Skill Development by Heartfulness
For generations, education has been at the heart of the Heartfulness journey towards human development. Building on this legacy, Heartfulness Education Trust (HET) is taking the next step — extending its work into skill development, employability and sustainable livelihoods.
To create capable, confident and conscious individuals by integrating excellence in vocational education with life skills, values and holistic human development.
To create a strong workforce equipped with indigenous, current and emerging technological skills, emotional resilience, innovation, creativity, and a balanced approach to human development.
Skill Development by Heartfulness (SDH) brings together the strengths of the Heartfulness ecosystem — its people, centres, institutions, infrastructure, knowledge and values — to create opportunities for young people to learn, grow, contribute and build meaningful livelihoods.
SDH exists to build a distributed, sustainable ecosystem where young people gain meaningful skills, industries find the workforce they need, and communities grow stronger together. This purpose is expressed through four interconnected pillars.
Create meaningful pathways for young people, including those who have dropped out of formal education, to learn, experience, contribute and grow through projects, internships, volunteering, mentoring, training and work opportunities.
Beyond technical capabilities, SDH will nurture confidence, communication, teamwork, leadership, ethics, responsibility, character and a spirit of service, helping young people become active contributors to their families, communities and society.
Reduce the gap between industry skill requirements and workforce capabilities by enabling individuals to translate skills into opportunities and opportunities into livelihoods.
SDH will provide market-oriented, industry-relevant, future-ready and quality assured training and certification across vocational, technical, digital, professional and emerging domains, while building bridges to employment, apprenticeships, internships, entrepreneurship and industry opportunities backed by reliable, standardized assessment processes. This will include developing NSQF and NEP2020-aligned programs, qualification design and certification frameworks, that can be executed with schools and colleges. These efforts will align with national skilling priorities, including the Skill India Mission, to support the country's broader workforce development goals. SDH will be recognised as an NCVET awarding body and assessment agency, enabling it to design, deliver and certify NSQF-aligned qualifications with pan-India validity.
The focus will be on creating a stronger connection between what people learn and what the world of work needs.
Create skill development systems that can become operationally and financially sustainable, enabling SDH initiatives to grow, scale and create continuing impact.
This includes building incubation platforms for entrepreneurship across startups, small enterprises and established industry, and diversifying pathways to sustainability through CSR, government schemes, consultations, accreditation and certification licensing, production-linked training, and institutional partnerships — while enabling participating centres and initiatives to progressively become more self-sustaining and resilient, supported by transparent grievance redressal and quality-monitoring mechanisms.
Unlock the potential of the Heartfulness ecosystem, including its centres, ashrams, institutions, infrastructure, people, trainers, educators, knowledge and networks, to create a distributed ecosystem of learning and opportunity, backed by nationally recognized and credible certification.
Heartfulness centres and partner institutions, including schools and colleges, can become learning and skilling hubs, bringing together trainers, industry experts, Subject Matter Experts and community partners to make quality skill development more accessible, relevant and scalable.
SDH seeks to create a stronger connection between education, skills, industry and livelihoods.
We aim to:
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