;
mentoring conversations;
the Challenge Atlas;
tools for recognising growth over time.

Research & Development

The Triple Challenge Framework is an evolving research initiative of SAIIER (Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research).

It is offered as a living framework that continues to evolve through practice, research and collaboration.

Educators, mentors, internship coordinators, youth programmes and educational institutes and other organisations are invited to test, adapt and contribute new practices, case studies and research that strengthen the framework for diverse contexts.

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