AT LAST IT SAILED..

7th nov'10-this was the evening,i was waiting since a long.at sarvodaya colony park,1st shg MEERUT meeting took place with positive note .few days back i got a call from a pws,a mechanical engineer from gaziabad.he wanted to talk about stammer.i told him it would better if we could have a meeting.fortunately, he had some relative in meerut ,today he had come to see them.after introducing ourself.we started to share our experinences.he wanted to get rid of his stammerso that he could have bright future.while talking to him slowly i started to tell aboutthe basics of stammering i learnt at workshop conducted on jan'10.i told him about bouncing,prolongation,voluntary stuttering and ofcourse about acceptance.we shared our views on fluency and commuincation.we were agree that it is communication which matters not how much fluent we are.we both are chronic covert stammerers and we agreed on we have to work on that.we discussed paper of russ hicks on acceptance which proved to be very good starter.later we talked about shg,its importance and benefits of helping other.i showed him the quotation related to stammering which i clicked at workshop when at vikas nagar.i introduced him with tisa,its website and objective.at last he said that he was feeling much lighter and hopeful after this session.with two person on board today our shg meerut boat sailed....