Rahim and I analyzed our stammering today through multiple interviews of each other. We then watched the videos of these interviews, and listed what we saw – calm/nervous, body language, eye contact, gestures, primary and secondary behaviors. We then picked one behavior to work on, and did some practice making videos. Abhyaas, vairagya ke saath, zaroori […]
BLR SHG meeting (30 June 2019)
Attendees (L to R): Sudhanshu, Anna, Riju, Naveen, Amit, Rakesh. Venue: Cubbon Park, near central library. Time: 10 AM to 1 PM Weather at Cubbon park today was quite pleasant with cool breeze and our regular small hut was occupied. This SHG meet was coordinated by Amit. Initially we began with introduction round where we […]
Hyderabad SHG Meetup Jun-30-2019
Location: Club House 2, Aparna Cyber Commune Nallagandla. We started the meeting around 9:45 AM, in great cool weather with a nice breeze. G.Srinivas, Rajat, Sharat attended the meeting. The following activities were performed: 1. Everyone introduced themselves. 2. G.Srinivas told us about the purpose of our gathering, telling how SHG’s are helpful to us, […]
Bundle of joy
It’s been a month since my daughter was born. I have realised from day one of her birth that my affection for her is very strong, similar to my feelings for my mother.. It seems God plants this affectionate feeling in every parent’s heart, so that they take best possible care of the new-born.. I […]
Communication Workshop With Near & Dear Ones at Ahmedabad , Gujarat – 14th July 2019
Loud Announcement TISA Communication Workshop With Near & Dear ones Date- 14th July 2019 (Sunday) [kleo_divider type=”full|long|double|short” double=”yes|no” position=”center|left|right” text=”” class=”” id=””] The idea of Communication Workshop with Our Near & Dear Ones has been in mind since the inception of Ahmedabad SHG and finally, we are making it happen through collective efforts. It’s a […]
Hyderabad SHG Meeting 16th June 2019
Hyderabad SHG Date: 16th June Location: Club House 1, Aparna Cyber Commune Nallagandla The meeting started at 9:45 am Rajat, Aditya, Sharat and Jagdish attended today’s meeting. The following activities were performed 1. Introductions. The practice was the goal here as everyone already knew one another 2. Guided meditation using the Headspace app. 3. […]
BLR SHG meeting (16 June 2019)
Attendees: Avinash, Divya, Amit, Akash, Uttam, Annasaheb. Venue: Cubbon Park, near central library. Time: 10 AM to 1 PM This meeting was coordinated by Amit. In the introduction round we briefly introduced ourselves, spoke about our stammering experiences and answered the questions asked by the audience. Next round was impromptu speaking round, in which we […]
Hyderabad SHG Meeting 9th June 2019
This weekend SHG meeting took place at Aparna cyber commune, Nallagandla which was arranged by Jagadeesh. We started off at 10 am and finished it at 12:15 pm. The participants(Nine in total) included were Aditya, Jagadeesh, Srinivas.K, Srinivas Gundala, Sharat, Vineeth, Silpa, Rajat and Venkat. Rajat and Venkat joined our meeting for the first time. […]
Summary of ‘Alternative routes to recovery by Dr. Satyendra Srivastava’ by Dr. Chittaranjan Patel.
On Saturday, 8th June, TISA members had a you tube liveChat with Dr. Sachin Sir and Dr. Sweta Madam. The Coordinators had shared an article written by Sachin sir, about 7 years earlier. The Article contained experiences of Ex-stutterers, who had made significant progress and recovery in their stammering.( Mostly without the help of intensive Speech […]
Mumbai SHG (Powai) – June 9
We didn’t take a photo today. Sunny and I took part in the meeting. We followed the TISA SHG Manual Session 2. We did several rounds of bouncing practice, talked about its importance and benefits. We set two goals to meet this week with regard to bouncing practice. We then discussed keeping a daily log […]
Our Shared Burden?
Prelude: Vinnie De Craim, is a PWS (Person who Stammers) from Belgium. He was recently on a solo trip to India. Being a PWS, he wanted to connect to the PWS community in India. He got in touch with TISA and attended SHG meetings across the states/cities he traveled. Here, he shares his experiences in […]
BLR SHG meeting (2 June 2019)
Attendees (L to R): Bhupendra, Annasaheb, Gaurav, Anupam, Prashant, Asim, Shobhit, Chandan, Uttam. And Naman (not in pic). Venue: Cubbon Park, near central library. Time: 10 AM to 1 PM We started with an introduction round where we talked about ourselves, our professional profile, stammering experience in brief. Uttam spoke in detail about his stammer […]
Hyderabad SHG Meeting – Jun, 2nd 2019.
This weekend SHG meeting took place at Aparna cyber commune , nallagandla which was arranged by jagdeesh. We started off at 10 am and finished it at 12:15pm. The participants included were Ramu, Jagadeesh, Srinivas, Srinivas Gundala, Sharat, Vineeth, Rama shankar. A new member sharat chandra joined our meeting for the first time who was […]
Experience of online meeting with Dr. Sachin Sir by Dr. Chittaranjan Patel
On 1st June 2019, we had a online meeting with Sachin Sir. Charlies Challange video was discussed. The message in the Video for TISA members was, that, while speaking we can use intonations and emotions in our speech and speak in such a way which reflects the current situation. Many PWS speak in a monotonous […]
Hyderabad – SHG, Meeting Report held on 26th May
Dear All, On 26th May SHG took place at the Clubhouse of Aparna Commune, Nallagandla, a big thanks to Jagdish for making this possible when the Hyderabad temperature was showing us no mercy. Although scheduled at 9:30 the meeting started at around 10:15 am with introductions. The meeting saw the presence of Ramu, Jagdish, Kapil, […]
Mumbai SHG (Powai) – June 2
Pradyumna, Sunny, and I (Dhruv) had a nice meeting.. we did session 1 in the TISA SHG manual – extempore presentations, followed by experience sharing, feedback sharing, 2nd round of extempore presentations, and discussions. For all who missed today, and plan to join from next Sunday, please join the TISA MOOC and complete Core Task […]
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 […]
संदीप राजा द्वारा लिया गया stammering इंटरव्यू।
टीसा – मूक, एक ऑनलाइन कोर्स है जो खास कर के हकलाने से जुड़ी मानसिक समस्याओं के ऊपर काम करने के लिए डॉ. सत्येंद्र श्रीवास्तव सर द्वारा बनाया गया है। इस कोर्स में एक बहुत ही महत्वपूर्ण कोर टास्क है- stammering इंटरव्यू लेना। जिसमे हमें किसी व्यक्ति को हकलाने के बारे में कुछ सवाल पूछने […]
TISA – Communication workshop in Hyderabad 2019: An event to remember
So, I was added in the WhatsApp group (Thanks to Bangalore SHG) and we got a text regarding possible dates for organizing a TISA workshop in Hyderabad. Waking up with one eye closed, I looked at the text and exclaimed, What? It was not on the top of our minds, of the Hyderabad SHG co-ordinators, […]
Bengaluru SHG meeting – 28/04/19
Venue: Cubbon Park, near central library. Time: 10 AM to 1 PM. It was a Nice Sunny morning, yet with a balanced good weather… Happened to be sunday. Time clocked 10:00 AM, Time to attend SHG for all the PWS in so called “Namma Bengaluru” city. One by one everyone started to come from different […]