Mentoring and Curriculum Implementation

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Abiding Heart’s mentoring programme offers a specialist, high-touch approach to teacher development, integrating practical classroom guidance with deep pedagogical insight and inner professional growth. Rooted in Waldorf education and enriched by transformative, contemplative, and progressive approaches, it supports teachers not only in what they teach, but in how they teach and who they are becoming in the process.

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Through sustained one-to-one mentoring, teachers are guided in developing confident, creative, and developmentally attuned practice. Alongside curriculum planning and classroom support, the programme creates space for reflective inquiry, philosophical exploration, and the cultivation of presence, authenticity, and clarity in the teaching role.

This work recognises that effective teaching arises from both skill and inner orientation. As such, it weaves together practical methodologies—such as lesson design, storytelling, and classroom rhythm—with an ongoing engagement in educational philosophy, child development, and the inner life of the teacher.

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The result is a deeply supportive and transformative professional journey, enabling teachers to meet the needs of their students with greater insight, creativity, and grounded authority.

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We support a wide range of educational settings, including:

• Independent educators/teachers

• Home educators 

• Independent and Waldorf/Steiner schools

• Government and state schools

• Holistic and contemplative centres

• Secular and faith-based institutions,

• Charities, NGOs and INGOs

 

Our mentoring programme supports educators working with:

Kindergarten/Early Years (aged 4–6)
Primary to Early Secondary (Classes 1–7, aged 6–13)

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​This mentoring service offers flexibility in scheduling, allowing mentors and educators to arrange sessions around their work and personal commitments, while also accommodating participants based in different time zones.

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A Holistic Way​

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We offer a structured yet flexible pathway that integrates:

• Curriculum understanding and application

• Practical classroom support

• Support with yearly, termly, block and weekly lesson plans and assessments

• Ongoing reflective teacher development

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Our work includes weekly curriculum guidance and implementation support, as well as the option for bespoke curriculum design, tailored to the unique needs of each school or educational community.

 

For schools working within the tradition of Waldorf education, we offer:

• The full traditional Waldorf curriculum

• Or a bespoke Waldorf-informed curriculum, thoughtfully adapted to your specific context​

 

​Rooted in a holistic understanding of education inspired by Waldorf education, we bring together:

• Curriculum

• Pedagogy

• The inner development of the teacher/educator

 

 

At the heart of our work is the balance between the outer craft of teaching and the inner life of the teacher.