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Discovering oneself The workshop in progress

“TCI is introspective, interactive and transformational. It touches lives rather than teaches subject,” says Dr. Thomas Abraham. ‘My life-line’ is a session in the workshop, in which the participants draw their lifelines. This session thrills and elevates the participants and fills them with nostalgia and gratitude. And they have the invaluable learning experience: life is great, whatever be its rhythm.

Learning, says Dr. Abraham, is the keyword. He quotes Carl Rogers: “To learn is to change.” And he says, TCI can change because it is built on humanistic psychology and uses elements of group therapy and creative group dynamics. According to TCI, if the environment is conducive, any bud will blossom and that’s what the facilitator creates in the workshop.

Since TCI is intensively interactive, the group has to be small. The outcome from the energising lives workshop has been positive. Pradeepan P.M, who participated in one of the sessions, is now working on a book about the workshop . “Recalling forgotten memories in a moment is the highlight of this workshop,” says Pradeepan. Agrees Venu Prasad, “I was able to come up with cheerful, sorrowful memories and recollect teachers and many more incidents from my life.”

The participants found it enlightening when Dr. Abraham shared his own experiences. “In the form of a story, we narrated how we could change to benefit the company,” recollects Vipin.

At the personal level, Pradeepan says, is now open to listening to other person’s views, be it at work or home. The attitude also changes after attending the workshop. Many who completed the session in the previous weeks have started reading books or pursuing other such interests. At the end of the workshop, two participants form a group each and in the coming days, they keep track of the activities of their workshop-partner.

For some, these workshops changed their societal outlook and are now softer to the societal needs and see other’s needs in a new light.

Dr. Abraham adds,” Many participants who belonged to Isaac-Newton’s school of ‘reactive behaviour’ have crossed over to Stephen Covey’s school of ‘proactive behaviour’. All of them have re discovered themselves.” And the participants opine in one-voice that the workshop “energises their lives!”

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