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Past Programs

SAT Prep Course

Every Saturdays 10am- 1pm
27 Sept - 25 Oct 2008
Gurudwara Singh Sabha of WA
$100 materials fee
Facilitator: Hollis Wong- Wear

Program Co-Sponsor: Khalsa Gurmat School, WA
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samrath 2007 high school leadership program



Each week they engaged with different shabads, team building exercises, skill-building activities, writing workshops and guest speakers/ mentors, all with the purpose of each Kaur finding her personal strength and community support.

During the course of this program, these women wrote an article about the work we were doing in an international Sikh women’s magazine and designed a t-shirt to instill pride in being a Sikh female.

Our most recent project was with a group of six women who were between the ages of 15 and 18 in a group called “samrath: a place for powerful sikh sisters”. 

This group of five women, from the greater Seattle, met every Saturday for nine weeks.  This pilot “samrath” prgograms was designed to build a community of Sikh women who work together towards achieving their goals and dreams (recognition of the Supreme within us to provide us with a source of divine strength), while still living and thriving within their Sikh - American lives. 

"Studies of the Sikh She" - University of Washington Winter 2007

This program was our first attempt and bringing young women together and encouraging them to be introspective about their lives.  Through coupling a Sikh passage of writing (and translation) along, a theoretical piece of work, and a writing assignment- our weekly discussions were lively.

The goal of this course was to provide young women at the University of Washington a community of people who had similar life experiences, a common understanding of fundamental Sikh values, and could effectively articulate through writing or verbally issues of concern to them as Sikh women.

We offered two courses for ten weeks.  Each course had five participants and all participated with the creation of a chat book of their words and thoughts, the final "hands" circle mural and a culminating combined potluck. 


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