Surat SHG published a classified advertisement in Sunday Times on 10/01/2010. It reads The Indian Stammering Association (TISA) is running a Self Help Group (SHG) in Surat for People Who Stammer (PWS). Interested PWS, their family members and Speech Therapist can contact the group coordinator Akash Acharya at 94261 48263 or akash.acharya@gmail.com So far, I […]
Today morning was foggy but we liked our brisk walk.We started meditation before Dr. Sachin joined us.Sachin sir told us about pranayam and we practised it.later he told how to visualise positively (he pointed we visualise us stammering before we speak..why we don’t reverse of it.after having our breakfast,we all did video recording of telphone […]
Wintry days in Goa are real pleasant. Sunny weather teamed up with cool breeze. Today was one of those days, when Goa SHG decided to meet yet again. The participants were: 1. Rahul Raut Desai 2. Prakash Borana 3. Harish Usgaonker After a formal intro, at the meeting point, I suggested that we should start […]
Our morning started with the obvious routine of jogging and meditation, today we learn how to focus our mind(we have done 50 minutes of meditation exercise) and how to eliminate or bypass negative thoughts that comes while stammering.Post breakfast session we started with summarising the last day’s activities,in the meantime local PWS joined us (today […]
Day 2 started pretty early with a walk in the morning. When we got back Sachin was waiting for us to start with pranayam and meditation. We were introduced to belly breathing and forced stuttering. I thought that forced stuttering is amazing…because it makes you feel that you are in complete control of your stuttring […]
The Indian stammering association’s (TISA) 10 day workshop on communication for people who stammer started today at SMTA’s (Society for Motivational Training and Action ) campus in Vikas Nagar, near Dehradun, facilitated by Dr. Sachin. On first day there were 7 participants. We started the workshop by lighting up of candles by the head of […]
Hi All, at the outset, i wish you all a very exciting new year 2010 ahead:)we all met on 03 Jan 2010, with great enthusiasm. We had some new members joining our group, and some old faces coming in with new vigor. We were around eight of us, met at the usual venue. we had […]
Hi, Folks first of all a happy and prosperous New year to all. This is Kishore Bisht reporting form Central Park, C.P, New Delhi Where on 3/01/2010 (Sunday) we had our weekly SHG meeting. it was chilly winter morning and weather was densely fogy, no sign of sunlight till 10 a.m. These were the following […]
Today, 27-Dec-2009, we had the stammering SHG meeting of Bangalore. During the course of the meeting, all of us spoke about a subject and one of the participants spoke about ‘Landmark education’ and accepting ourselves as we were. He told the people attending the landmark forum got breakthroughs for the problems of the life like […]
What’s going on in Goa SHG? Well, the marathon continues. With the aid of social networking and internet, I am trying to reach people, and spread the idea of SHG. I had come across a number of PWS in 2000, while attending the workshop conducted by one Mr. P, who runs a Stammering Cure centre […]
Hi This is Santosh,One fine day some one told me to accept as I’m. No matter what will happen after that.Just accept it. You know its a very different advice some one given me knowing that I’m a Stammerer.I took it as a blessings & start accepting it.To my mates, to my elders, to my […]
I started for the meeting at 9.20 AM. Tanoy had requested me to pick him up on the way. When I reached the spot mentioned by him, he was not there. I called him and he told he was on the way. He reached there in ten minutes and we started. He told Murali was […]
The hatred for stammering by all PWS has it’s origin in the kind of reaction that they are met with when talking to the world, or the non-PWS which are relatively more fluent ( I won’t say fluent ) then the PWS. A PWS will be at his / her ease when speaking to another […]
Hi, TISA is planning a ten day intensive residential workshop on communication for people who stammer. Time: 7 to 17th Jan 2010. Venue Herbertpur. Participants have to pay only for their board and lodge (total estimated Rs 300-400 per day) in nearby hotels. Workshop itself is free. Contact JP This e-mail address is being protected […]
Pune SHG met on 13 December 2009 at Senior citizen’s hall on Dhole patil road.The meeting started at around 3PM and was attended by the following members; Suraj, Praveen, Dharmaraj, Manohar, Sunil, Mahesh and SujitThe first exercise was relaxing the different body parts one by one; Feet, calf, shoulder, neck, jaws and tongue.The idea behind […]
Written by: Pramod Hello all, well here goes the next dossier ( chuckle) from my side. The day started with 3 of us and two of us joined later. This time it was Karthik, Sudheendran, Tanoy, Aravindan and myself. It started with the usual hi hellos and an ever enthusiastic thirst of ‘expressing full out’ […]
Today (12th Dec) was the annual picnic of our company. The event was held at a beach resort in Goa. But why am I talking about this here ? It’s because of one incident that I experienced here today, which I would like to share. The first thing good about this picnic was, I was […]
Written by: Amithap Sampath This week I had to go a little late to the meet. Meanwhile we had two new folks, one Aravindan (along with his non-PWS friend) and one Umashankar, both from HCL (thanks to Sudheendran!!!). After Introduction, group discussed about the feasibility of attending intensive therapy of sachin efficiently. We decided to […]
Pune SHG met on 6 December 2009 at Senior citizen’s hall on Dhole patil road. The meeting was attended by the following members; Sanjeeth, Rahil, Suraj, Praveen, Rupesh, Prasad, Bhaskar, Dharmara and Sujit.The meeting started at around 3PM with meditation which is considered very positive for calming the mind. Subsequently we all did the slow […]
Today, I am going to share an experience, which I have faced in the past too, and which I am sure many PWS’s have faced in their lives at some juncture or the other. Today, I had to attend a freind’s wedding. Wedding means lots of people to meet and to face. Though it doesnt […]