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ISN homepage Indian Storytelling Network Bhubaneswar Storyteller Lipika Mohanty is Storyteller
from the temple city, Bhubaneswar. She
is a retired director of a chain of pre-schools, having worked extensively
for over twenty five years in the sector of Early years Education.
Lipika has earned a Masters
degree in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education. Lipika also has diplomas and certificates
in many other areas such as: * Public Health and Global Environmental
Changes, * Storytelling for Social Change. * Food and Nutrition. * Fashion Design. * TESOL and IELTS (English Language Test for
Study). * Yoga. Lipika believes that learning is
a never-ending process and that is why she has so many certificates and
diplomas to her credit.
Lipika is a Writer, having contributed
to many different publications. She
writes about culture and traditions, arts and about early childhood
development. She is a Food blogger
too, having won many cooking contests. Her storytelling journey began in
the late nineties, when she was training students in public speaking, as an
English language trainer and would ask them to tell stories as she had told
to them. She would then listen to them
and correct their errors and motivated them to speak confidently. Later, as a teacher and resource for content
in school, she incorporated storytelling into the curriculum as a pedagogical
tool. As a school supervisor, she has
trained teachers in storytelling, making cost effective storytelling props
and huge storytelling sets. Lipika tells stories in three
languages: English, Hindi, and Odia.
She tells stories from her culture and from different parts of the
world, personal-experience stories, mythology, legends, historical stories,
biographies, and stories that she creates. She holds storytelling workshops
in teacher’s-training colleges and schools. She tells stories in many different spaces
(Schools, Colleges, Libraries, NGOs, Palliative care, Corporates,
Storytelling groups, Communities) in India as well as overseas, virtually and
in person. She has participated in many
storytelling festivals & Story swaps in different parts of the globe from
Toronto to USA to Singapore to Australia to India. She is a Kamishibai (Japanese art form of
storytelling) artist and performer. She
has complemented her storytelling journey with a storytelling course, "Storytelling
for Social Change", from University of Michigan, USA. Lipika has sharpened her storytelling skills
by attending storytelling workshops of famous storytellers as well as by observing
the nuances of daily life. Lipika loves nature. Living in a suburb, she does her bit for
the environment by focusing on sustainability. She is a green/flower art enthusiast and
encourages others to care for nature. She is a Kathastakam Global
awardee for Best Environmental Story. A photo is here. Her Youtube channel is here. Instagram: @Lipika_GapaPedi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lipika.Mohanty.73 Contact info Email: lipikamohanty20@gmail.com 95830 81822
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