Chennai SHG Kick-Off Meet

Hello, I’m Vidya Jaishankar, and this is my first TISA SHG meeting. It’s a pleasure to recount this memorable event, which marks the revival of the Chennai SHG. The evening was warm in Chennai, with a rare forecast of slight rains, and the streets were bustling with people frequenting cafes and juice bars. ‘Chai Galli’, […]

Reflections.

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 29/10/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on  29th October. The report is from Labani Samantha, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. The joining details are at the end. Participants: Labani, […]

Complexity

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 10/09/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on  10th September. The report is from Vinayak, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. The joining details are at the end. Participants: Labani, […]

Spark Plug

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 13/08/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on  13th August. The report is from Tapan, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. The joining details are at the end.   […]

Serendipity

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 30/07/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on 30th July. The report is from Promod, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. Attendees: Sudhanshu, Vivek, Dr. Arjun, Keerthan, Labani, Akshay, […]

Complementing the Cheffff.

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 23/07/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on 23rd July. The report is from Arjun, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website.Joining details are at the end. It was […]

Why SHG?

TISA Bangalore Shg meeting: 09/07/23. Note: The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on 9th July. The report is from Arjun, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. I reached by 9:30 on a very […]

Pour your heart out

TISA Bangalore shg-meet: 02-07-2023. The following is the report from the self-help meeting in Bangalore on 2nd July. The report is from Tapan, one of the participants. These self-help meetings happened across India- Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, etc. More information can be found on the TISA website. We PWS often talk about breaking out of our […]

PA..PA.. PALGHAR.

Pa..Pa.. Palghar. The day was friday. As a lawyer by profession I was excited since morning because of the weekend. I had already started to day dream two days of relaxing, sleeping, eating and doing nothing. The excitement was shortlived as I had to cross a valley of fire. No, not exactly fire but for […]

Self Help Meeting in Surat

Hi All, I am Akshay Rawal. I live in Surat, Gujarat and I coördinate the self-help group here. I would love to share about the last self-help meeting which took place on Sunday, April 1, 2018. In this meeting, five of us – Kudrat, Aveshesh, Satyam, Rohit and I gathered. In some time, Vipul also joined us. Vipul is one of […]

Stuttering – My experiments with fear

(Received from Dr Tejpal, Chandigarh) In a recently concluded National TISA Conference at Chandigarh, Anapana meditation was taught by Vipassana Teacher. Anapana meditation is a preliminary step of Vipassana meditation, which is widely practised by students in schools and by adults by jail staff and prisoners in many prisons all over India and abroad. Many […]

The Stuttering Hexagon – The Theory Behind Stuttering and How TISA Acceptance is linked to it

Hi, I am Suraj Kumar. I am 23 years old. I am an IIT Delhi graduate. To more about me, visit my page at www.thinkingonindia.in/suraj-kumar The Stuttering Hexagon The Stuttering Hexagon is theory put forward by John. C. Harrison (look at Source below) to explain stammering. It is the most complete theory behind stammering as believed […]

My story..

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; widows: 2; orphans: 2; }a:link { color: rgb(5, 99, 193); } Hi everyone! Myself Prasannajit, an M.Tech student. I am writing this as a part of my acceptance towards stammering. My stammering started in childhood. Grandfather used to tell I acquired it by mimicking one […]

हकलाहट की स्वीकार्यता के 10 फायदे!

मैंने हकलाहट की स्वीकार्यता को एक व्यापक रूप में अपनाया है और महसूस किया है। इस दौरान मैंने पाया कि स्वीकार्यता सिर्फ हकलाहट ही नहीं, बल्कि जीवन की हर चुनौती का सहजता से सामना करने का मूलमंत्र है। अगर आपने स्वीकार्यता को पूर्ण रूप से और खुलकर अपना लिया, तो आपका जीवन सुखमय बना जाता […]

A little walk in the mountains

  p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } As the alarm rang at 6.40 am, on this cold January morning, I did not want to get up for the planned hike. Then, I tried to visualize what a wonderful experience it would be – walking up the mountain, on a beautiful sunny winter morning! How […]

The interview

Another true incident: Hi guys!  I wanna share my experience. My technical interview started at 11 am. The interviewer was a kind man. First he asked me to introduce myself. I said my name fluently,  first time in my life I guess. Then I got stuck on my college name. The interviewer asked me are […]

One more prisoner escapes..

” HAYLEY Rawlings has always tried to hide her stammer. But after attending a youth conference in Holland and meeting other sufferers in the summer, she wants to shout out loud about it. ” Read http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-opinion/how-ive-learned-live-stammer-8121141