Our is an Indigenous Centred Approach to Coaching - Using informal education space to support formalised institution and be a bridge for youth to understand the value of all types of educational entities and to be a feeder to formalised education.

We use the national school calendar for our Retreat dates and we do checks on academic performance hence we use Grades instead of ages.

“ .. bagotywa bebatsha - a tree can only be bent when its a reed” - Nguni Proverb

When I first heard about this proverb above, as a child, I had a mental image of a tree in its grown start and a reed in its infants. I grew up in the villages at a time where fetching wood from the forest was still a thing, I saw lots of mothers fighting & wrestling with strong logs trying to make them small enough to fit their "inyanda”. It was always a mission.

Our focus in teen work is to attempt to guide a child’s emotional & mental state while there is still a chance to do, before habits have totally sunk in. Our kids go through a lot of growing stages, most of them are often influenced by society more than families. If we wait too long to review their mindset, their view of the world and the view of their own-selves; we might wake up when its too late or too hard to change things around