IC3 Movement Opens Registration for Global Counseling & Career Readiness Summit

• IC3 2025 Conference to be held on 20-21 August at Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, focusing on “Counseling as a Culture” with participation from over 95 countries.
• Keynote speakers include Devdutt Pattanaik, Gauranga Das, and Soha Ali Khan; sessions will address student mental health, career readiness, and global counseling practices.
• Major highlights: Launch of the IC3 Student Suicides Report, Student Quest Report, IC3 Awards, Inner Child Workshops, and the exclusive IC3 Presidential Forum.

The 2025 Annual IC3 Conference & Expo of the IC3 Movement will take place on 20-21 August, this year at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, with limited registrations now available for schools and colleges. Attracting educators, university officials, policymakers, and experts from more than 95 countries, the conference provides an unparalleled platform to tackle student mental well-being, career preparedness, and the changing role of counseling in school education. It provides a space for significant conversation within the counseling community and invites open panel discussions between prominent voices that are shaping the future of education.

The theme "Counseling as a Culture" will be applied this year to explore how schools can instill counseling into core educational practices that result in proactive systems with long-term support of student well-being and development.

The conference will include 35 sessions led by experts, pre-conference workshops and Inner Child Workshops, available to registered attendees. The IC3 Presidential Forum, being by invitation only, will convene the senior world university leaders like presidents, chancellors, and vice chancellors; outstanding high school leaders and principals from all over the world; and senior government, trade organisation, and media officials.

The 2025 Annual IC3 Conference & Expo will feature a dynamic roster of speakers across education, policy, psychology, leadership, and the creative arts. Devdutt Pattanaik, mythologist and author, and spiritual leader Gauranga Das, Director at Govardhan Eco Village, will give keynote presentations that offer opportunities for reflection on culture and consciousness in education.

Among the select invitees are prominent decision-makers of Indian education policy such as Dr Sanyam Bhardwaj, Controller of Examinations, CBSE, Dr Joseph Emmanuel, Secretary and Chief Executive of CISCE, and Dr Indu Shahani, Founding President of ATLAS SkillTech University.

The IC3 Presidential Forum, an exclusive dialogue forum, will be addressed by leaders from different continents and fields: Michelle Whittingham (University of California, Santa Cruz), Vanita Uppal OBE (The British School New Delhi), Nargish Khambatta (GEMS Education, U.A.E.), and actor-author Soha Ali Khan and others. Also joining in on the conversation are education innovators and institutional leaders like Barry Craig (Huron University, Canada), Ben Schmidt (Cambridge University Press & Assessment), and Dr Francisco Marmolejo (Qatar Foundation). Specialists like Dr Samir H. Dalwai, developmental paediatrician, and entrepreneurial experts like Pratham Mittal, Preeti Vyas, and Ruchira Chaudhary contribute to the cross-sectoral conversation further.

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The conference will also be a crucial platform for educators to network with the international counselling community, participate in high-impact conversations, and acquire actionable insights from distinguished voices framing the future of education. The last conference, which took place in 2024, had 2,044 participants from 57 nations. The forthcoming event will have topics like student mobility, subject choice, counsellor training, and institutional collaboration.

One of the major highlights will be the launch of the third edition of the IC3 Institute's Student Suicides Report, providing research-driven findings on students' mental health situation in India and the effects of access to school counseling. Another major highlight will be the release of the fifth edition of the IC3 Institute's Annual Student Quest Report, a groundbreaking international survey that seeks to grasp the issues and opportunities for students and career counselors and educators alike within a school's environment.

"There is an increasing need for institutionalized, collaborative models within schools as career and college counseling becomes more integrated in school education.". The 2025 IC3 Annual Conference & Expo provides a substantive forum for educators to interact with international viewpoints, usable practices, and shared wisdom that can assist in infusing counseling deeply into the learning experience. With highly curated experiences like the IC3 Host School Student-Parent Expo and the Inner Child Workshop in collaboration with the Aha Movement, the conference also takes the counseling dialogue to students and families, creating a more complete, people-oriented approach to education", said Ganesh Kohli, Founder of the IC3 Movement.

Since its launch, the Annual IC3 Conference & Expo has involved more than 6,615 schools and 912 colleges, with over 3.3 million students in 104 nations. The 2025 conference will also feature the IC3 Awards, the IC3 Host School Student & Parent Conference, and interactive learning workshops that have been specially designed to assist instructors in creating meaningful, student-focused guidance models.