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Education
English diwans for building community and exploring Sikhi.
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Every Friday night in Brampton, Ontario, about 150 people gather for Our Diwan: simran, kirtan, discourse in English, and langar. It’s open to everyone, and built for young Sikhs who have drifted from Sikh spaces.
Most didn’t drift away because they stopped caring. They drifted because walking into a Sikh space can feel like a test that many of us don't feel ready to pass. So, at best, our questions go to YouTube and, at worst, we just keep them to ourselves.
Our Diwan is the room where you don’t have to already know. You come as you are, learn in the language you think in, and stay for the sangat.
And — it’s working! Each week, about a third of the people in the room are there for the first time. We've been collecting data as we go, and know that a third of the sangat we surveyed drives more than 30 minutes each way to be there.
The harder part is turning a first visit into belonging. That's our mission and that's why this project will fund two things:
- Build the Sangat Experience app. It offers a quick check-in at the door, a personal record of each person’s journey, content for reflection and engagement, as well as a direct line to what’s on next, so a first Friday doesn’t end at the door.
- Experiments in reaching those who haven’t come yet. We’ll test what brings someone in for the first time and what brings them back: topic-led evenings, sessions made for beginners, and gentle, optional ways to meet people over langar.
- Designing a repeatable model. By prototyping the experience through our app and live experiments, we want to establish a playbook that can be rolled out in other communities to boot up the same type of Sikh sangat in spaces where people are feeling this disconnection.
Your dasvandh helps a young Sikhs find their sangat, and stay.
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