इंतज़ार वह थाली पीट रही थी | लगातार अपने थरथराते हाथों से… पिछले कई दिनों से वह थाली पीट रही है | पडोसी भी सिर्फ मुस्कुराते हैं और अंदर चले जाते हैं | उसने बेटे की खाकी वर्दी धोकर, तह लगा कर तैयार रखी थी – ताकि वह जब कपड़े बदलने आये तो उसे देर […]
Author: Sachin
Mindfulness Sessions Online
A little virus has changed our lives – forever it seems. Being one of the most resilient species on Earth, we are adapting, learning and carrying on with our lives. One major change in TISA is : we are offering many online hangouts now to our community which is scattered all over the globe. Today […]
Post Traumatic Growth
I had come across this term a few days back while watching a positive Psychiatry video on Coursera. I had normally heard the opposite term: Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD). This was something new and unexpected: What good can one get out of the horrors of a terrorist attack or childhood abuse? You can only […]
Vikasnagar Communication Workshop
Workshop cancelled. Please don’t register. 13-15 March 2020 (Fri-Sun), Vikasnagar TISA will be conducting a three day communication workshop in Vikasnagar (40 Km from Dehradun)- for people who stammer, especially from North India and first timers. Medium will be Hindi and English. JP, Pawan and Sachin will be facilitating it. Goal is to address your […]
Siliguri Communication Workshop
Introduction Tisa organised this workshop in collaboration with Medica North Bengal Clinic (MNBC) in Siliguri for people who stammer (pws) on 14-16 Feb 2020. Participants 17 people who stammer from West Bengal, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh – ages ranging from 23-55 years. Three facilitators were from Dehradun (Satyendra), Gorakhpur (Manjulika) and Bhopal (Amit). Proceedings Day […]
To see Clearly
I just finished a ten day Vipassna in Rajasthan and thoroughly enjoyed it ( I also drove a bike – gixxer 155 – to and fro Churu!). Since Vipassna is all about experiencing first hand whatever there is to be realised (rather than talking about concepts), I will desist from saying more about it! You […]
Loss and Gain
“माई री मैं कासे कहूँ पीर अपने जिया की … मदनमोहन का ये पुराना गीत, विभावरी आप्टे की आवाज़ में सुन कर मेरी आँखें भर आई, सुबह सुबह ! कई दिनों से ऐसा ही कुछ हो रहा है | कोई दो महीने बीते हैं, मैरियन को गुजरे | जैसे मैंने दूसरी बातों को स्वीकार करना […]
Discrimination and Memory
Friends, I wrote this some time back for an online course on Psychology.. You might like it?… Since the summer of 2016, we in India, had been hearing about Mr Trump’s candidacy for the presidentship of USA. Like many in India, USA and elsewhere, I was a little amused and scandalized to learn about various […]
Protesting, CALMLY!
A young woman scientist was walking in dark in a Scotland village, when she was gored by an antelope. Antelope’s antlers (horn) pierced her wind pipe and the food tube in the neck. She went in a coma, was transferred to a hospital in Glasgow and was saved against ALL odds! On her recovery she […]
Expectations from NC
A young pws has written to us, his honest expectations from NC. Let us read it, understand it and HONOR it.. “Good Morning Sir , I’m having some ideas as a PWS want to see in a National Conference . It doesn’t matter if my ideas are approved or not , but spare sometime to […]
What do you think?
I just finished the second mooc! And loved it! But I received two feedback: Please offer a mooc in Hindi (let us not become elitists!) and do charge something. Assumption is- people will engage when they pay something. Offering a mooc in Hindi, is totally on. I am researching various LMS for it. Not sure […]
Mookam karoti vAchAlam
UPDATES: We are beginning on 18th Nov, 8 am sharp. If you have fulfilled the entrance criteria (a video and the summary), and still have NOT received your class invite, please drop an email to sachin at satksri@gmail.com ASAP. To enroll for the next session, starting in the second half of November 2017, please drop […]
Welcome JP!
Friends, I have stepped down and JP is the new president of TISA from 1st October 2017. I have spent sometime with him and others recently in Chandigarh on the morning of Oct 1st, as we talked about the foundational values, Volunteerism, Self-help and Acceptance etc.. From Infosys to banking sector, JP too has matured […]
Stuttering – My experiments with fear
(Received from Dr Tejpal, Chandigarh) In a recently concluded National TISA Conference at Chandigarh, Anapana meditation was taught by Vipassana Teacher. Anapana meditation is a preliminary step of Vipassana meditation, which is widely practised by students in schools and by adults by jail staff and prisoners in many prisons all over India and abroad. Many […]
TISA MOOC (Online Class)
NOTE: Thanks for the overwhelming response! Enrollment for the 1st batch is closed at 40 students. Next batch will be announced sometime in November 2017. I have spoken to a few people who recently contacted TISA, and who were added to a few whatsapp groups and who received couple of emails and phone calls. One […]
Communication Workshop at Mangalore
The first Communication Workshop for people with stammering (PWS) by The Indian Stammering Association – TISA in Mangaluru was held on 16-18 June 2017. The workshop was held in the Gandhiji Hall of CODP – Mangalore. PWS from Delhi, Pune, Coimbatore, Pondicherry, and Goa along with pws from Mangalore, participated in this three-day workshop. A […]
Condolences: Akash Acharya
Dear friends, The shocking news of the loss of our dear friend Dr. Akash Acharya arrived yesterday. I confess that my eyes teared up and I have needed more than an entire day to calm myself. It is my hope that this note will help us all -in some small way, at the least. Akash […]
Thank you , Ma’am !
Suya madam was the favorite of the entire school. She had done B Ed, and was preparing for NET. And of course, her name was Anusuya, which children of this primary school had shortened to Suya Madam. Girls wanted to look like her and often wondered what cosmetic did she use! She was tall and […]
Who is the REAL enemy?
Hello friends, I felt like posting this today, for all of my friends who have lived or are still living the life of a stutterer, with a message which might seem awkward but is the honest realization which my life as offered me. It’s going to be big and boring, hence a text file. I […]
Time for Introspection?
A pws from Pakistan, let us call him YM, wanted to join a TISA whatsapp group. The admin contacted me. I said: yes, why not? YM is as much a stammerer as me or you- and needs some help. After all, many of us have drawn inspiration from Julia Irani’s videos. Haven’t we? I personally […]