I have been coaching children since 2003 and I have always felt confident in my results. There have been tines where I have really struggled to achieve breakthrough for various reasons....but I quickly realised it was virtually impossible for me to do damage as a Kids Life Coach! 

If you’ve been through my Kids Life Coach training, or if you’re going to go through my training you will quickly learn how strongly I feel about attaching “labels” to children!

I believe labels are useful when we need a diagnosis to get treatment.

I believe when we attach labels there is a risk of them sticking and becoming an excuse for bad behaviour.

I believe sometimes therapists use labels to pre-determine an outcome because that’s what the text book says.

I believe labels deny the fact that we are multi-dimensional humans.

I believe labels can prompt peole to lose hope.

So let’s look at your role....Can you do damage as a Kids Life Coach? 

Well....I am...

I have noticed a change in narrative in a few Kids Life Coaches/prospective students I come into contact with.

Since Covid lockdown and a shift in global energy, I have been hearing and seeing so much fear, negativity and apathy. Mostly related to money. 

It is to be expected with what our world is currently facing. There is lots of scaremongering and as a consequence lots of uncertainty as to what is truth and what isn’t.

To stay up to date and “protect” ourselves and make better choices, we have been forced to “consume” more media with the side effect and risk of being swept into the unfolding Covid drama....

It takes real discipline to stay on track!!

There are quite a few of our Kids Life Studio brand ambassadors who have flourished as coaches during this time! They have obtained more clients than before Covid, and their secret....

They DO NOT make excuses.

I never hear them saying anything negative! They maintain positivity and keep doing what...

I believe that one of my super powers as the founder of The Kids Life Studio is that I always swim in my own lane! So often I see professionals cross boundaries and step outside of their professional remit.

I love working alongside medical professionals who understand the value of collaboration and a multi-disciplinary approach.

I do what I do best.....equip and empower children with a tangible life skills toolkit and therapists do what they do best....support and enable children to move through trauma and mental health challenges.

It’s a win-win when professional collaboration happens!

However.  Not ALL medical professionals are open to working alongside a Kids Life Coach.

In my opinion this could be because of one of 3 things:

1. They are ignorant and uninformed.

2. They are insecure and fear being undermined.

3. They are fuelled by ego and don’t respect anybody they don’t consider their “equal”.

I am working towards making Kids Life Coaching...

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....

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...

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...