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For years you folded yourself into what the room needed. Let's do the unfolding.

You were never too much.
Neither are the children in your care.

Applied theatre workshops for teachers, teenagers, and the ones who raise them.

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- a little about me -

For nearly a decade, I've helped voices find their way onto pages. Writing and editing manuscripts, shaping stories for brands, believing that no story is too small to matter. I'm good at this work. I love this work.

 

But after a 2024 theatre workshop I almost didn't say yes to, three young girls handed me letters. Pink hearts, handmade stickers, beautiful cursive handwriting. Words that left me teary-eyed. Those letters reminded me of what theatre had always stirred in me: some stories don't belong only to the page. They need to breathe, to be embodied, to make space where belonging can take root. So in 2025, I completed a Diploma in Applied Theatre from the Applied Theatre India Foundation.​

 

Now I stand at the meeting point of words and performance. Through The Teacher Lab, I work with educators on real classroom challenges: embodied activities, peer learning, and reflection that grow into stronger classroom culture. Through The Play Lab, I work with teenagers: creating spaces to be exactly, completely, courageously themselves. And The Nurture Lab, a space for the parents, guardians, and caregivers holding it all together is coming soon.

Nidhi Paralikar (2025)
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- the work -

Three Spaces. One Principle.

You don't come here to be taught. You come here to explore and discover.

The Teacher Lab

For Schools and Teachers

Most teacher training treats it like information transfer. The Teacher Lab is an in-school programme built around the challenges teachers are actually facing — burnout, disconnection, classrooms that feel impossible to hold. Through embodied activities, peer learning, and structured reflection, teachers build the emotional resilience and practical strategies that stay in their toolbox.

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The Play Lab

For Pre-teens and Teenagers (Aged 11 - 16)

Most spaces ask adolescents to perform: the right answer, the right reaction, the right version of themselves. The Play Lab is a series of workshops for ages 11–16 built around what adolescence actually feels like: the confusion, the shifting friendships, the emotions that don't have names yet. Through embodied activities, peer support, and rehearsal, teenagers find the tools to navigate it, by exploring their challenges on their own terms.

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The Nurture Lab

For Parents, Guardians, and Caregivers

There is no shortage of advice for parents. There is a shortage of spaces where parents can simply be, without performance, without judgement, without having to have it figured out. The Nurture Lab is a monthly gathering for parents, guardians, and caregivers using embodied learning, shared reflection, and community co-building to explore what it means to raise children intentionally. 

Stay Tuned

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- notes & reflections -

Thoughts that arrive irregularly —

could be weekly, could be whenever.

Check back when you want some quiet to wander with.

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- the editing table -

I believe everyone has a story worth telling. My job is not to tell it for you but to help it speak as clearly as it can.

I start by reading the manuscript as a whole, with curiosity, before asking questions and working through the details.

At the table, I act as a collaborator - someone who helps your voice come to the forefront.

The goal is always the same: to help your story be its truest self.

Manuscript Evaluation

Big-picture feedback on structure, pacing, and story to help you see what's working and what needs attention.

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Line-by-line work on clarity, flow, and voice—shaping your writing until it says exactly what you mean.

Copyediting

Polishing for grammar, consistency, and precision so your manuscript is

clean and ready.

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- strategic storytelling -

Years of building content and crafting strategies taught me something unexpected: most brands don't need more content.

They need a story strong enough to make what they already have actually matter.

I used to think the problem was execution. Better writing, smarter strategy, prettier campaigns.

Then I started really listening to frustrated founders saying, "We know our story, we just can't tell it right."

That's when I realized: what if you're not sure what story you're trying to tell in the first place?

These days, I work more like an archaeologist. The story is already there, waiting. My job is helping brands find their way back to it.

The Excavation

The Excavation

We sit together and we dig.

I ask questions and we keep digging  until we uncover the story.

The Architecture

The Architecture

I show you how your story works. Not just what it is, but how to unfold it and why people will care.

The Collaboration

The Collaboration

I work with your content team to unfold this story the way it deserves to be told.

- get in touch -

If something here has made you curious, I'd love to hear from you.

Whether you're a school thinking about The Teacher Lab, a parent wondering about The Nurture Lab, or a writer looking for an editor — the door is open.

- find me elsewhere -

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© 2026–2027 Nidhi Paralikar. All Rights Reserved.

Based in Pune, India.

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