Day 2 of the workshop, started with an activity where we stood in a circle, and threw the pen to any participant. The participant to catch the pen would share any activity / session he liked most about day 1. Many of us talked about the puppet show, few talked about the acceptance videos and […]
We kicked-off the communication workshop in Goa today. We were 15 of us, including two girls. We started with an informal introduction round by repeating the first letter of our names (Which Jai later told the participants, is called the ‘Bouncing’ technique). Jai slowly introduced us to various techniques like – boucing, pausing, prolongation and […]
Here is the agenda for goa workshop – http://www.scribd.com/doc/52736008/Goa-Workshop-Agenda . Please contact Harish – 9823211467. ([email protected]) in case you want to come. The workshop does not promise cure but the workshop certainly will give some good ideas to work on your communication and a chance to put these ideas into practice! Here are a few […]
A comment “Common, isn’t it just a natural urge to laugh when you see someone speaking like p.p.p…? With organisations like TISA and their PILs, laughing may not be ‘politically correct’ but then who can deny that natural urge to laugh?” by someone agonised me and left me thinking. Questions like ‘Is stammering inherently a […]
There was a young man in his early twenties. He always felt frustrated about his life, his job, his speech. He always wanted to do something about it! One day, he read somewhere that if you can dream it, you can Do it! So he started day dreaming about all the things he wanted in […]
Well what I am about to share is my own personal experience,if anyone can relate with it,do comment !!!! There is a part inside me which loves my stammer and it feels good when I think about it including all the plans and stuff which I will supposedly take to improve myself.It feels satisfied when […]
So finally I can see that stammering has not killed the ability to take initiative and action completely. A young lad from Delhi finished his night shift and boarded a train and came right to Chandigarh for just four hours (he spent around 10-12 hours travelling for these four hours.) So Vivek was here at […]
Most of the pws are forever complaining !!!!! Life is very hard,people make fun of me,people think I am not confident,people do this people do that,and what not !!!!! Well I am not saying that there is no truth in this,it does hurt when people make fun of you and life does become pretty hard […]
Thanks to Karan, we have moved to our new facebook page @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Indian-Stammering-Association-TISA/148386918561900 . Do join us.
Today Morning I got a call from a HR Executive explaining and seeking help for one of his team members who stammers. Although he did have generally prevalent notions about stammering (its psychological, lacks confidence etc.) what struck me is his involvement in his team member and more importantly a call came from a small […]
Screaming beyond Silence! Every movie or book we come across and is liked is because it has some deep correlation to the events of your life,some characters that resemble you or some characters that resemble the people you know closely. I watched the movie The King’s Speech (true story of King George VI ) and this movie […]
The ‘Samvad Editorial Team’ apologizes for the delay in this quarter issue, due to the preparations of communication workshop. We regret the delay, but promise to release the latest edition as soon as possible. Thanks for your patient co-operation. – Samvad Editorial Team
Momentum Pictures has just confirmed that due to the success of The King’s Speech, a sequel has been given the go-ahead and will start shooting in early 2012. Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush will reprise their roles for ‘The King’s Speech 2: The Relapse’, which will see Bertie again seeking the help of Lionel Logue […]
The next 3-day TISA Communication Workshop in Goa is confirmed on 22nd to 24th April, 2011. This will be organized with the help of Goa YMCA Toastmasters’ Club. The venue of the workshop will be the YMCA Hall, Campal – Panaji Goa. total of 11 participants have confirmed. I request the participants to please pay […]
I found two good posts from archives about SHGs. Hope they will be helpful to a lot of SHG members and coordinators – 1. http://stammer.in/2009/04/03/tisa-shgs-guiding-principles/2. http://stammer.in/2008/05/14/running-self-help-groups-support-groups/
Something popped up in my mind when I was going through internet; youtube, specifically speaking. We(including me) the stammerers always think our stammering as greatest hindrance in our work and hence the progress or any such crucial and practical aspects of life.Speaking about myself, I always thought (and still do sometimes) that peak of all […]
Hi, We are in an urgent need of a web designer for one of our projects! please contact the following ASAP in case you can help us! You will compensated monetarily for the work. Jai ([email protected])Nitin ([email protected])
TISA offers a 10 day trek with sachin (tentativly it would be around May end) : Hanuman Chatti to Dodital (Yamuna to Ganga valley) in the first week of May. It is meant for those IPWS who are physically fit and have some experience of trekking / camping. We will be crossing a ridge at […]
Hi All, I found an Article on rediff on the list of movies which shows about stammering: Article: What SRK and Colin Firth have in common It has a mention about TISA suing “G 3”. My fav is “Jhootha Hi Sahi” and “APKGK” 🙂
Hi all,the reason there was no blogging on my part for the past three days was that I was in IIT Roorkee where me and a friend of mine were to present a paper(We came third by the way).After that we went to Rishikesh where we had planned to do water rafting on The Ganga […]