Welcome to Alston
A virtual learning studio designed to unlock the full potential of bright young minds.
Currently accepting new students
Tutoring Programmes
Precise, purposeful and individually paced tutoring for students and parents.
For Students
Ten 1:1 sessions with a PhD-level Academic Coach, delivered online and globally — weekly over ten weeks, or twice-weekly over five.
It begins with a baseline assessment to determine challenges, strengths, and goals. From there, we work toward both academic and life milestones, integrating embodied learning, flow training, and philosophical health coaching throughout.
We pace sessions to each student's unique needs, and provide regular updates that cover both academic progress and what's making them feel fully alive.
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10 × 1:1 sessions with your Academic Coach
An initial flow-state assessment
Integrated flow state training
Academics and real-world project development
A weekly note home on how your child is actually doing
Philosophical health coaching, built in from the start
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USD $1,700 | 10 × 60-MIN SESSIONS
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Runs alongside the Immersion — four sessions across the ten weeks, roughly fortnightly, where your Guide works with you directly.
Recognise your child's state at home, not just in session
What supports flow, and what quietly breaks it, day to day
Language for the moments they're frustrated or dysregulated
Keeping home aligned with what's happening in their sessions
+$600 with the Immersion
For Parents
Eight 1:1 sessions with a PhD-level Academic Coach, delivered online — one session a week, with one or two parents/guardians.
It trains flow state on two fronts: your own, applied to your work and life, and your ability to recognise and support it in your child at home.
The ripple effect is profund. When a parent can regulate their own state, the whole home changes with it — less friction, more authenic connection, and a household that handles stress instead of absorbing it.
Most people find flow by accident, a few times a year — this coaching teaches you to find it on purpose, and nurture a family that knows how to find it together.
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8 weeks, one session a week, 1:1 — training flow state for your own life, and for your child's.
The neuroscience of flow, and the five conditions that reliably produce it
Training your own flow state — matched challenge, agency, and recovery, applied to your own work and life
Recognising and supporting flow state in your child, at home
Facilitated by a PhD-level Academic Coach
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This is for parents of any aged children (or expecting parents). These are vital life skills that can be easily trained and practiced in relationship, parenting and contexts.
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USD $1,4508 × 60-MIN SESSIONS · 1:1
Dear Families,
Thank you for considering Alston for your family.
I'm so glad you're here.
For over a decade, I've coached hundreds of high performers how to unlock their full potential through the science of peak performance. During that time, a seed was planted: what if this started at ten, not forty?
That seed became Alston.
Our science-backed, strength-based learning framework enhances focus, expands problem-solving skills, increases productivity, and accelerates learning.
But my time working with adults revealed something crucial: peak performance, in isolation, can be harmful. Speed and focus without a strong sense of self just build an 'optimised' version of someone who doesn't know who they are — who burns out, who mistakes achievement for identity, who ends up successful and alone.
That's why our framework also instils a sense of self and purpose, enhances self-compassion and empathy, encourages connection and co-creation, and nurtures a genuine drive to meaningfully contribute — students reaching the frontier of their potential, in service of the greater good.
I built Alston to give students and their families the gift of 'real peak performance' — performance anchored to the greater good.
I look forward to walking alongside every student and family, building a future of flourishing together.
Dr. Clare Sarah Goodridge
Founder & Principal
