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 […]
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 […]
Hi All, Theatre Hat-ke is presenting their play “Taramandal” on 4th March, 2017 at Montfort Spirituality Centre. Taramandal received the Hindu MetroPlus Playwright Award in 2010. Its written by Neel Chaudhuri. About Theatre Hat-Ke: Theatre hat-ke is a group originated within Bangalore SHG and as a result of the acting classes we have had since January. The first […]
Sir, This is Vimal… Remember? I met you in that workshop? As I climbed this little trail uphill, near Kotabagh (Haldwani), after a 300 km drive, my first reaction to this phone call was a little irritation (Why cant people just email me?) – but then, it is always fun to catch up with old workshop […]
(Translation: Original in Hindi, here) I am a Special Educator working with government schools in Satna, Madhya Pradesh. DIET is a state resource center for teachers at our district headquarter. DIET runs workshops for government teachers, to promote innovative methods of teaching and to make education more inclusive. DIET often invites experts and educationists, to […]
IT was 29th Dec another new day New hopes and new beginning ,On 29th we planed our shg after almost 5 months and it went really ossum.This time the experience was quite good as we more focussed on practical things as talking to a group of strangers guided by Manish upadhay sir.So there were 4 […]
We met at a restaurant in Herbertpur to celebrate first day of the New Year, 2017! Ravindra, Raghavendra, Shubham came from Dehradun. Surendra from Vikasnagar; Pawan, Parmanand, Sunny and self from Herbertpur. Sunny came with his guitar. We laughed, joked, sang, did some role play- on the whole, we had great time- almost three hours- […]
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Three hectic days. Focused listening. Planning on the feet (plan A to Z). Asking “deep” questions. Confronting and challenging. Encouraging. Finally, Accepting Raman as he is. All this and much more. In these three days, we covered lot of ground and I am sure Raman is as exhausted as I am. Day 1: I encouraged […]
Last week I had a chance to interact with two young pws in a counseling context. I received two very different reactions; So much so, I was quite puzzled and kept on thinking about the incident for quite some time. Amit, the first pws was 13, a class eight student in a village. His father […]
I just discovered that our approach in TISA is very much like that of Carl Rogers, who gave birth to Humanistic Psychology. This was a rebellion against Psychoanalytic and Behaviouristic schools. Psychoanalyst believed that our current behaviour was controlled by what happened long time back in our childhood- dark, unhappy things. Behaviorist believed that environment […]
I remember a story shared by a therapist working with children who stammer. She was shocked one day, when during a session, the child said: My father slaps me whenever I block! The therapist decided to confront the father. But the father refused to have ever done that. The family too confirmed that father had […]
Today’s event in National park was attended by Dheeraj and I. Before the meet, Dhruv had sent me the manual. The first round that we did was telling our name with a pause and with a smile. The second round was using the bouncing technique. This round we divided into various subrounds. The first sub-round […]
UPDATE: Authors can upload pictures if they are 100 kb or less. System limits. On popular demand the old blog too is open. Feel free to write there or here, based on your preference. It is OK. Bottom line is: everyone should have an outlet to share their thoughts…………………………. Friends, the “bare bones” website is […]
(Challenging meeting at home town!) Hi everyone, As I declared to arrange 1st ever shg meeting at my home town chikhali, dist Buldhana, Maharashtra on 29th oct. We met 3 pws and 5 non-pws. So we started with introduction round where everyone had to tell his name, address, mb no, family, job,etc. Then we did […]
I had an invitation to talk about discrimination and diversity to a group of students doing Diploma in Health Assistance, in the local hospital. After initial hitch, which technology almost always throws at you tauntingly – we were off to a good start. Multimedia was working. I introduced the theme quickly in a few lines […]
Recently some one has given the PWD a new name: Divyang. Interesting. While doing a recent study about livelihood options for PWD in the hills, I came across a riddle: While GOI offers positive discrimination – 3% reservations for PWD in all services, barring Andhra Pradesh, few states report full utilization of this quota. Why? Why […]
Friends check this link: http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/ulverston/Swarthmoor-family-forced-to-pay-thousands-to-get-help-for-daughter-with-stammer-6004785a-2cc8-4fee-afd2-a7a8226eb6f4-ds I had mixed feelings: Happy that someone found at last what she was looking for… Then, the Community health person inside me said: but why at such a cost? Is wellness, health, happiness not our birth-right? I think, the story is very familiar to many of us- but we can […]
A big milestone has been achieved today- with this website being launched successfully – and on time! No ‘blocks’ this time- thanks to TISA Tech Team! This is a milestone, not the end of the journey. We are not sprinters- we are marathoners. We are in it for a long long haul.. Now, we have […]
Great presenter; Mimicry too! Harish holds a masters degree in IT, and works as a Module Lead in a leading IT firm in Goa. He has many hobbies: writing, graphic designing, mimicry, singing and a lot more, waiting to be discovered, I guess.. Someday, I am sure, he will start a business, publish a novel, […]