Neurodiversity Teaching and Training
Dionysios is an experienced educator with over a decade of 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, such as running awareness training for specific learning differences, facilitating workshops on mindfulness for people ADHD, delivering specialist coaching courses, and offering group ADHD coaching. Dionysios designs and delivers bespoke training programmes for businesses, educational institutions, non-profits and professional associations, both online and in-person.
His current teaching work focuses on neurodiversity, such as running awareness training for specific learning differences, facilitating workshops on mindfulness for people ADHD, delivering specialist coaching courses, and offering group ADHD coaching. Dionysios designs and delivers bespoke training programmes for businesses, educational institutions, non-profits and professional associations, both online and in-person.
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.
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For seven years Dionysios held the position of Professor of Historical Performance and Academic Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and has spoken at numerous conferences and taught courses and workshops at other institutions including Newcastle University, Shenandoah University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Burgos, City University London, Benslow Music and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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. He also 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. |
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His 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 pedagogical 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.
Dionysios is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) at Practitioner level. Alongside his coaching and training practice, he also serves as Co-Chair and Director of the Professional Association of Specific Learning Difference Specialists in Higher Education (PASSHE).
He has been awarded the Guildhall Advanced Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring, accredited at Practitioner Level by EMCC, and has completed the PASSHE Level 5 Course in Teaching Students with Specific Learning Differences in Further and Higher Education. He is a PASSHE Professional Quality Assured SpLD Tutor, and maintains full public liability and professional indemnity insurance.
Dionysios is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) at Practitioner level. Alongside his coaching and training practice, he also serves as Co-Chair and Director of the Professional Association of Specific Learning Difference Specialists in Higher Education (PASSHE).
He has been awarded the Guildhall Advanced Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring, accredited at Practitioner Level by EMCC, and has completed the PASSHE Level 5 Course in Teaching Students with Specific Learning Differences in Further and Higher Education. He is a PASSHE Professional Quality Assured SpLD Tutor, and maintains full public liability and professional indemnity insurance.
Testimonials
“I found the mindfulness and ADHD session absolutely fantastic”
“Energising, inspiring. Offered some very relevant frameworks for making the ADHD student feel safe and listened to”
“This was one of the best training sessions I have attended. It was clearly presented, slides were well written and informative, without too much detail. The speaker was extremely knowledgeable and kept the content relevant”
“This was one of the best workshops I have ever attended. I came away with very useful ideas for how to work more effectively with students who struggle with chronic procrastination”
“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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“Energising, inspiring. Offered some very relevant frameworks for making the ADHD student feel safe and listened to”
“This was one of the best training sessions I have attended. It was clearly presented, slides were well written and informative, without too much detail. The speaker was extremely knowledgeable and kept the content relevant”
“This was one of the best workshops I have ever attended. I came away with very useful ideas for how to work more effectively with students who struggle with chronic procrastination”
“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.
