15 JUL

National Conference – A Teaser

Dear all… The fourth National Conference is round the corner… It’s been four years since we started this journey in Bhubaneshwar. National conference is a great place where you can be “yourself” and feel at home. Sharings, gupshups, food, travel and fun… Have a look at this teaser… It’s capturing some memoirs of first TISA […]

15 JUL

Effective communication

Many years ago, I thought- when my stammering goes away, I will speak very well and the world will listen with rapt attention..!! Later, when I joined voluntary sector, I realised that even those who spoke fine, had to work hard to become good communicators.. and becoming effective communicator was a class apart. I read […]

14 JUL

I said – yes, I am Stammer!

इस साल गर्मी में बिजली ने हम लोगों की हालत खराब कर दी है। जब देखो तब लाइट बंद। मैं बार-बार बिजली कम्पनी के काल सेन्टर पर फोन करके शिकायत करता रहा। कल जब मैंने शिकायत करने के लिए फोन किया तो काल सेन्टर बैठे युवक ने मुझसे पूछा – क्या, आपको प्रोगांशिएसन में प्राब्लम […]

14 JUL

Mumbai SHG – Minutes of Meeting – 13th July 2014

Hi guys, The meeting started at 1.50 pm with the welcome speech by the Meeting Manager Aditya Yadav. Aditya then called the facilitator Srinivas Basutkar to take over the meeting. Srinivas introduced himself and the theme of the meeting “Life in a metro…” and asked each of the role players to introduce themselves and their […]

13 JUL

Assertive speaking

Assertive- Putting oneself’s views confidently Generally, I used to lower my pitch and speak in a shy way when ever I anticipate a block and hence, giving an impression of low self confidence to the listener as well as to myself in an intangible way. Resultant is a uncomfortable and unpleasant speech experience. Also, most […]

13 JUL

Tackling difficult words

I’ve done Bachelors of Technology in Textile chemistry stream.This ‘T’ sound might be very easy to pronounce for everyone else even to non stammerers,but, for me, it was a nightmare.I had substituted this sound most of the times during my engineering education.I would never meet such a person who could be interested in my education, […]

13 JUL

What Megan did..

Thanks Vishal, for introducing all of us to this great story. Might seem like a bit of repetition, but I was browsing this longer artcile and found following passages VERRRY meaningful.. “I used to try and be all the things that I want to be whilst suppressing it or trying to disguise it. But now […]

13 JUL

Buddha’s Middle path

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12 JUL

News @Tisa Hyderabad chapter 6 July

We were 9 people for the meetup. 1.Siva 2.Ramu 3.Purna 4.Mauzam 5.Siva 6.Vishnu 7.Ramu 8.Fahad 9.Rajesh There was no formal agenda we just discussed about many aspects of life. It was an interactive session where we all had an opportunity to understand each other. Members helped each other with advice. It was a good day. […]

12 JUL

TISA Hyderabad chapter meetup 13 July

Hello Friends, You are welcome to THE INDIAN STAMMERING ASSOCIATION Self Help Group meetings.These meetings will make you know what stammering is about and how we can control our speech patterns in day to day life.Here We Stammer at Ease.It is proved that if we stammer with easiness then stammering can be dissolved from speech.We use many techniques […]

10 JUL

Bangalore SHG meeting 07/06/14

That was very nice day. Little cloudy and the climate was little cold. We met at the same place “Cubbon Park”. (Anshuman, Pramod, Sharath, Nishil , Arun, Anupam, Sergey, and me Akash). Meeting started something like this, General topic Introduction round   Impromptu speech for 2 min/ person Group discussion ( We have to speak […]

09 JUL

One day wonder..

Some time back I received a phone call from Kashmir. A young pws wanted help. I said- come for at least three days. His answer totally surprised me: Can I come for just one day? I dug deeper. He was having vacations. Time was mot the constraint. Nor the money for travel. He did not […]

08 JUL

Hi guys

Hello  friends,   This  is  Rameshbabu  from  hyderabad.From  last  few  months  i  am  facing the  people.Recently  i  joined  in  a  communication skills  programme  conducted by  RK  Math.I  gave  there  a  wonderful  speech  infront  of  around  50  people.In  that  overall  class  teacher  and  the  people  told  that  I  am  the  Good Speaker  with  good  content , […]

08 JUL

Silence of lambs – a parable..

Srishti was a little girl. She was full of questions, inexhaustible energy and a lot of spontaneous ideas and fun..as little girls usually are. Her family was proud of her. Her father felt very happy when she recited “Black sheep, black sheep..” to his office colleagues, whenever they visited. Yes, the whole family was proud […]

06 JUL

Be the change…

Dear Friends Change is the only constant! And often it works as a tonic! It forces us to stop and ask, what are our priorities and which way are we heading? We had some quick restructuring recently. The core group has been reconstituted and it consists of four old timers: JP, Harish, Virendra and sachin […]