Story Samvad
Story Samvad
A deeper way of parenting with the stories you tell.
For parents of children ages two to ten.
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Wisdom usually waits for age. Story Samvad is how it can begin early.
Parents learn a deeper way of parenting, over three live Discovery Circles with me. And a full year of monthly practice circles after, so the learning has time to settle.
I will not pretend this is for everyone. Story Samvad asks for your time, patience, and willingness to change yourself before you ask anything of your child.
We begin with a free webinar. But first, read on.
Who this is for
Who this is for
You are a parent to a child between the ages of two and ten years.
You tell your child what is right, and somehow it does not land. You have reasoned, and pleaded, and some days shouted. Still nothing seems to stick.
You do not want a child who only obeys. Nor one who rebels. You want a child who thinks and feels deeply, and chooses well, even when you are nowhere near.
You sense that stories hold something powerful. You are just not sure how to use them beyond a few quiet minutes at bedtime.
Why ages two to ten: Start young, and pausing and wondering become second nature long before the difficult years. Start later, and it matters all the more, as the world grows louder and their choices grow bigger.
Psst: Grandparents, teachers, and anyone who tells stories to children are welcome too.
Where Samvad comes from
Where Samvad comes from
Long before parenting was a philosophy, there was a child named Nachiketa. His story is told in the Katha Upanishad.
Nachiketa asked Yama a hard question. Yama did not hand him a neat answer. He drew the boy out, question by question, until Nachiketa arrived at the understanding himself.
This is Samvad. A specific kind of conversation. The drawing out of truth from within a person. One of the oldest ways of teaching we have.
A child is built to resist being told. "Be kind" means nothing. But let a child discover what kindness can do, through a question they answer on their own, and it becomes theirs to keep. Forever.
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय
Lead me from darkness to light.
You light the lamp. Your child does the seeing.
This is the heart of everything I teach. The stories are how we light the lamp. The questions are how we hold it steady. And the silence after, the hardest part, is where we trust the child to see.
Does this really work?
Does this really work?
Yes, and it still surprises me. I once told sixty children a story about flamingoes dying in the plastic we throw away. Then I asked what we could do. Hands shot up. Cloth bags. No more bottled water. All the right answers. One boy said he would never use plastic again. I asked him if he liked chips. Silence. And then a samvad. The boy finally said, "I will not eat chips from a packet again. I will ask my mother to fry them at home.”
Nobody connected the flamingo to his packet of chips. He got there himself, in the quiet of his own mind.
More moments like this in Samvad in Action
What you learn, and how
What you learn, and how
We begin with three Discovery Circles.
Once a week, 60 mins each, live and online with me, for three weeks. Each one builds on the last.
Circle 1. The story.
How to tell a story so your child leans in and listens. Voice, expression, pace, pause. Just enough storytelling craft for your home.
Circle 2. After the story.
How to ask questions that open thinking, instead of a moral that closes it. How to trust the silence, without rushing to fill it.
Circle 3. STOP, our four-step method to pause and think.
How to pause in the heat of a moment. How to tell your child the story of this pause. (So that your child learns to pause by watching you.)
After the three Discovery Circles, practice circles for a full year.
Once a month, 60 mins each, live and online with me, for twelve months. Yours to join whenever you like.
The practice happens at home, with your child, all month long. Once a month we gather to keep it alive. I tell a story, we open a Samvad together, and a few parents share how it has been going in their homes.
The evening that went wrong. The question that fell flat. You listen, and find you are not the only one.
This is where Story Samvad becomes a habit.
What changes, and when
What changes, and when
Within the first few weeks, the change shows up in you. One evening, when the screaming starts, you catch yourself before you shout. You ask what is really wrong. And your child tells you.
Because you listen where you once lectured, you become a partner your child thinks alongside. They trust you with the things they would not say to anyone else.
The reflecting most of us learn at forty, your child begins to practice at ten, with you beside them.
Over time, something steady takes root in your child. An inner voice that knows its own feelings and values, that questions, and chooses well. Your child begins to stand on their own ground. Quietly steady in what they think and value, even when the world pushes the other way.
This change happens slowly over hundreds of bedtimes. But it is real. And it stays.
Begin with a free webinar
Begin with a free webinar
I won't ask you to decide today. Come and spend an hour with me. I will tell you a story, and show you why the moral never lands. You will leave seeing your own evenings differently, whether or not you join us.
There is no other way in, and that is on purpose.
What you get for ₹ 3999
What you get for ₹ 3999
Three Discovery Circles to learn Story Samvad, live, with me.
A full year of monthly practice circles, live, with me.
A full year of Story Kosh, the story library, every tale we have and every new one we add.
Note: This is our founding cohort price and it will rise. The first few families get the most of my time, and the chance to shape how this runs.
The next webinar is coming up soon.
Wondering what Samvad looks like in real children's lives?
Still wondering about something? Read Questions Parents Ask
Meet your circle leader
Meet your circle leader
Hi! I am Devaki Bhujang Gajare, a Storyful Parent.
For thirteen years I have told stories to children, and trained adults to tell them well.
Story Samvad is everything I have learned about what to do once the story ends.
Want to know me better? Read my story
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