Know Your True Self® Research & Training Academy
A reflective human development platform
integrating research, structured learning, and ethical facilitation.
Know Your True Self® Research & Training Academy
A research-driven human development platform integrating training, facilitation, and applied inquiry.
The Know Your True Self® Research & Training Academy, hereinafter called The Academy, partners with organisations, educational institutions, and professional groups to design and deliver customised, outcome-oriented learning engagements grounded in reflective depth and ethical responsibility.
Our Role: Human Development Partner
The Academy approaches training not as isolated events, but as structured developmental interventions.
Engagements are:
- Context-sensitive
- Clearly scoped
- Outcome-focused
- Designed for measurable capability strengthening
- Delivered in remote and hybrid formats
While individual programs can stand independently, the Academy also supports long-term developmental association where alignment and need exist.
Core Areas of Work
🌿 Training & Facilitation
Customised training engagements across corporate and educational environments in areas including:
- Emotional Intelligence & Resilience
- Stress Management & Decision Fatigue
- Human-Centred & Ethical Leadership
- Leadership Presence & Communication
- Faculty & Capability Development
- Applied Stress Regulation & Nervous System Reset
Engagement formats include:
- Half-day / Full-day Workshops
- Multi-session Leadership Labs
- Structured Coaching Interventions
- Project-Based Facilitation Engagements
🔎 Research
Ongoing inquiry into:
- Emotional intelligence
- Sensitivity-informed practice
- Stress science & regulation
- Leadership maturity
- Human systems & behavioural development
Research informs design.
Practice deepens research.
Current research interests include emotional intelligence, sensitivity studies, stress science, temperament inquiry, and ethical leadership frameworks.
💬 Open Workshops & Public Programs
The Academy also hosts thematic learning spaces and open workshops, including:
- Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
- Life management programs
- Reflective leadership sessions
- Public awareness initiatives
These programs translate reflective insight into practical growth.
Experience & Foundation
- 18+ years in coaching and facilitation practice
- 10,000+ hours of 1:1 and group coaching
- 500+ structured learning interventions
- Remote & Hybrid delivery expertise
The Academy was founded by Mahesh Sharma and continues to be led by him as a reflective practitioner, trainer, researcher, and facilitator. Collaborations with aligned professionals and subject experts are integrated as required.
Relationship to the KYTS Centre
While the Academy functions as the public platform for training, facilitation, and research-led engagements, deeper individual work in emotional health and sustained 1:1 reflective practice is conducted through the Know Your True Self Centre for Emotional Health & Wellbeing (Hereinafter called as KYTS Centre or The Centre)
Foundations of the Work
At its core, the Academy operates from a simple premise:
Information alone does not create development.
Structured reflection does.
Human growth becomes sustainable when insight is combined with ethical responsibility and practical application.
The Academy exists to ensure that professional development remains humane, reflective, and responsibly structured.
Development unfolds in layers:
Information | Knowledge | Insights
Information informs.
Knowledge organises.
Insight transforms.
The Academy works at the level of insight — where understanding moves beyond data and becomes applied clarity.
Meaning of the KYTS Symbol
The Know Your True Self symbol reflects a foundational belief: while human beings differ in countless visible ways — culture, background, language, roles, and lived experience — we share a common emotional and human core.
The varied colours represent the diversity that defines humanity. The central connected form signifies the shared emotional and relational fabric that binds us — the capacity for feeling, reflection, and ethical awareness that makes development meaningful.
Surrounding this is open space, symbolising the larger context within which human life unfolds — nature, consciousness, and the broader systems that shape our existence. It serves as a reminder that growth is not only individual, but relational and interconnected.
The guiding expression, Celebrating Humanity, reflects an ongoing commitment to honouring human dignity, emotional depth, and the responsibility that comes with awareness.
At the KYTS Academy, this philosophy quietly informs every engagement — ensuring that human development remains humane.
Welcome to the Ongoing Learning Path
We welcome thoughtful individuals, educators, professionals, and organisations to contribute to this shared space of learning and growth. Through dialogue, insight, and lived experience, we seek to strengthen environments of trust, clarity, compassion, and responsible action.
Human development is not a solitary pursuit. It evolves through shared reflection and conscious participation.