For institutions
Universities, colleges, schools, workplaces, retirement communities — anywhere people accompany people. Communities, clusters, roles and rules are configuration, not code: an institution that works differently is configured, not forked. Multilingual by design, mobile-first — because for many newcomers the phone is the only guaranteed device.
Your structures — residences, campuses, branches, congregations, clubs — become communities and clusters. Your rules become settings. Nothing is rebuilt.
Your own people carry it: mentor training for student leaders, the Certificate in Circle Accompaniment for circle hosts, the Certificate in Accompaniment Coaching for coaches, and PHECA for the people who teach the courses. The capability stays and spreads rather than being rented.
Participation that cannot be gamed, outcomes with their thresholds attached, and a number provenance rule with no exceptions — reporting an auditor and an ethics committee can both live with.
Start where you are
ACCOMPANY is a whole-life system, and no institution has to take it all at once. Every part works on its own and joins up with the others on the same platform, so a system is shaped around what an institution already has and what it wants next.
Small groups with trained senior students from the first week, and head mentors, residence heads and coordinators behind them.
Often added next
A first-year course for every mentee, and a sponsor for every new mentor.
The course library for students or staff: a whole first-year programme, a course for a stage of life or a path, or one for a single moment such as stress, conflict or grief.
Often added next
PHECA, so your own people teach the courses, and circles that practise them together.
Certified accompaniment coaches for staff, postgraduates or alumni: a conversation about whatever matters most, for as long as a person wants.
Often added next
The Certificate in Accompaniment Coaching, to grow coaches of your own.
Lecturers, student-life staff and trainers become certified to teach the courses to their own students and groups, with the slides and facilitator guides supplied.
Often added next
A student pathway across the years, taught by people who know their students.
Small hosted circles of six to ten people practising one skill at a time: in the second year, in residences, or as part of staff training.
Often added next
The Certificate in Circle Accompaniment, so your own people host.
Letters, a sponsor and a room at every crossing, for alumni and staff as much as for students.
Often added next
Coaching for alumni, and elders on the Bench beside newcomers.
Tailor-made. Whatever the starting point, the system is configured to the institution's own structures, names, languages and pace. Tell us what you want it to do, and it is shaped around that.
Who it serves at a university
ACCOMPANY is not one office's project. Each division finds its own part in it, and the same person is carried from one to the next.
Mentoring from the first week, belonging, and circles in residences and communities.
A first-year programme one week at a time, and noticing early when a student goes quiet.
Courses and mentors woven into a faculty's own programme, for its own students.
The postgraduate path: a course written for it, writing circles, and a sponsor who finished a degree.
Everyday flourishing for everyone, so specialist care reaches those who need it, and is always one step away.
The threshold and the first post: confidence, purpose and the skills of working life.
A lifelong account, alumni who come back as sponsors and mentors, and coaching for life.
Courses, circles and coaching for staff, and managers who learn to coach.
The mental game for athletes, coaches, teams and sport parents.
Participation and wellbeing reported with numbers that trace to their source.
Beyond universities
Learners in the last years of school, preparing for what comes next, and teachers' own wellbeing.
First-year success, mentoring and belonging, shaped to each college.
Emotional intelligence at work, managers as coaches, teams that thrive, and wellbeing at work.
Flourishing programmes for specific callings, such as law and medicine.
Athletes, coaches and parents, from the first season to the last.
Meaning and purpose, belief pathways, and company for carers and the grieving.
Circles hosted by trained volunteers, and support for parents and carers.
Positive ageing, brain health, walking together, and elders who accompany the young.
The train-the-trainer path is also a contribution we would be proud to make to student success across Africa: sharing what works, institution to institution. Stellenbosch University is the first context — not the boundary.
Questions institutions ask
No. Every part works on its own, and joins up with the others on the same platform when you add it. Most institutions begin with one part.
One course for one group, one circle, or mentoring in one residence. Start where the need is clearest, and grow from there.
Yes. Your residences, faculties, branches or teams become its communities; your roles, rules, languages and calendar become its settings; and the system is configured to the specifications you set.
Your own people, trained for it: mentors, circle hosts, coaches and teachers, with coordinators who see what they need to support them.
They stay with the person. What someone writes to themselves is never read by anyone else, a sponsor's conversation is recorded only as having happened, and reports are built from counts and signals, never from words.
Participation and wellbeing are measured with established questionnaires, and every number in a report traces to its source.
If the premise interests you, the conversation takes ten minutes: what would your institution want to start with?