Engage
Step out of the lecture hall and into the village hall. Engage is IPSW's foundational pillar — a way of meeting people, places and problems with care and rigour.
100+
Community partners
14
Weeks of practice
1:6
Supervisor ratio
Overview
What engage actually looks like.
Engage modules pair every classroom session with a community encounter — schools, health posts, women's collectives or youth groups. The goal is not service delivery, but learning to listen, observe and reflect.
Cohorts are deliberately small. Sessions run in both Nepali and English, with case studies grounded in Nepali contexts — from bal mandir wellbeing programmes to gender-based violence response circles in the Far West.
Aclearpath,withroomtothink.
Each phase builds on the last — fieldwork, supervision and reflective practice are interleaved rather than stacked.
Orientation & ethics
Foundations of dialogue, confidentiality and the IPSW Code of Practice.
Community immersion
Weekly placements in partnered schools, health posts or community organisations.
Reflective seminars
Faculty-led seminars where field notes are workshopped into case formulations.
Capstone presentation
Students present a community case study to faculty and partner organisations.
WhatyoucarryforwardfromEngage.
Outcomes are written as capabilities you take with you — not credit hours.
Reflective practitioners
You learn to slow down, name your assumptions and write meaningful field notes.
Ethical fluency
You leave with a working ethics vocabulary — consent, confidentiality, dual roles, harm.
Community literacy
You can read a community's resources, gaps and informal supports before you intervene.
Bilingual practice
You can hold a conversation, lead a session and write notes in both Nepali and English.
FromstudentsofEngage.
“Engage modules are taught in both Nepali and English. That made a real difference for me — the case studies felt rooted in our communities.”
Pramila Tamang
Diploma in Counselling Skills
“Engage is more than fieldwork — it is a way of holding the work. My instructors taught me to listen before I intervene.”
Sushila Gurung
BA Applied Psychology