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The Writers' Gym

the writers' gym

I’m a fiction and non-fiction author, freelance writer and presenter, with a background in directing and performing. I coach communication and performance as life skills: whether you’re onstage or offstage, working the switchboard or boardroom, interviewee or interviewer, an authentic relationship with your audience builds you confidence and turns their day around. To explore coaching for life, work and art, book a free 30-minute consultation call. Or, grab one of six places (and a free copy of my Creative Writing Toolkit book) when you join Green Ink Writers’ Gym at Olympic Studios, Barnes on 22 October! I’m a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), hold a LAMDA Diploma of Speech and Drama Education (LSDE) and a PGCert in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. I moved away from theatre to finish my PhD and focus on writing, but the years I spent acting and directing formed my fascination with perception and reality, and how the roles we play in life affect our identity. That’s why I love coaching, and the power the right coaching space and time has to clarify aims, develop confidence and create authenticity in life, work and art. You’ll also find those themes of authenticity, identity and communication in my short story collection, Beyond Glass (Black Shuck Books, May 2021; second collection to be published 2023), in the stories I’ve contributed to anthologies such as the 2022 British Fantasy Award-nominated Dreamland (Black Shuck Books) and Uncertainties Vol. 3 (Swan River Press, featuring Joyce Carol Oates) as well as in my regular features and short stories for magazines, including Starburst and Jewish Renaissance. I’m also the author of Your Creative Writing Toolkit and GCSE Drama Revision and Study Guide (Illuminate/Hodder Education). To explore your artistic, personal and professional goals or develop your confidence, communication or performance for work, art and life, book your free 30-minute introduction to coaching, or sign up for my newsletter. You can also email any questions here. I’d love to hear from you!

Kaleidoscope Gymnastics, Cheer And Dance

kaleidoscope gymnastics, cheer and dance

4.6(19)

Belfast

VOTED BEST ACTIVITY PROVIDER 2019 in the Family First Awards!!!!! OUR HISTORY- KALEIDOSCOPE GYMNASTICS Kaleidoscope Gymnastics previously Gazelle Gymnastics Club founded by our Head Coach and Club Owner Dawn Dornan grew from a recreational class of one hour a week, to an extremely well attended club which ran in 3 leisure centre venues in east and south Belfast for over 30 years. In 2015 we rebranded as Kaleidoscope Gymnastics upon acheiving our life long dream of setting up our own premises to provide an even bigger and brighter future for our gymnasts with more classes, equipment and an even more varied timetable. Since then our Club has continued to go from strength to strength, We have been long established as an excellent Recreational Gymnastics Provider culminating in being awarded Family First's Best Activity Provider 2019. Our Competitive Gymnastic Squads are achieving more and more success each year including a 2019 Northern Ireland Champion Sarah Hetherington and our busiest In House Competition to date. Our boys side of the club continues to develop in both our Recreation and Squad classes and we are so happy to add our newest Class "Gymnastics Inc."to our timetable providing gymnastics for gymnasts with additional learning Needs. KALEIDOSCOPE CHEER In 2016 Kaleidoscope Cheerleading was founded with Head Coach Cara Watson, the Club has grown each year with many a competiive success and the additition of extra training hours in 2019. KALEIDOSOCPE DANCE Kaleidoscope Dance was founded over 15 years ago by Dawn Dornan with the Classes moving to our main premises in 2015. In the past 2 years her daughter Holly Dornan has taken a lead in the Choreography and running of the classes with Dawn remaining as the Principal and we have also expanded into Ballet, Hip Hop, Lyrical and Comtemporary, Musical Theatre and Jazz. KALEIDOSCOPE TEAM All our coaching team are fully qualified, insured and affiliated with the appropiate recognised bodies. At Kaleidoscope we have an excellent Team who always provide a high level and service of coaching. They are constantly attending courses and working towards new qualifcations for continuous personal development while in class they provide your child with fun child centred classes in a safe and caring environment. Please check out the various sections on our website for more details on all our services on offer.

Wing Training

wing training

London

Wing Training delivers unique and bespoke course interventions for; Adult customers furthest from the workplace, adult clients with clear, identified and entrenched barriers, adult clients with a range of profound mental health and wellbeing issues, adult clients requiring support, both moving into, and in work. Wing Training adopts a highly specialised delivery approach utilising professional actor-teachers and 'Forum Theatre' techniques. It's mission is to ENABLE and INSPIRE client groups by facilitating a process of high level self-assessment and self-realisation, allowing those with a range of issues, barriers and health conditions move out of crisis and into meaningful recovery and progression. Alongside, Wing Training uses the highly acclaimed WEMWBS tool to measure improvement in mental health and improvement, and currently we can prove an average 16% increase per participant per programme. Since 2011, Wing Training has assisted over 6000 clients with wellbeing issues move successfully forward - partners including; People Plus, Ingeus, The Shaw Trust. Maximus, Acorn Training and two large FE colleges. Clients have regularly included; homeless people, ex-offenders, lone parents and those recovering from a variety of crisese. Of these, over 70 percent have moved into relevant and meaningful progression, and we can boast a 90 percent client improvement rate in a wide range of mental health related outcomes – notably; confidence, self-esteem, emotional well-being, social skills/interaction, motivation, focus, and positivity - proving levels of profound recovery. Similarly, when delivering the same resource to, specifically, harder to reach unemployed clients, we have assisted, globally, over 27 percent - of 3000 referrals - move into paid, full time work and 70 percent into other progressions (ie further training). Nearly all of these have been ‘Work and Health programme’ participants. Since April 2020, Wing Training has delivered completely digitally, but our business ambition is to move back to 'face to face' as soon as is possible to assist vulnerable clients struggling post-Covid. Funding allowing, all of our courses can be accredited to Level One and our learners achieve, either an Award, a Certificate or a Diploma in Personal and Social Development, with specialised IAG and Digital skills embedded. Wing Training is now operating all training on-line. Take a look at this video explanation of how Forum Theatre works, why it's successful with our clients, and some strong testimonies to our success.