This week we had our weekly meeting at Dhole Patil Road, Pune. Now a days we set the agenda for the meeting and share with all some 2-3 days back of meeting. This helps us utilizing our time more effectively and productively. So according to our agenda we started with the meditation for 10 mins. […]
Dear Friends, We are having a TISA self-help group meeting this Sunday at my place. The theme of this meeting will be presentations and mock interviews. Please prepare a presentation on a topic of your choice (not more than 15 slides and 7 minutes). After the topic there will be a Q/A round of 3-5 […]
What happens when stammerers meet? Like others they too talk, share jokes, have fun. This is what happens in our TISA SHG at Herbertpur. Everyone gets their fair share of attention and glory. Young people love that. Even the “not so young” enjoy sharing a funny tale. Actually telling a story- a joke- is an […]
Buddies,It gives me enormous joy that i could motivate my fellow brothers with my speech. Now here i list below some of the tragic moments of my life due to stammering.In my childhood there was times when i could not give my attendence. What would happen is that whenever my roll number drew closer my […]
To all my fellow brothers and sisters who stammersBefore starting to say anything, i shall like to give a brief introduction about myself.My name in Amartya Sinha. Presently i am in kolkata. I used to stammer severely at some part of my life. I know personally how it feels to be a stammerer.Now i am […]
The good news! Stammer.in has seen lot of activity- as a result we have exceeded our bandwidth allotment. Congratulations to all those who decide to come out of helplessness – and seek knowledge to help themselves and others. Congrats to TISA IT team as well, which will be fixing this issue very soon. Check back […]
This one is my first blog on TISA. On last Sunday (30th May) we met for our weekly meeting at Dhole Patil Road, Pune. But to my surprise the attendance was too low. Jp and I got late and reached at venue at 11:00am (1 hr late) and found that the venue is locked. Then […]
This Sunday, we had two visiting artists! Gajendra from Roorkee and Harsh from Kanpur. Gajendra is doing B.Tech and Harsh, IIT from Mumbai. Regulars like Susheel, Raju, Vineet, Nishu and sachin were of course there to welcome them. Harsh who has been in Herbertpur for about six days, made a very good presentation “On Being […]
THE 1ST SHG-KOLKATA MEETING WAS HELD ON 18TH APRIL,2010.WE GOT SHAMAIL AHMED FROM BURDWAN(098300051407),RAHUL DAS(09903891080),SOURAV BOSE(0900762822),AVISHEK PAL(9874785674) WITH ME AND SWETA CHATTERJEE,COORDINATOR.RECENTLY MR.AMARTYA AND MR.TIJO MADE CONTACT AND DECIDED TO JOIN SHG-KOLKATA.MR.AMARTYA WANTS TO ORGANISE THE 2ND MEETING AND THE INTERESTED PEOPLE ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT HIM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AT [email protected] BEST WISHES […]
In the supervision of dr.Sachin i learnt to tackle this giant disease with the techniques of which you must have heard and may have implemented and also i want to add to it that gaining benefits i you are practising honestly. Like everyone stammers in his own style so am i,at times i face silent […]
I spent about 18 days away from home in Uttarkashi in connection with a program evaluation. The first little hotel, I stayed in, in Joshiyada, was fine- but suddenly after about 9 days, they asked me to vacate. Reason: the Gangotri pilgrimage was to begin (Kapat- doors opened) and the hotel had prior tourist booking. […]
We have been meeting off and on. Yesterday I returned from Uttarkashi and today, on Sunday, four of us met: Pawan, Vineet, Aman and self. Pawan has recently changed jobs. I and Pawan had a long discussion about work situation- where sometime criticism sits uncomfortably on the borderline of acceptable feedback and subjective ‘personal comments’. […]
We people gathered at akshardham temple in the morning and kicked off our first meeting with the new guidelines. First, we had an introductory session in which everyone just had to say their names. Later, we had a small exercise of asking the names of each other, so that everyone got to know each other. […]
Continuing on our “Different” theme, as planned we, Manohar, J.P., Suraj and Sujit met at Pune Gliding club on 16th May 2010. Manohar was accompanied by a friend , while Suraj came with his older brother. Manohar and his friend were the first to reach the venue. As they still had some time at their […]
Check it out here. Four participants have enrolled. Beginning date 20th June. We need four more participants. Have courage and a sense of adventure- and enroll by emailing satksri at gmail dot com…
Here is a link to a radio interview of Pamela Mertz, a facilitator working towards Stammering Awareness and Women who Stutter. This url is shared by Hetal, from Surat. Thanks Hetal for sharing.
Recently, I performed a mimicry item during the annual day function of my company. This was my first stage performance, and to my delight, I won the “Best Individual Performance” prize for this. A few years (even months) ago, I thought public speaking or performances for me were “IMPOSSIBLE”. Joining TISA has helped me achieve […]
Vipassana! We have been hearing and reading about it a lot on this space. There were testimonials about how Vipassana has helped people (PWS and others). Dr. Sachin has been vehemently stressing on its benefits too. All this led me to find out more about it. And I stumbled upon the “Goa Vipassana Samiti”. On […]
This was the first SHG meeting for the Hyderabad chapter. 5 of us have attended the session – which included Neeraj, Rajashekhar, Chandra, Dharam & myself (Raja). All of us were very excited to be a part of this SHG meeting. We met at KBR park at 4:00 pm despite the scorching Hyderabad heat. It […]
Dear friends,The next Chennai chapter meeting will be held on 15th May ie. Saturday at YWCA from 4 PM to 8 PM. Pl attend.Regards,V. ManimaranMobile: 098842 89989