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Re-imagining how knowledge is acquired
Learning alongside
Kaaya is not running courses. It is not in the business of teaching. What happens here is closer to a shared inquiry — and the programmes below are invitations to join it, not enrol in it.
The dairy farmer who leads the milk journey knows what a cow eats, what it costs to keep her, what rate he receives, how purity is tested. He knows this because his livelihood depends on it. When students walk with him, they are not receiving instruction. They are entering a different relationship with knowledge — one the classroom was not designed to provide.
Experience · Engage · Explore
Programmes by duration
| Duration | Programme | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1–5 days | Short immersions | Curriculum-linked outdoor camps built around the seed journey, the milk journey, and the soil journey. Children work with their hands and return with a different sense of where food comes from. |
| 1–5 weeks | Project residencies | Students narrow in on a specific local challenge and work on it collaboratively alongside the community — not as observers, but as participants in real problem-solving. |
| Up to 6 months | Live projects & internships | For college students and young professionals. The aim is not to apply what was learned in classrooms — but to discover what classrooms could not teach. |
| Summer | Detox camps | Spaces for urban children to form genuine friendships, explore independently, and simply be in nature for a while. When children arrive from different schools, without existing hierarchies or shared histories, something else becomes possible. |
"We also value unstructured time. We let children feel bored. Boredom, we have found, is where the roots of imagination lie dormant"
Hands-on Sessions
These are not demonstrations. They are sessions for people who want to make something, learn something, or pay closer attention to the world around them.
Hands-on pottery
3-hour sessions for groups up to 12. Working with clay, wheel, and kiln under local guidance.
Explore →Forest & eco trails
Guided walks through the surrounding landscape — streams, canopy, soil, and what lives in all of them.
Explore →Nature art classes
In collaboration with visiting practitioners. Making things from materials the land provides.
Explore →Farm day picnics
Outdoor-cooked meals in the mountains. Food grown nearby, prepared in the open air.
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