Feedback from SHGs

We did a rapid consultation with four SHGs. We spoke both to participants and the organizers. We are sharing the gist of the findings here, so that we as a self-help community can give our best in 2014 and beyond. Item 1-4 are from SHG coordinators and item 5 is based on feedback from SHG participants. (We have put in our editorial comments in parentheses. Ed). Read on, reflect, have fun and go to SHG this sunday...

1. What has motivated you?

All the organizers were motivated by one or more of these facts:

1.  They had been through the long futile search for that “best therapy” which will cure them once for all, in a few weeks. They had understood that consistently working on communication skills in a social setting is the way forward for them.

पहल करते करते "पहलवान" बनें.. (Initiative and Change!)

What If..

When a client fails to benefit from a therapy, what happens then? Often the therapist and the client tend to blame each other. But there is another position: what if the "condition" has been totally misunderstood? And in the case of stammering, what if, stammering has many sub-types: one responding to fluency shaping techniques and others not?

Diversity

Many years ago, when I was working in remote regions of Garhwal, I came across the phenomena of "Bengali doctor". They were looked down upon by doctors like me, and district health officials were always busy catching them and penalising them for illegal medical practice. But years have passed and nothing has changed. You still find them in remote pockets. The reason is: MBBS doctors do not want to work in the remote areas, even when they are posted there and paid for that. When villagers are sick, they know that Bengali doctor will ALWAYS be available.

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