The Growth Garden: Cultivate Your Seeds for Success
Nurture Your Ambitions. Grow Your Success. Thrive in Your ELT Career.
Are you ready to cultivate your career and help it flourish?
As an English language teaching professional, you’re passionate about making an impact—but are you giving your own ambitions the attention they need to grow?
Whether you’re looking to expand your freelancing career, scale your business, or take a more holistic approach to your professional and personal success, The Growth Garden will help you:
🏆 Identify your strengths, skills, and opportunities for growth
🎯 Set clear, achievable goals
🌸 Map out your support network
🚧 Recognize potential challenges (and how to overcome them)
😎 Nurture your career, well-being, and personal development
This is more than just a goal-setting tool—it’s a visually engaging way to reflect on your journey, plan strategically, and take action with confidence.
A Unique Coaching Tool Designed for ELT Professionals
The Growth Garden is a powerful visual template that blends storytelling with coaching techniques to help you explore your career and life ecosystem in a meaningful way.
Using the metaphor of a garden, you’ll consider:
🌱 Your seeds & saplings – What are your current skills, strengths, and experiences?
🌿 Your goals – What do you want to grow and achieve?
🐌 Your challenges – What obstacles might threaten your success (and how can you protect your growth)?
☀️ Your nourishment – What energizes and supports you on your journey?
🌻 Your thriving stage – Where do you see yourself when you’ve reached full bloom?
This framework is designed to provide clarity, insight, and motivation to help you move forward with purpose.
Created by Experts in ELT & Professional Development
This template is the result of a collaboration between:
✨ Emily Bryson – ELT author, graphic facilitator, and visual teaching expert.
✨ Rachael Roberts – Business and mindset coach at Earn Live Thrive.
By combining Rachael’s coaching expertise with Emily’s visual facilitation skills, The Growth Garden brings you a structured, engaging, and interactive way to plan your success.
What You'll Get:
💡 Downloadable PDF template for instant access
📝 User's Guides - perfect for individuals & groups
🖍️ Print it out or use it digitally on an online whiteboard (Canva, Miro, Mural, etc.)
🎨 Draw your own large-scale version for deeper reflection and brainstorming
📍 Use anytime, anywhere – a versatile tool for personal reflection, coaching, or training sessions
😶🌫️ Use with anyone - you, English language learners, teachers and anyone who wants to explore their personal ecosystem and works towards success
Get Started Today!
🌱✨ Grab The Growth Garden now and start cultivating your seeds for success! 🌱✨
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Welcome to Emily Bryson ELT: a home for visual thinkers.
I'm Emily Bryson. I help ELT professionals to harness their super-powers, engage their audiences and stand out from the crowd using visual thinking. I have written various print and digital materials, including National Geographic Learning’s Voices & Impact series, 50 Ways to Teach Life Skills and Pathways to Success: Visual Tools for Goal-Setting, Self-Evaluation and Progression. I am passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion and the use of visual tools and graphic facilitation strategies to make learning more engaging, accessible and fun. I am a resident blogger for Ellii learning and frequently delivers teacher development sessions for a variety of ELT organisations. My development courses with a visual twist have been described as ‘the nicest corner of the internet’ and my sketchnotes are extremely popular on socials.
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