Coaching for Parents
Are your child's challenges impacting your life in the following ways?
When our child faces difficulties at school, with friends, or in any area of life, it deeply affects us as parents. Our main wish is to see them happy, connected, and successful so they can unlock their full potential and live a fulfilling life, making a meaningful contribution to the world.
Today's youth deal with numerous stressors and external influences, making it more and more difficult to guide them through the complexities of the modern world. As parents, we do our best to assist them by offering advice, sharing our experiences, providing information on different aspects of life, seeking support from friends and family, and giving suggestions to overcome their challenges. Although these efforts are helpful, they often lack a structured approach like coaching, with proven tools and methods that can effectively lead to the desired outcomes.
Life coaching employs techniques and strategies that empower your child to develop emotional intelligence, boost motivation, and cultivate a mindset to take proactive steps in any area of their life they wish to enhance. It equips them with a toolkit that will prove beneficial throughout their lifetime, aiding them as they inevitably face challenges in the journey of being human.
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.
Bessel van der Kolk
How Does Parent Coaching Work?
At the core of attuned parenting is knowing that every child wants to be seen, heard, validated, and loved unconditionally for who they truly are. The relationship between a parent and a child serves as a model for all other relationships in our lives. It's important to start building this understanding and connection with ourselves to better understand our children.
The parent coaching begins with understanding and connecting with our own inner child. This means recognizing the patterns from our own upbringing and how our caregivers influenced our growth. We start by nurturing and understanding the child within us. This self-awareness leads to a deeper connection with our children, no matter their age. Learning to coach ourselves, leads to a transformation that our child observes. We model for them what's possible and it opens up possibilities in their mind for their transformation.
Parent coaching is designed to go in conjunction with coaching for your child in order for you to be a better supporter of the changes your child will experience as a result of life coaching. You will learn in the process how to coach your child and become an attuned advocate for their authentic happiness.