Please note- Chennai Friends

Dear friends,The last weekly meeting at Chennai will be held on 29th March from 4 PM to 7 PMat YWCA.Try to come at 4 PM as I will be leaving 6 PM (after tea break) on thatday due to personal work. However the meeting will go upto 7 PM asMr.Sivasubramanian will be available. The monthly […]

Pune is upto it again..

Pune self help group is planning to meet at Sambhaji Park on 29 March 2009, 4 p.m. Kindly take this opportunity to meet these wonderful & caring people. Don’t think about winning, we can beat you at stammering on any given day. Kindly get in touch with the following: Jai Prakash Sunda- 9271205627. Pravin: 9970780936 […]

Self Hypnotism and slowing your life down..

Dear friends,There were 9 PWS who attended the 22nd March meeting. In this meeting Mr.Ramesh who came on our request, has demonstrated about self-Hypnotism which was liked by every one. This self-hypnotism is basically meant to feed positive thoughts into our sub-conscious mind. Really a good one. A practical guide to control the stammering which […]

Pune gets cracking! Wow!

Pune SHG met for the first time on March 22, 2009 at Sambhaji Park. Pravin, Prasad, Sanjeet, Rupesh and Jai attended the meeting. We started with slow reading with pauses after every sentence (so that we get our breathing normal and in rythm ) and then with introductions. While introducing oneself, everyone was also required […]

Delhi TISA meet

Hi, After a gap of three weeks, Delhi TISA SHG meetings will be resuming fromtomorrow. We have 7 confirmations till now. Give me a call @ 98183 50799,if interested to join us. DetailsVenue – Central Park, Connaught Place, New DelhiTime – 2:00 PM Regards Nitin

Chennai Meets

Dear friends,The next Chennai chapter meet will be held on 22nd March ie Sunday from 4 PMto 7 PM at YWCA conference hall. Kindly note that there will be one more weeklymeeting in this month. From April onwards, only monthly meetings. Pl make use ofthis opportunity. Regards,V. ManimaranMobile: 098842 89989

Questions and answers

Keith Boss recently replied to a young IPWS. We have left out the questions, because we know them too well. In any case, you can guess them from the answers. We are sharing here these answers because many of us may still have these questions..——————————————————— Good to hear from you.Questions / Answers. CURE OF STAMMERINGThere […]

Attitudes

Jai, from Pune has sent this very interesting link.. it is all about you, me ..anybody.. and not just stammering.. much more than that..http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/harrison9.html

Pune Perks up!

Pune Self help group is planning to meet this Sunday (22nd March). Please get in touch with following for more info; Dont miss this opportunity. Dr Burns says, that clients who participate in self help activities, improve faster than those who depend on clinicians and other outside sources (from Feeling Good Handbook). Jai Prakash Sunda […]

Ajab speech ki gajab kahani!! Straight from Bollywood..

Keith has just sent this link. On the face of it – it seems to be a good development. But a little voice says- WAIT! Sometime people do right things for wrong reasons..Anyway, I want the ‘great’ actors, not only to stammer but do other things, considered ’embarrassing’ by society- so that we all can […]

Practice, Practice, Practice…

Dear friends,The 15th March Chennai chapter meeting were attended by 15 PWS with an additionof 2 new members.As usual, everyone sang a song at the beginning.Then each one was asked to tellhis name, Father,Mother,Grand fathers and grand Mother’s name,his qualificationand his place of residence in that order with 3 secs pause between eachone.Barring a couple […]

Chennai Self Help Group

The next Chennai chapter meeting will be held on 15th Mar’2009 (Sunday), asusual at YWCA conference hall from 4 PM to 7PM. Pl make use of this opportunity.Regards, V. ManimaranMobile: 098842 89989

Fear the FEAR

The other day I was talking to a young man- an IT pro, looking for a job: Actually, It was a counseling session: I was encouraging him to talk about his speech – he is a PWS. I was a little bit taken aback, when he said that his speech was fine- it was just […]

Memories and memories..

Someone asked TISA about role of memories and should these be shared in SHG. We are sharing the answer so that everyone benefits, especially those who are involved with SHGs. Role of Memories in continuation of stammering: The current belief is that neurologically, memories and related emotional and physiological responses and closely connected (wired) in […]

Face the Fear and Rise above it!

Dear Friends,The Chennai chapter meeting on 8th March were attended by 15 pws.As usual, everyone sang a song at the beginning. Then, every one asked to speak first slowly with pausing of 3 secs between sentences. Then, voluntary stuttering.Though some pws finding it difficult at the beginning, but after some time they started enjoying it […]

Chennai Chugs along..

Dear friends, The next Chennai chapter meet will be held on 8.3.09 (Sunday) at YWCA conference hall from 4 PM to 7 PM. Regards V. Manimaran Mobile: 098842 89989

Pune Takes OFF !! Watch out!

The Pune self help group is finally taking off under the leadership of Jai Prakash Sunda, assisted by a friend, Niraj. They are meeting regularly. Here are their contact numbers. If you are in Pune feel free to get in touch and take the advantage of supportive atmosphere to exchange information, techniques and opinions. Jai […]

Chennai meets

Dear friends,The Chennai chapter meeting held on 1st March was attended by 10 pws. As decided in the last meeting, we begun with each one singing a song to make the environment stress free. Everybody sang very well. As decided in the last meeting, every one was asked to speak either normally or slowly but […]