Mentoring in core Classical disciplines; guidance for remedial, gifted, college prep & the beauty of learning beyond school

I will help you and your child build your Personal Learning and Life Growth Plan using classical pedagogical and modern scientific methodologies (Piaget, de la Garanderie among others) to enrich and transform your current academics with a dedicated approach combining socratic dialogue, slow learning and a project and discovery-based approach to understand how you learn and what you want to learn.
We will also explore the ways in which what you want to learn ties into what you need to learn, and we will transform any assessment methods you are already familiaer with, especially past middle school, with strategies and mindsets that turn the demands, challenges and fears of exam taking into a structured process serving your goals and evolution.
Children, at different stages in their development, and to varying degrees, seek to grasp who they are and the nature of the world in which they find themselves, primarily through play and lived experience; we know that there is a gap between institutionalised learning and this vital, primary drive. The role of a life coach is to help the child reconcile these two poles of their existence by showing them how to create the opportunities and build the tools to bridge that gap. Occurring most often in silence, that drive is actually a continuous dialogue occurring through the senses and the body, the emotions, verbally with others and intellectually. Life coaching should, and used to be embedded in the child’s environment, but because that drive is not given real expression, when it does reveal itself as it must, it does so in crisis and conflict. There are ways to turn even challenging experiences into opportunities of self-discovery and growth. Knowing there is someone on their side, dedicated to listening to them with knowledge and experience is half the battle of winning the child over to their own cause; the other half is introducing them to the magic of shaping their own destiny with the materials at hand, themselves, both alone and with others.
Mainly aimed at children, I also coach families and adults wishing to regain contact with core classical disciplines such as writing, drama and rhetoric, logic and philosophy, nathematics and scientific thinking which they either missed or forgot somewhere along the way and are seeking a way back to these either for career or personal reasons.
I will help you build it back