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After seeing a Newsfeed the other day where many youngsters are coming out of Special schools and reverting to home schooling because of limited systems in schools and misguided teaching methods

As someone who was previously labelled as Autistic for me to have been held back by these limitations would have been a travesty

We live in an age where creativity is discouraged and only the wealthiest students can enjoy the Arts as a release as it is now becoming only for extra curricular activity. And it is generally the less wealthier youngsters that would hugely benefit from the creative trauma release of creativity. I personally don’t remember the last time that I used Pythagoras theory or Algebra in every day life. I believe the whole National Curriculum needs revamping and even bringing Shakespeare into modern day with transcripts of his infamous work in a modern form that we can understand

After recently being a TA in a special school – I immediately clashed with the teacher. I found her teaching practice abhorrent, from teaching the special students games such as Exploding Kittens that encourages deception and deceit between participants and then IPads were used to work on platforms that had huge log in problems and then games played during the lesson encouraging stealing of each other. After working in that school for the day – I came away feeling very sorry for the youngsters and hoping that one day they would put that negative influence behind and find their own way. They were even disciplined for making each other laugh and thus slightly raising the volume in class and in fact the teacher reminded me of some sort of Military officer installing control over youngsters that need the exact opposite.

I would love for the chance to have run a class for a few days to show the potential of these special individuals. We would be dancing, creating and exploring every area of creative expertise to get to the bottom of their Superpower as this is what most ‘special’ youngsters have.

When working with children that have ADHD and Autism in Special Schools – I saw children running around with no direction, one girl constantly patted her ears and straight away I realised that she needed ear defenders something that even I use sometimes as an adult as we live in such a loud world that quietness can be a necessity at times

I saw children that would hugely benefit from dancing and singing. The one day there was a young lad that I was working and after several hours he was beginning to focus and engage very slowly being intrigued by my creativity and in one instance it was destroyed by a misguided teacher that the point I managed to get him take notice she decided to run in ‘hug him’ which I was very annoyed as physical space boundaries are huge with most special children and in that instance I lost him and he went back on a tangent running around the class in his own world and could completely end up going out of society as he grows into a young adult , I felt dismayed and I have since resigned from the agency as little me as a TA cannot do much in this area against the hierarchy.

So, if you do have more clout than me in the Education Sector please talk to me about the reinforcement of creativity in schools.

Thank you

Alison Cecelia Bramwell

We would hugely appreciate your support

I am volunteering with kaleidoscope refugee charity and even to get me out there is a financial struggle – I want to go ASAP and I shall be posting on our creative results and my experiences

Blessings

Alison Cecelia Bramwell

What I want to say about pain and trauma 

I was just listening to a podcast by Dr Aseem Malhorta – so interesting 

Pharmaceutical medicine is the 3rd biggest killer, why does the body experience pain? Through trauma

Pain is masked with drink, sugar, comfort eating and drugs 

Like when someone has a hard day so they have lots of wine etc

But why? I haven’t drunk for a long time or smoked and myself still have a battle with sugar chocolate etc but obesity through comfort eating is so damaging 

But why mask pain? Sit through it – ride it 

When we start to process pain, sadness, grief – it can be very empowering to sit with those emotions and certainly to meditate and release through creativity- talking therapy- art therapy I did all of these over my 7 year transition 

When the mind starts to process and release trauma it can be a very rocky time – I was in survival mode and emotionally blank for many years and when I started to release it was very sad 

I hadn’t cried for many many years and there have now  been many times that I sobbed for days and now I can cry just on reflection but this isn’t weakness it’s release and very lovely to not have it held within – as a society when people cry or get angry it is seen as such a negative- people often saying you need to see a counsellor etc but sometimes people just want a good release or dance like crazy or go and shout at the sky but again the societal mindset of control and conforming such behaviour can be so oppressed – which is part of the problem 

The trouble is the world is going to have so much trauma to work through from everything that is happening now

People often think that the mindset of depression is forever that they are never going to feel any different whereas if they can just sit with what they are going through or as my aunt used to say ‘ride it’ 

I just get heartbroken when people take their lives and don’t realise that there is a tomorrow 

3 of my uncles committed suicide and it leaves such a sadness for the people behind, three men all who found it so difficult to discuss their feelings and that age old taboo that boys don’t cry

My heart goes out to you if you are in pain and if you’re not please be in gratitude and help someone that is struggling and suffering

Blessings

Alison Cecelia Bramwell

So, it seems when we reflect back in history the colonial dominant male wanted to invade lands and take over and claim territories, bringing death, war and destruction in its midst. Then lesser nations were bought in as slaves and seen as peasants, the world begins to realise that Boundaries are very important (as in the human psyche too) , so then border security is enforced and sanctions put in place. However in the very countries that we have tried to dominate the political corruption within those countries aren’t stopped by the Western world and people – the everyday individual fleeing these areas from war and political oppression are told we won’t help them, in fact we will put them in squalid conditions, women and children too and make them live in camps that resemble pig sty’s and in fact, we can politically oppress those everyday people there and evict them every now and then so they don’t even become comfortable in squalor.

After considering the situation myself and after recently resigning from my TA work in special schools I have decided to claim my sanctuary in other countries. Resign? I felt I had no choice – following a curriculum that supports no creativity whatsoever, where children were encouraged in class to play ‘Exploding Kittens,’ A card game that encourages manipulation and stealing off peers and computer games of the same. A curriculum that installs dinosaur theories like Pythagoras – of which I have never needed to implement in my everyday life and in the most recent class that I assisted in a Special school, the teacher ran it like a military operation and she took a big dislike to me, we went on a long walk with the class to a park, it was a hot day and I sat on the grass and took off my very sweaty trainers, this was reported and I was asked to never return, although the teacher was allowed to run the class teaching games of manipulation and deceit. The young adults were not even allowed to laugh within the class. Therefore, I have now resigned and I only hope that those young adults, when they leave that school realise that that kind of conditioning isn’t real and as I recently stated in a podcast that kind of teaching is controlling and not encouraging.

And as for my own journey? After prosecuting or exploring this against people in my reality that have abused power and control over me. I found myself completely ousted from a community that lied against me and slated me of my emotional and material abundance. When I hear of people that have lost their whole family and support network I found myself in exactly this situation but in central England and only 2 years ago but ironically as I have now built boundaries, forged pathways and rediscovered myself and my faith and obtained new friendships and have found myself happiness and on reflection some of those people I never ever want to come across again in this life or the next and my book ‘From the Shadows to the Sky,’ which was named from someone on the set of the next Star Wars movie that is out in March 2027 and that I was immensely proud of to be a part of. The book is out towards the end of this Summer and I can’t wait. As sometimes even families that one is born into, like some governments and organisations can be immensely corrupt and damaging and I didn’t realise much of this until I began my latter years.

And if you have caused anyone pain and suffering, there is time for repentance as whatever is done in this life is judged in the next. As I say God is like a bank, he will only invest in good business plans.

Although I am proud that the UK is not engaged in bombing and from what I can see on the news healing the trauma from all of this war is going to take years SO a time when creativity should be at the top of the educational system.

On that note, especially if you are a good human have a beautiful day and may you be blessed with a life not too troubled or traumatic.

Alison Cecelia Bramwell.

After my work with youngsters with ADHD and Autism and emotional difficulties I have realised how beneficial my creative work can be in this area and how responsive and successful creative release can be for children and teenagers struggling with the new and stressful age that we are facing. I have thoroughly enjoyed my work in this area and as a child that was relatively outcasted and mainly by close people that misunderstood my need for a creative release, I find that I can connect with these youngsters very well and I can actually see flaws and misguided attitudes within the system in assisting these youngsters and I know and have proven that I could integrate them into mainstream school and society much better and quicker than methods available at the moment.

I am therefore offering a consultancy service for schools and families offered remotely and in- person.

I am also going to pursue my Acting Career, which is my own creative practice.

Also, after my own long emotional and career journey, I want to offer Inspirational Public Speaking – along with a continued success of book and play writing and production.

As I said on a Social Media posting yesterday – this day is the first day of the rest of your life. So use it well, my friends.

Blessings

Alison Cecelia Bramwell xx

So, as life found me having difficulty gaining housing in the UK with 300 homeless on the local register as it stood. I find myself scraping enough pennies together to go across the water to Calais to gain some sort of solace.

Whilst in Calais- I get the opportunity to volunteer at the Northern border of France to assist migrants coming in from war zones. Not only did I know it would be of valuable experience but it also included food and accommodation. The perfect solution.

What I experienced opened my eyes, all migrants expressed needs for decent shoes as theirs were breaking. It was raining and cold but weatherly conditions seemed to be somewhat the norm and completely acceptable. Women walked up pushing children in buggy’s with their clothing soaked and they were desperate for a seat, decent clothing and a hot drink.

All migrants were from politically oppressed areas, where war and conflict were prevalent. So, adverse weather and sufferance is a daily penance. Not one migrant was aggressive or angry. Many gave a nod of acknowledgment as if they knew that we were there to help and a few even offered to help me tidy the clothes away after distribution.

Many see coming to Europe as being a chance to be a normal human being with rights to exist happily and flourish as a productive person – what should be a God given right.

Little do they know that they are going to be shunted into hangers and treated no more than like herds of cattle. Out of sight is out of mind. Oh yes, what happened to all those women and children dispersed from hotels? It appears not discussed not public knowledge so long as countries aren’t being invaded.

The United Kingdom is somewhere I can’t wait to escape from, I find it draining and depressing. And on a recent visit to my university town is was awful, as my wonderful professors were concerned at redundancy. Why? Visa difficulties have stopped many international students coming in and these were a big revenue for universities across the UK and they also paid more than UK students, but because employment is now so difficult for international graduates to get after graduation, universities are losing a major financial resource.

It must be my brummie origin – I grew up with balti mile and my father worked in India for 7 years and spoke of international travel fondly. I happily grew up non-racist and very appreciative of different cultural experiences.

If the Western world isn’t careful and ways changed the capitalist society may fall on it’s derrière and as I see it Africa to me is the promised land where people interact happily with nature and one another and as Wole Soyinka tells in his fabulous book, they are the happiest people on the planet.

Simple.

Have a nice day y’all and blessings.

Alison Cecelia Bramwell

So a special needs guy from church was about to shut down his allotment- Michael has a degree in Botany and ran an allotment for years – his crop was poor and after talking to him and monitoring the situation it turned out all he needed was horse manure to make his crop flourish.

A simple solution- I find a nearby stables and they invite me to go and collect as many bags as I want – I didn’t realise the bag’s weren’t ready and I would have to shovel the manure (much to mine and my friends amusement) so ironically instead of going to service one Sunday morning I was called to get the manure as it was fresh!! But I am sure the Lord would forgive me for missing church and doing a very good turn and me and it gave me a good old chuckle in the process!!!

I’m looking for to cooking those potatoes and green beans Michael x

Blessings

Alison Cecelia Bramwell