Teaching and Training
Dionysios is an experienced educator with over a decade of experience in training individuals ranging from aspiring professionals to established experts, across diverse contexts in both academic and professional settings.
His current teaching work focuses on neurodiversity and the art of public speaking. In the field of neurodiversity, he runs awareness training for ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, facilitates workshops on mindfulness for ADHD, and offers group ADHD coaching. Additionally, Dionysios harnesses his extensive research on rhetoric to deliver corporate training on public speaking and effective presentation based on the persuasive power of oratorical techniques.
Alongside his work in neurodiversity, Dionysios holds the position of Professor of Historical Performance and Academic Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
His current teaching work focuses on neurodiversity and the art of public speaking. In the field of neurodiversity, he runs awareness training for ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, facilitates workshops on mindfulness for ADHD, and offers group ADHD coaching. Additionally, Dionysios harnesses his extensive research on rhetoric to deliver corporate training on public speaking and effective presentation based on the persuasive power of oratorical techniques.
Alongside his work in neurodiversity, Dionysios holds the position of Professor of Historical Performance and Academic Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Past teaching experience
Before training as a coach, Dionysios developed a diverse portfolio career that spanned performance, stage direction, teaching and research. He began his studies as an actor in Greece, before reading music at City University London and working as an opera singer. In 2012 he transitioned to teaching and stage directing, while embarking on research into gesture and rhetoric which he further developed during his postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, his visiting research fellowship at Harvard University, and his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford.
Dionysios has spoken at numerous conferences and taught courses and workshops at institutions including the Newcastle University, Shenandoah University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Burgos, City University London, Benslow Music, Dowland Works, the International Rameau Summer School and the Schola Cantorum of Oxford. During his time at the University of Oxford he founded Theatron Novum, a drama company that provided acting training to early-career performers, and gave academic tutorials at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. He also taught oratorical techniques to an EMBA class at the business school of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and served as the programme director of the Oxford Academic Advancement Centre that offered bespoke academic and cultural study-abroad programmes in Oxford.
His stage directing career has given him extensive experience in working with individuals of varying ages and expertise. Dionysios has directed 22 theatre and opera productions, ranging from an opera featuring 40 child performers aged 5 to 13 to large-scale productions with top-level professionals, and from a play with eight actors in an intimate studio theatre to a grand dramatic opera involving 60 actors, singers, dancers and acrobats at the Oxford Playhouse. |
Dionysios’ doctoral thesis, Teaching Acting to Singers: Harnessing Historical Techniques to Empower Modern Performers, is the culmination of twelve years of teaching experience, and constitutes a new method for the dramatic training of classical singers. It is based on 150 historical treatises on gesture, rhetoric, emotions, personality and aesthetics, and has been shaped through the integration of modern pedagogy and theatrical practices to form a comprehensive set of innovative tools for creating captivating dramatic performances. This work underpins Dionysios’ approach to teaching communication and public speaking, where he applies the same principles of gesture, rhetoric and emotive expression to train engaging and persuasive speakers.
Testimonials
“I found the mindfulness and ADHD session absolutely fantastic”
“Dionysios’ rich experiences on opera performing and directing, together with his expertise on rhetorical gestures and persuasion, made a great impression to the Chinese business executives”
“he has the gift of the human touch and is able to translate his deep intellectual understanding of the historical sources into something which is practical, fun, down-to-earth and immediately understandable and applicable”
“he is hugely knowledgeable but most importantly he manages to enthuse others and enables students to use their creative freedom to take historical techniques and make them their own”
“I enjoyed the session and it was refreshing to attend a presentation that was both theoretical/research driven and had practical elements”
“working with Dionysios has been a wonderful, fabulous, magical and absolutely terrific life experience”
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“Dionysios’ rich experiences on opera performing and directing, together with his expertise on rhetorical gestures and persuasion, made a great impression to the Chinese business executives”
“he has the gift of the human touch and is able to translate his deep intellectual understanding of the historical sources into something which is practical, fun, down-to-earth and immediately understandable and applicable”
“he is hugely knowledgeable but most importantly he manages to enthuse others and enables students to use their creative freedom to take historical techniques and make them their own”
“I enjoyed the session and it was refreshing to attend a presentation that was both theoretical/research driven and had practical elements”
“working with Dionysios has been a wonderful, fabulous, magical and absolutely terrific life experience”
You can click here for more teaching testimonials.