A school for life.
Where life is the classroom.
Welcome
This is a place to learn, explore and grow at every stage of life.
We work with young people and families, adults, leaders, organisations and communities, bringing learning into the richness and complexity of real life.
For People
Building human capacity
For all stages of life we offer personalised programs, tuition, coaching and mentoring designed to develop the human capacity for living, creating, relating and contributing well.
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For Enterprise
Creating the conditions
As technology changes what work looks like, we nurture the leadership capacities that technology cannot replace: compassion, judgement, creativity, adaptability, connection, meaning and wisdom.
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For Life
Shaping the world
Working with schools, universities, cultural organisations and communities to explore how we live together, care for the places we belong to, and contribute to the health of the living systems that sustain us.
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Alston Learning Studio
Tutoring 2.0 has arrived.
A new kind of tutoring for times that are a-changin’
Education has always been about preparing young people for the world ahead. But the world they are entering is changing faster than the systems designed to prepare them for it.
We believe education should develop more than academic capability. It should help young people understand themselves, care for others, recognise their place within the wider living world, and develop the capacity to shape the future.
At the heart of this is love: not simply as an emotion, but as the capacity to care for yourself and beyond yourself, to recognise relationship, and to act in ways that restore the conditions for life to flourish.
From I to We to All Life.
This is tutoring grounded in academic learning; designed for life.
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We are living in a time of extraordinary change.
Two centuries ago, schooling was built for a specific purpose: producing citizens who were disciplined, predictable, and ready for a stable, linear world.
It gave us the education system we still mostly live inside — age-based classrooms, fixed timetables, standardised curricula — built for a world stable enough for that to make sense.
That world held for a long time. A different one has arrived.
Our technologies, cultures, organisations and ways of living are evolving at a pace that asks something new of us as human beings. Increasingly, we create the future as we move toward it.
This calls for a deeper kind of education — one that develops our capacity to meet uncertainty with curiosity, move through change with adaptability, create with imagination, relate with care, and contribute with purpose, through every stage of life.
An education system for all-of-life flourishing.
Our Approach
At the heart of our learning is LOVE.
The leadership capacity to care beyond the self.
In a time of accelerating change, ecological pressure and increasing technological power and risk, the capacity to love: to care, cooperate and act for the conditions that sustain life is a serious human, education and leadership responsibility.
It expands our sense of responsibility, enables us to recognise our interdependence, and shapes how we act towards other people, communities and the living world.
From this foundation, the capacities to trust, lead ourselves, relate well to others and contribute to the flourishing of the systems of which we are part come alive.
Let’s begin with a conversation…
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