Associate Staff Member
Anando studied BA Philosophy at Madras Christian College, and joined Athma Shakti Vidyalaya, a residential democratic therapeutic community for treatment of persons with various psychiatric disorders, in June 2000.He continues to work there as a group and individual. He has recently developed an additional role of being the course coordinator for an intensive experiential 14 day internship for students of psychology – designed to give the students a lived experience of a TC, in addition to their theoretical teaching modules.
He is currently in the process of developing two more TCs, another in Bangalore and one in rural India. He has been involved with the Living Learning Experience workshops since 2012.