Working for City and Guilds, for Waveney Counselling Service, and for "Insight" in Lowestoft I was an educational consultant, syllabus writer, Counsellor and Supervisor. Overall, I helped clients create innovative solutions to problems of personal and educational development - solutions which they created and owned, but which they probably could not have arrived at without 'enabling' help.

In 2011 I edited a Grade 10 English Textbook. In 2012 I plan to return to work with SETA for creation (by local teachers, advised and edited by me, with voluntary help from Dee Kraaij) of the Grade 11 and 12 English textbooks needed for the new 'reform' curriculum in PNG. I hope to be able to help SETA develop into a self-sustaining company creating and publishing educational resources for this vibrant and fascinating new country.

I helped local teachers create the Simbu English Teachers' Association. Working in a person-centred way, I enabled SETA to create the first "home grown" textbook in English for Papua New Guinea. I encouraged and advised SETA on its development. As a result, the text has now been published and distributed to all grade 9 English classes in PNG (thanks to help from AusAID). My partner in The Way Forward, Dee Kraaij, also working with VSO at this time, was a major help in this process, particularly through her research project into Attitudes and Expectations of Education in Simbu. This research showed clearly that simply trying to import Western ideas about education into PNG would lead to a major mismatch with local needs and expectations. A more person-centred and 'enabling' process is needed.