Twenty-five years of practice, built on one idea.
“I am because we are.” U-ACT trains and certifies coaches on the Ubuntu philosophy — the belief that recovery, growth, and leadership are never solo achievements, only ever shared ones.
A practice before it was an organisation.
U-ACT began as a lived-experience recovery coaching practice, built by practitioners who had walked the path themselves before training others to guide it. That origin still shapes how every programme is built today: assessment against a real professional standard, not a certificate handed out for attendance.
Over 25 years, that practice grew into a full training and certification body, and in 2008 the Ubuntu Addiction Community Trust was formally registered as a Public Benefit Organisation — now delivering CPD-certified programmes across the UK, South Africa, the Netherlands, Uganda, and Zambia, and recognised by the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO) as an accredited member.
Ubuntu holds that a person becomes a person through other people. In coaching, that means the coach’s own development is never separate from the people they go on to train.
A genuine LERO.
U-ACT’s CLERO accreditation (ratified 7 July 2026) confirms what’s been true from the start: this is a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO) — independent, place-based, and committed to the ongoing development of the people it trains, not just a one-off qualification.
The same discipline, new settings.
Recovery coaching has always been the root of U-ACT’s work, and it still runs through the newer specialisms — Systemic Wellness Practice, Executive Coaching, and Employee Wellness Programme training all carry the same coaching discipline into new settings, from Harley Street practice rooms to organisational wellness teams.
See the model in action.
The three pillars — Train, Empower, Treat — and what they’ve returned so far.
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