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ISN homepage Indian Storytelling Network Storytellers Living Outside India Storytellers 1) Jayasree
Rajendran (based in Dubai). 2) Laxmi Balaji
(based in Toronto). 3) Sanjukta
Bhowmik (based in
Philadelphia). 4) Sonia Bareja (based
in Portugal). 1 Jayasree Rajendran. (Based
in Dubai.) Jayasree as a software engineer worked
for some of the world’s leading international banking software companies for
a decade. Her passion for empowering
others motivated her to step into an entrepreneurial journey, teaching
Storytelling along with giving various trainings (in group workshops and
one-on-one sessions). She has been
connecting people for more than 16 years, travelling around the world. Her vision is to empower women and children
to be happy souls, living healthy, joyful, and successful lives by
identifying their true inner potentials with the tagline, Empowering lives by all means. Jayasree has studied the nuances of
Storytelling through a workshop led by Eric Miller of the World Storytelling
Institute. She has studied the
"Art of Storytelling and Brand Storytelling" with Katha Priya. She has also graduated from several
"Train the Trainer" programs offered by various international
certification bodies. Before the pandemic, Jayasree was
conducting Storytelling sessions for 3 years in Dubai in her own space,
public places, nurseries and in trainings. She tells and hears stories in almost
every conversation, as she believes that this is a way to enter the creative
world. As an NLP Trainer she uses her personal
stories elegantly to communicate with participants, creating strong
connections and facilitating long-lasting changes. She is also keen about using personal
stories in business storytelling.
Listeners sometimes experience her stories as healing or
therapeutic. She gets a great deal of
satisfaction from assisting her clients and trainees to also compose and tell
such stories. Jayasree is available for conducting
online sessions outside Dubai, and direct sessions in Dubai. -- Group Storytelling for
children. -- One-on-one coaching sessions
that include Storytelling. -- Group and one-on-one training
in business and brand Storytelling. Your
empowerment is our happiness! A photo of Jayasree is here. Contact Phone: +971 582903908 Email: jayasree.rajendran@gmail.com , info@bloombyond.com https://www.facebook.com/JayasreeRajendranJR https://www.instagram.com/jayasree.rajendran https://www.linkedin.com/in/nlpcoachjayasree 2 Laxmi Balaji. (Based in
Toronto.) Laxmi is a storyteller from India
(hometown: Salem), currently residing in Canada with her husband and two
children. She is a founder of a storytelling
service named “Sagas-R-Us”. She
performed in Toronto International Storytelling Festival 2022, and is the
recipient of the 2023 “Emerging Storyteller Award” given by Storytellers
of Canada - Conteurs du Canada (SC-CC).
She is also an Apprentice Teacher in the Parent-Child Mother Goose
Program. Laxmi started her storytelling
journey when reading books to her elder child. She discovered that children get excited if
the stories are narrated with expressions and voice modulations instead of
just reading them. She started telling
stories at community centers and preschools in 2016. Since then she has done storytelling at
various events in schools and libraries.
Laxmi has a sweet spot for telling
Indian mythological stories and various folktales. She weaves stories in both English and
Tamil. She believes that in today's
busy atmosphere, telling and hearing stories in a traditional way will
enhance the imagination and calm the mind. Laxmi is a proud member of Storytelling
Toronto, and Storytellers of Canada - Conteurs du Canada. Storytelling activities led by
Laxmi include: Sagas-R-Us Family Storytime (in
Tamil) for all ages. Last Saturday of each month, 8pm
to 9pm IST. Video call link: https://meet.google.com/tgr-fqhq-mpb Workshop for parents and teachers
on "Ways to select and read
books to children". Workshop for children on "Ways to use one's imagination
for memory power". A photo is here. Contact sagasrus.lax@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/sagasrus https://www.instagram.com/sagas_r_us_laxmibalaji 3 Sanjukta Bhowmik. (Based in Philadelphia.) Sanjukta is an academician with a
doctorate in chemistry. She has 15
years of teaching and research experience, primarily in Mumbai. Presently she is living in Philadelphia,
where she is a faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University, and also
volunteers as a tutor for immigrants. Sanjukta's love for teaching led
her to storytelling, which she often uses in her teaching and tutoring. She believes storytelling is an art form
with a deep impact in every aspect of human life. Sanjukta is the cofounder of
“obo”, a digital storytelling platform.
The objective of "obo" is to create a space dedicated to
promoting storytellers and their art.
Storytellers could also earn money through their work on "obo". In short, “obo” gives the power back to
storytellers, enabling them to create a (for now) audio-only online
experience customised for each listener.
So let's all tell our stories with
“obo”! Contact info obootaarthespeakingelephant@gmail.com Whatsapp (India): +91-9323877498 Phone (USA): +1-484-745-7425 "obo" on Google Playstore:
Obo–storymobile,
Audio stories - Apps on Google Play 4 Sonia Bareja. Founder of Storyknack. (Based in Portugal.) Sonia
Bareja is a Chief Story Coach and Founder of StoryKnack™, a brand unit
of Stories & Narratives, a consulting and coaching firm. Stories & Narratives provides
businesses and academia (schools, colleges and universities) with workshops
and other programs that facilitate the knack of storytelling.
Sonia is fondly known as Pied Piper Sonia in the
storytelling world, is an incisive professional with 20 years of varied
experience as an Entrepreneur, Educator, Storyteller, Wellness and
Personality Development Coach and Mentor, and Sales and Marketing
Professional. Sonia has been involved in harnessing and
developing creativity in corporates, professionals, young adults, and
children. She has earned a Master of Business Administration
degree (MBA). Peers, mentors, and her audience members often vouch
for Sonia’s versatility, enthusiasm, and undying passion and
commitment. She’s a firm believer in "Learning by Doing"
and practices the policy of "Success via Constant
Motivation." She is a creative Demonstrator cum Educator. Sonia's storytelling career spans over
the past 9 years. She has been a Professional Storyteller since
2012. She started with Corporate Storytelling. From the
early days, her sessions featured Activity-based Storytelling. She
also conducted sessions on Sexuality and Wellness in schools. Ever
since she has been conducting performance-based storytelling across schools,
colleges, and festivals. Sonia clocked-in with over 300 sessions
in a span of twenty-four months in 2018 and 2019. Sonia's
strengths are around communication, presentation, and interpersonal
skills. She has often been appreciated for strong voice throw,
voice modulation, and clear narration. She also brings poetry,
singing, and music into her Storytelling Sessions. Some
of the sessions Sonia often leads are: 1)
Performance Storytelling Sessions for children, teachers, and parents. 2)
Workshops on Storytelling in schools, colleges, and universities. 3)
Workshops on Sexual Health, Child Safety, Peer Pressure, and Bullying. 4)
Storytelling Sessions in Festivals for children, teachers, and parents. 5)
Theatrics and Communication Workshops for children. 6)
Wellness Workshops in corporatations and schools. 7) Train the Trainer Program for
teachers and parents. 8)
Workshops on and for specially-abled children. Sonia
conducts cutomised workshops relating to the above-mentioned topics --
including for underprivileged children, and children in orphanages. She firmly believes that “Telling stories
is the most fundamental way of communication. Stories have
power. It does not matter who the audience members are -- if one
is a good storyteller, he or she can surely help to bring about the desired
change in the audience members." A
photo of Pied Piper Sonia is here. Contact Whatsapp
-- +91 98116 67850 Email
-- soniabareja76@gmail.com Website -- https://storyknack.com Facebook
-- https://facebook.com/StoryKnac Linked
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