Have you ever tried footwear Therapy on Trees and Plants? Surprised hearing the Concept? Giving a decent look at the ground level of trees and plants transforms entire environment all around; Says Rev. Dr Praveen Martis, SJ, Honourable Vice Chancellor of St Aloysius Deemed to be University.
NV Paulose | Joanne D’Souza
“People always look first at your footwear and evaluate you accordingly.” This is known to all of us. “When I went deep into this; I found this idea very interesting. As I reflected further about it; I understood much about its wider implications. I knew this can be applied on nature as well.” What about applying the concept on trees and plants? How to go about? This is how I started beautifying the ground realities in the campus. As we improved the ground access and appearance; it even reflected in the behavioural pattern of the students and faculty positively. Throwing thrashes stopped at once. Even it reflected in the interpersonal relationships in the campus” Rev. Dr. Praveen Martis SJ, Honourable Vice Chancellor of St Aloysius University spoke in length about how he went on transforming the Campus to become elegant, vibrant and a more pleasant one as we see the St. Aloysius University Campus today.
“The small tiny thought brought a paradigm shift to the character of the campus. Transformations took rocket speed all around and the theme became a satellite guiding the entire environmental vision of the campus taking everyone into the sky of imagination. We have several feathers on the hat of our environmental value additions. All were achieved with shared vision and inspired action from the Faculty and Students. Students who had passed out comes back to move around in the campus and to cherish moments in the presents of trees and plants.” Green is a great attraction in our campus today; Fr. Praveen Martis Said.
What is footwear for trees and plants?” It is all about how you beautify its bottom part! People look at the footwear of a person and a tree as well; Fr. Martis went talking effortlessly about the comparison for footwear for people and footwear for trees and plants. It was so interesting to listen and grasp the whole concept. By this time we were exploring the wonderful campus wherein a huge transformation had happened just like that over past few years. There is green everywhere with equal importance for the tiny tots and the giants among the trees. Bees, insects and every living and non living systems are placed into the chain of coexistence.
Even the dead wood logs are made use to nurture life in the nature.
We should do lot of research about the connection between human behaviour and environmental sanity. This is a large research topic for environment lovers and green ambassadors. This is all about the ground realities that you face in your campus. Look at the bottom of the trees and plants and check if it is dirt covering the true beauty of the trees and plants. Give it a thought and give appropriate footwear for the trees and plants. The character of the campus transforms almost instantly.
The power of micro systems also require large understanding. We should involve every student in nurturing nature; Fr. Praveen Martis told abruptly. Every idea on nurturing nature and empowering students should happen. Learning should be expanded beyond classroom walls and syllabus boundaries. Students should learn about relationship between themselves and also with nature. New ideas should come and more students and faculty should come forward with distinct ideas and action plans.
We need to evolve with new leadership models as well. Everyone should become a leader and a team player at the very same time. Our efforts should reflect in the life of the people in the city and villages. We should make replicable models then. I am interested in activities based on data analytics. Regularity and repetition of great ideas are important. We need to involve more people in building relationships in society and nature. Human experience in various segments should become experimental threads in the campuses. Successful models should reach wider spectrum of actualizations.
Research activities, Book Publications, Readers and writers forums!
Fr. Praveen Martis spoke in length about expansion of faculty involvement in wider areas of excellence. Book publications and social interventions are in his priorities. He himself is working on finding time for converting ideas into actionable book forms helping the society to go more practical. Issues in the society should become concern of the University; he said to himself. It was so evident that he expect every faculty to yet expand their operational stream and to engage students into greater missions for themselves and for the society as well. More than overloading few faculties and students; his wish is to make everyone to contribute bits and bytes on a regular basis on set agendas and action plans.
Small actions with thousands of replications will impact the society positively and significantly. Let students and faculties come out from classrooms finding extra time to take up and shoulder extra responsibilities without thinking it as over leads or unnecessary interventions. What we need today is to spread awareness about good practices here and elsewhere across the nation. We should bring good practices at various places that are replicable in our campus and around and give all our good practices for the larger society in return. Helping others grow is the best way to grow ourselves; Fr. Martis told!
We see The Power of Inspired Teamwork in the Campus!
Passionate individuals inspire the people around to get into compassionate work. Arjun Mascarenhas, Glavin Rodrigues and enormous number of boys and girls have toiled compassionately to convert dump yards in the back yard and distant corners into welcoming green fields. Eco-Warriors’ student Volunteer group in the University Campus execute all the green initiatives of the campus. Congratulations to all of you for the great contributions that you have done towards the mother nature.
Such efforts are spiritual deposits that you can convert into success and blessings in your life whenever you want them. Life and its success are all about making a journey back and forth between your positive memory space and absolute imaginary specifics for your future. All that you need to learn is the art of converting positive memories into measurable outcomes in specific terms in the future time line of your imaginations. Anything to happen in the world has to happen prior in your mind space!
Make it a habit to pick good memories one bye one and to store them like the setting within a Diamond Showroom. Well remembered positive memories elicit sensory enzymes to cement your memories firm in the foundation of your success journey. The smell of the garden, the colourful serene atmosphere with the bounties of species, the chirping of birds and other living wonders, the voice that you hear in your positive conversations and the gentle breeze that you experience are all treasures to be converted into your future success. Do well now to get them back to protect and safeguard you in your future! Time is life and it has life in abundance!!
