Drama Therapist, Mindfulness and Well-Being Mentor

Helping Children Navigate Life's Challenges

Ginny Bradley, PGDip,  MiSP, HCPC-Registered Drama Therapist

 

Ginny offers unique methods to help children build healthy attitudes, mindful ways of thinking, positive individuality, and balanced inner and outer worlds.
 
Built on a foundation of drama therapy and mindfulness, her sessions guide children to realise and trust their inner wisdom, to develop healthy and resilient approaches to life’s challenges. 
 
Sessions are presented through a combination of movement, mindfulness, dialogue, role play, artwork, poetry, and stories.

I am accredited by the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and follow their standards of proficiency.

 

Sessions (in-person or Zoom)

  • Individual 1:1 sessions for children (parents present at mutual agreement)
  • Schools and nurseries group sessions - mindfulness
  • Creative workshops in schools. Working with themes of your choice.
  • Mindfulness meditation and relaxation techniques

 

Areas of Focus

  • Overcoming shyness and self-doubt
  • Social integration and teamwork
  • Spontaneity and authentic self-expression
  • Learning to understand, identify, and express feelings and emotions
  • Making healthy choices
  • Responding rather than reacting
  • Being open to constructive comments
  • Addressing excessive perfectionism
  • Responding positively to change
  • Managing anxiety and worry
  • Working with body language to promote confidence
  • The art of conversation: Listening without interrupting, speaking clearly and confidently.

 

Biography

Ginny has worked extensively with children and adults through mindfulness, movement, dance, and drama for over 25 years. 

  • Postgraduate degree in Drama and Movement Therapy (Sesame Method) - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama 
  • Teach Paws b and Teach .breathe certifications - Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)
  • Dr Safia Debar’s course in the Stress Management and Resiliency Training 
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life course - Oxford Mindfulness Centre 
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course 
  • Breathworks Course on Mindfulness for Health (8 weeks course)

 

Previously, Ginny founded and was director of Creative Movements Ltd, and she worked worldwide as a professional dancer, choreographer, and artistic director for 20+ years.

I am accredited by the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and follow their standards of proficiency. I am in ongoing professional supervision, and I regularly undertake courses for professional development.

 

Testimonials

  • "Ginny has been the first person to believe in our daughter’s ability and potential. She has been a rock to us through difficult school assessment process, and she helped our daughter gaining self-confidence through her wonderful personality and presence. We can’t thank her enough and value her so much."
  • “Ginny has been our Mary Poppins of emotional intelligence and social survival.” 
  • “She has helped our son, and the whole family, navigate a new world of schools and friends.” 
  • "She tackles hugely important themes for children like self-confidence, independent thinking, and social integration tools, through gloriously fun means.”
  • “I think it is no exaggeration to say that your classes validated, encouraged and nurtured his innate creativity and showed him really good ways to express it - I think he is a happy person as a result.” 
  • “Thank you for the very powerful and life-enriching work that you have done with our boys and our family over the years. You have seen us through at least 4 rites of passage!”
  • “Thank you. I will be forever indebted to you and the brilliant work you do.”

 

ginny@ginnybradley.co.uk, 07894 033 324      

            

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