Testimonials

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

Freedom from the straightjacket of shyness really is possible!

23 April 2017

Verified Purchase

Having just finished this book, I feel so full of hope and excitement that I’m compelled to write my first ever Amazon review.
As someone who has spent life feeling trapped in the straightjacket of shyness, I now feel confident the author has just shown me the way to escape.
I’ve always been fascinated by famous actors or performers who, when interviewed, would claim to have been very shy in the past. I would scream at the television, pleading for them to share the secret of how they’d overcome that. No answer ever came.

Thankfully this book answers the question because the author knows how it feels to be trapped in the prison of self-consciousness and shyness and, having discovered the escape route for herself, she is clearly passionate about helping others find freedom also.
The story of her own personal journey is moving and inspiring.

The creative methods she has developed over years of helping people break out of their comfort zone intuitively make sense to me, but they also seem to blend together principles of some well established, proven psychological therapies in a fresh and creative new way.
It goes without saying that navigating this journey towards a more confident version of myself will require a lot of courage and effort on my part. However, I finally feel like I have a map to guide me there and that surely has to be a great start.

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Colin

A piece of paradise on Earth, with words to match.

27 October 2017

I read this book during one of Claire’s 2-day intensive courses and it magnified the powerful symbolism on offer in the drama (like a double-whammy wake-up call). If, like me, you are pathologically shy or for any confidence / self-esteem issues, the messages in this well-written and easy to absorb book will help to normalise your perspective.

Combining this book with one of her courses is an effective step towards positive change in your life.

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Amazon Customer

this book will give you a thorough insight into how using drama in a safe space can bring about amazing healing and empowerment

25 March 2017

From Wallflower to Sunflower is a superb book that must be bought and read. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to discover the work of Claire Schrader, this book will give you a thorough insight into how using drama in a safe space can bring about amazing healing and empowerment. There are various exercises and techniques which I am already using in my life to make sure I don’t resort to my ‘wallflower’ tendencies and be the ‘sunflower’ that I am! Also weaved into the book are Claire’s own struggles and how she found solutions and healing from a quiet and shy girl to one of absolute self belief and confidence.

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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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