About Us / Azzad
EFY Academy Co-founder, Healing arts practitioner, Curriculum designer, SEL instructor, NVC student & supporter
Azzad is an educator, healing arts practitioner and a multi-disciplinary artist. His career in education started after his degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language).
His longest teaching role was in colleges in Labuan (2005-2010). Since 2011, he has ventured into visual graphics, filmmaking, theatre-making and performing arts. In 2017, he started combining mindfulness and healing arts into his creative repertoire.
A practitioner of the Vipassana meditation tradition (Insight meditation) and an independent student of Buddhist psychology, Azzad co-founded Empathy For Youth Academy, a Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) platform during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He has since been serving the youth, marginalised bodies, artists, educators and civil societies through self-care and psychoeducational programming in Malaysia and the Southeast Asia region.
Since January 2024, he appears as guest to the Gen-Z celebrated podcast series “Talk To You Later” under the aptly named segment “Empathy For Youth”. Azzad mainly divides his time in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Bali for work and collaboration.
Oct 2020 – Present
Empathy For Youth Academy
Nov 2013 – Present
the keepers studio
the keepers studio is a multidisciplinary creative studio based in Petaling Jaya. As a collective, we are involved in commissioned content writing, research, experience and visual design, performance and branding works. Kenduri Kendara, a theatrical feast of food, identity, love and discontent is our latest work.
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