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Praise for Claire Schrader and From Wallflower to Sunflower

Fills in the gaps were assertiveness training and other techniques leave off

Claire Schrader’s new confidence-building system, the Sunflower Effect, fills in the gaps where assertiveness training and other techniques leave off.

If you are a wallflower and you’ve tried practically everything else, read this book and discover that all the things that people have been saying about you are plainly not true.
Raymond Aaron
NY Times Best Selling Author www.aaron.com


An excellent book

The author uses her own life experience as a shy person to evolve a system for shy and quiet people to grow in self-confidence.  The fact that she uses drama is in itself remarkable, as drama is something that shy people often run away from!  Having trained as a nurse at Kings College, Claire’s working life developed as a playwright and as a trainer in drama schools.  As her life increased in success, her first play was short-listed for a Charrington Fringe Award and won an Arts Council award, her system for confidence building took shape.  Now it is an amazingly successful way of working using ‘drama in the safe space’.

Claire describes how her own ‘self-belief’ emerged as her experience of healing drama increased.  This she is able to communicate to others in very powerful workshops that change people’s lives.  Claire runs intensive workshops in London (see her profile in this Newsletter), where participants can test her methods, as well as reading her book.  A very powerful combination!

I strongly recommend Claire Schrader’s way of working, the application of drama as healing in the best possible way.  It is an excellent book!

Prof. Sue Emmy Jennings PhD, anthropologist, Dramatherapy, Playtherapy and Neuro Dramatic Play pioneer (UK and Europe), performer, and author of 30 books on dramatherapy


Claire’s methods and compassionate approach compliments hypnotherapy

Claire Schrader’s new book gives hope to anyone who finds themselves trapped as a wallflower. I have seen for myself how easily and quickly Claire can help people step out of their mental ‘prison’, which they may have been stuck in for years and instead in a playful manner reconnect with their natural inner confidence, joy and freedom.

I find that Claire’s methods and compassionate approach compliments hypnotherapy as clients can actually practise, explore and build on what they achieve through hypnotherapy, whilst being held in a safe space. You don’t need to be a wallflower anymore; you can become the sunflower that you really are. This book will show you how.
Kirsten Dahlerup,
Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Master practitioner kirstendahlerup.com


Highly recommended

I liked this book a lot. It is clearly and engagingly written, supportive and very accessible. It’s almost as if I can hear Claire talking which is a fantastic skill in a writer.  Throughout the book and the numerous examples, we see Claire’s ability to create a safe space so that people can take  the risks that enable them to start to believe in themselves.  Highly recommended.
Robin Shohet
Centre for Supervision and Team Development, editor of Passionate Supervision, and Supervision as Transformation www.cstdlondon.co.uk


An Essential Companion

Claire Schrader’s new book is an essential companion for anyone just setting out across this daunting landscape, to help build the necessary bridges and create the foundation for reaching an individually defined, positive personal destination. It includes a highly detailed account of the author’s self-development journey, its setbacks and challenges – often full of pain and doubt – but ultimately one of self-discovery, transformation and resolution.

There are comprehensive exercises, strongly reflecting the type of work done during face-to-face sessions and on group courses at Making Moves.There is access to online resources to back-up and intensify the exercises presented throughout the book. As someone who uses the Bach Flower remedy system I found useful parallels between the extended metaphors of the author’s Wallflower and Sunflower states which define attitudes towards our lives, emotions and imbalances.
Fran Singer
Artist, Teacher and Therapist


Feeling like a 1000 watt light bulb

“Claire empowered a bunch of potential starts to twinkle and shine – I ended up feeling like a 1000 watt light bulb”
Scilla Ellsworthy
Peace builder, founder of the Oxford Research Group, Ted Talk speaker, and author of Pioneering the Possible: awakened leadership for a world that works


I nearly cried it resonated so much

I came across this book after struggling with confidence and shyness issues for my whole life so far. I’m so frustrated that despite trying to overcome this issues, spending lots of money on coaching and various therapies over the years, I still feel like I’ve not truly broken out my shell and lived life as fully as I’d like. I read  the book and nearly cried as it resonated so much.
Sabina Nabbaz, participant


AMAZON REVIEWS


stephen mc mullan

23 April 2017

Verified Purchase
Colin

27 October 2017


Amazon Customer

25 March 2017


Claire Schrader’s new book, From Wallflower to Sunflower breaks new ground in the field of confidence-building. A former wallflower, she stumbled by chance on a very simple and effective way to build a natural and lasting confidence.

She has developed the Sunflower Effect,  a proven confidence-building system using an adapted form of drama, that has assisted many hundreds of people move from “Wallflower to Sunflower” (to becoming naturally self-confident).

The book is highly practical, grounded in psychology and scientific research and offers a step-by-step guide with proven strategies, practical tips, exercises and free online resources.


From Wallflower to Sunflower, is  available on Amazon.

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