The Commutiny Journey

Application and selection

  1. To be a part of the Commutiny Learning and Leadership journey, please fill the application form and submit it to us by December 28, 2008 January 4th 2009.
  2. We will review your application and select you for a telephonic interview.
  3. We will further invite you for a face to face interview.

Once you clear the above phases, we will select you as a COMMUTINEER.

As a Commutineer, you will receive a monthly living and learning stipend between May 2009 and April 2010

>> The journey begins

By April 2009

An experiential event


As a Commutineer, we will invite you to an experiential event of 5 days in April 2009.

This event will consist of workshops on building leadership skills, discussions on social issues, spaces to share personal passions and ideas for change, and a scope to transform a social change idea into a social initiative...

Preparation for the journey


Based on your social initiative, you will prepare yourself to undertake the year-long journey.

>> The Learning-Leadership journey

May 2009 to January 2010

A learning exposure


You will intern in a voluntary organization(s) for a period of 3 months. Here you will gain a deeper understanding of the issue that you have chosen to address and exposure to various field processes.

A unique gathering


With your experiences, learnings and improved ideas, you will meet the other fellows and us after the 3 months. You will share your sharpened initiative, work more with us to finalise its design. You will submit your completed design of the social change initiative in the form of a proposal.

Self-directed action


With your experiences, learnings and improved ideas, you will meet the other fellows and us after the 3 months. You will share your sharpened initiative, work more with us to finalise its design.


You will submit your completed design of the social change initiative in the form of a proposal.

Submission of project


At the end of the 6 months, you will submit the work you did as a Commutineer. This could be a report, an art-work, a campaign design, a document, a film/video - Anything that substantially puts together your effort and understandings during the journey and will add to the resource pool that we will together build for a range of young initiators to draw inspiration and reference from in the future.

>> The journey continues

February 2010 to April 2010

Exploring the future


You will join the members of COMMUTINY - THE YOUTH COLLECTIVE to work on ways to further promote youth development and youth action.

The Commutiny Festival


You will work with the other Commutineers to organize a youth event to inspire more young people to take up social change initiatives such as yours.