Imani Clough on Clubhouse

Bio

Character Educator | Coach | Mentor | Social Entrepeneur empowering the next generation | 🗣👂🏾!

⭐️I describe myself as a character educator, facilitator & coach because it sounds straightforward(ish), but my work encompasses many strands of creative direction & is informed by a wide range of educational/philosophical practices & ideas.

⭐️In July 2016, I founded Imani Academy™ a social enterprise focused on empowering the next generation; to go confidently in the direction of their dreams.

⭐️I started my career working & volunteering in the youth/education sector, in pastoral leadership, social care practice & community engagement. It is here that I realised the limitations/damage being caused to young people, families & communities, because of reactive responses to complex issues. I decided I wanted to take a more innovative approach to addressing these shortcomings, and explore the root causes of social problems & structures that cause systems to behave the way do. I have an undergraduate degree in Youth Justice & Masters in Character Education.

⭐️My work at Imani Academy encourages those I journey with to think critically about pedagogical processes, by facilitating a space that allows people to think about how all of the above effects them, the people they interact with, in the different spaces they occupy — providing them with guidance on the steps they can make to challenge the status quo.