Youth Coaching: Empowering Young People from Primary School to Further Education

Youth coaching provides a confidential and supportive environment for young individuals to openly express themselves, reflect, and build essential life skills. This process fosters confidence and resilience, enabling them to navigate challenges at home, in school, with friends, or in further education. Unlike subject tutors who focus on academic knowledge, coaches help students cultivate self-belief, overcome limiting beliefs, and set aspirational goals. This approach not only enhances mental health and well-being but also reduces the likelihood of anxiety and depression. Given that one in eight young people aged 5-19 are diagnosed with a mental health disorder, coaching aims to transform these statistics by helping all young people flourish and achieve their potential.​

Benefits of Youth Coaching:

• Reducing Worries and Anxiety: Coaching helps young people develop resilience to effectively handle life's challenges.

• Overcoming Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt: Through coaching, individuals can address negative self-perceptions and remove barriers to success. ​

• Increasing Motivation and Confidence: Coaching fosters optimism and ambition, contributing to academic success.

• Clarifying Career Pathways: Coaching assists young people in deciding their next steps, whether transitioning from school to further education or entering the workforce.

• Enhancing Mental Health and Well-being: By building confidence and self-efficacy, coaching supports individuals in reaching their potential. ​

• Improving Relationships: Coaching aids in developing better relationships with family, friends, and peers. ​

By integrating coaching into educational settings, young people are equipped with the tools to manage their mental health, build resilience, and achieve personal and academic success.

The Full Colour Coaching Programme includes:

1. Flourish - Helping young people flourish is my ultimate aim, so they can become the best version of themselves and reduce the mental health statistics.
2. Understand - how to build resilience, mental toughness and grit to persevere towards your goals.
3. Learn - about emotional intelligence (increase our self-awareness, self-regulation, social skills and empathy) and how to enhance our positive emotions. Research identified E.I is a bigger predictor of academic achievement and life satisfaction than I.Q!
4. Learn - about how having a positive lifestyle, keeping active, sleep and nutrition can help us achieve our goals and how the use of mindfulness is key!
5. Create - inspiring goals for ourselves that motivate us. When we set goals and break down the steps to achieve them, research says we have a much higher chance of achieving our goals and potential.
6. Optimism - and having a growth mindset can be learned! I'll help you how to change your mindset, build optimism and believe in yourself!
7. Learn - about our character strengths and how these can help support us towards our goals and increase our wellbeing.
8. Overcome - limiting beliefs that are holding you back. 'I'm no good at maths', 'I'll never pass my exams', 'I'm useless, nobody wants to be my friend'. These are limiting beliefs that are holding us back and causing us to feel unhappy, anxious and scared. we can change these disempowering beliefs to empowering beliefs to create happy, confident and motivated young people!
9. Uncover - our values, vision and beliefs and identify meaning and purpose in our lives by giving back. when our goals align with our values and have meaning, we have a higher chance of success.
10. Relationships - are key to our wellbeing and success - other people matter! Enhance the positive relationships you have and connect with family and friends.