What after acceptance?

When I learned about accepting our stammering, it was love at first sight, as the fighting against it, has never helped me for all my life till that point of time..But now looking back into hindsight as I see now, it created a new problem, that was lack of motivation..Now I didn’t had anything to […]

5th meeting of jammu SHG

On 8th nov (sunday) we had our 5th SHG meeting in jammu.This meeting started at 3 pm and ended at 5:45 pm. Aditya was a little late but Rajesh reached at the venue on time.It was also raining a lil bit at that time.Both of us discussed a lil bit about our experience of last […]

Stammering in workplace..

Here are JP’s thoughts on an issue, which we all have thought about but rarely discussed; JP is on a sabbatical with sachin at Samagra, working with children who stammer and working on himself as well:

Goa SHG Kicks Off !

“Co-ordinating a SHG is like a marathon, and not a 100 meter dash” – were the words of Dr. Sachin, when I revealed to him my desire of co-ordinating a SHG in Goa. And his words stood vindicated, and were the driving force for me to make the first Goa SHG happen. As the scheduled […]

TISA Mumbai meets after a gap..

After a long break we were able to conduct a meeting.Now onwards Mumbai will meet on 2nd and 4th Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Mumbai get together was attended by four members , 1)Ajit Potdar 2) Ankush Pedambkar. 3)Raj Samal 4)Vikas Bindal This meeting was different from our previous meetings in many aspects.First time the Mumbai […]

Inauguratory Goa SHG meet

After a lot of discussions and phone calls I have been finally able to schedule the first ever SHG Meet in Goa. The details of the meeting are as follows : Venue : Nehru Park, Gogol, Margao – Goa Time : 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm I have observed that there is a very less […]

Mumbai meets

Dear Friends, TISA Mumbai Chapter is going to conduct its next meeting on Sunday 08 Nov 2009 at 9:30a.m. Kindly find the meeting details given below,etails given below, Date:8 Nov 2009Time:9:30 a.m.Venue:III Floor,Niwara Chambers,Raghoba Shankar Road,Chendani Koliwada,Thane(W).Contact:Ajit Potdar:[email protected]

4th meeting of Jammu SHG

On 1st nov (sunday) we had our 4th SHG meeting in jammu.This meeting started at 4 pm and ended at 6:15 pm. In this meeting, there were 3 members(Aditya, Rajesh(new member) and me) . First of all we started introducing ourselves.R is working in a finance company.He never got a chance to go for a […]

Bangalore SHG meeting on 01-Nov-2009

Written by Vinay SindheThe details of the meeting on Nov 1 are as follows:After promising Amith of joining the meeting some weeks ago, this was my 1st meeting with the SHG members (glad that I made it :-)). It was scheduled on the 1st of November @ 10 in the morning. Keeping up my word […]

Opportunity : IPWS in Kolkata

Dear friends, Now I am at Nasik for 2 Weeks training programme. As a part of the training I am visiting Kolkata on 5 & 6th Nov and leaving to Chennai by evening flight on Nov 7th. I am staying at Kolkata, most probably in VIP Continental hotel at Free school street. Anyone intersted may […]

Bangalore SHG meeting on 25-Oct-2009

Last week the meeting had to be cancelled as the members were not available on account of Deepavali. This time we stuck to the usual plan of meeting on Sundays and met on 25-Oct-2009. Navin and Praveen were out of station and had informed about their inability to come for the meeting. Subhash had reached […]

What can SHG do for you?

Self help movement in many other countries have achieved a lot. Here, we have learned to depend on state and other actors, a little bit too much. But the experience of participating in a Self help group can do a lot of wonders to our faith in ourselves, to our sense of belonging to others […]

Are we so gullible?

I have been sent an email by a young PWS from a metro. He shares his therapyexperiences. It seems that a therapist in this metro-city uses almond oil tosoothe the sticky tongues of stammerers! (reminds me of snake oil and quacks)Here are other things he does:1. Hypnotises the client for 20 minutes and gives suggestions […]