In April, my company Speros Consulting Limited was five! And a bit like having my own children, I can’t quite recall a time before it existed.
Despite the many challenges back in 2020, I was laser focused upon the difference I knew my way of working was making for young people and their families, and I had so much more that I wanted to offer. I had been honing my holistic, strength-based and family systems informed approach to untangling educational struggles for more than thirty years by then, and had seen the often transformative results in a range of settings.
In contrast to the approaches which are often employed when a young person is struggling at school, I am focused first on stabilising the environment around the young person (as I often say, the young person doesn’t need fixing!). I work with great care to bring the young person’s voice and those of their parents into the light, and to work from where they are at, rather than where it is felt that they ‘should’ be. It is sensitive, careful work, bespoke to each individual and family situation.
Whilst the first years of the business were very much about growth, the past twelve months have been centred on consolidating its operation, streamlining systems, and also taking an important breath to enjoy it. This space has also provided me a much better balance of work and rest, and also time to consider my next moves.
More to come on this….exciting times ahead.
