RL-UK is an international, non-profit social enterprise working to suport the positive improvement of individuals, groups, organisations and communities through the building of strengths, resilience, well-being and positivity.    

To achieve this, RL-UK uses a strengths-based, appreciative approach to enhance and sustain personal, family, organisational and community development. As an independent group of strengths-enhancing facilitators, we place the emphasis on improving lives and livelihoods through identifying and scaling-up positive experiences, strengths and successes. 

RL-UK was established in 2001 and has a global network of experienced PAAR facilitators called Reflective Learning-International (see our Home page). Its internationally acclaimed PAAR process infuses improvement planning and practical action with positivity and turns deficit issues into affirmative future aspirations.  

The principles of participatory and appreciative action and reflection (PAAR) has been co-constructed with colleagues from other Reflective Learning Centres and Groups, and successfully used in public, private and non-profit sectors, in a variety of cultural contexts. PAAR is a practical, supportive, high impact strength-building and improvement process, which enables those we work with to get a real sense of progress. PAAR can be used to benchmark progress, increases vision, energy and creates a positive action focus.

RL-UK staff are very experienced and highly qualified in their specific fields. The Director of RL-UK, Professor (dr.) Tony Ghaye has an international reputation in learning through reflection and in strengths-based, participatory and appreciative processes. He has written, co-written or edited 19 books and published 106 scholarly papers, chapters and articles for different audiences. RL-UK also co-works with a growing number of associated PAAR facilitators in the various Reflective Learning Centres and Groups in different 'communities' across the world.