Our Philosophy

The Athena Programme philosophy:

• We come from our heart to embrace new concepts, originality, humour and transformation in our work.
• We are creative, innovative, dynamic and passionate in our work.
• We promote and value collaborate working for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• We are child and person centred and promote shared participation.
• We are advocates of experiential and blended learning and believe in continuous personal, professional and organisational growth.

We believe that a company stands and falls by the quality of its products, its performance and its philosophy. At the Athena Programme we want people to feel that when they ask us to work with them we are genuinely serving their needs whilst remembering the vulnerable child / adult - that is our primary concern.

Our philosophy is to work in partnership with our clients so that everybody has the opportunity to express themselves fully and understand that their needs are being listened to and met. We aim to encourage an honest and open working atmosphere where clients can clearly see who we are, where we are coming from and what we are doing. We celebrate our ability to be flexible. We are not interested in what is right or wrong, we are interested in celebrating difference, promoting best practice and continuous learning so that we can pass on that learning to others.

We believe that if we want to get better at what we do both within our company and what we offer our clients. We do this by recognising that we must constantly look at what we are giving out in terms of our beliefs, thoughts, actions and where we focus our energy.

We know that the learning process is reciprocal and that if we are doing our jobs well we learn as much from our clients as they do from us. Nurturing trust and confidence between ourselves and our client’s means that we can have long and productive relationships with everyone we work with at all levels.