About the founder: Pauli Nigrini

Pauli Nigrini, founder of Petaloudas and The Butterfly Diaries is a Personal Development Coach, blogger, ex-pre-school teacher with an absolute passion for special needs. She is also a business owner, mentor, songwriter, wife to an angel out of heaven, mom to two beautiful boys, lover of people and life, and firm believer that God has amazing plans for everyone who trusts and believes…

She is a sucker for anything inspirational. These include incredible lives lived, movies, music, books and food.

Pauli has a deep passion for the performing arts and the impact it can have on young performers and audiences. Pauli and her husband Louis, have penned more than ten stage productions for children and love being involved with the production and direction of these and future productions.

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Certificates

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Academic Qualifications, Accreditations & Experience:

  • Honours Degree in Augmentative & Alternative Communication including Early Childhood Intervention from University of Pretoria, (Cum Laude) 
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Education from University of South Africa (Cum Laude)
  • Bachelors Degree in Business & Corporate Communication from North West University 
  • Personal Development Coach – Working toward International Coach Federation’s (ICF) Credentials 
  • StrengthFinder Coach
  • 14 Years of Teaching Experience including working with children with the following special needs: cochlear implants/hearing aids, language/speech difficulties, Down’s Syndrome, autism, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, ADHD & developmental delays. 
  • 5 Years experience in developing and presenting workshop content.