Godfather said: keep your friends close but enemies closer

Bangalore
SHG session 28-apr-2012

Why is knowledge important? Why is gaining
knowledge necessary? And why is it importance to share? Were the questions put
across to us by our coordinator while he was distributing interesting books
among us, this was an interactive session and a vital one to be shared with us.

                                                                                                                                            We began answering the questions enthusiastically
and trying to figure out how this was going to culminate into our knowledge for
getting rid of stammering, we began with answers like knowledge is growth –
growth is life, knowledge for fulfilling the necessities of life , knowledge
imparts confidence, knowledge makes you better in judging  situations hence makes you a leader.

                                                                                                
Next part of interactive session was answers for ways for knowledge
sharing or gaining, we began with answers like reading books, watching
informative TV shows or movies and most important meeting new people and our
coordinator added sharing explicit knowledge like our very own SHG and blog
about our weekly session is also ways to share knowledge, our coordinator then
began explaining that more knowledge we have about stuttering, we can fight it
more effectively, as godfather said: keep your friends close but enemies
closer, he also shared that we need to dive into the database of vast knowledge
to improve our vocabulary which act as stress buster  when faced with severe block, they can act as
temporary fillers, our coordinator also stress upon saying that we never should
use fillers as they hamper our growth towards fluency, but can be used when no
alternative seems possible

                                                
This was also the day I was asked to give my first ice breaker speech;
basically it is speech about yourself and your life till that very day of
speech.  Many showered their accolades
for presentation.

                                                
Following the speech was an interesting session where our coordinator
shared video called unspeakable with us, most of us were curious to know the
content to keep the interest up the video clip of just half an hour was played
out, with rest of video to follow in coming weeks, during this session one of
us suggested that we call telephone numbers just to see how non-stammering
people react to us

                                                        This telephonic
session was not comfortable to most of us, because we were doing something out
of our comfort zone; I lead the call to find out the resort telephone numbers
from “just dial” with the phone numbers we possessed each took a turn to
confront their worst fears, few words were unspeakable/unsayable but we did
manage to get information out the travel agents. Summing up on our meet, it was
informative, resourceful, confronting our fears with confidence and courage in
our hearts in order to “say what we want to say”.