“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
- Aristotle

“Reflective practice is a dialogue of thinking and doing through which I become more skilful.”
- Donald Schon

Vision

The Professional Practices program at Srishti Manipal is committed to the development of professional learning cultures, advancement of lifelong learning and provision of open access to high quality educational resources. The programs are uniquely designed to enable working professionals and practitioners to upgrade and upskill, work and learn to extend and develop their skillsets and competencies towards improving the lives of others and the communities we live in through own practice.

We create learning opportunities for practitioners and to develop and extend their practice towards their personal and professional growth, paced to keep up with the demands the world of practice.

We facilitate art, design and transdisciplinary approaches for aspiring and experienced professionals and practitioners to adopt in the pursuit of their inquiry into practice.

Our programs are designed to provide learning that is flexible, diverse and available at different times across geographical boundaries.

The Professional Practices program at Srishti Manipal combines theory and practice as a pathway to mastery. Individuals explore inwards with the self and outwards with the world in a critical and reflective practice-based program that equips them with capabilities to thrive in life and work. The Master of Arts in Professional Practices is an inclusive program that enables practitioners to combine their work with higher education, thereby allowing them to get better at what they do while straddling the learn/work divide.

Trans-disciplinarity is foundational to the Professional Practices program at Srishti Manipal, enabling professionals to adopt and adapt practices from across disciplines. In this program, theoretical knowledge is used to scaffold observations and experiences in the field, and not the other way around, thus flipping the traditional way of learning theory first and practice later.

The applicants who join the Master of Arts in Professional Practices have three pathways to choose from: