Conflict is rampant. The trauma it causes is real.
It disconnects us, constrains our agency and shapes how we learn to live with ourselves and each other.
Learning to respond to this trauma is urgent. So is building the capacity to hope.
We believe hope is a muscle, strengthened by practice. Schools can be places where it is kept in action.
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One of the most powerful places to begin is already in the room: the teacher.
Teachers work through conflict while often carrying its weight themselves. They navigate challenges they were never trained for, learning as they go. They burn out, become reactive, and yet keep showing up.
We cannot change the conditions children grow up in without investing in the people who shape their everyday experiences.
For a decade, ELICIT has worked alongside teachers to turn these challenges into capacities.
Choose a practice to see what it looks like in a classroom.
PauseNoticing the moment before reacting to it.
Over the last three years, we have built this practice with a small cadre of educators, deliberately and with rigour.
Some of the hardest things we seek to change have hardened over generations — narratives shaped by conflict, colonisation, oppression and the persistent erosion of agency.
None of this shifts in a single move. What can be built, slowly and together, are the conditions in which classrooms become healthier.
We invite you to build the conditions with us
Teachers carry the weight of conflict too. ELICIT begins with the educator’s own wellbeing, because a teacher who is steadier can help a classroom steady.
Change starts with noticing. ELICIT builds guided reflection into teachers’ practice, so they can look back at what happened in a lesson and at their own part in it.
Children learn when they feel safe with the adults around them. Teachers practise listening for the world a child brings into the room, and build trust from there.
Behaviour often carries a story. Through trauma-informed, arts-based methods, teachers learn to ask what lies underneath and to respond with intention rather than react.
Healing-centred classrooms make room for children to speak, make choices and shape how they learn. Agency, like hope, grows with practice.
One teacher cannot hold this alone. ELICIT builds leaders among educators, so the practice is shared across a staffroom rather than carried by one person.
Choose a block to set it in place. Each one is a condition that healthier classrooms rest on.
Read all six conditions
This is what we call the work of water.
Rock does not change overnight. Water keeps moving, finding its way, gradually reshaping what once seemed immovable.
We see teachers doing the same: changing the everyday conditions in which children learn and people relate, creating the possibility for others to carry the work forward.
Because what a teacher learns never stays with the teacher. It travels through…
- the teacher
- classrooms
- staffrooms
- homes
- communities
Children grow in the conditions teachers create, carrying new ways of relating and responding into their own lives. In time, they too can become allies in this work, carrying it into the next generation.
Now, the people we have invested in are ready to grow this cadre.
30 more practitioners across Kashmir and Manipur
Together, we want to equip them to make trauma-responsive, context-sensitive and healing-oriented education part of how schools work.
This is how we intend to scale: by building people who can build people, and practices that can travel.
The campaign goal
Help us keep this moving
ELICIT is ready with its pedagogy and people to take this fellowship and work into more schools and regions.
We are aiming to build a cohort of 30+ fellows, and partnerships with these schools are in place. We are in the middle of a recruitment cycle for these fellows, and conversations with potentially large donors are underway to unlock this expansion.
But to get there, we need a push. A bridge. A fund that helps us sustain the work until we secure support from the next big donor.
This fund will help us sustain our current fellows and support the team through the final leg of the curriculum redesign.
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Recent updates
Recent updates about our work
How the work is moving, in our own reports. We will add new updates here as they come.
Quarterly report · June to September 2026
Q2 2026: what flowed, what ebbed
Our busiest quarter: second-year fellows at the end of 1.5 years on the ground, glimpses of our recent impact assessment, the first groundwork of the Water Practice, and the book, finally out.