OUR STORY
Limina’s story began in 2015 at the Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute (CTLI), the Professional Development Directorate of the Western Cape Education Department. At the time, Christo Davids, who was managing the ICT Integration Unit, joined forces with learning designer Isabel Tarling to reimagine what teacher development could be. Together, they designed innovative ICT Integration courses that encouraged teachers to play, explore, and experiment with technology. What started as a series of pilot programmes soon grew into a province-wide network of trainers and teachers whose work reached well over 180,000 learners—demonstrating the powerful ripple effect of creative, collaborative professional learning.
This philosophy became the foundation of Limina Education Services, founded by Dr Isabel Tarling, whose research in learning science, reading, and teacher professional development continues to shape educational practice and national guidelines. Today, Limina carries this legacy forward by creating contextually grounded and impactful learning experiences for educators, organisations, and communities across Africa. Guided by our core values – Play, Co-create, Learn, and Innovate Change – we remain committed to nurturing home-grown innovation and designing learning that reflects the creativity, resilience, and ingenuity of our continent.
OUR VISION
At Limina, we believe in the transformative power of education. Our vision is to reimagine learning by creating courses that open educational opportunities for all and inspire home-grown innovation. Through an agile, collaborative, and co-design approach, we bring stakeholders together to develop contextually relevant, immediately implementable courses that captivate learners and drive long-lasting impact.
OUR CORE VALUES
Our core values define who we are and guide how we engage with our team, clients, and educators.
- Play and Discovery: We believe in learning through play, curiosity, and exploration.
- Co-creation and Collaboration: Working together, we build meaningful solutions that inspire innovation.
- Continuous Growth: Every journey is shaped by experiences, people, and moments that push us to be better every day.
Play
Play is active, engaging and fun. Like the best form of learning. We believe that learning should imitate play as being active, engaging and fun!
CoCreate
When we’re creating, we’re actively finding or inventing solutions, evaluating and analyzing, and growing our potential to be more creative. We believe we exponentially improve all creations when this is a collaborative co-creative process.
Learn
Learning is a process, a journey made of many big and small events, experiences, both good and bad, and people. We learn in many different ways but most often, we learn best when we are invested, motivated and in control.
Innovate Change
Our world desperately needs more innovators, tinkers and thinkers to solve the many local and global challenges. If we want to bring about change in the world, we need to nurture each individual’s potential to innovate contextually embedded solutions that address their immediate needs or that of their community.
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- Limina’s learning model is all about life-long learning and paying it forward to the learners our teachers come across every day.
- We believe that learning to be innovative in the classroom and adopting sound teaching methods that support every kind of learner is key to teaching success.
- We encourage and support teachers to create a perpetual learning cycle for themselves and the learners they teach. In this way, we can create a culture of excellence, curiosity, and innovation.
- Our Liminaires team works tirelessly behind the scenes to imagine a future where learning is accessed by all when and where they need it and to make this imagined dream a reality in all that we do at Limina.
- We inspire everyone in the education space, including YOU, to pay this forward and make learning available to all, when and where they need it!
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Our Purpose
In Africa, we do things our own way. We sing, we dance, we enjoy life and we overcome tremendous challenges with the most inspiring innovations. Africa is written in our hearts and beats its drum in all we do. Listening to our African drumbeat, we at Limina reimagine and nurture home-grown practical solutions for the challenges across our continent. We LIVE innovation and BREATHE creativity! At Limina we believe we grow our future from the creativity and innovation fostered in classrooms. To foster creativity in the classroom, we need to nurture this in teachers. So we reinvented professional development to focus on nurturing creativity and innovation with EdTechs in the classroom, in the office and in non-education related spaces.
Our Team
Our Limina team LOVES what we do! We live, eat and sleep innovation and ingenuity. Our favourite space is the cutting edge of education – but above all, our favourite place is Africa!
Limina inspires, grows and nurtures all players in the field of education to be better than they were yesterday, and to excel and build the future we want for Africa, for our learners, students and our communities!
On staff, we have qualified Instructional Designers, Graphic Designers, Videographers, an IT Specialist and Course Managers.
Our Identity
OUR LOGO
Limina means stepping through the threshold, and deliberately and purposefully changing. This deliberate and purposeful change is at the heart of Limina, where we reimagine learning, innovate and strategically make changes.