About Tania Haldar
I am a creative strategist, storyteller, interviewer and human-centred conversation facilitator.
Early in my career, I created a documentary examining the influence of celebrity culture and media on impressionable minds in India. It aired on national television, was featured during Documentary Film Festival Week at the India Habitat Centre and was later added to the University of Iowa Main Library collection.
Since then, I have built and led creative ventures, developed purpose-led projects, managed teams and collaborators, coordinated productions and facilitated conversations in workplaces and communities.
As Founder of The Arcadian House, I create initiatives spanning workplace facilitation, community building, storytelling and design.
I am the Creator and Facilitator of MidDay Pause™, a workplace experience designed to help employees examine how they are working and decide what to do differently. Through Vision One World, I create community and storytelling initiatives including HPR HEROES, WeWise and The Arcadian Circle. Antiquity Soul, my natural-stone and silver jewelry brand, grew from my own story of second chances and explores individuality, personal meaning and legacy.
Across all of my work, my intention is to create spaces where people can understand and be understood, and where meaningful conversation can change what happens next.
Tania Haldar
Creative Strategist • Storyteller • Conversation Facilitator
Founder, The Arcadian House
Tania Haldar
Creative Strategist • Storyteller • Human-Centred Conversation Facilitator at The Arcadian House
The Story Behind The Arcadian House:
The name The Arcadian House carries a deeply personal meaning. For many years, my father dreamed of one day building a home called “Arcadia”: a place he imagined as peaceful, creative, welcoming and filled with warmth and human connection.
Life did not give him the opportunity to realize that dream fully, but the idea stayed with me.
The Arcadian House carries that vision forward in a different form.
It is not one physical house, but a home for the work I now create: workplace experiences, community conversations, storytelling initiatives and meaningful objects that help people think more clearly, connect more deeply and recognize what may still be possible.
I did not create this work because I believe I have all the answers. I created it after spending much of my own life searching for worth in places where it could never be found. My personal journey taught me that change often begins when we are finally able to see ourselves, our circumstances and one another differently. At the heart of everything I create is one enduring belief:
Meaningful human connection can change the way people see themselves, one another and what may be possible next.