THE BACKGROUND HISTORY OF `MAGICAL CHANGE`
"Before I felt like a bubble was growing inside me. Now the bubble has popped"
I (aged 7)
"I cannot actually believe it ...she is talking so confidently about her feelings, assessing situations and actually handling them with confidence rather than withdrawing herself....she is positively `buzzing`. I can't thank you enough for this Trudy....I'm very excited about it."
A F - primary Headteacher
"I can’t tell you how happy I feel to have made a difference to their confidence and attitude. This is all thanks to you Trudy and I thank you again – it’s a wonderful thing to do for these children."
S C - Magical Change Practitioner and principal
"Thank you so much for all your time and helpfulness, it was like a breath of fresh air to me."
Mum of F (aged 9)
Ten years ago, a nine year old student, who I will call `A` was experiencing crippling anxiety problems that were affecting all areas of her life. They had culminated with a visit to A+E with a full-blown panic attack. Wanting to help her, I had a conversation with her that lasted for about 45 minutes.
And then the Magical Change happened! Within a week, A`s anxious symptoms were receding and after two weeks A told me that she thought that she `would never be afraid of anything else again in all her life`. As you might imagine, this was a very pleasing but very shocking outcome and it set me on a journey to pursue the method, research why it might be working, and attempt to find out in what other directions it could go. That journey has taken me into discussions with an educational psychologist, a clinical psychologist, and a university psychologist with a speciality in children`s psychology, who all helped me to tie the results to known psychological research. I have also been into mainstream schools to work with children that have had persistent problems throughout their school lives, to give them strategies, support and hope for a better future.
In the meantime, I continued to use the method successfully. in a private capacity, with other children that I was made aware of, who were showing anxious symptoms. Some of these children had been suffering so much that they had been referred via their schools to CAMHS. Some had shown anxiety for most of their lives. I also began to experiment with using an adaptation of the method with other problems that children were facing.
So far I have personally worked with over 150 children displaying anxiety, self-esteem issues; lack of focus; poor socialisation; behaviour problems; shyness; ASD diagnosis; eating or sleeping problems; anger management; compulsions etc etc. All of the children and young people have improved significantly, and so far lastingly. Very many of them showing the amazing speed of change demonstrated by my original student.
As mental health issues with young people have grown, and resources have become fewer, or more highly stretched, I have sought out pilot opportunities to train others, around the U.K. to administer the `Magical Change` method with children in their care. This has also been successful, and has encouraged me to feel that every school could benefit from having someone trained in Magical Change methods.
I have been humbled by the young people who have taken the `Magical Change` challenge and had the courage to make positive changes, in their lives. They have taught me a lot and I feel privileged to be doing this work. So it seems that now it is time to spread Magical Change to a wider horizon. If you are interested in finding out more about being trained in this method then please contact me from the CONTACT page on this site.
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