A small group of learning professionals organised an International Conference on Learning and Thinking (ILAT). ILAT invited ten speakers from ten countries to come together in Kuala Lumpur on the tenth day of the tenth month (10/10/10). These speakers were professionals in various aspects of Learning – from Neuroscience, Culture, Coaching, Creativity in Learning, and the Facilitation of Group Learning. Several of them subsequently were invited to join CGL’s International Board of Advisors, of whom four were also contributors, in the first issue of CGL’s International Journal of Inter-disciplinary Learning (IJIL).

So, the idea to build CGL, from just a certification body into a global network, took off after ILAT. And now we have representatives in over thirty countries. And, as a result, CGL was constituted in the UK, as a ‘hub’ for the network and decided to become a virtual global network and a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, non-partisan body that is egalitarian and non-hierarchical. CGL was then also registered as an Approved Learning Provider, with the UK Department of Business and Innovation Skills (BIS) and supported by the UK Department of Employment and Learning.