Dojos
Practice-based skill sessions for development practitioners. Not lectures—90-minute cohort workshops where you actually use the techniques. 56 sessions across 6 structured series covering thinking, evidence, methods, implementation, epistemic hygiene, and gender & power.
Simple Pricing
Per Session
- Payment required before each session
- No long-term commitments
- Join individual sessions or full series
- Delhi, Bangalore, or Online
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Select the skills you want to practice. We'll notify you when relevant cohorts open.
"Applied rationality is very much something you learn by doing, and it works best when taught in a structured environment that makes the default action to practice things."— Neel Nanda, Cambridge EA Rationality Workshops
Dojo Series
6 structured series, 56 sessions. Join one or build your own path from individual skills.
Orientation and Starters
Entry point for every series. Sets the ground rules, introduces the dojo format, and gets participants calibrated before diving into specific skills.
Thinking Clearly in Development
Foundation skills for practitioners. Counterfactual reasoning, cognitive bias awareness, problem framing, theory of change thinking, and calibrating your uncertainty.
Evidence Reasoning
Critical thinking for consuming and producing research. Design indicators, review evidence rapidly, synthesize qualitative data, tell stories with data, and build cost-effectiveness intuition.
Political Economy & Implementation
The messy reality of making things work. Map stakeholder power, diagnose implementation failure, navigate funder psychology, design services, plan exits, and decide when to scale.
Methods That Actually Work
Advanced evaluation methods for practitioners. Process tracing, realist evaluation, contribution analysis, mixed methods integration, and statistical reasoning for real-world programmes.
Epistemic Hygiene
Intellectual honesty as a practice. Catch the lies you tell yourself, calibrate magnitude, sit with discomfort, know when to trust intuition vs data, and write honestly.
Gender, Power & Data
Gender as an analytical lens, not a checkbox. Data feminism, disaggregated data, third gender in South Asian fieldwork, intersectionality, feminist participatory action research, and power analysis beyond the 2x2.
How Sessions Work
90 minutes. Bi-weekly. Practice over theory.
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Cohorts running now in Delhi, Bangalore, and Online.