Why a Teen Coach?
Life skills coaching for teenagers is a branch of life coaching. It is designed to encourage personal growth in teenagers whilst providing a framework with solutions for the challenges they are facing. Today’s teenagers do experience many more difficulties because they are going through dramatic changes in a rapidly changing world. For parents and schools, it’s a permanent struggle to keep up with the impact of these changes. Teenagers are exposed to more at an earlier age and have to deal with more pressure but have much less independence than previous generations. Teenagers can feel overwhelmed by the pressure and worries – a Life Skills coach helps teens and parents navigate the most critical times of a teen’s life by building strong relationships, accountability, self-reflection, improved self-esteem, focus, parental and coach collaboration.
Purpose
Get in touch with their purpose in life for a happier and more successful lifeSELF-AWARENESS
Figure out who they are and what direction they want to take
Values
Figure out what's important to them, and what kind of a life they want to liveDECISIONS
Align what is important to them and how they would like to live their life
Habits
Identifying self-limiting habits and replacing them with good habits for better resultsSelf-belief
Replace self-limiting beliefs with self-empowering ones
Responsibility
Taking responsibility for their actions gives them the power and control over their lifeAccountability
It teaches teens how their choices determine the results they experience
Life Coaching for Teens
Teenage years are turbulent – teenagers begin to fight for their independence and parents need to overcome the urge to fight to maintain control, instead they need to begin to wisely extend the leash and foster independence. Life coaching for teens is a useful solution for the times when they are experiencing difficulties. At the United Education Group, our teen coaches use a coaching framework based on ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers’ and ‘The 6 Most Important Decisions’, best-selling books. The tools and strategies build responsibility, confidence and relationship skills. Each session will last one hour. Tools such as journaling, questioning, games and activities are used. Our teen coaches give teenagers the confidence to realise their potential.
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
4. Think Win-Win
5. Seek first to Understand then to be Understood
6. Synergise
7. Sharpen the Saw
2. Friends
3. Parents
4. Dating and Sex
5. Addictions
6. Self-Worth
2. Living the 7 Habits
3. Leadership roles
4. Achieving meaningful goals
5. 21st Century Life skills
2. Character
3. Competence
4. Results
5. Behaviours
2. The winning attitude
3. Evicting entitlement
4. Self-discipline
5. Commitment to Constant Learning and Improvement
6. Believing in yourself
7. Practice persistence
Life Skills Coaching Process
- First step, with your teen onboard, is to find a coach that both you and your teenager trust and feel confident with
Each session will last for one hour and a course of seven sessions is booked.
Sessions will establish where any problems lie, what kind of attitudes and values your child holds and work out what actions are needed for them to move forward
- The cost of a coaching session is £100 an hour. This price is dependent on travel and the length of sessions.
- Coaches have the relevant experience and are thoroughly trained in the FranklinCovey processes.
- All teen coaches are DBS checked to ensure they do not have a criminal record.
What Teenagers Say
“I liked the habit of choice. The course was really good. It helped me change my attitude towards school, parents, work, and lots of other stuff.”
“For me the biggest aspect that I felt applied to my life was the emphatic listening. It was extremely valuable and useful. I think that the course was good at provoking deeper thoughts and good at encouraging us to look at ourselves and focus on us. This isn’t really done, or encouraged much at school, or in other places. Making the experience very unique.”
“It helped me not only to learn more about myself, but it also taught me skills that are really useful for being able to lead a more effective and productive life.”
“You must take this course because it teaches you all about self-confidence and how to see yourself and the world in a much more effective way.”
“My favourite habit was habit 5 – Seek First to Understand, then be Understood. I loved doing this course, not only was it educating, but I had a lot of fun. The course leaders were amazing and so inspiring. I would definitely encourage others to go.”
Benefits of Coaching for Teenagers
- Overcome stress, depression, anxiety, and confusion about who they are and what they really want
- Handle friendship challenges (growing apart, betrayal, conflicts, competition)
- Deal with self-imposed and peer pressure
- Build personal leadership and self-responsibility
- Improve family relationship challenges
- Overcome academic pressure with emotional wellbeing
- Build self-confidence and strengthen decision making skills
- Encourage a healthy body image and self-acceptance
- Navigating sex, dating, alcohol, drugs and relationships with parents and peers