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What is Creative Tutor Gibraltar?

Creative Tutor Gibraltar is born out of a pure love for languages and making people smile. Specialising in teaching both English and Spanish language as foreign languages, lessons can cover any CEFR level from A1 to more conversational C2 classes.

With a wealth of experience in this field, both GCSE and A-Level English and Spanish lessons are also available to help students of all ages and examining boards improve their grades and reach their academic goals. Extra help in humanities subjects, essay writing and study tools workshops are also available, and give students the extra push and motivation they need to succeed academically.

Also specialising in Business Language, highly bespoke lesson plans are created to accommodate employees looking to improve their language skills in the workspace.Lessons can take place online to suit any schedule, and with a computer, microphone and speakers, all lessons can be adapted to the virtual space.

Whether for leisure or professional goals, language classes are available for adults and little ones and are carefully crafted to meet the requirements of students. 

Why Creative Tutor?

With a wealth of experience teaching students of all ages and backgrounds, Creative Tutor has love, affordability and personalisation as its core values.

Resonating with the foundations of Creative Tutor, Dr Wayne Dyer stated that one should seek to help others in all that they do. With tutoring,the beautiful friendships and personal connections made with students over time are greatly valued. Watching them grow, develop, and simply understand concepts when the penny drops has always been the most fulfilling thing.

Just knowing that one can make a positive impact in someone’s life, whether it be on a personal or academic level, is the greatest reward. Therefore, the foundation of Creative Tutor Gibraltar is to make people happy, help them achieve their goals, establish meaningful connections, serve as a way for people to bond with their co-workers or make new friendships, and simply have fun whilst learning simultaneously.

Believing in students and aiming to make them realise their own academic potential when feeling unmotivated, struggling with their grades, and not receiving enough one-to-one academic support is of the utmost importance. Where there is motivation and passion, anything is possible, and making students feel supported and encouraged will always make a significant difference.

What are the benefits of language lessons?

The benefits of learning a new language are substantial, ranging from personal development and leisure, to academic or professional growth and employability.

Lessons at Creative Tutor Gibraltar are highly bespoke and carefully created to suit each and every individual’s needs. Starting with an initial Language Level Test and Needs Analysis, this enables the lessons to suit your learning style and academic goals, and can also be taught virtually.

Lessons provide a booster for those seeking extra guidance on a one-to-one or group basis, and have a much more personal approach to the content in question. Unlike attending lectures, or classes with large groups of people with a “one size fits all” approach, tutoring focuses on the individual’s personal struggles, particularly at GCSE or A-Level, and helps them through the process independently.

Using a variety of tools and a careful balance of games and materials to cover all aspects of language learning, the approach to every lesson is highly personalised, and ensures to tackle all facets of a language, including phonetics, speaking, reading and writing.

Learning a new language also allows you to establish connections with people. For professional adult classes, it can serve as a way for employees to get to know one another in large companies, create healthy relationships, and foment a positive, proactive and productive working environment.

Additionally, one can meet new likeminded people, widen their social circle, and increase their chances of being employed by having the ability to speak more than one language, particularly in this part of the world.

Why Gibraltar?

Being such a strategical location and bordering with Spain, Gibraltar is an ideal place for language lessons.

If you’ve recently moved to the area and are keen to learn Spanish in order to communicate with locals, and immerse yourself in Hispanic culture upon crossing the border, language lessons will make a dramatic impact on your lifestyle. 

Additionally, many Spanish workers have jobs in Gibraltar, and learning English would greatly benefit them in the workspace, and foment their understanding and communication skills with co-workers.

The bilingual nature of our special cosmopolitan fortress is extremely unique, and the ability to speak both languages is a wonderful thing for both personal development and to improve your chances of employability, serving as an extra skillto have on a CV.

What are your top tips for practicing a language at home?

When it comes to learning a new language, or simply widening your vocabulary if already quite fluent, immersing oneself in the language daily can become routine.

Taking up lessons with an experienced tutor who practices skilful scaffolding techniques and builds upon your knowledge is important, but in order to hone those skills one can practice the knowledge acquired in 7 simple steps:

• Read articles and books in the target language

• Watch films or series 

• Listen to podcasts or songs

• Use post-it notes around the house to remember grammar

• Change the language on your phone to the target language

• Build a vocabulary bank of words in a notebook

• Use grammar apps 

How can we get in touch with you?

You can get in touch via email at
hellocreativetutor@gmail.com

WhatsApp: +350 54022746

Instagram: @creative.tutor.gib

Or the Creative Tutor Facebook page. 

Contact Creative Tutor Gibraltar now and let’s work together to boost those language skills!

We hear the term ‘boundaries’ being bandied around a lot these days and therefore it is in danger of becoming mediocritised’ along with so many other good words.  When good words are mediocritised, eg. love, trauma, narcissism and so on, they are in danger of losing their sacredness and become trivialised. 

So, what are boundaries and why do we need them?  What is their function?  What is their purpose?

The function of boundaries is to set limits in order to prevent other people from overstepping or engaging with us in a way that we are not comfortable with. The purpose of setting (and respecting) boundaries can be critical to succeeding at work, in friendships, and especially in relationships. It can also often be helpful to set boundaries with family. This is often the most difficult due to the emotional enmeshment which is part of the family network.

While some may view setting boundaries as an unfair imposition upon others, healthy boundaries allow each person to preserve and maintain their own needs, space, and health—ultimately allowing for more successful relationships. 

There are many different types of boundaries, ranging from personal to emotional to psychological. Carving out certain days of the week to spend time with your significant other is an example of setting boundaries. Similarly, turning off your phone and other electronic devices for the sake of having personal time is another way of taking care of yourself. Boundaries can also involve topics of conversation, physical comfort level, types of communication, and more. Healthy boundaries can vary by individual and by relationship, and they will be different for different people. This is very important to be aware.   

In essence, setting healthy boundaries allows people to take care of themselves and more clearly identify their needs while also respecting others.

It is also possible however, and not uncommon for people to set unhealthy boundaries.  People with healthy boundaries tend to be secure and centred individuals with a solid sense of who they are.  Their boundaries are clear but can be flexible as they have an inner awareness of what they can ‘afford’ in terms of their physical, mental, emotional or spiritual bank account. If the account has a healthy balance and is topped up regularly then flexibility with respect is the norm.  However, an individual who lacks that inner security and strong sense of self is more likely to have rigid boundaries and a short fuse if those boundaries are in any way threatened or perceived to be.

How do we recognise and set boundaries? Well, to a large extent we have inbuilt boundaries in terms of our innate sense of danger and a common sense approach to knowing what is good for us, even if we don’t always uphold those boundaries.  We take risks and that’s ok.  But, to go deeper we start with our values and create our boundaries around our values.  Without being clear in this way it is all too easy to have boundaries violated without realising that Is what is happening.  We may just feel hurt and devastated when our partner, boss or parent goes off on one … flies into a rage and leaves us feeling awful.  Even abused. Or when you realise that a friend has been offloading on you without heeding your advice (that they’ve asked for) or a work colleague offloading their work on to you.

So, you would rerun such an instance and identify your feelings arising from it. Thus, you will very quickly identify the boundary that has been disrespected. Raising your own level of awareness is usually all it takes, though it may take a few tries and more than a little work till it resonates clearly with you.  You will clarify it in your mind, write it in your journal, even record it on your phone but the beauty is that once you have the clarity embedded it will take care of itself.  Either the violator will simply cease to do so because they have energetically got the message or they will move on out of your life. 

For purposes of clarity, we can think of a healthy boundary as a fence.  It is strong but flexible, it fences off the area to be protected but people can stand and chat comfortably, leaning on it or even be invited to come in through the gate and visit. The sense of self resides within and is confident of its place in the world. An unhealthy boundary, on the other hand, is like pillars of solid rock surrounding a space. Rigid and inflexible it is erected to protect the space in which the person does not feel safe. The sense of safety is given to the pillars of rock along with the instructions to be as hostile as possible to preserve a sense of safety. The space within is therefore a place of fear and confusion, rather than a place of self-love and safety.

Remember, that we are all different and therefore we all have different values and different boundaries.  More than that, we need to be clear on our boundaries, initially with ourselves so we recognise right away, if they are being trespassed upon and we can nip things in the bud.  If we are not clear with ourselves, how can anyone else know and think of how many relationships could be saved if only people were clear on their boundaries!

Happy boundary setting and please feel free to contact me directly if you would like some more individual help with doing so.

Kate Mchardy  MA(Hons)  PGCE MSPH. Spiritual coach, teacher and healer.

The University of Light Group

www.thehealingretreat.net

katemch@gmail.com  •  +44 7712889534