When I started coaching children in 2003, I didn’t realise just how important it was to keep track with published well documented and evidence based research to validate my approach. 

Only in 2009 I started actually formalising the evidence of my success with the children I coached through our online lifestyle assessment. 

But...

Our website was hacked and I lost all the data!!

So I started from scratch and in 2012 I (finally) presented two research papers.

One in Barcelona at an Education conference and one at Oxford University at a Global Childhood Conference. 

It was then that I realised just how well received Kids Life Coaching was. I saw the HUGE potential for change to a “system” that doesn’t always cater for children’s needs adequately.

The Psychologists, Doctors and Psychiatrists who attended my  presentations gave me consistent feedback as to how “needed” and necessary this “new” approach was. Despite the fact that I had been coaching for 9 years by then and my approach...

Later today I am doing a group coaching call for our students and Kids Life Studio coaches in what we call our Thinking Thursday!!

We get together every week for an hour to do some mindset work and then there is an opportunity to ask questions about clients or business or parenting etc etc.

The great thing is that when our students enrol in our Level 2 Kids Life Coach Training, they don’t need to struggle figuring things out on their own! They have the opportunity to engage and connect with like minded professionals and share best practices.

When our students reach Level 3 training and become Kids Life Studio brand ambassadors, we further extend this by inviting them to Mastermind Monday’s. Each coach has a turn to host a meeting and set their own agenda.

We also have a private Facebook group where questions can be posted through the week 24/7 and coaches support each other.

Then on the first Monday of every month we have a Mastery Training session for brand ambassadors that targe...

So many amazing students go through our training programmes and some excel and others don't! We have found and identified through experience that there are three types of Kids Life Coaches:

1. The independent coach who is a "gatherer" and a "taker":

This is the type of Kids Life Coach who wants to learn so they do as many trainings, courses and certifications as they possibly can. Their aim is to "take" what they can and to then launch their own brand...They usually do this by modifying and passing off other peoples intellectual property as their own...Don't worry...we have had very few of these come through our training....but yes...this is not the kind of coach we want as part of our network. We soon realise that they don't like working as part of a team and they certainly don't like giving anybody else credit for their "achievements." Their ego is big and they usually schmooze their way into our network to see how much intel they can gather to launch their own "idea". They want to...

As an ex South African, I started my first Kids Life Coaching practice there in 2003. I was a teacher at the time and developed my coaching programme as part of my University Honours Degree. My assignment was to write a parent programme but in the end I realised through my research that I preferred a "family resilience" approach. Needless to say my angle was completely different to what my lecturers were expecting! I turned their theory of parent coaching on its head and I was encouraged to pilot my "family approach" to see if it worked in practice. 

So, I decided to work on the weekends launching my “assignment” (I got 100% for that assignment by the way) by running my Family Resilience Coaching programme as a pilot with 15 families. I got local family volunteers with children in three age groups between age 5 and age 13.  I initially saw two groups every Saturday for 4 x 3 hour sessions. In week 1 and week 4, the parents attended with their children and in week 2 & 3, children atten...