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Coaching with Darren
Explore how you make sense of your situation, what you can notice and the choices available to you.
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Develop how you think. Choose how you respond.
The Development Hub brings together coaching and practical workshops with Dr Darren Stevens. Explore how you construct meaning, identity and choice, and develop greater awareness of how you respond in your work and everyday life.
For individuals, leaders, coaches, trainers and facilitators.
The Development Hub
A place to develop your thinking.
Choose a personal conversation, a shared learning experience or a pathway for developing your coaching practice.
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Workshops at the Hub
Join a workshop in a dedicated learning space and put developmental thinking into practice with others.
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Beyond NLP
Take your existing practitioner skills into Constructed Development Theory through the NLP-to-CDT programmes.
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Developed by Dr Darren Stevens, originator of Constructed Development Theory
When technique is not the whole answer
You may already have reached the edge of the familiar map.
The next step is not necessarily another technique. It may be a better way to recognise what is creating and maintaining the client’s experience.
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The insight does not become action
Your client understands the pattern, but still repeats it when the pressure returns.
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The intervention creates only a temporary shift
The state changes in the session, but the person’s underlying way of making meaning does not.
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The same method produces different results
Two clients present with a similar problem, yet they are constructing it in fundamentally different ways.
One practical distinction
CDT develops what NLP began.
It does not ask you to discard useful NLP knowledge. It adds the adult-development perspective needed to understand how the person is organising experience in the moment.
“I know exactly what I should do. I just don’t do it.”
Language, state, strategy and pattern
What is the person saying, feeling or doing—and what intervention might help create a different response?
How are awareness, identity and choice being constructed?
What can this person currently notice? What remains outside awareness? How is their present construction making one response more available than another?
The difference matters: two people can use the same words while requiring very different developmental conversations.
A pathway, not another collection of tools
Begin at the level that fits your practice.
Begin with an introduction or build on selected NLP foundations through NLP to CDT - Next Level Coaching. Explore further practitioner development when the work is right for you.
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Free NLP-to-CDT taster
A short, accessible introduction to the move from technique and filters into construction, awareness and development.
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NLP to CDT – Next Level Coaching
Understand CDT and begin using its approach. At least four days, opening on 27–28 February 2027; remaining dates to follow.
Explore the workshopDevelop your practice
Next Level Coaching Practitioner
Develop your coaching practice through repeated application, feedback and reflection. Proposed eight-session online programme; certificate of completion.
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CDT certification
A proposed Institute pathway to demonstrate CDT competence through supervision and assessment. Entry requirements and standards are in development.
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The person behind the work
Created by Dr Darren Stevens.
Dr Darren Stevens is the originator of Constructed Development Theory, author of Thinking Deliberately, and founder of the Institute for Adult Development.
His research examines adult development as it happens in real time: how people construct meaning, awareness, identity, choice and response—and how those capacities can develop.
Constructed Development Theory
Adult development
Awareness Quotient
Dynamic Intelligence
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Curious about what comes after NLP?
Explore the introductory NLP to CDT workshop and register to hear about forthcoming dates and locations.
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Proud Members of The Institute for Adult Development
The Institute for Adult Development explores how people construct meaning, become aware of their thinking, and make different responses possible.
Their work connects Constructed Development Theory with research and practice in coaching, education, leadership and institutional life.
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