News 2016

Student Maya Amin had a history of complex learning needs. She had little self belief, poor confidence and relationship issues at school. Maya and her then school thought she wouldn’t be able to achieve exam success or become successful in life. With the help of our Successful Minds Program, this has all changed. Maya has astounded her parents, school and herself with her amazing confidence, jumping from a D to low C student, to an A-B student. Her recent win displayed all her new skills as a confident communicator, presenter, organiser and entrepreneur. Winning an award as the most inspiring young person in 2016, selected from 30,000 young people is most definitely the performance of a Successful Mind.

Maya has completed the full Successful Minds Program and is so pleased with her results is continuing with ad hoc sessions. 

Maya says, "Thank you Penny, you have given me so many skills and the belief I can achieve anything I want and have the focus to do it! I would never have been able to do this without you. Thank you so much!" 

Ed Gammie enrolled on a Successful Minds 1-2-1 Personal Breakthrough program to help his self-esteem, confidence and communication skills.

Although he graduated with a BSc in Film and Television Production, his confidence was at rock bottom and he was cleaning houses alone. Within a short time of starting the program, and with newly learned skills, his self belief transformed, as did his fluency in speech which had been a major issue. 

ED landed a job at Double Negative (a major post-production facility in London) and has gone on to work on movies such as Harry Potter, Skyfall, Thor 2 and Exodus for which he received his first big screen credit as a Digital Artist. He has since gone to work on Star Wars the Force Awakens, which was nominated for both an Oscar and BAFTA.

ED says, "This program has changed my life in every way possible, everyone should go on this program, thank you!"

Last year our students achieved one or two grades above their predicted results. This year we are already seeing amazing results in recent mock exams with our Successful Minds Program. One such student is Xander Ward who has ADD and missed months of school with illness. He signed up for our 6 session program and has amazed his teachers with achieving B and even an A grade in exams. In fact his subject teachers were so surprised they asked him how he did it!  

Xander says "I used find myself getting easily distracted, I couldn’t stay focussed and would forget what was going on in lessons. I had no motivation to study and felt extremely stressed. Now I feel in control, have more confidence and all my old problems have gone. I would definitely recommend this program to students."

What a great start for 6th formers at Woldingham School where great emphasis is placed on confident, positive thinking.

I was thrilled to be asked to participate in their Thrive Week and run a 'Creating Success' workshop. 80 students and their teachers opened their minds, relaxed their bodies and embraced powerful mind training techniques that promote positive mental health, increased learning and confidence across all areas. 97% of students who attended said that they particularly found our SAMS™ system helpful.  SAMS™ is our own stress and anxiety management system specifically designed for students, teachers and parents. 

Josephine Lane head of Woldingha school says, "The girls learned some excellent skills. I/we whole-heartedly support the benefits of Mind Training with the Seraphina Mind Studio for positive mental health and learning."

International Stammering Awareness Day - most people take fluency for granted. Imagine not being able to say your name or order your favourite food. Tthe Seraphina Mind Studio supports the British Stammering Association in its work to towards a world that understands stammering, supporting stammerers, their parents, partners, friends and colleagues and helps to improve speech fluency. Read our press 'Man Beats Stammer' and gains new job 

60-a-day Horsham man gives up smoking with no cravings at all with the Seraphina Mind Studio Stop Smoking Program. Doctors were amazed at the ease with which he simply just stopped.  Visit our stop smoking page.