Past Participants

Dear Ratnesh & Aditi
             
                Better Late than Never! --I am sorry that i missed sending this email to you on Teacher's day...But I would like to convey my thanks and appreciation for all the new thoughts you bring into me. Thanks to both of you for your sincere efforts in educating us Parents to help our kids. I really admire your inspiring, different, thought provoking articles and thoughts..I am sure that I will definitely use many of your ideas in my life to help my children reach their potential. 

Happy Teacher's Day to both of you !

thanks,
Abarna

It was a sheer pleasure for me to be in your session yesterday. I miss attending yours and Aditi's thought provoking sessions..Even though I had been in the "Empowering " seesion by you before It was still thought provoking and churning of my brain.I do miss thursday meetings of Success Saturdays where my brain used to be churned, thrilled,confused and inspired  by the different perspectives .....
  
                     I saw the same confusion..churning up and frustration of my batchmates in Banjara yesterday.. The class was very interactive and thought provoking...They were all in awe of the different perspective you brought about ...Your challenging their notions and beliefs left them confused, challenged and thrilled...
 
Just wanted to let you know that you GET PEOPLE THINKING, YOU ARE INSPIRATIONAL in your talk...you passion in what you belive is exceptional.....
 
Regards,
Sumana

I consider myself very fortunate for having attended a course like TTT. I must agree that you have almost covered all topics that , we,  as parents would normally face problems with. Its a wonderful parenting programme which has simple, practical solutions to all concerns/problems.    I normally rewind every session of TTT in my memory , expecting to find a definite answer  confidently , & yes, there is an answer to almost all types of problems.....  i thank you whole-heartedly for designing such a wonderful programme.  I have applied almost all strategies with my child & it works out fine.

Sharanya, 14ttt

Congratulations on Aarohi! I shall never forget the training I had
taken with you in the year 2001 with a wonderful group of girls with some of
whom I'm still in touch! Your training has opened me up to a lot of new
learning in education .

We need more and more people like you in India...people with a combination
of enterprise and initiative. All the best to you and your team. Trust your
family is well.

Regards,

Nirupama

By mail-- Namrata 14ttt

I wanted to let you know that me and Vishal have become big fans of the TTT program. Our sincere thanks to both of you and others in the TTT team. Your ACCEPTANCE, RESPECT & CO-OPERATION strategies work like a miracle. I have been trying these with Astha and it works amazingly. I should not use the word trying as I got convinced  during the sessions J(It requires efforts to change). Of course, it’s not the “works” part that I am more excited about but, the fact that it’s helping me and Astha to make our relationship healthier. I am grateful to you for all the small+big illuminations. I am glad to have an opportunity to attend TTT. My next task is applying some of these with adults and notice the changes in my life. I’ll share my experiences. I must say my relation with Astha is now growing differently. You both nurtured my way.

THANK YOU FROM BOTTOM OF MY HEART!

Had you not decided to take this path in your life some years back, we (two of us and many others) would have been deprived of these beautiful thoughts. I wish me and Vishal are also able to identify our passion and inclination some day and follow it.

regards,
Namrata

I liked the style of all the instructors who conducted sessions – each one was great at what they taught and the
difference in their styles was also a learning. The process also was quite good in terms of content and way
presentations were done, discussions in class and email, stimulation/ exercises done to drive the point home,
relevant assignments and reading material being provided etc. One thing I really appreciated is the freedom given
to us – it was our choice how much we want to get from the course (and how much effort we were ready to put in)
– worked very well for me.

My major takeaways all go much beyond working with children – this truly has been a life changing experience. I
haven't really looked forward to any course I have done so far the way I did with TTT!! Content is excellent,
fantastic delivery and I really enjoyed even the homework (assignments)!! The course left me with a sense of
having done something really meaningful and yet thirsting for more. Thanx to all who have made TTT what I was
able to experience – thanx for all the learning, the big chunk which is still WIP and even those things which are at
present too much for me to digest (but I still peek once in a while).

It’s an eye-opener for me because I have learnt many beautiful things related to children. Now after this training I am trying to think from my son’s point of view and helping him in those areas where he is lagging. It’s an reallllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy awesome and fabulous training for me.

This mail is to share my joy and gratitude to you . Ive accepted an offer as a volunteer to  empower children of an NRI based Orphange situated on Bannerghatta road .The institute which has a CBSC school for these children attached to it is run by disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of it is a doctor who has returned from the US and most of the fundings to this institute come from that country.They have an excellent libraryand Science lab too attached to the orphanage. A couple if IT companies send their volunteers on weekends to conduct classes other than academics.I would be conducting Personality Development based activities for them including Yoga ( only on Sundays).Most of them can speak english too.Quite of few of them have great vision for their lives and it pained me to see that some of them had very low self esteem.I took a session with them and they have were noticeably thrilled and excited to be approached in a ' NON CONVENTIONAL ' manner (Thanks to TTT!!) and my own approach, devoid of sympathy but rich in ' EMPATHY'!! 
This venture is a 'Dream mission' for me as it has always been my childhood passion to work in some way for the underprivileged children. It appears to me now that I was destined to do the TTT programme to fulfill my lifelong vision. 
 
I hope and pray that I will do justice to the role Ive accepted in bringing these unfortunate children to the mainstream society, taking forward the Geniekids TTT vision of empowering children thereby fulfilling the mission that Ive undertaken in my life.
 

Mail by Trupti

i would also like to share something with both of you.
In the TTT class i got familiar with concepts like beliefs, self esteem, self confidence, trust, respect, empowerment, etc. i brought all of that into practice by making one decision and also successfully executing it yesterday!
We sent Ashwin all by himself to pune by flight from blangalore. It was a difficult decision to make, but due to the constraints put by the hospital (they do not allow another child apart from the patient), we had to send ahswin to his grandparents' place. We also did not have enough time to ourself go and drop him there as we go to hyderabad tomorrow.
We prepared him for the journey, gave him my mobile phone and said good bye to him at the gate of the airport! Kingfisher provided excellent service and most importantly ashwin managed himself very well throughout the journey and reached safely. He enjoys the flight journey but that he became ready to go all by himself without us was a big and commendable thing for him and for us.
he will surely carry this experience with him all his life long.
thanks to you both for such a wonderful programme like ttt which has helped me to evolve as a person and which has given me confidence i lacked!
trupti

Its been a long time since I've gone through something which has "provoked me" or raised fundamental / radical thoughts. Its been an expereince I'll cherish all my life.

After 10ttt session, I try adopting some lessons learnt fm the course. Currently I take carnatic music classes at a music school and at my home. Some methods I have made is 1. Ask them to compose their own notes within the given scale and make them sing
2. Copy the class lessons themselves
3. Give them a chance to correct their singing by questioning where the notes went wrong
4. Give them fishes
5. Relate music to maths and ask them to work out the counts for the talas-this they enjoy
Well, hope I do justice to the classes and your teachings

I learnt here more about myself and how i interact with children, i wish you had more topic on respect, the teaching style is very intresting, first when i came here i thought i entered in a new world where i don't know about myself, Ratnesh and Aditi gave me more knowledge about myself. Thank you for your teaching and sharing more information about everything.