What we offer

✨ Interactive storytelling sessions for children aged 4-16

✨ Rooted in therapeutic practice, delivered with fun and imagination

✨ Supporting emotional wellbeing through early intervention

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A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential…It is a masterpiece in waiting….yours.
A.A. Patawaran

Comprising:

Bright Minds and Tall Tales offers an innovative and therapeutic way of working that enables children to find confidence and creativity through easy and enjoyable tales rooted in mindfulness and meditation.

The sessions are created to ignite children’s imaginations whilst helping them grow their self-confidence, concentration, and relaxation skills. Each story/meditation is carefully developed to include positive affirmations to help build resilience and offer children therapeutic tools that they can take away with them to use outside of the sessions.

Every session, the stories are designed to take children on a new meditative adventure. These experiences might take their imaginations off into unfamiliar situations where they can gain a more profound understanding of themselves. Along the way, they will develop coping mechanisms and acquire a deeper understanding of who they are, including their strengths and vulnerabilities. The stories, for instance, may touch on feelings of loneliness, shyness, sadness, or separation, but their primary focus is to instil coping mechanisms and virtues such as courage, self-assurance, sharing, friendship, patience, and love. This is a journey of self- discovery, and the sessions aim to help young people understand that even though life may present challenging circumstances and feelings, they have the ability to overcome them with an inner sense of confidence, calm and positivity.

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🌈 45-minute interactive sessions

– An introduction explaining what Bright Minds and Tall Tales is and what to expect from the sessions, along with the history of storytelling and an explanation of the therapeutic benefits that meditation and working creatively can offer
– Breathwork and deep body relaxation
– Guided, co-created story adventures for younger children using meditation. These adventures help children to use their imaginations and develop visualisation skills to create positive thoughts and feelings as well as boosting their creativity
– Guided meditations and visualisations for older children, offering journaling therapy as a reflective process. Children will learn how writing expressively and working creatively can promote mental and emotional wellbeing
– Positive affirmations and coping strategies
– Reflection and group discussion
– Grounding exercises and take-home tools

🎨 Suitable for:

– EYFS, KS1, KS2, and lower secondary
– Schools, preschools, community groups, private small groups

📝 Delivered:

– In school time
– Lunchtime or after-school clubs
– Community hubs

👉 Plus…

Each child receives a certificate highlighting their adventure and what they’ve learned.

Why it is needed…

  • 1 in 5 children in England experience mental health challenges (NHS)
  • Early intervention helps prevent more serious issues and the need for future intervention
  • Creative therapies have a success rate of 77-84% (Play Therapy UK)
  • The Health Foundation informs that between 2020/21 and 2022/23, mental health referrals for young people increased by over 50%
  • According to the Children’s Commissioner (March 24), they stated that in England, nearly one million children and young people were referred to mental health services in 2022-23, the most common reason for referral being anxiety
  • Creativity has been shown to lower cortisol and stress levels, promoting relaxation
  • Stories are of great therapeutic value, helping children to recognise their own thoughts and feelings and gain a deeper understanding of themselves
  • It has been proven that children learn best through activity. Bright Minds and Tall Tales uses an interactive approach that is playful and creative

Benefits…

Bright Minds and Tall Tales combines creativity, counselling techniques, meditation, and mindfulness to help children:

  • Understand their thoughts and feelings and increase self awareness
  • Develop emotional resilience
  • Improve self-confidence
  • Enhance concentration and relaxation skills
  • Learn coping strategies they can use every day
  • Connect with their imaginations
  • Encounter the healing benefits that working creatively can offer
  • Feel empowered and realise their potential.
  • Foster self-compassion and deepen their empathy for others
  • Experience personal growth and improved mental health
  • Find their inner magic to reach their potential
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Bright Minds and Tall Tales operates at the highest level of training in each discipline it is comprised of. Meg has a BA Hons in Acting that she received after training at one of the most prestigious London drama schools, Mountview. She is also a fully trained hypnotherapist, which means she has extensive knowledge and expertise in meditation and deep relaxation. Meg is an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, operating at level 7 and obtaining an MSc in psychotherapy with Distinction. Meg has over 10 years of experience in working therapeutically with young people. Meg is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) which means she operates under the ethical framework for good practice. She is DBS checked and fully insured.