Kids Life Coaching is LOVE in action!
Every year as the clock strikes midnight on 31 December, do you think this?
This year will be my best yet...
I know I have thought that. In fact each year I strive to do just that. I work towards making better choices so that I can live a better life.
But what if I have had it all wrong?
✅What if life is about more than just living your best life?
✅What if life is more than making your dreams come true?
✅What if life is not about sugar coating the truth?
Because the truth as I have come to know it is this...
This year will not be your best year yet. Because that doesn’t exist.
Life will always throw you curve balls. It will always teach you lessons. There will always be heartache and pain. Life is messy!
When you place yourself in a vacuum and constantly strive for excellence and success and freedom...you are bound to be let down.
You stop seeing the richness that the “hard” things in life can teach you about being a better person.
Soooooo many adults fall into the trap o
...Kids Life Coaching as an evidence based approach to supporting children
How to build rapport as a Kids Life Coach
I believe that some adults have a natural flair for coaching children more than others...
Where does this come from?
Well consider this for a moment...
We know what we feel when our mirror neurons tell us what other people feel.
Our mirror neurons are located where empathy is in our brains which is in the prefrontal cortex. We aren't conscious of their messages but they tell us how in sync we are with the person we are speaking to.
When we ARE in sync, everything flows easily.
So when we coach children and we may have a similarity in our own childhood experiences or we can relate, we feel compassion.
That means that we are able to hold space for them in their pain. That connection is called building rapport.
This is why many people who become coaches or therapists have walked their own road with mental health. They are already “connected” to the cause.
In my experience you need to turn your pain into purpose and niche down in a subject area relating to children that really i
...How to build rapport with children as a Kids Life Coach
I believe that some adults have a natural flair for coaching children more than others...
Where does this come from?
Well consider this for a moment...
We know what we feel when our mirror neurons tell us what other people feel.
Our mirror neurons are located where empathy is in our brains which is in the prefrontal cortex. We aren't conscious of their messages but they tell us how in sync we are with the person we are speaking to.
When we ARE in sync, everything flows easily.
So when we coach children and we may have a similarity in our own childhood experiences or we can relate, we feel compassion.
That means that we are able to hold space for them in their pain. That connection is called building rapport.
This is why many people who become coaches or therapists have walked their own road with mental health. They are already “connected” to the cause.
In my experience you need to turn your pain into purpose and niche down in a subject area relating to children that really i
...Kids Life Coaching as an alternative to therapy
Recently I read a great article in Positive Psychology that made me feel so proud!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fact that Kids Life Coaching is finally being acknowledged in therapy circles...
The article spoke about the different types of therapy available to parents. Right there...at the bottom they had a specially allocated section called Child Coaching which they endorsed as another option for parents seeking therapy.
"Though not therapy, coaching can provide an additional resource to help your child. The benefits of coaching can add to a parent’s arsenal for battling behavioral distress. Coaches have special skills to support kids in developing resilience and other personal skills that will serve them throughout their life."
Whilst we are "seemingly" at the bottom of this list of interventions at first glance...Kids Life Coaching is no longer being ignored. Since 2003, I have been working hard to regulate the industry and to raise the standards and at last it is paying off.
Kids ...
Preventing Suicide & Self Harm in children through Kids Life Coaching
Yesterday, I attended a National Conference in Suicide & Self Harm in Young People at Goldsmiths University in London, UK.
I thought it was going to be sombre and depressing and to be honest I was more than a little anxious in the lead up to the conference. You see as a children's change maker since 2003...I have always struggled to face up to the reality that children as young as age 10 choose to take their own lives.
The aim of the conference was to secure pathways for minimising suicide & premature deaths and maximising hope and wellbeing. There were leading psychiatrists and researchers from around the world sharing their insights.
I should share...that I was once suicidal...in fact multiple times...nobody knew...I am lucky to be alive with the help of loved ones, doctors and medical interventions ❤️
I conquered my own depression and after being in hospital twice to heal from a “broken brain” nobody could see....
Pretending I was away on holiday...because I was too embarra
...The one thing that will ensure your success as a career Kids Life Coach
Today I had a great question from somebody that is in my Kids Life Coaching Facebook Support Network (click here to request to join)
This lovely lady is wanting to pursue her dream of leaving her current career and coaching children full-time. She says she is stuck in fear as she doesn't know if it will work.
Check out my video response to her with the one thing that you need to ensure your financial success as a Kids Life Coach.
I've done it, my global team of Kids Life Studio® Coaches are doing it and you can to!
CLICK TO FIND OUT THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO BE A FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL KIDS LIFE COACH
What choices will you make today that will impact positively on children as a Kids Life Coach?
One week ago I spoke my truth....in front of a room of prominent influencers. To say I was scared is an under statement. I felt so vulnerable but I did it because I spoke about something close to my heart.
My driver for all I do in life and my purpose.....supporting childrens well being through Kids Life Coaching.
We are all in a position to be role models to children. This doesn’t mean we need to be perfect but it does mean we need to each take responsibility for sharing love as an antidote for the problems we see in our world.
What choices will you make today that impact positively on our future generation? It starts with just one child....
Watch my speech in the Houses of Parliament in London, England on 4 June where I was hosted on International day of innocent child victims of aggression.
Do you believe in Kids Life Coaching as much as I do?
When I started my free Facebook support group for Kids life Coaching a year ago the aim was to raise the standards of Kids Life Coaching globally through connection and collaboration.
I have been coaching children with my own model for 16 years. I developed this based on my experiences as a teacher and school counsellor. I have trained people globally to use this proven model and programme in their local communities with great success.
(In fact this past week a group of my Kids Life Studio brand ambassadors and I were a voice for children in the Houses of Parliament in London. Click here to watch the video of my speech)
I needed to share today that in the past few years I have started noticing that various service providers were all of the sudden training people to coach children.
Naturally this excited me (at first) as we want to reach more children...but....
I started seeing a few glaring problems out there with these training providers.
1. Many of them have never coached ch
...Parents only care how much you empower their child to solve a problem through Kids Life Coaching
Parents only truly care how much you empower their children to solve a problem. FACT!
They don’t want you to fix or judge or advise or be “airy fairy” with hypothetical ways. They don’t want theory....they don’t want textbook recommendations....they want practical ways of working through life....
What counts is sharing constructive and proven methods that give children a toolkit for dealing with life’s ups and downs with ease! This is what my Kids Life Coaching model offers. A structured way for dealing with life by laying the foundation for positive mental well being and building resilience.
Labels don’t matter and understanding the perceived problem doesn’t matter...what matters is results!
You can only get results with a measurable system and a recipe that works each and every time with any child anywhere with any challenge...
If you can’t do that you will constantly be reinventing the wheel....you are not being effective as a coach. So many well meaning Kids Life Coaches
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