8 things to ask when choosing a Kids Life Coach Training service provider
Why you shouldn't feel guilty charging as a Kids Life Coach
Your Kids LIfe Coaching clients care about your outcomes not your certification!
Are you making rookie mistakes as a Kids Life Coach?
Did you know I have been coaching children for almost two decades?
When I look back now I can see such silly “rookie” mistakes I made!
Back when I started coaching children, I was armed with a teaching and educational psychology degree. No formal life coaching qualification or experience at all. (In fact I still haven’t ever done an adult life coaching certification because I don’t think it is applicable to children)
When I started my journey in 2003, there were no service providers offering anything remotely relevant to coaching children!
I did every course I could find and none were good enough when used in isolation. (In my opinion) EQ, NLP, Positive Psychology, CBT, Social Psychology.
I read books. Followed thought leaders. Learnt learnt and learnt. I was committed to helping children and what I realised was this....
Intuition was my biggest asset.
Whilst I felt like I was winging it...I actually had a solid foundation in place, to make good decisions relating to the child
...Why Covid-19 is the best thing that has ever happened for Kids Life Coaches
I have been very quiet in the past while in sharing my words...popping in for my weekly Facebook live on our Kids Life Coach support network and commenting on the odd post...so this is me saying...I'm doing the best I can right now...pivoting Kids Life Studio and The Kids Life Coach Academy and The Secret Parent Foundation to support people during this intense time of change.
But today I felt I needed to share my thoughts on Social Distancing with you....and how Covid-19 is actually the best thing that has happened for career Kids Life Coaches.
Life as we know it will never be the same. Fact. I have already seen a shift in thinking and the good news is that it seems mental wellbeing is now becoming top priority for most people amidst the chaos of Covid-19.
So anybody already coaching children...will theoretically have more need for their services now!
With fear hijacking our brains on a daily basis and being forced into "lockdown" all of us are at risk for anxiety and depression. E...
What is the secret to financial success as a Kids Life Coach?
What is the secret to your financial success as a Kids Life Coach?
So often I see capable people with the aptitude, knowledge and passion give up on their dreams to coach children as a full-time career.
Why?
Because they don’t earn enough money.
So they end up compromising and giving up on their dreams. They go back to the safety net of their full time career.
The kids lose out. They lose out. They end up unhappy and regretful.
So why is this the case?
Well I look at it this way. There is a secret to succeeding in this game. I have been coaching children since 2003 and nobody gave me a recipe. I didn’t have somebody helping me to set up my coaching practice.
I wanted it.
I figured it out.
I pushed through even when things got hard.
I refined.
I built my brand up step by step.
But...here is the secret to my success as a Kids Life Coach.
There are 3 things that I have and that I now look for when people want to join our team as a Kids Life Studio brand ambassador:
1. I am coachab...
Kids Life Coaching is published in the World Social Psychiatry journal
When I started coaching children 17 years ago I was a teacher and the most commonly used assessment tool back then that I was familiar with was the Connors Rating Scale for ADHD.
Since my niche back then was special needs and mostly ADHD kids I found the tool incomprehensive and so went about expanding and designing my own. To use in my coaching practice to assess and measure results.
This tool is now officially mentioned in the World Social Psychiatry Journal in a published journal paper of which I am a co-author alongside a team of Psychiatrists and Psychologists. We have been working together on a global family resilience research project for the past year and it is still a work in progress.
My play based Kids Life Coaching model which uses my Lifestyle Assessment tool is also mentioned. I am beyond proud of the fact that my Kids Life Coaching model is being recognised as a sound intervention and so proud of our global team at Kids Life Studio who are paving the way for setting
...The 3 things you must do to successfully coach children online
Click here to view my Facebook live about the 3 things you must do to successfully coach children online
With Social Distancing and Social Isolation becoming buzz words globally, our Kids Life Studio team took a decision to coach all children online until further notice.
I have been in the game of Kids Life Coaching for 17 years now. In this time, I have worked with thousands of children from a variety of backgrounds, with a variety of circumstances and displaying a variety of problems.
I have always avoided coaching online as I feel it isn't conducive to getting maximum results from children. The success of our coaching sessions at The Kids Life Studio relies on REAL face to face connection and a play based approach.
Although I have coached children online when there has been a need, over the years....I have had to go through a massive mind shift in the past week to adapt to this new changing way of doing things.
Join me today, Thursday, 26 March at 12 pm GMT to find out the th
...Play based coaching gets the results that adult life coaching can't!
There is a common misperception that adult life coaching which involves helping the coachee to focus on and achieve their clearly defined goals, is applicable to children. Nothing could be further from the truth which is why The Kids Life Studio® has developed a unique child-friendly coaching model that is directly related to the needs of the developing brain.
Life coaching for children is about creating new habits related to making healthy lifestyle choices, that not only build a sense of self worth, but improve the overall quality of life. Play based Coaching is fundamentally about equipping children with a toolkit for navigating their daily choices in a fun, non invasive way that is easy to understand and apply.
There is a plethora of well researched evidence on the benefits of “Play in childhood.” It was for this reason that I founded a play based coaching model for children in 2003. As an ex-teacher, I understood the dynamics of engaging children in a creative way and b
...The 3 reasons why only SOME Kids Life Coaches succeed
Today was a proud mamma bear moment for me!! When I certified Monique Engelbrecht in October 2018, I remember looking at the quality of her portfolio of evidence submission and thinking “this lady is going to go far!!”
Today she was aired on her first live radio interview in South Africa on the topic of bullying not even a year after launching her full-time Kids Life Coaching practice!
Now not everybody I train and invite on board as part of my Kids Life Studio brand ambassador team succeeds in this way...
So I wanted to share the 3 reasons WHY Monique has succeeded like this and so quickly....
1. She is a lifelong learner!!!
She asks for help when she needs it and is always willing to learn and grow. So when she reached out to me and I coached her last night before the interview, I knew she would take my tips on board. This is because she comes from a space of love and not ego. Although she was quite capable of doing the interview without my input, I loved how she opened herself u...
