Friday, September 12, 2025
Date: 12th September 2025
Time: 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Venue: Seminar hall of Dr. D. Y. Patil B School
Resource Person: Ms. Hazel
Participants: PGDM Students
Faculty Coordinator: Ms. Hazel Francis and team
Organizer: Elevate Club
Objectives
1. Encourage Expression: To provide students with a safe and supportive environment to express their personal experiences and perspectives.
2. Foster Empathy and Connection: To allow participants and the audience to understand diverse viewpoints, promoting emotional intelligence and compassion.
3. Develop Storytelling Skills: To enhance students’ abilities in articulating experiences, blending narrative structure with emotion and insight.
4. Inspire and Motivate: To create a platform where stories of resilience, courage, and learning motivate others to reflect and act positively.
5. Celebrate Individuality: To recognize and honour the uniqueness of each student’s journey, highlighting that every voice has value.
The Elevate Club hosted Kathakar – Stories of Experience on 12th September 2025, a platform designed to celebrate personal narratives and lived experiences. The event encouraged students to step forward and share stories from their own lives, weaving emotion, lessons, and inspiration into compelling storytelling moments. Each narrative reflected authenticity, courage, and connection, resonating deeply with the audience and fostering a sense of shared understanding and empathy.
The session not only entertained but also inspired, emphasizing the power of storytelling to influence thought, provoke reflection, and drive change. By creating a space for voices to be heard, the event reinforced the idea that every story holds significance and contributes to a larger dialogue of human experience.
Kathakar – Stories of Experience successfully turned into a celebration of perspective, courage, and authentic storytelling. The event reinforced the transformative power of narratives in shaping thoughts, fostering connection, and sparking meaningful change. Students and audience members alike left the session enriched, inspired, and reminded of the profound impact of sharing one’s story.