Youth and student coaching
Children above the age of 12, young adults and students
Coaching offers a way to support young adults through many of the challenges they encounter during adolescence and university years. It can help them thrive through this period, reconnect with the joy of studying, find their ideal career, as well as support them in becoming self-confident and self-reliant individuals.
I have an additional certification in the coaching of young adults from the ICF-accredited Coaching Ways school. In my sessions, I use fun and interactive coaching tools suited to children and young adults.
EDUCATION CHALLENGES
Lower than expected academic results can originate from various reasons ranging from poor time management or organisation, unsuitable studying methodology to difficulties to concentrate, procrastination, stress and anxiety, boredom, lack of motivation, etc.
Neurodiversity is important to consider. We all have different strengths, different learning abilities and ideal ways of studying. Coaching can help a young adult find the organisation, methodology and time management strategies that work for them and how to apply their strengths in certain areas to the subjects they find more challenging.
Coaching is different from tutoring in that it does not deal with specific content of academic subjects, it rather focuses on the overall well-being of the young person to address difficulties which might in turn be affecting educational performance.
RELATIONAL AND PERSONAL CHALLENGES
Adolescents and young adults can go through challenges such as struggling to fit in at school or at university, relationship issues at home or at school, lack of self-confidence, questioning about gender, identity…
It can be difficult for them to find someone to talk to and they might not want to confide in their parents or teachers. Coaching can help them work through these challenges, improve their communication and relationships and develop self-awareness / self-knowledge.
Coaching is different from therapy in that it focuses on how to get from where you are (the present) to where you want to get to (the future) through action and change in behaviour.
A professional coach uses active listening and questioning techniques and provides a safe and supporting environment which enables the young person to identify any roadblocks and find their own solutions to overcome the difficulties they encounter.
CAREER COACHING
For teenagers and young adults, finding their way in life can be a real challenge. In a world full of uncertainties and when it is estimated that 85% of the jobs of the future do not exist yet, how do you make the ‘right’ choice?
Even if it’s more and more common to have more than one career in a lifetime, how do you choose which subjects to study, which school, university or apprenticeship to start with?
Career coaching empowers a young person by allowing them to discover their interests and motivations, personal values, etc. This self-awareness / self-knowledge enables them to make a more informed choice of career or field of study.
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Quote from an unknown author, wrongly attributed to Einstein