At Circles and Cycles, we celebrated Learners’ Day—a day where parents were invited into our learning spaces to explore provocations and engage with the environment alongside their children. Through music, arts and crafts, and moments where children shared their day through their own lens, learning came alive. It was a day where parents became children again.
As a mother, I wanted to give her more than what I could find around me. I wanted to understand how her brain was developing and how I could nurture it during those precious early years. That search led me into neuroscience, Japanese right-brain methodologies and developmental research that was still largely unfamiliar to Indian parents.
Unnati Sandha, an American Academy of Ballet, New York affiliated teacher and CID–UNESCO Paris member, specialises in classical ballet. At Coco Ballet, children develop technique alongside posture, coordination, focus, discipline, confidence and self-expression, with a structured pathway from Level 1 to Level 6 and opportunities for international certification.
Raëll Padamsee is an artist, director, producer and educator with 30+ years in theatre and 100+ productions, including The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Macbeth and Godspell. She uses theatre and the arts to inspire expression, confidence and learning.
Nikita Kherajani is an educator, artist and founder of Kreative Tots, creating learning experiences through art and storytelling. Her workshops encourage children to explore, imagine, experiment and express freely through open-ended art, nurturing creativity, fine-motor skills, concentration, confidence, problem-solving and independent thinking.
