Wisdom and Storytelling - A Conversation with Deepak Ramola

Deepak Ramola is the Founder and Artistic Director of Project
FUEL. A two time TED Talk speaker & UN Action Plan Executor,
he also previously served as the Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable
Development.


Deepak is a storyteller and artist forwarding the understanding
of life lessons of everyone from women of the Maasai tribe to
young girls in Afghanistan and sex workers of Kamathipura,
earthquake survivors in Nepal to Syrian refugees in Europe.


Founded in 2009, Project FUEL collects life lessons from people
all over the world and turns them into interactive and
performance activities, to pass on the learnings. The passing on
happens by way of workshops, seminars, and sometimes even over
coffee.


Every life is important and so is what each person's life teaches
them. At FUEL, life lessons are continuously collected,
documented, thought about deeply and then turned into performance
activities. This ensures that you don't just hear someone's
lesson in words but experience it tangibly, and apply it
practically in your own life.


One way that the life lessons are shared globally is through the
World Wisdom Map - a collation and exhibition of human wisdom
that invites people to engage, contribute and learn from
everyone's stories in an artistic and interactive way.


Project FUEL's methodology has been recognised as a world's top
100 innovations in education by Finland based organisation
HundrED and has also been adopted by the Education Board of
Antwerp in Belgium, and schools across Asia and the US.


A celebrated lyricist in Hindi Cinema, Deepak's songs have been
voiced by Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Rekha Bhardwaj amongst
others. His first collection of Hindi poetry titled Itna Toh Main
Samajh Gaya Hoon received the prestigious Young Writer Award in
2020 at Jaipur Literature Festival. His latest book, 50 Toughest
Questions of Life, has gone into a reprint two weeks after its
release.


Social Links


LinkedIn: deepak-ramola


Twitter: @deepak1811


Instagram: @deepakramola; @projectfuel