Date: 25th September 2021
Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Venue: St. Teresa’s Institute of Education, Santacruz (W)
Teacher coordinator: Dr. Cerena D’cuhna
Resource persons: Ms. Sarla Lobo
Participants: 50 students + 1 teacher

Objectives: (1) To enhance the effective ways of teaching and learning. (2) To cope with all the stress that we face in day to day lives.

1. Application of the skills Ms Sarla Lobo suggested were problem solving, critical thinking, decision making etc.
2. Importance of Human Emotions to one’s life.
3. Always have a positive mind set.

The workshop was held on 25th September, 2021 at 2.00 -4.00 pm via online mode on G-meet. It was hosted by Dr. Cerena D'cunha and the resource person was Ms. Sarla Lobo, who is a reputed teacher and has a great experience of teaching in one of the best institutes. She has an experience of teaching in ICSE and SSC board schools. She also received best teacher’s award from National English High School for excellent discharge of duties in 2019.

She started with a sanskrit shlok and asked one of us to at least try to read it and then she explained to us the whole meaning of that shlok. The workshop was about how to cope with all the stress that we face in day to day lives. She suggested we should inculcate the skills like problem solving, critical thinking, decision making etc.

Moving further she showed us how there are different kinds of people with different mindsets and the ability to handle stress in a positive and a negative way with the help of two bottles, one filled with coca -cola and the other one with water. After that we had a laughter therapy session, Ma'am asked all of us along with our Professor Dr. Cerena D’cuhna to participate in the laughter therapy. She suggested some books about positive thoughts and approaches towards life. Those were "Power of your subconscious mind "by Dr. Joseph Murphy and another one was by Gaur Gopal Das.

The last activity focused on the skills of creativity, Problem solving and analytical thinking. We had to make different ornaments or articles out of newspapers and everyone has to participate in that and so everyone made some of the other thing out of the newspaper and Ms. Sarla Lobo was very happy by looking at our creative minds .With this ma'am shared certain positive quotes related to teaching and life and with that the event came to an end. At the end one of our classmate Ruth D'Mello gave the vote of thanks. The session ended at 4.00 pm.