Empowerment Academy is an independent wing of King's College, Kathmandu Nepal. EA's broad mission is to empower educators, students, and professionals through trainings, workshops, and mentorship programs. We primarily focus on the 4CR Skills: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and reflection. Our workshops are inspired by experiential learning philosophy and human centered design process.

2. Empowerment Academy, an independent center at King’s College Kathmandu, was founded by
Umes Shrestha and Abhisekh Maskey in 2016 with a sole purpose to empower students, teachers,
and professionals by enabling them to become better communicators, collaborators, critical thinkers,
creative solvers, and reflective learners.
We primarily focus on empowering teachers and students of Higher Ed level. Our motto is: everyone
- including teachers and students, needs to keep growing by going through the cycle of learning,
unlearning, and relearning.
And for that, we design and deliver intensive experiential learning workshops that help teachers to
transform their teaching, and students to become engaged and motivated learners.
In the last 3 years, we have had the privilege of conducting workshops for the teachers of academic
institutions like Budanilkantha School, Kasthamandap Vidhyalaya, Prime College, Asian Institute of
Technology & Management, and King’s College, among others.
We have also designed and delivered workshops for students of institutions like Apex College, Ace
Higher School, KU School of Management, Mid Valley Intl College, National College, Dharan
Multiple College, and several others.
Similarly, we have conducted workshops for organizations like Teach for Nepal, Nepal Police
Communication Directorate, Karkhana, Women Leaders in Technology, Laxmi Bank, M&S Next,
AIESEC Nepal, ACCE Nepal, Connect IN.
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
CREATIVITY
CRITICAL THINKING
REFLECTION
4CRSKILLS

3. NATIONAL SPEAKING CHAMPIONSHIP 2 /
UNLEARN CONFERENCE 2018

4. WORKSHOPS&
PROGRAMS
FOR
STUDENTS
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WHY PPT SUCKS
A workshop to enable participants to structure content, design
beautiful slides, and deliver their presentation with confidence and
power
GOLO SQUARE
A program for school - level students. It focuses on enabling the
students with the art of story crafting and story telling
UNLEARN CONFERENCE
This is a one-day student-led conference with the main theme of
learn, unlearn, relearn. We train and facilitate the students on how
to run a conference and in the process they learn and internalize
the concepts of leadership skills and the 4CR skills
NATIONAL SPEAKING CHAMPIONSHIP
A national level speaking and presentation championship for
undergrad and grad students.
SLIDE CIRCLE
This is a program totally dedicated on designing meaningful slides
for presentations
BECOMING A 21ST
CENTURY LEARNER
Empowering the students with 4CR skills, so that they can become
better at communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking
and reflection. Having these skills, students become capable of
developing their personal strengths and aptitude necessary for
learning and growth
BECOMING A
ST
21CENTURY
LEARNER

5. WORKSHOPS&
PROGRAMS
FOR
EDUCATORS
DESIGN THINKING FOR EDUCATION
A design thinking workshop focused on coming up with creative
ideas to solve problems plaguing our educational system.
TET MEET-UP
It is a closed event for passionate teachers of Higher Ed to meet in
a small group, and share ideas, disclose challenges, and learn
from each other. We envision it to be a support group for teachers
BECOMING A 21ST
CENTURY EDUCATOR
Empowering the participants with 4Cs skills, so that they can
create effective instructional designs, engage all types of students
in deep learning, and create visible impacts in classroom learning
and in the lives of the students.
The workshop blends the philosophies of Experiential Learning
Cycle (by David Kolb), Design Thinking (by IDEO) and LAB-based
Teaching Pedagogy (Oulu University of Applied Sciences,
Finland).
EMPOWERING HOURS
A weekly session for passionate educators to share their best
classroom practices, research, insights, teaching philosophies, in
order to support and inspire teachers
TEACH LAB
Teach Lab is an immersive program for teachers to inspire
innovation in education. Inspired by the Lab model practiced at
OAMK LABs (Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland), the
program allows participants to develop solutions through a human
centered design thinking process for their classrooms
D
L
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6. BECOMING A 21ST CENTURY EDUCATOR II
(ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED)

7. WORKSHOPS&
PROGRAMS
FOR
PROFESSIONALS
THE F WORD
A workshop on social media marketing, specifically on Facebook
THE SCIENCE OF STORYTELLING
We know storytelling is an art that we can learn and some have
mastered. However, there’s a science behind storytelling (and
writing) which we can understand and implement. The workshop
helps participants to decode and code the essential structures and
elements of powerful stories and allows them to improve their
storytelling skills.
THE WORKSHOP CHALLENGE
A three-stage challenge on how to plan, design, and deliver
effective workshops and trainings - to help participants become
high-impact trainers/workshop facilitators.
WRITING IS A CHOICE
A workshop to enable participants to structure content, design
beautiful slides, and deliver their presentation with confidence and
power

8. WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REACH
STUDENTS
EDUCATORS
&
PROFESSIONALS
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9. ORGANIZATIONS WE HAVE WORKED WITH

10. DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOP
AT DHARAN COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT

11. THE TEAM
CREATIVE HEART
MBA IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
RAUNAK CHAUDHARI
UMES SHRESTHA
RIGHT BRAIN
MEd IN TEACHER EDUCATION
MA IN COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM
BACK BONE
MSc IN MARKETING
UDGUM KHADKA
LEFT BRAIN
MBA IN MARKETING & HR
ABHISEKH MASKEY

12. EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY
KING’S COLLEGE,
BABARMAHAL, KATHMANDU, NEPAL
emp.acd@gmail.com
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