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Sree Karuna is a post graduate in
Management with both Human Resources and Marketing as specialisations. After an experience of 20-plus
years in fields such as Software Recruitment, Media, and Education, in 2019
she changed course and decided to step into the area of Mental Health and started
pursuing a masters degree in Psychology. Through the Vizag Junior Literary
Festival in 2018, she became associated with many eminent storytellers and
authors of children's books in India.
Feeling called to the world of storytelling, she studied with the Storytelling
Education and Arts India Council (SEAIC) which certified her as
Storyteller in May 2020, She has continued to upgrade her
skills by attending workshops from renowned storytellers of the world, such
as: *
"Therapeutic Storywriting", by Susan Parrow (Australia). *
"Hidden Gems", by Gilly Southwood (South Africa). *
"Heroine's Journey", by Lani Paterson (USA). *
("Story Cure", by Geetanjali Shetty Kaul (India). *
"Panchatantra Storytelling", by Vikram Sridhar (India). *
"Storytelling Performance", by Laura Simms (USA). * "Expressions (Navarasa)" by Geeta Ramanujam (India). *
"The Power of Eyes, Tone of Voice, and Posture", by Antonio Rocha (USA). *
"Voice for Storytellers, by Sherry Norflok (USA). Sree Karuna is also certified as
an NLP Practitioner, and is studying to be certified as a Master Practitioner
in NLP by the Lightweaver House of NLP.
She has earned Mindfulness Coach and Happiness Coach certifications
from Happitude India. Sree Karuna loves to tell stories
to both children and adults. She tells
stories in English, Hindi,and Telugu.
Her genres of storytelling include Folktales, Mythology, Historical Stories,
Personal-experience Stories, Stories Created by Herself, and Stories Created by
Other People. She has founded "Chandamama Katha"
("In the Moonlight of Stories"). To upkeep the Telugu tradition of
telling stories, she holds Katha Sambaram throughout the year before
important festivals. In Visakhapatnam, she regularly
tells stories to children at BookMagic Library, and in a number of schools. Sree Karuna told stories in
Jharkand Storytelling Festival 2021, and in Chennai Storytelling Festival
2022 (in Telugu and English). She is a member of FEAST, and
volunteered at FEAST FEST 2021. She is also a member of the
Healing Story Alliance, of the USA's National Storytelling Network. She is a nature lover and wants
to protect mother earth for her daughters and other children of the world. She believes that stories have
the power to heal and to spread happiness. She often uses storytelling as a medium
to enhance Life Skills in her workshops. A
photo is here. Video recordings are at: https://youtu.be/BWWWHVP02xI (Chennai Storytelling Festival 2022) Contact info sreekaruna.g@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/sreekaruna https://www.facebook.com/Sree.Chandamama.Katha https://www.instagram.com/sreekaruna a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
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