ARK Consulting provides training and development courses for organisations in both the public and private sector, with a key focus on education and learning as a means of facilitating personal and organisational change.

The main features of our work can be summarised as follows:

• Practical management and personal development workshops and courses tailored towards clients’ specific needs.
• Practical workshops aimed at teachers, youth workers and coaches which focus on developing the creativity, identity and agency of young people through curriculum-based and informal-based active learning approaches.
• Research-based courses aimed specifically at postgraduate research students and staff in Higher Education.
• Client groups which include staff in public and private sector organisations such as local authorities, schools, universities, health sector and corporate organisations.
• Courses underpinned by both theoretical perspectives and the principles of active learning, where practical simulations and activities facilitate learner-centred environments.
• Learning experiences which enable participants to become reflective upon their current practice as a means of achieving both personal growth and organisational change.
• Course content developed and delivered by experienced consultants, educated to doctorate level and with a wide range of practical experience in both the public and private sector.

The practice-based management and personal development courses which ARK Consulting offers include the following:

• Leading and managing teams
• Managing Time Effectively
• Project management
• Career management
• Being and becoming a researcher

The practical workshops aimed at teachers, youth workers and coaches which ARK Consulting offer
include the following:

• Promoting Creativity, Enterprise and Democracy through the Curriculum for Excellence
  
• Anti-territorial and Youth Gang Education

The research-based courses aimed at staff and students in Higher Education include the following:

• Being and becoming a researcher
• Using NVivo software

Our aim is to meet the individual needs of our clients, and so all courses can be delivered on-site, at the client’s workplace on a one day or half-day basis. Arrangements can also be made for 2-hour workshops to be delivered at a time which is suitable to the client. Content is negotiable and all courses and workshops can be tailored to suit individual client needs.