STORYTELLING

Challenge and Selection:

Storytelling is a very effective tool. By this tool we can share our experiences,  thoughts, some ideas with people easily. It’s the better way to bring positive  attitude among the people from different backgrounds. I work with many  schools, colleges, NGOs working for women empowerment, child betterment,  underprivileged people, parentless children and for corporate offices too. I  share different stories with different groups of people.  So, I need to observe  the surrounding carefully. I should be aware of what’s going on outside.  Storytelling is a conversation between me and the listeners so by interacting  with the people I get some idea about the attitude of people, their difficulties  so that I can help them in improving them.

Application:

My stories are different for different types of groups. I always try to tell the  stories to people so that they will inspire or motivate. I always try to inculcate  the new beginning for them. For example, I tell story of my life or my friends  who were facing some difficulties in growing up as a girl and how we overcame  the situation to the women or children. I tell stories of independent women to  the backward women. I tell stories of great people to the parentless children. I  tell stories of freedom fighters, or the people who fought for their rights to the  underprivileged people so that they find the ways of better survival. For  corporate offices they have different problems so I have to work accordingly.  While telling stories to kids, I always try to plunge my audience into the action  so that they don’t feel bored.

Insight and Approach:

Storytelling for me is a learning something new from each session. I remember  one incident, I finished my session for the special children, a little girl came to  me and started talking to me like we are friends from many years. We had a  great time with each other, then her teacher told me that she hasn’t talked to  anybody like this ever. It’s the good improvement about her. This is one of the  incidents and those incidents are the source of motivation for me to do my  work enthusiastically. Another incident is I gave many sessions to schools and  colleges, corporate offices near Delhi. And every time I mentioned the name of  a beautiful village which wasn’t actually well known but is the amazing place.

After 6 months when I went to that village again, I saw a great change means  now that became a tourist place, the people from that village got new sources  of income.

From every session I am also learning lot many things from different kinds of  people. Also, this course helped me to improve myself.

