Karl Leeuwen, Developmental Specialist

Karl Leeuwen

Developmental Specialist
The person

I give parents a way to turn their child’s potential into a direction — then use the pursuit of it to build the person who can get there.

100+ Schools
Vancouver & West Vancouver

For over a decade, he was called in after the experts, the reports, and the support plans had failed to produce the change everyone wanted. What he found changed the way he understood children, development, and the role of the adults around them. That distinction is the subject of everything below.

The premise

“Most children don’t lose their way, they never build it.”

In four parts
Question
Reading Parents’ Questions how he shows parents what they’re really asking

The questions parents ask, examined for what they reveal about the way we see children.

Observation
Developmental Observations what he helps parents see

Concerning behaviours, examined for what they could become when properly developed.

Experiment
Parenting Experiments what he creates for parents to hear back

Simple changes to the conditions around a child, tested against what actually happens.

Application
FirstHand what he’s built for parents to run

A real-world system for discovering what your child can do when the responsibility is truly theirs.