Supporting acarya training through Lifelong Learning
Effective service through skills, knowledge and competence.
Further education for acaryas, offered with care, seriousness and room for lifelong learning.
Here is the broad outline of the topics and courses which are on offer. There is not a schedule set currently for the courses.
Effective service through
Five programmes. Twenty-four units of study.
Each unit is written as a self-contained, enrollable module: a title, a short overview explaining what it covers and why it matters, and the specific topics and learning content within it.
Philosophy and Ideology
Deepens acaryas' grounding in Ananda Marga's philosophy — both spiritual and social — and their ability to hold it with intellectual honesty, in dialogue with other systems of thought.
Personal and Interpersonal Development
Covers the inner life and personal disciplines of acarya life — from celibacy, trauma and self-management through to counselling skills, ethics and emotional awareness.
Leadership, Planning and Quality Management
Builds the organisational, financial and strategic skills acaryas need to run projects, communities, boards and enterprises effectively — skills otherwise learned the slow and costly way, by trial and error.
The Acarya in Relationship
Focuses outward and inward at once — on the acarya's relationships with margiis, with power, with fellow acaryas, and with the wider public through pracar.
The Acarya in Practice
The practical, hands-on responsibilities of acarya life — teaching, cross-cultural work, conflict, schools, fundraising and safety.
How it will work
Begin with an expression of interest.
You may register your interest in a course, and when we have enough people enrolled (a minimum of 5), then we will organise the course, including the instructor, the timetable.
All courses will operate once a week, for a 2 hour session. The time and day will depend on enrolees, time zones, and availability.
The four commitments
The training is free, but there is a cost - your commitment.
This is encoded in 4 requirements -
- Complete confidentiality
- 100% attendance
- Class etiquette
- Engagement
A completion certificate will be issued.
Read the commitments in detail before registering your interest.
Read the full commitmentsWho is behind this educational framework?
The page is founded by Dr Vinay Gunther, who has been a margii since 1973, and had contact with Baba many times during the 1980’s.
About SAT Lifelong Learning