Glen Affric and Glenaffric Ltd - the company philosophy
Glenaffric Ltd is rooted, both geographically and metaphorically, in Glen Affric the place. A grand and spectacular valley in the Highlands of Scotland, Glen Affric stretches deep and wide across the country from the high mountains of Kintail in the west towards the fertile plains of the Beauly Firth in the east. Scoured out by retreating glaciers during the last Ice Age, Glen Affric is home to some of the finest remnants of the ancient Caledonian pine forest that once covered much of Scotland.

Glen Affric can be tranquil, a high sun reflected in the deep blue of the loch, the smell of peat and wild flowers, a hazy summer stillness in the constant movement and hum of insects, a gentle breeze swaying in the tops of the trees and ruffling through the heather. It can be utterly still in a frozen winter monochrome of leaden sky and dark trees, icy loch and river, snow-covered rock and earth. It can tremble and shudder as stormwinds howl down the glen, ripping up the waters of the loch and flinging foamy waves towards the shores, while gales assail the mountain tops and tear at the trees.

Glen Affric is a place where rock and water, fire, wood and wildlife combine in forceful and awesome natural grandeur. It is a microcosm of natural order and the cycle of life and death, of seasonal change, destruction, conservation and growth. It is a self-sustaining environment, fragile, changeable, and incredibly rich in atmosphere, variety and potential growth.

Glenaffric Ltd is more than a name. It expresses the aim to understand and use the natural elements of Glen Affric as a metaphor for the conception and execution of novel, natural and innovative approaches to learning and the realisation of knowledge.

Our inspiration comes from many sources but especially Goethe, Johannes Itten and the Bauhaus movement, Fritjof Capra, Harry Beck, Edward Tufte, Peter Checkland, Donald Schon and Stephen Brookfield.