FOUNDER – YOUR STORY BAG
A story digger, story charmer, story gatherer, story extractor, story spotter…Rituparna is anything but just a storyteller! A former TV journalist & producer, an international storyteller and a TEDx speaker Rituparna is the Founder of Your Story Bag, a Storytelling, Training, Consulting & Coaching company.
As a storyteller, Rituparna works with varied audiences including children, teachers, parents, professionals, entrepreneurs, and people in businesses, not-for-profits and corporations, helping them to “Discover Expressions, Emotions, and Life through Stories.”
Rituparna believes there is a storyteller in each of us. Children and adults need stories and storytelling skills all of their lives, to make sense of the world and give shape to their ideas
Rituparna has taught Storytelling & Children’s Literature in Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, Delhi University, and Amity Centre for Educational Research and Training (ACERT). She has co-developed “Storytelling as Pedagogy Manual” for CBSE. She has designed the early years curriculum in Delhi Government-run SCERT schools, besides being a pre-school Story Consultant for 3 years. Rituparna travels around the country performing stories, training teachers in creating storied classrooms and enabling parents to tell stories.
In the corporate & not-for-profit space, Rituparna has worked on projects involving the use of storytelling for Training, Company Branding, Change Management, Communication, Fund Raising, Marketing, Program Facilitation and Gender Sensitization.
Rituparna strongly believes storytelling will be the world’s strongest currency! (Watch her TEDx Talk) She is now exploring what change storytellers can bring in this world. From making storytelling a mainstream skill, to making it a bankable and sustainable career option, Rituparna is building ‘The Storied Way’ into the future.
Listen to the sound of her stories in her Podcast, Golpo: Stories from Around the World where Rituparna shares handpicked stories that trigger meaningful conversations in the Classroom, Living Room & the Boardroom.
When she is not telling, listening, tinkering or chasing a story, Rituparna likes to listen to music, a leisure walk, traveling and indulging in artful experiences.