About
A teacher who kept asking why the system was breaking people.
Paul's path from the classroom to Enoughism, tutoring, and coaching.
Paul's path to Enoughism runs through several careers. He started out as a software engineer, which gave him an early, lasting foundation in systems thinking — the habit of looking at a problem as a set of interacting parts rather than a single cause. He then spent over 20 years working as a chiropractor, giving him a hands-on, clinical understanding of bodies under chronic stress — direct experience that now underpins Enoughism's biology and neuroscience angle.
From there, Paul spent years working as a secondary school teacher in the UK. He saw, up close, how a system meant to support young people was instead failing many of the ones who needed it most — particularly students caught in the UK's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan) provision, where support was too often slow, inconsistent, or simply unavailable.
That experience — watching capable students labelled as problems, and watching a broken provision system fail them again and again — is what led Paul to leave mainstream teaching. He didn't leave education. He changed how he wanted to practise it.
Where he is now
Several careers, one working life.
Earlier
Software engineer, then chiropractor for over 20 years
Before education, Paul worked as a software engineer, then spent more than two decades practising as a chiropractor. Together, those years left him with a systems-thinking foundation and a clinical, hands-on understanding of the body under chronic stress — both of which now run directly through Enoughism's biology and systems angle.
Now
Private GCSE tutor & educational consultant
Paul now tutors students aged roughly 11–18 in Combined Science, Maths, and English at GCSE level, with a particular focus on school-refusing and neurodivergent or anxious learners — the students the mainstream system often struggles to reach. He also works as an educational consultant, drawing on his classroom background.
Author
Developing Enoughism
Out of that teaching and tutoring experience — and a long-standing interest in systems thinking, neuroscience, and Stoicism — Paul began developing Enoughism: a framework for understanding burnout, overconsumption, and anxiety as predictable outputs of a culture with no natural limits, rather than personal failings.
Speaker
Taking it beyond the page
Paul now speaks on these themes for schools, wellbeing and mental-health audiences, educator communities, and workplaces — translating Enoughism and systems thinking into practical, non-hypey language.
Coach
Spark Coaching
Alongside writing and speaking, Paul coaches 1:1 through Spark Coaching — working with burnt-out adults and with young people navigating anxiety, school refusal, and SEND needs, using the same Enoughism-informed approach.
Beyond the work
What shapes how Paul thinks.
Paul's interests run deep into systems thinking, neuroscience, consciousness studies, the economics of resource constraints, Stoicism, and complexity theory — the intellectual scaffolding behind Enoughism. He holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Digital Systems Engineering (2.1), a BSc in Chiropractic, and a PGDE in Learning and Leadership — a combination that reflects a long relationship with education, first as a student across engineering, health science, and pedagogy, and later as a teacher.
Away from the desk, Paul stays physically grounded through kettlebell training and long walks — practices that, fittingly, are as much about sufficiency and consistency as they are about fitness.
Curious where this thinking leads?
Explore the Enoughism framework and the book series, or get in touch directly.