Educating the whole child

Kirsten, family coach and teen whisperer, specializes in supporting both teens and parents in navigating the waves of adolescence. Her intentional approach focuses on creating lasting connection through curiosity, presence, authenticity and awareness. With over 20 years’ experience with families, Kirsten supports parents in learning how to listen to, and talk with, their teens. She engages parents in personal reflection, embracing their new role, cultivating rapport, understanding the teen brain, transforming obstacles and restoring harmony in the home. In recognizing this unique stage of development, Kirsten's mission is to bridge the widening gap between parents and their children, creating conscious and strong bonds. Through tailored strategies, compassionate guidance and proven techniques, she empowers families to pilot these pivotal years with understanding and grace. Kirsten's work is not just about addressing immediate concerns, but about lighting the path to a more empowered future, ensuring that today's challenges become the foundation for tomorrow's brighter relationships.

Mariam is a Pakistani and Italian expat author, writer, researcher and economist. She is a Third Culture Kid (TCK) expert, via her own and her children’s experiences living in numerous countries around the world. Her debut expat book This Messy Mobile Life: How a MOLA can help globally mobile families create a life by design comprises personal reflection, expert advice and survey research to help global expatriates navigate their international journey. She is a fixture on the relocation circuit, speaking regularly at international organisations and schools around the world about the particular issues that TCKs face and how to make the most of an international move. Mariam currently lives in Cascais, Portugal with her half German/half Italian husband and her German-Pakistani-Italian kids, born in Singapore, Dubai and Lisbon.

Matilda is the founder of Ruby Bloom, a provider of therapeutic educational support services for young people. As a qualified Educational and Behavioural Therapist with over 10 years’ experience designing and running youth programs, Matilda is passionate about supporting young people to achieve their goals. Her work combines tutoring, learning support, and coaching principals and her services include educational coaching, ADHD coaching and non-diagnostic assessments. Prior to training in Education, Matilda earned a double degree in Visual Communications & International Studies from the University of Technology Sydney, and still loves to create art. Matilda is interested in harnessing the power of design and education to drive positive change in destigmatising learning differences and mental health. She works 1:1 with young people to build confidence, exceed their own expectations and create a learning environment that is fun and collaborative.

Sam leads the NoticeAbility Entrepreneurs and Innovators Course. Created with Harvard Business School, this self-esteem boosting course challenges students (aged between 10 to 14) to create a marketable product whilst learning about the M.I.N.D strengths associated with dyslexia. Working in small groups online, they identify problems in the world around them, come up with multiple solutions and distill them into a product which they then pitch to investors (friends and family).  The program enables students to discover more about themselves as dyslexics and why having dyslexia is an advantage that can set them apart from the rest of the world. https://www.noticeability.org/