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27Jul 2021 by Lucy No Comments

Go to Uni with The Life Tutor

This FREE 5 day challenge reveals how busy parents can help their children get into university by working together to make the best choices and complete a successful application. Read on to find out more. Is your child just starting Year 13 or on their gap year? Normally, they'd be hard at work on their university applications by now, with the help of their school or college. This year, everything is different, and many students have had very little face-to-face time with their teachers. Whether your child is considering university for 2022 or deferring to 2023, they need to submit their application this Autumn. With all the recent disruption to education, it's important that they are able to navigate the UCAS process with little direct support from teachers. This is…

09Nov 2020 by Lucy No Comments

Who is The Life Tutor?

About, Coaching, Parents

"I'm on a mission to help young people thrive in their education and take control of their future" My name is Lucy Aditi and I believe that education should help, not harm. Sadly, this doesn’t always seem to be the case: working in the state education sector, I’m all too aware of the scarcity of resources to support students when they need it most. Independents bring their own set of challenges: students report feeling huge pressure to meet high expectations generated by the simple act of exchanging money for learning. The education system throughout much of the world doesn’t cater for individual difference either – classrooms and exams don’t suit everyone – and much anxiety is created by forcing square pegs into round holes. So how are young people supposed…

08Sep 2020 by Lucy No Comments

Ride the Waves! Life Coaching for Teens

About, Coaching

Do you know a young person who is feeling worried, stressed, overwhelmed or just not right? Are you looking for one-to-one support for your child? You’ve come to the right place. Working in the education sector, I'm all too aware of the scarcity of resources to support students when they need it most. I’ve spent nearly 20 years putting systems in place to make things better, but I STILL feel frustrated every time I have to turn a young person away because the next one is waiting in line, or because I’m rushing off to the classroom. That’s why I’ve devised Ride the Waves, the coaching package that’s designed especially for people aged 14-21. Clients get my undivided attention, for as much time as they want to book, and fully customised…

07Jul 2020 by Lucy No Comments

The mindful run report

About, Mindfulness, Wellbeing

Did you know that ASICS is an acronym for the Latin phrase anima sana in corpore sano, a healthy mind in a healthy body? Kihachiro Onitsuka, the company founder and quite possibly a father of the modern global running movement, chose this as the company name and motto when he merged his successful Tiger shoe company with two other Japanese enterprises in 1977. Now ASICS is not my favourite brand of running shoes, and I have reservations about the fairly narrow range of people chosen for their FrontRunners programme, but when the Mindfulness in Schools Project sent out a call for runners to represent their small charity in the ASICS London 10k this year, I willingly volunteered. Given that mindfulness and running are two of the best ways I know…