What is Teen Life Coaching?

Teen coaching is about helping teenagers with academics, college, self-esteem, self-awareness, and so much more! It’s basically all about coaching them in life! Today we are peeling back the layers of what we do every day and explaining all things teenage life coaching to you. Listening in, you’ll hear what teen life coaching actually is, why we got into it and why Cathy started Village Coaches, how we approach our work, the importance of trust, rapport, and respect, and much more! We then discuss the most common topics we discuss in coaching sessions before we talk about why coaching isn’t right for every kid and what we do not do in sessions. We even delve into some examples of how we build relationships with our clients. Finally, we share how vulnerable we get with teens in our coaching sessions and how that builds rapport. To hear all this and so much more, press play now!

Key Points From This Episode:

• [0:01:10] What teen life coaching actually is. 
• [0:03:05] Why we started coaching teenagers. 
• [0:09:12] How we approach our work and the importance of building a relationship with the teenagers we coach. 
• [0:17:36] The most common teen life coaching topics we delve into and how we know what to focus on. 
• [0:32:38] Why coaching is not right for every kid, who is and isn’t a good fit, and what we avoid doing in sessions. 
• [0:47:55] How vulnerable we get with our kids in sessions.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Village Coaches

Sh*t Your Teenagers Won’t Tell You

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