Start with our ancient stories.
Discover a whole new way to share them.
The little ones giggle. Older children think. A rooted inner voice grows.
From parent to partner. One story, one dialogue at a time.
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Story Samvad
Story Samvad
A live training for parents who want to go deeper.
Story Samvad is where you grow from parent to partner. One story, one dialogue at a time.
An intimate cohort of intentional parents explores a new way of parenting over four thoughtful weeks with me.
I will not pretend this is for everyone. Story Samvad asks not just for your time and patience, but a willingness to change yourself before you ask anything of your child.
Who this is for
Who this is for
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. You want one who thinks and feels deeply, and chooses well, even when you are not around to help.
You sense that stories hold something powerful. You are just not sure how to use them beyond entertainment, or a few quiet minutes at bedtime.
You are parent to a child between the ages of two and ten years. 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.
Grandparents, teachers, and anyone who tells stories to children are welcome too.
An old way, made new
An old way, made new
Long before parenting was a philosophy, there was a child named Nachiketa.
He asked Yama a hard question. The wise 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. Dialogue. The drawing out of truth from within a person, rather than pouring it in. It is one of the oldest ways of teaching we have, older than the philosophers most of us were taught to admire.
A child is built to resist being told. Say "be kind," and the words slide past. But let a child discover what kindness can really do, inside a story, through a question they answered on their own, and it becomes theirs. They keep what they discover. They forget what they are told.
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.
What you will learn
What you will learn
How to tell a story so a child leans closer and listens.
How to ask questions that open thinking, instead of a moral that closes it.
How to find your own pause and inner voice.
How to share your own life stories in a way that moves your child.
How to read your child's pace, when to ask questions, and when to simply tell the tale and let it be.
How to pass on what we call PIVOT, your own way of pausing, listening, and staying open, to your child, slowly, steadily.
What changes over time
What changes over time
The first change shows up in YOU. You ask where you once told. You listen where you once lectured. You pause where you once snapped.
Then the bond deepens. You become a partner your child thinks alongside. They trust you. Open up to you.
Slowly, something steady takes root in your child. An inner voice that knows its own feelings and values. One that questions, and decides for itself.
None of these changes are quick. They happen slowly over hundreds of bedtimes.
But the change is real. And it stays.
How the training works
How the training works
We begin together, live.
Don't decide today. Attend a free webinar first, and see for yourself whether this feels like the right fit. Think of the webinar as the first step of a journey we might take together. Come, meet me, hear a story, and see what this is. There is no other way in, and that is on purpose.
If it feels right, you join the training. Four live sessions, one a week, sixty to ninety minutes each, online. We learn STOP, a technique to pause and think through a hard moment in life. We practise it first inside stories, where it is safe and playful, and then in real life.
After the four weeks, you are welcome at our story circles for an entire year. Once a month, I tell a story, we open a Samvad together, and a few parents share what has been happening at their own dinner tables. The story circles are where the practice becomes a habit, held by a circle of parents walking the same path.
What you receive
What you receive
Four live training sessions with me.
A full year of monthly story circles.
A full year of Story Kosh, the complete story library, every tale and every new one we add.
₹ 3999 for all of this.
Come, see if this is for you
Come, see if this is for you
The next webinar is open for registration and it is the only way in.
Not sure yet? See what Samvad looks like in real children's lives.
Meet Your Trainer
Meet Your Trainer
Hi! I am Devaki 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.
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