Rule of 21

Dear friends, Six pws were attended the Chennai chapter meeting held on 20th Dec’2009. One pws attended along with his wife and one is a new pws. I started the discussion with importance of setting goals and time frame to achieve anything in life. Last week only I completed reading the book of “THE MONK […]

Keith’s visit

Dear Friends Think of Keith’s visit, as a friend visiting you. Dont worry too much about organising this or that- Just come and interact with a friend, who walks the same path as you do- discovering our true self, through the difficulties of life, including communication. Study carefully the following schedule and chose a place […]

10 day Intensive Course on Communication

Hi, TISA is planning a ten day intensive residential workshop on communication for people who stammer. Time: 7 to 17th Jan 2010. Venue Herbertpur. Participants have to pay only for their board and lodge (total estimated Rs 300-400 per day) in nearby hotels. Workshop itself is free. Contact JP This e-mail address is being protected […]

Pune SHG Meet on 13th December

Pune SHG met on 13 December 2009 at Senior citizen’s hall on Dhole patil road.The meeting started at around 3PM and was attended by the following members; Suraj, Praveen, Dharmaraj, Manohar, Sunil, Mahesh and SujitThe first exercise was relaxing the different body parts one by one; Feet, calf, shoulder, neck, jaws and tongue.The idea behind […]

Bangalore SHG meeting on 13-Dec-2009

Written by: Pramod Hello all, well here goes the next dossier ( chuckle) from my side. The day started with 3 of us and two of us joined later. This time it was Karthik, Sudheendran, Tanoy, Aravindan and myself. It started with the usual hi hellos and an ever enthusiastic thirst of ‘expressing full out’ […]

Protest & Forgiveness

For a long time, I blamed my father for my difficulties with words, especially while talking to authority figures. He was an army man and a disciplinarian- actually, no more than any middle class Indian father, wanting to raise children into responsible adults. Actually, he was quite loving and approachable. But I as a child […]

Jab we met in Connaught place!

Hi, the Delhi SHG meeting was held on 13th December 2009 at the Central Park Connaught Place. To start with, there were Arun and myself in the meeting, Anuj had to join late. We met and discussed about how our practises were going on and what changes have we observed over the period. We both […]

Budding salesmen

This Sunday, Nishu, self, Pawan, Sushil and Surendra participated. Surendra and Sushil were asked to make a selling pitch at the dias. Surendra had to sell an empty bottle as the new Pepsi launched this summer. Sushil had to sell a mirror as if it were a newspaper, in a crowded bus.Thereafter, we discussed and […]

I Performed a Mimicry Item

Today (12th Dec) was the annual picnic of our company. The event was held at a beach resort in Goa. But why am I talking about this here ? It’s because of one incident that I experienced here today, which I would like to share. The first thing good about this picnic was, I was […]

chennai meeting on 20.12.2009

4 PM to 7 PM atMINI CONFERENCE HALLY.W.C.A.INTERNATIONAL GUEST HOUSE,#1086, E.V.R.PERIYAR SALAI(POONAMALLI HIGH ROAD),(ABOUT 1 KM FROM EGMORE RLY. STATION)CHENNAI-600084.Contact:V. ManimaranMobile: 098842 89989

Bangalore SHG meeting on 06-Dec-2009

Written by: Amithap Sampath This week I had to go a little late to the meet. Meanwhile we had two new folks, one Aravindan (along with his non-PWS friend) and one Umashankar, both from HCL (thanks to Sudheendran!!!). After Introduction, group discussed about the feasibility of attending intensive therapy of sachin efficiently. We decided to […]

Herbertpur December 6th, 2009

Sachin had gone to Badkot, wondering if the SHG will meet this Sunday in his absence or not. But it did! Pawan, Surendra, Nishu, Parmanand and Sushil gathered had diverse discussion and then, Pawan asked everyone to pick up a slip froma box and speak on the topic for five minutes- with a smile and […]

Pune SHG Meet on 6th December

Pune SHG met on 6 December 2009 at Senior citizen’s hall on Dhole patil road. The meeting was attended by the following members; Sanjeeth, Rahil, Suraj, Praveen, Rupesh, Prasad, Bhaskar, Dharmara and Sujit.The meeting started at around 3PM with meditation which is considered very positive for calming the mind. Subsequently we all did the slow […]

Please Do Ponder …

Today, I am going to share an experience, which I have faced in the past too, and which I am sure many PWS’s have faced in their lives at some juncture or the other. Today, I had to attend a freind’s wedding. Wedding means lots of people to meet and to face. Though it doesnt […]

Bangalore SHG meeting on 29-Nov-2008

TISA Bangalore Meeting on 29th Hai.. This is Tanoy. Yesterday along with my colleague Mr. Laxman (also a Stammerer), I attended the TISA meeting. Actually, I was planning to attend the meeting for a quite long time but, couldn’t make it earlier. So, this time on 28th I called Sudheendran and asked about the meeting […]

8th meeting of Jammu SHG

On 29th Nov(Sunday) we had our 8th meeting of Jammu SHG. This was the longest one. Started at 11 am and went on to around 2:45 pm. We started our meeting with usual discussion..Rajesh cleared the 2nd round of the interview too and got selected. Then we moved on to Sharing our Ambitions. Each and […]

I came, I spoke, I conquered..

Nishant and Harpreet have been discovering that: feel the fear and still go ahead and do it- even if it is a crowded noisy waiting hall of a hospital or a marketing complex or a bus or whatever your mind can conjure up as one of those frightening situations where you tend to stammer. Some […]