4C Studio
Better living through better learning
Short courses and longer programs for people
seeking deep, personal development,
grounded in research,
that combines the best of professional learning
and self development
...without the boring or weird bits.
❋ Small group coursesIndividual attention alongside the dynamic engagement of small groups gives participants the best combination for growth and skill development.
❋ Research basedEducational researchers Dr Miranda Jefferson and Professor Michael Anderson’s work, out of the Uni of Sydney, underpin our work.
❋ Expert FacilitationOur facilitators are highly experienced educators, experts in supporting deep learning and capability development.
❋ Proven approachWe’ve been working with educators, organisational professionals and students for over a decade, using our tools and methods to help people become better learners for better living.
As we taught educators these approaches to use with their students, and how to use the tools in classrooms, we were overwhelmed with how often the teachers were learning valuable skills and understanding about themselves. They were applying our approaches to their personal lives as well as their classrooms.
This made a lot of sense to us. Navigating life’s challenges successfully is a learning process. Understanding ourselves as learners, and building our skills in the 4 capabilities that enable great learning, will equip us with abilities to face life challenges as learners.
We believe learning skills are the key to living well.
Why is that?
As educators, we saw students struggling with their learning. Through research and practice, we developed methodologies that gave students an understanding of themselves as learners, to see their learning strengths and not-yet-strengths.
We developed tools that gave students language to talk about what they were struggling with. This meant students could identify the help they needed, ask for that help, and acknowledge their own progress.
Every challenge is an opportunity to learn.
Being confident as a learner,
with a practical skill set
to apply effective learning in challenging times,
gives us agency and strength
to meet those times with positivity and confidence.
Three month programBuilding Resilience for Life
Life contains challenges, and resilience is a quality that allows us to meet these challenges with a confidence in your ability to get through it, adapt as you need to, learn whatever new skills you need to, and be stronger on the other side.
We frame resilience as the result of strong and healthy learning skills, using the dispositions for learning as foundations for knowing and speaking about ourselves as learners, and our learning strengths and not-yet-strengths.
You’ll leave this program seeing life challenges different, having a language and conceptual way of seeing challenges that empowers you to meet them with confidence and clarity.
Length of program3 months
Classes6 × 2 hour classes (fortnightly), 6.30pm-8.30pm
Commitment outside of classesReading, implementing learning into life, journalling about experience
Cost$2500 AUD
Next course beginsApril 2026
8 Week Short CourseDeep Learning Soft Skills
Many workplaces offer employees soft skills training, in recognition that these skills can make or break the effectiveness of teams and the outcomes of business endeavours.
Our 8 week Deep Learning Soft Skills course covers the research-proven four soft skills that are essential for human thriving throughout life - known to us as The 4Cs: Creativity, Collaboration, Communication and Critical Reflection.
You may think you know what these are and how to do them, but it’s the deep learning difference that makes this short course powerful and transformative. We use diagramatic representations of each of the Cs, which allow anyone to learn the skills and steps involved in effectively embodying these essential capabilities.
You’ll leave this course with an entirely different understanding of these four capabilities, and the skills to transfer your learning into your workplace, personal relationships and in the unexpected and challenging times that we encounter through life.
This is life long learning at its most practical, transformative and fun!
Course dates8 consecutive Tuesday nights, starting June 9th, 2026
Class times7pm - 9pm
LocationTBC
Cost$2000+GST
Open toEveryone
Interested in running this course for your team, group or family? Contact us to discuss costs and timing.
12 Month Student Tutoring ProgramSupercharge The Skills For Learning
Every parent wants their child to excel at school. But many kids struggle with learning environments, and can easily fall behind, not because they’re “not smart”, but because they don’t know how to ask for the help they need. They often don’t understand what help they need.
Our Supercharge The Skills For Learning tutoring program is not like regular tutoring, which is subject based and designed to supplement school learning. Our tutoring takes a bigger picture view, working with students to help them better understanding themselves as learners (metacognition) and to give them a framework and language to understand what they’re struggling with, what help they need, and the words to ask for that help.
This understanding, and the skills we help students develop, can be used across any subject area, and continue to be useful outside formal learning environments, giving young people a language to talk about struggles with wellbeing, relationships, hope, and the challenging situations they will meet throughout life.
These are learning skills for life.
Individual appointmentsAvailable Monday-Thursday, 3pm-7pm
Group classesStarting July 13th and 15th, 4pm - 5.30pm
Year structureSessions run through public school term time only, ending first Thursday in December. Cohorts being in January and July.
CostIndividual tutoring: $3000+GST per year
Group Classes: $1500+GST per year