EFY Team • 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 institutional teaching experiences included high schools in Johor, Uttarakhand, India and colleges in Labuan.
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 or Insight meditation tradition 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 East-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”.
Oct 2020 – Present
Empathy For Youth Academy
Nov 2013 – Present
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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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