Susan Haldane is the driving force behind Mind Over Manner.

She is the Founder and Creative Director of this charity

Susan directs and facilitates with a professional team of theatre practitioners who are dedicated to the study of human difference and behaviour.

Using her 35 years  experience as an actor, director and teacher, Susan now utilises the power of theatre as the creative medium through which to shift thinking, reframe our understandings and reassess our responses towards our more complex youth.

Susan’s work has focused predominantly on youth and their development of social confidence, flexibility and activating their personal contribution towards Creating a Culture of Respect.

Susan has facilitated theatre workshops with refugees, kids on the street, for multicultural and differently abled groups, in schools, in prisons, with educators and with legal, medical and other professional groups

As a result of all this combined experience, and as a parent of a young adult with ASD/ADHD, Susan has become specifically curious and has developed her own extensive knowledge of the cognitively diverse individual and what their specific needs may be.

As these children have reached adolescence, Susan has also come to recognise the increasing needs of the parents, family, teachers and other professionals who are in close contact with these students.

The strength and stability of these people in their interactive role is a fundamental contributor to the most positive development of the teenager.