Another news item covering the TISA communication workshop in Goa appeared on a local daily – “The Navhind Times”, dated Friday 6, 2011. Here’s the snapshot –
Day 4- last day, CommWS, HBT
Community college, housed in Anugrah building was conducting an entrance interview today for its courses meant for school dropouts. So, the participants practiced making “cold call” kind of interveiws with “perfect” strangers. They also tackled the challenge of wearing the tea shirts with messages, which attracted attention and questions. Later, they did a role play […]
YOU CAN HELP OTHERS IF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT YOUR STUTTERING
A good day to you dear friends. Today while conversing with my office colleague’s one of them cornered me and asked a question. He was quite careful in his approach as it seemed it might trigger some uneasiness in me, his 2 year old baby who started speaking very early and speak single alphabets or […]
Day 3 CommWS HB
We took our acceptance to next level today: we put on the T shirts with a message: Stammer- with love (in Hindi)! (and then went to town! I mean, Dehradun)Then, the group was suddenly taken to a meeting of the host organization, and was asked to thank them formally, one by one, using their techniques. […]
Day 3 Summary report (by Anubhav)
Before coming to the TISA, I had confiedence to speak in front of audience, but even though I was scared to interact with an ease. Yesturday, Dr. Sachin advised me to stammer as much as possible by maintaing an eye contact with him. This was done, so that I can come out of the fear […]
The Three Musketeers (Goa SHG Meet, 1st May 2011)
Harish, Rahul and I met at Nehru Park in Margao for the weekly SHG meet which was my first. It was a pleasant evening and sitting under the tree really refreshed us. Harish had prepared an agenda for the meet which included introduction and speaking rounds with bouncing, giving testimony of the Goa workshop by […]
Day 2 ComWS HBT
Haklao – magar pyar se!In other words, dont struggle -just let your words come out. This was the theme of the workshop. After learning basic techniques to help with that goal- we went to the OPD and interviewed strangers about their attitude towards stammering. For many of us it was a big discovery that people […]
Day 1 CommWS HBT
Day 1: excitement, last minute phone calls, somebody just landed in Idyllic Herbertpur and knows not where to go etc. etc.. Finally we all were in the conference room by 9.40 am. About eleven people. There were four family members too who participated- asked questions and began to see their role in the recovery of […]
Herbertpur Workshop 2-9 May
At the initiative of a group from Gwalior (thanks to Rajendra Sharma), TISA is organising a Communication workshop in Herbertpur (near Dehradun) from 2nd May. It will be five days (2-6 May) but some Gwalior participants will be staying on till 9th May. They may plan to attend a one day workshop in Chandigarh, if […]
TISA WORKSHOP IN CHANDIGARH
TISA is conducting one day awareness workshop for people who stammer at SANT ISHER SINGH PUBLIC SCHOOL, Phase VII , MOHALI on 08.05.2011 (Sunday) from 10 am onwards. The emphasis will be on awareness, general issues like role of acceptance versus “cure” and to clarify any doubts relating to stammering. JP and Nitin have kindly […]
Reaching Herbertpur
Herbertpur, a very small town, is on Dehradun-Chandigarh highway (NH 72), 40 km from Dehradun, near Paonta Sahib (just 12 km away). If you are coming from north, you need not go to Dehradun, obviously. You can come via Paonta Sahib.http://www.maplandia.com/india/himachal-pradesh/sirmaur-nahan/herbertpur/ Once in Herbertpur, get to Lehman Hospital by a Rickshaw or three wheeler.Sachin’s home […]
Mastermind success!!
“All misery comes from fear and unsatisfied desire. When we know that we never die, we will have no more fear of death. When we know that we are perfect, we will have no more vain desires. These causes being absent, both there will be no misery–there will be perfect bliss, even while in this […]
Media Coverage for Goa Communication Workshop
The 3-day Communication workshop conducted by JP, was covered by a local daily – “Herald”. Click on the picture above to see the snap-shot of the newspaper cutting which shows the column mentioned. JP – You indeed look great there !
Goa Communication Workshop – Final Day
As Goa celebrated Easter, we started the Day 3 of the workshop with a communication game. We had to complete sentences by using the techniques like bouncing and pausing. We had several rounds, and some of the sentences which were given were – “If I was a cartoon character, I would have been ….”, “If […]
Mr A and Mr B
Imagine a scenario-Mr A and Mr B are both pws who go to the same college.At the end of the semester each student has to give a presentation about a pregiven topic.Now let us go and see both the guys’ presentation:- We will take up Mr. A first: Mr. A wakes up in the in […]
My exam experience
Well here I’m again with some blah blah.This time it’s the experience of my exam days. Very recently I had my exams. Well, exams never really stressed me much. Infact, I love to give exams. As you all know that in any exam when the main supplementary(answer book) gets over then we need to ask […]
Goa Workshop – Day 2
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 […]
Goa Workshop – Day 1
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 […]
Brahma Vidya Testimony
Dear Friends, Today morning I got an e-mail from a lady in Bangalore- “Miss T” who did the Brahmavidya course a year ago. Following is an excerpt from her e-mail : I’m very happy to say I speak perfectly well and clearly. I love talking now. I stammer occasionally, which is hardly noticed. I’m very […]
Affirmations..
“Even though I doubt Your generosity sometimes, I will continue to trust Your love..” “Even though I fear Your justice often, I will continue to trust Your compassion..” “Even though I can not hear You, I will continue to call on Thee..” “Even though I address you as my ‘Master’, in my heart of heart, […]