Youth Coaching
Possibilities offers 1:1 and small group coaching for children and teenagers. Following the pandemic many children and teenagers are facing different challenges to previous generations.
Processing their experiences, relationships, emotions and thoughts can be difficult on their own.
Coaching offers a time and space to be listened to, to question, to reflect and to learn more about themselves and the world around them.
I am fully insured, hold an Enhanced DBS and abide by the EMCC Code of Ethics.
The evidence suggests that lockdown has caused a wellbeing crisis in young people. The associated long-term mental, social, educational, personal and societal costs are as yet unknown.
Owens M, Townsend E, Hall E, Bhatia T, Fitzgibbon R, Miller-Lakin F. Mental Health and Wellbeing in Young People in the UK during Lockdown (COVID-19). Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 20;19(3):1132.
32 per cent of British teenagers surveyed said they had trouble with sleep most or nearly all the days of the previous fortnight.
Nationally representative data based on a survey of 2,395 British teenagers aged 13 - 19
Mental Health Foundation.org.uk JANUARY 2021
27 per cent of British teenagers surveyed said they felt ‘nervous, anxious or on edge’ most or nearly all the days of the previous fortnight.
Nationally representative data based on a survey of 2,395 British teenagers aged 13 - 19
Mental Health Foundation.org.uk JANUARY 2021
39.2% of 6 to 16 year olds had experienced deterioration in mental health since 2017and 21.8% experienced improvement.
NHS Data February /March 2021
Benefits
Each group coaching programme is offered for both Tweens and Teenagers. The group coaching process offers Tweens and Teenagers time to explore their thoughts and feelings in a safe space. The programs look to offer an experience that permits a greater understanding of who they are, a focus on their strengths, talents and self belief, skills to develop their self reflection.
Time and space to process and share thoughts & experiences
Greater self awareness & self compassion
Increase in positive emotions
Insight into unique strengths
Development of self knowing, self belief & self efficacy
Increased understanding of thoughts, feelings & behaviours
Support via peers in group coaching
Acknowledgment of the past with a focus on the present & future
Tween & Teen Coaching
Group and 1:1
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Anxious me and me
A 6 week creative educational coaching programme using drawing, doodling and collage to develop self reflective practice through positive psychology interventions. Looking to develop clarity, challenge thinking and reframe relationships to their anxious self.
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Metaphors and Me
Week 3: Strengths
Week 4: Connections
Week 5: Thoughts
Week 6: Self compassion
Confidently Me
A 7 week program offering time to develop self confidence, self acceptance and to recognize and acknowledge strengths and
values, to explore resilience, consider wellbeing and develop self reflective practice.
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Strengths
Week 3: Meaning
Week 4: Happiness
Week 5: Resilience
Week 6: Best self
Week 7: Fundamentals
Dyslexia and Me
A 6 week creative group coaching program allowing time to develop their understanding and positive relationship to their dyslexic thinking, drawing on positive psychology literature.
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Appreciation
Week 3: Strengths
Week 4: Emotions and actions
Week 5: Imagery and me
Week 6: Self compassion