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ISN homepage Indian Storytelling
Network New Delhi
Storytellers (and other Story Experts) 1) Anuradha
Batra. 2) Neeraj.
3) Neha.
4) Preetika
Sachar. 5) Rituparna
Ghosh. 7) Shivani
Kanodia. 1 Anuradha Batra. Anuradha agrees 100 percent with
Ira Glass when he says, "Great stories happen to those who can tell
them." After all, we all have a
story to tell, some of us just struggle to tell it in a way that it becomes
memorable. Anuradha has earned an M.B.A. in Human
Resources, an M.A. in English, and a B.Ed., all from Panjab University. She is a Trainer, Coach, Storyteller, and
HR professional. She believes that stories are the
strongest medium to convey and understand anything in this world. She comes from a background of corporate
training, and theatre. Her
performances are filled with drama and enchant her audiences. She uses her skills to perform, and to
conduct workshops, for people of all ages. Anuradha has picked up many skills along
the way, but most importantly, she has learned, and is still learning, how
to learn, and how to help others to learn. As an independent Storyteller and Soft
Skills Trainer, she designs and develops learning solutions that motivate
people and help them perform at their best.
She has worked in areas such as employee relations, behavioural
training, and performance management, with companies and educational
institutions. She has utilised
behavioural training, leadership development, group process-based work, and
consulting solutions with Drama Intervention consultants. She is fluent in English, Punjabi, and
Hindi. Two Training Programs Anuradha offers
are the "Art of Storytelling", and the "Power of
Storytelling". A photo of Anuradha is here.
Contact info: 95575 09124 batra.radha75@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/ncl.anuradha https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuradha-batra-9538a0111 https://www.instagram.com/anuradha___batra 2 Neeraj. Neeraj is a Motivational Speaker, Storyteller, Mentor, Coach,
Communication Expert, and Retreat Leader worldwide. For him, coaching is learning again and
again…again and again… An
award-winning facilitator, Neeraj uses the timeless techniques of mentoring,
collaboration, and performance.
Neeraj is a voice, speech, diction, accent, and communication mentor
with Narrative Therapy through Transformative Storytelling. Neeraj has been studying holistic
techniques since 1996. During more
than 20 years of learning, relearning, unlearning, sharing, and
teaching. It has been his conscious
quest to work on different eclectic Techniques such as Subtle Face Yoga,
Shinrin-yoku (“forest bathing”) Theatre, Languages, Tai Chi, Butoh, Aikido,
Expressive Art, Story Therapy, DOGa Yoga, etc. He helps people understand subtle and
essential aspects of the mind, body, and spirit connection. Neeraj is the author of the holistic
growth manual “Sapere Aude (Dare to BE Wise)”. He has been featured in various
publications such as BBC-Hindi, Zee TV, Elle, The Hindustan Times, DNA,
Times of India, Indian Express, and News Nation. Neeraj often works in the following
cities (in alphabetical order): Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun,
Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Meerut, Mumbai, New Delhi, Noida, Pune, and
Surat. Contact info 98201 71766 delotusin@gmail.com 3 Neha (née Nidhi Awasthi). Neha is the spirit behind DElotus Advaya Holistic Health
Solutions Pvt. Ltd. She spearheads the management and
operations functions of DElotus. Neha holds a Master’s degree in management
and brings on board extensive corporate experience in Brand-Driven Storytelling. She
is a passionate and successful conceptualist, strategist, and
implementer. Neha is also a
Trained & Experienced Voice over artist, Face Yoga, Face Pilates, Tai Chi
& Voicing Practitioner. She has facilitated, Lead and
performed at Retreats, workshops, conferences, and courses all around
India. In addition, she is a well-received music curator, Tisane
Master, specialist in the new dance movement for Physical Storytelling,
Emotional Freedom Technique and Meditational Dance Technique. She is a
healer and a thought-leader. She is an exponent and expert in Tai
Chi and sword Tai Chi, and conducts workshops in various forms of dance and
music. She has a beautiful singing voice and just completed
Taittiriya Aranyaka, Parad Samhita, and its hymns so recitation of different
mantras comes naturally to her for deepening yogic practices such as Tai Chi,
Nada Yoga, and Yoga Mudra. DElotus (Flowering of Innate Human
Potential) is a cross-cultural platform for seekers. DElotus offers
avant-garde Expressive Art Workshops, Creative Courses, Mixed Martial Arts
Training, Yogic Therapy Sessions, Spiritual and Experiential Road-trips and
Expeditions, and more. DElotus provides
participants with opportunities to share stories. Story-gathering
and sharing are therapeutic activities for all
involved. DElotus' mission includes inspiring young people to
discover the power of their own voices and the Voices of the Voiceless. Contact info:Contact info: 98200
38390 edu@delotus.in 4 Preetika Sachar Kumar. Preetika is passionate about telling
stories to young children. She has
studied storytelling with Dr. Eric Miller, director of the World Storytelling
Institute, Chennai. Preetika was drawn to storytelling while
telling stories to her own toddler. She
has been mesmerised by the sense of wonder that stories can weave into the
minds of children in general. Preetika
uses her storytelling skills to transport children into a world of magic,
awe, and imagination. She uses melody
in stories, especially those stories that bring hope, inspiration and
motivation to young minds. For over 13 years, Preetika has worked
with both national and international organisations, advancing access to
educational and developmental opportunities for students across India. Her areas of expertise in this field
include international education, cross-cultural communication, student
outreach and recruitment, facilitation of academic partnership programs, and
grants management. She holds a Masters
in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and a
Bachelors in Sociology from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi. Contact info: 98737 32203 preetika.sachar@gmail.com 5 Rituparna Ghosh.
With more than a decade of storytelling behind her, Rituparna Ghosh is
the founder of Your Story Bag. Always sniffing for a good story to tell,
Rituparna feels her past lives as a journalist and a television producer have
taught her the power of good stories. As
a storyteller, Rituparna works with varied audiences including children,
teachers, parents, professionals, entrepreneurs, and people in businesses and
corporations, helping them to "Discover Expressions, Emotions, and Life
through Stories."
Rituparna believes there is a storyteller in each of us. Children and adults need stories and
storytelling skills all of their lives, to make sense of the world and give
shape to their ideas. Besides offering
her own storytelling classes for children, Rituparna tells in schools,
bookstores, activity centers, and festivals.
Her flagship storytelling program, "Tickle Your Story Bones"
(for educators), has been adopted in Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for
Women, Delhi University, New Delhi.
Rituparna is a pre-school consultant, and has trained teachers in schools
across the country. She also conducts
workshops for parents in using storytelling as a parenting tool. In the corporate space, Rituparna has worked on projects involving
the use of storytelling for Training, Company Branding, Change Management, Communication, and
Gender Sensitization.
Rituparna strongly believes storytelling will be a very sought after
skill in the coming years, and she is deeply committed to making storytelling
a mainstream skill in India. She is
the founder of the Delhi Storytellers’
Network, a network of professional storytellers in the city.
Rituparna is currently attached with Shyama Prasad Mukherji
College, Delhi University, as a
Faculty in Storytelling for their B.El.Ed Program. In the past she has also taught students in
Communications and Media. Rituparna is
a graduate in Literature from Lady Shri Ram College, and a post graduate in
Content Creation and Management from the School of Convergence, International
Management Institute (both in New Delhi).
She is also a trained Bharat Natyam dancer. Member,
Delhi Storytellers'
Network Contact Info: 98106 02108 rituparna@yourstorybag.com Facebook page of Your Story
Bag 6 Seema Wahi Mukherjee. Seema is a Storyteller, and an Educator
who uses Storytelling in Workshops relating to Education, Experiential
Learning, and Soft Skills. She has been a passionate advocate of
Storytelling in Education for more than 10 years, designing and conducting
general as well as customised Storytelling Workshops for Educators across
India. She engages School Students
from preschool to Grade XII; and also children who are not attending school. Seema has presented a paper on
"Storytelling as a Connector in Early Childhood Education", for the
National Council Of Educational
Research And Training, during the 2016 "National Consultation Meet
on Pedagogy and Practices in Early Childhood Education". Articles of hers relating to Storytelling
and Education have appeared in numerous publications. Seema is a firm believer in the power of
stories to engage, enchant, awaken, heal, and empower listeners -- thus
bringing about personal transformations that can lead to social change. She is particularly interested in the
healing power of stories. Seema leads Interactive Storytelling
Sessions with people of all ages -- in metros, towns, and villages; in urban
and rural settings. She performs at
libraries, learning centres for children, centres for senior citizens, NGOs,
private schools, festivals, and other special events. She employs different tools like puppets,
props, paper craft, story scrolls, story cubes, story cards, and musical
instruments to enhance the performances.
Her expertise regarding experiential education, and her skill as a toy
designer, come in handy while planning and conducting Interactive
Storytelling Performances and Workshops. As a consultant with Indus World School (Gurgaon), Seema
conducts weekly sessions in which she integrates various academic subjects
through Storytelling with the children.
She also conducts Language-expression classes with them. The children are encouraged to express
themselves through crafts, role plays, drama, and drawing -- as well as
through composing, and telling and writing, their own stories. She is also a Visiting Consultant,
Facilitator, and Mentor at The Green
Acres Academy, Chembur, Mumbai. Seema has trained Educators, College
Students, Trainers in NGOs and Corporates, and Employees in the Hospitality
Industry, regarding Storytelling and Soft Skills. Rashtrapati
Bhawan staff members participated in Soft Skill Workshops conducted by
her under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas
Yojana, organised by the National
Skill Development Council during 3 months in 2016. She employed the technique of storytelling
to address various issues in these Workshops. Seema is a graduate of the Certificate
Course in Storytelling offered by Kathalaya
and is pursuing the Diploma course there.
She is a Post Graduate in "Education Leadership" from Idiscoveri, a Post Graduate in
"Garment Manufacturing Technology" from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (Delhi), and has earned
a Masters in English Literature. Seema
is the Founder of Enchanting World
(in 1997), and The Gaatha Company
(in 2016). Consultant, Indus World School, Gurgaon. Visiting Consultant, The Green Acres Academy, Mumbai. Founder, Enchanting World. Founder, The Gaatha Company. Contact
info: 98182
12932 seema.wahi.mukherjee@gmail.com Facebook
page of Seema
Wahi Mukherjee 7 Shivani Kanodia. Shivani believes that stories exist all
around us, from deep inside an ocean to high in the sky. With a PhD in biotechnology, the storyline
demanded that she pursue a career in science but what fun is a story without
a twist? Her passion for books, and
the decreasing interest in reading amongst young people which she noticed
during her Fulbright Fellowship in the USA, prompted her to start a kids book
meet. To give wings to her dreams and
follow her passion, she founded Aryah Inspires LLP, an organization which aims to nurture the story-lovers
within individuals. As a professional storyteller,
consultant, and trainer Shivani is committed to "Storify the Nation' by
empowering people to harness the power of storytelling to initiate dialogues
and create conversations. Aryah Inspires specializes in curating
literature festivals, book weeks, and day-long events around books, stories,
and literature for schools, corporates, and communities. Since its inception in 2017, Aryah Inspires has conducted 230
workshops and other sessions with more than 18,000 participants. Shivani has worked with organizations such
as 1)
Pratham books (storytelling sessions), 2)
Katha India (creative writing workshops for Katha Utsav 2018 and 2019), 3)
Oxford University Press India (teacher trainings and sessions), 4) Jaipur
Literature Festival for outreach program (2018, 2019 and 2020), and 5)
The Hindu group to facilitate STEP summer program. Shivani has done story narration in
collaboration with BookyBoo and UNICEF Maharashtra to raise awareness
regarding the Pandemic, reaching more than 20,000 young people. Currently she is working as a
Storytelling Consultant for a couple of schools in Delhi/NCR and Haryana to
create audio recordings of stories for children, and to transform the
learning through story pedagogy via teacher training sessions for students
and parents. Shivani is also the
founding member of Delhi Storytellers' Tribe. Programs offered 1)
Story Paradise. Storytelling
sessions for young people in various formats such as read aloud, oral
performance, and storytelling using puppets and props. We also have modules for adults. 2)
Sound of Stories for Children. A
storytelling, creative expressions, and writing workshop designed to hone the
listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills amongst students -- making
them friends with books and literature. 3)
Scribble Express. A
creative writing and expressions program which enables fearless creativity,
imaginative thinking, and curiousity. 4)
"Out of the Story Maze" for teachers, parents, and others. A
flagship programme of Aryah Inspires
to train individuals in the art of storytelling. It has two levels: one for beginners, and
one practicing storytellers. There are
general and customised formats for this module, based on the requirements for
classrooms, parents, and corporates. 5)
Let's Storify Subjects. A
workshop for educators, assisting them to integrate stories with the
curriculum in subject-specific classrooms. 6)
StoryArts Gala. A
specially curated event for any age group, in which we create an exclusive experience
of weaving stories. A photo of Shivani is here. Contact
Info: 98714
74291 aryahinspires@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/aryahinspires https://www.instagram.com/aryahinspires <end>
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