Consulting and Coaching

The purpose of DRL is to provide educators, learners, parents, and communities with the ability to sustainably transform themselves, their learning community and school.  The key word here is 'sustainably' and it means that you are empowered to make and manage change.  DRL can provide neat answers, fancy documents, diagrams and presentations - but only you and your community can make the change you need.  A learner-development-centred approach works at the human level.  In this way, people from completely different cultures can understand and adopt it, albeit in different ways, reflecting and strengthening their own culture.

Although there are situations where answers and directions need to be given, and situations where mentoring works well, DRL works mainly with coaching people.  When we work together, you can expect a lot of questions - some of them will be easy to answer and some will be difficult, but by you answering the questions, you are providing your own solutions to the issues you face.  When you come up with the answers, they are yours and that means something special - it means buy-in, greater probability of commitment and, at the end of the day, a great feeling of achievement and fulfilment.

When do I need a Consultant or Coach?

It is always great to have someone to consult on the issues we face.  It is great to have a coach when we are unsure how to develop and manage change.  Limited consultations are far less expensive than whole curriculum reviews and perhaps more specific than workshops and so, although our consultation and coaching services are open for everyone, they are also for those schools that would otherwise find it difficult to engage us for presentations, workshops and curriculum review. 

For more information about coaching and consultancy, contact us!