Enriched individual as a centre for growth

Abstract

This paper discusses the shifting paradigms of what is considered enrichment of an individual. In the traditional agrarian society enrichment was around relationships and institutions of belonging, age, experience, wisdom and sagacity meant an enriched individual. In to-days industrialised society achievement, success, and wealth connotes enrichment. But together both the traditional and the industrial context, to-day the individual identity holds a vast canvas of life to locate oneself, has choices from multiplicities, can evolve a perspective for life and living and can design and define membership and roles in multiple institutions. The individual is truly enriched when she/he can give expression to the being in terms of relatedness and to the becoming in terms of achievement, aspirations and success. The paper then focuses on women as enriched individual as a center for growth. Women enrich themselves through redefining their social roles in the socio-cultural context, achievement and success in education context and performance and success in the organizational context. Essentially the movement toward a professional orientation anchored in wholesomeness and well-being will shape women where new processes can be initiated for themselves as well as others.