Course Flow & Calendar
Beginning with Basics: Week 1, 2
Preparing the mind and body for storytelling (Building perspectives, Getting familiar with diverse storytelling traditions and practices, Re-discovering our stories)
Fundamental Skills of Storytelling: Week 3, 4, 5, 6
Mastering fundamental skills, one each week - telling stories spontaneously, crafting story structures, developing parts and flow of story, and making stories come alive.
Developing a storytelling personality: Weeks 7, 8, 9, 10
Trying genres/styles of storytelling (personal stories, folktales, wonder tales, open ended stories). Each week, we also practice advanced skills of performing ranging from character development to audience interaction, body language to voice modulation.
Mentoring and Performance: Week 11, 12
Learning how to adapt a story for performance. Learners get mentoring and firsthand experience of organising event, facing their fears and performing.
Session Schedule
Sessions are held once a week, for two hours, live on Zoom. There are four batches to choose from (3 Tuesday Batches and a new Monday night batch announced)
Tuesday Afternoon - 4:00 - 6:00 pm (Facilitated in English) (Almost full)
Tuesday Evening - 6:32 - 8:32 pm (Facilitated in Hindi & English) (Almost full)
Tuesday Night - 9:00 - 11:00 pm (Facilitated in English) (Full now)
Monday Night 9:00 - 11:00 pm (Facilitated in English) (Newly added - Starts Sep 21)
Beyond the learning sessions, there are also revisions and mentoring for performances.
3 Batches for this season have begun on Sep 8. There's a way to join the existing batches with a lateral entry so one wouldn't miss the sessions so far. Speak to us.
A new batch a new batch has been announced from Sep 21 owing to overwhelming response.
Course Calendar
Learning Sessions
Monday & Tuesday evenings
Monday Batch starts from Sep 21. Tuesday Batches have begun from Sep 8. Lateral Entry, Sep 20.
Course Dates (Tuesday Batches)
September 08, 15, 22, 29
October 06, 13, 20, 27
November 03, 17
Course Dates (Newly announced Monday Batch)
September 21, 28
October 05, 12, 19, 26
November 02, 09, 16, 23
Revision Sessions
Sundays
To help learners catch up with learnings in case they missed, revision sessions are held through the course at junctions. They are held on Sunday eveningss after week 2, week 5, week 9.
Mentoring and Performance
Last 2 weeks
Between 17 and 27 November, 30 hours of group rehearsals are scheduled in evenings. They are optional. One can attend as and when and as many as they want.
We celebrate the end of course with performances from learners.
They are tentatively scheduled on November 28 & 29, 2026.
