Chief Executive Adab Trust
London E14 0EA
http://www.adab-trust.org/
As a youth coach working in some of London’s most deprived communities, trying to help people find stability and employment, I had, through a process of experimentation and failure, evolved what I thought were effective techniques to help a person in deprived circumstances move forward and start their dream careers. I had taken the best advice from business, the military and my own involvement in competitive team sport. I was achieving significantly better results than other local training providers and employment services. Then I met Nigel at a modern university where I, in vain, was trying to get higher education and business to work together. He offered to share his development, coaching and therapy models with me. My first step was realising the importance of self-responsibility. I grabbed the opportunity to better myself to the point that I could take the people I help to the point of self-responsibility, using Nigel’s models, tools and techniques. The impact has been dramatic! The first full programme Nigel and I designed together, using Nigel’s self-responsibility models, was for BAME Metropolitan Police officers. Result? 86% were promoted within 6 months! That is 3 times better than any previous course ever run in the over 200 year history of the Met. I have since used the techniques and tools to work with people at the margins of society, NEETS, vulnerable groups of all ages; stoke victims, care leavers, ex-offenders… I am now in a place, using the models and tools that Nigel has taught me that I expect to achieve a minimum of a 70% employment outcome, regardless of a person’s background or issues. Nigel’s teaching has allowed me to help thousands of people reach the point of self-responsibility. SRT works and should be taught to ALL health professionals, and ALL educators and, indeed, to everyone who has any responsibility for developing people. Even better: it should be taught to every child. And on that subject, my own have benefited from it, too. THIS WORKS!
Ron Hunt and Dr Maureen Hunt
Leaders of the FLIP programme
"The work undertaken in the FLIP (Flexible Learning Independent Pathways) focussed on enabling children from secondary schools who were unable to engage in mainstream education, either through their behaviour, or, their social or family environment, or indeed a mixture of all of those factors, to re-enter education.
"As part of this programme it was essential for staff to learn methods to develop self-responsibility in the children, without which the whole programme would have been a tick-box exercise.
"Staff were indebted to Dr MacLennan for sharing his invaluable techniques for developing self-responsibility. This approach was essential to the betterment of the lives of the students, and their positive progression was measurable. Typically 5 in 6 of the students returned to mainstream education. If you have worked with excluded children you will know the significance of those results.”