ARISE · What We Do · Vyakti Darpan
The mirror of the person.
Vyakti Darpan is the assessment suite of the movement — a careful look at where a person stands today across the five dimensions of a human being. It is how we come to know you well enough to develop you well. Nothing in it decides whether you may join ARISE.
The whole person — not a single number.
A mirror, held steadily, and handed back to you.
Real formation is never only academic. Vyakti Darpan reads across the five dimensions — physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual — and across the aptitudes ARISE exists to grow: the aptitude to lead, and the aptitude to build. Running through all of it are your values, and the spirit of seva: service before self.
Four for adults, one for children
Prerak, Udaan, Setu and Acharya are the adult instruments — one for each kind of life the movement gathers. Ankur is something else entirely: the baseline instrument for a child at a Nurture Centre, held under the opposite rules.
The two groups are kept apart on this page because they must be kept apart in fact.
A short one, then a fuller one
Each adult instrument comes in two stages. The screener takes about fifteen to twenty minutes — a brisk first pass. The full assessment takes about forty to fifty minutes, and becomes the beginning of your own development plan.
Take them somewhere quiet, and answer as you truly are. There are no right answers to perform.
Two things you should know before you answer anything.
Both of these belong at the top of the page rather than at the bottom of a form, because a person deciding whether to answer honestly deserves to know them first.
One. Nothing here decides whether you may join ARISE. No assessment decides whether you may join, or bars you from anything. You apply, you complete the Associate Success Program, and you are an associate. An instrument of Vyakti Darpan can open a conversation. It cannot close a door.
Two. The four adult instruments may be shared with an employer. Prerak, Udaan, Setu and Acharya may be shared with an employer, under safeguarding riders, as complementary input to your attribute validation report — one named candidate, one named opportunity. That happens only with your own consent, given separately for that sharing and withdrawable at any time. They are sensitive personal data under the law in force today, and they are held that way.
We say this plainly because the honest version is the useful one. An associate’s formation can open a door to work, and a company can only walk through that door if it is shown something real.
What you may ask for, at any time
You may ask what is held about you. You may ask for a human review of any result. You may correct it. You may withdraw your consent to any sharing, and the sharing stops. You may ask for the record to be deleted.
Nothing is ever sent as a list. Every disclosure is made under a written agreement, is logged, and is told to you. Taking part is voluntary throughout, and you may stop at any point.
Four instruments, one spirit.
Each cluster of the movement has its own instrument, tuned to its people and its purpose. Begin with the screener for the group you belong to. All four carry the sharing rule set out above.
Udaan — the associate instrument
For students and working people up to thirty — the heart of the movement today. Udaan means flight. It reads the whole person and the aptitude to lead and to build.
What Udaan asks
Statements to agree or disagree with across the five dimensions, a few short reasoning puzzles, and ordinary situations that ask what you would actually do.
There are no clinical or mental-health questions. The full assessment adds written reflections, and those reflections carry more weight than any arithmetic.
Prerak — the leadership instrument
For those who come to guide, mentor and build. Prerak means one who inspires. It reads not for how far you can rise, but for how well you raise and steward others.
What Prerak asks
Service leadership, the capacity to grow another person, wisdom, giving back, and the building of something that outlasts you. Real choices from a working life, and forced-choice values.
For a role of trust especially, the conversation with you carries the decision — not the score.
Setu — the professional instrument
For working professionals who want to serve while keeping their work. Setu means the bridge. It reads how your skill, your network and your systems-thinking might serve.
What Setu asks
Strengths, fit with the values of the movement, and how a professional skill translates into service. A set of workplace situations asks what you would do when doing the right thing costs something.
It is not an IQ test and not a clinical screen. Where wellbeing is asked about, it is only so that support can be offered.
Acharya — the teaching instrument
For teachers of any institution — primary, secondary or degree college. Acharya means master-teacher. It belongs to the RITE cluster: Rebuild India Teaching Excellence.
What Acharya asks
Craft in the classroom, how you mentor and grow, how you hold a difficult room, and the material you could create for the Rebuild India content universe.
Situations are drawn from school life, including the ones where the honest answer is the inconvenient one.
Every associate of ARISE is aged eighteen or above. These four instruments are for adults only.
Ankur is a different thing altogether.
A seedling is not a candidate.
Ankur means a seedling. It is the baseline instrument for a child at a Nurture Centre — taken at the centre when the child joins, and again at the end of each term. It is not something an adult takes about themselves, and it is not part of the adult suite in any respect.
At the centre, with consent
A parent or legal guardian consents first. A teaching associate then sits with the child and fills it in at the centre. The child is asked gently too, and a child who would rather not answer simply does not.
Children of classes 6 to 10. No exam, no IQ test, no pass and no fail, and no child is ever turned away by it.
It never leaves the centre
A child’s Ankur record is seen only by the teaching associate, the Centre Mentor and the Centre. It is never shared with an employer, a partner, a school, a donor, or any person outside the centre.
It is never used in any recognition of a club, of an associate or of a centre — and never for tracking, profiling or targeted advertising.
The attribute validation report.
When an associate is referred to an Earn Partner for a named opportunity, the movement furnishes one document about them — and that is the only name it bears. One instrument, one name. There is no second format and no informal version.
A derivation layer
It derives, and it does not opine. Every statement in it comes from something the movement can prove: a certified course completed, or a service record validated. It is rendered fairly, neither inflated nor diminished.
Not a reference letter
Nobody vouches for anybody in it. It is not a ranking and not a recommendation. A company sets its own threshold and runs its own process on top of it.
Complementary input
The four adult instruments of Vyakti Darpan are complementary input to that report — with your consent, separately given. They are never the report itself, and never the whole picture.
What the report never contains
No child’s data, ever. No data of another associate. No assertion that cannot be traced to a certified course or a validated service record.
The status of the Professional Conduct Register is not in it. That is confirmed only separately, on request, for a named candidate, under separate consent, and with the associate’s own response alongside it.
There are no lists. One named candidate, one named opportunity, one report — under a written data-sharing agreement, and every disclosure logged.
Honest, humane, and careful with you.
A profile, never a verdict
A person is never admitted or refused by a questionnaire. Every decision that matters is made by people, against a written standard, with room for you to be heard.
Children are never graded
The child instrument carries no score, no band and no comparison with another child. It exists to help a teaching associate nurture that child, and for nothing else.
Wellbeing is never used to exclude
We do not screen anyone’s mental health in order to judge them. Where wellbeing is asked about at all, it leads at most to an offer of support.
We are still learning too
This is a first edition, being refined under expert review before it settles into a standard. Until then every result is advisory, and every decision is confirmed by a person.