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Our Youth Coach Training course provides you with the skills, knowledge and practice to coach the young people you work with and support them to improve their wellbeing.
The Spring course starting on the 22nd of April 2024 is OPEN for Enrolment. Apply now!
For 12 years we have been coaching 1000s of young people. Through becoming more resilient and building strategies for wellbeing we have helped them to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression levels.
We know if we train practitioners in our approach to coaching MANY more young people will be supported and mental health problems will be prevented. That’s why we want you to become an accredited Worth-it Trained Coach and enable the young people you work with to benefit from positive psychology coaching.
Our online accredited Worth-it Coach Training course supports to you learn to use our evidence-based approach to positive psychology coaching.
The course is split into two parts, Training Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 is recommended for groups and teams of staff who want to learn to coach young people in a current role such as student support, in teaching or youth work. Part 2, builds on Part 1 and provides the opportunity to become Accredited Coach with the Association for Coaching.
Together Part 1 and 2 of coach training programme provide up to 56 hours of blended learning. Delivered through our online learning platform, live online skills practice workshops, recommended reading, reflective logs and practical tasks.
Through peer-to-peer learning groups with other Trainee Coaches, you will be able to share and reflect on your coaching practice building up your skills and confidence to successfully coaching young people.
Live training sessions are conducted through a series of half day online workshops. These will comprise of 4 mandatory and two optional additional sessions for participants completing the Training Part 2.
The course should take approximately 6-12 months to complete depending on your rate of progress.
You will gain access to and learn how to use our bank of downloadable coaching tools and resources to use with young people. These include cards, pdf worksheets and activities.
You will be supported to complete up to 20 hours of coaching practice with young people.
Apply now to start benefiting from the skills and knowledge gained on this course. Enabling you to quickly support young people through coaching.
You are worried about the mental health and wellbeing of young people you work with.
You are concerned that the young people you support are facing many challenging situations and they don't have the skills to cope. You feel they are at risk of more severe mental health problems developing.
You have done a range of learning or training courses but are looking for a more in-depth training course to know the support you are providing is effective.
Young people in your school or setting are disengaged or lacking motivation.
You want to provide a safe and effective interventions to support them develop strategies for resilience.
You want to empower young people to take responsibility for their own success and achievement but are not sure how to do this.
The young people you support are experiencing poor mental wellbeing; they are worried, stressed and lack resilience.
Through coaching the young people you work with will become empowered and learn strategies that help them deal with and manage their situations.
Coaching can help develop resilience and improve strategies for positive mental health and wellbeing. This helps prevent the onset of long-lasting mental health problems.
Through build self-reliance and resilience in the young people you work with, will become more independent and confident to tackle challenges they face.
Coaching is a practical and proactive way to help young people deal with transitions. This includes the transition back to school following lockdown.
The process of coaching increases young people’s range of coping resources and self-help strategies.
Coaching cultivates motivation and supports young people to progress and move forward, increasing engagement and attainment.
The Accredited Coach Training Course is split into two main sections. Training Part 1 teaches you all the theories and skills you need to coach young people in your school or setting. Once completed Part 1 is built upon with Training Part 2. This covers the ethical guidelines, advanced practice, and further skills required to work as a coach either independently or use coaching in your work with young people. Ongoing support and a toolkit of resources are provided to increase your ability and confidence to work as a coach with young people.
Explore the underpinning skills and knowledge needed to effectively coach young people develop wellbeing and resilience.
Learn about effective coaching relationships, engagement, boundaries and responsibilities and the importance of safeguarding.
Develop solution focused strategies that empower young people, enabling them to take ownership and accountability for their actions and outcomes.
Practice and apply strengths based positive psychology approaches suitable for vulnerable young people.
Practice and experience the coaching approach in order to effectively use this approach when working with young people.
4 half day 4-hour practical workshops.
16 hours of online and blended learning and recommended reading.
4 hours peer learning group sessions.
10 hours of coaching practice and reflective logs.
Explore effective ethical practice for providing coaching to young people.
Understand the role and remit of a coach and explore how coaching can be provided in school, community or youth work settings.
Promote the benefit of coaching and opportunities to offer coaching to a wider range of young people.
Gain Knowledge of the importance of ongoing coaching skills development and supervision.
Gain further practical coaching tools and strategies to use with young people.
2 half day 4-hour practical workshops
10 hours of online and blended learning and recommended reading.
Bonus 'Running group coaching' workshop
10 hours of coaching practice and reflective logs.
You will gain access to our bank of coaching tools and resources for your own professional development and to use to complete your 20 hours of coaching practice with young people. These include:
Solution focused coaching worksheets
Strengths tools and activities
Goal setting and action planning
Tools for developing self-awareness and confidence
Tools to challenging and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour
Self-reflective coaching logs
Session planning tools
Coaching question sets
Cheat sheets and tips to increase your confidence when coaching
Practical tasks and challenges to develop your skills
Opportunities to gain and share your experience of coaching young people
Sessions that provide you with support and supervision
Feedback and advice to trouble shoot any problems you may encounter
Networks with other course participants that encourage professional development of your coaching skills
Motivation and encouragement to complete the required 20 hours of coaching practice with young people
Coach Training: Part 1
Coach Training: Part 2
Worth-it have been supporting the prevention of mental health problems in young people for over a decade. Over 5000 children and young people have participated in our coaching based programmes for early prevention.
We have worked with 100s of young people through direct coaching 1-2-1 interventions. We have trained over 3500 practitioners, including teachers, youth workers, support workers and NHS staff in our Positive Psychology Coaching approach. Worth-it believe (and our published research tells us) that the coaching relationship and process is a highly effective way for young people to learn skills and strategies that develop resilience and wellbeing.
We are now providing the opportunity for YOU to train become a Worth-it Trained Coach and either provide Coaching to young people you work with in your school or setting. Below you will find how our Coach Training Course meets our organisational values.
We believe in providing resources and training that creates a real and sustainable change. That is why we provide you with all the training and resources you need to coach young people yourself, meaning many more young people will benefit from our approach to coaching.
Our course has been developed by a team of Positive Psychologists and Qualified Coaches utilising up-to-date research and practice. The Worth-it Coach training course will cover all the necessary underpinning theory and research to support young people develop resilience and wellbeing through Positive Psychology Coaching. We have even published our own research in international psychology journals.
This programme has evolved from extensive partnership work with, schools, local authorities, early prevention and CAMHS teams with a range of NHS services and local authorities nationally who have accede our training over the last 10 years.
Most importantly our Coaching Tools and Resources have been developed with and for young people. Taking on their ideas and feedback only enables our coaching interventions to meet their needs.
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We deliver our coaching training in partnership with organisations.
We require a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 16 delegates to deliver our Coach Training Course with your team.
Below provides a breakdown of the two options for organisations.
Online Training Part 1 and 2
6 half day 4-hour practical coaching skills workshops
7 online learning modules
26 hours of online and blended learning and practical learning tasks
Toolkit of 30 coaching tools and downloadable resources
Bonus group coaching workshop
2 coaching development support sessions
20 hours of coaching practice evidenced by 5 reflective coaching logs
Attendance at the 6 live workshop sessions
Completion of all 7 online learning modules
Learning record of self-directed learning
Completed between 8 - 12 months
Training Part 1 and 2
6 half day 4-hour practical coaching skills workshops
7 online learning modules
26 hours of online and blended learning and practical learning tasks
Toolkit of 30 coaching tools and downloadable resources
Bonus group coaching workshop
2 coaching development support sessions
20 hours of coaching practice evidenced by 5 reflective coaching logs
Attendance at the 6 live workshop sessions
Completion of all 7 online learning modules
Learning record of self-directed learning
Completed between 8 - 12 months
4 half day 4-hour practical coaching skills workshops
5 online learning modules
16 hours of online and blended learning and practical learning tasks
Toolkit of 30 coaching tools and downloadable resources
10 hours of coaching practice evidenced by 3 reflective coaching logs
Attendance at the 4 live workshop sessions
Completion of all 5 online learning modules
Completed between 4 - 6 months
2 day Coaching Skills Training Course
Practical coaching skills to work with young people
Evidence based wellbeing and resilience coaching activities
Workbook of resources to use with young people
14 hours of training
*Accredited by the Association for Coaching, Award in Coach Training and Guild of Positive Psychology
CEO & Founder
Liz is the CEO, Founder and Creative Director at Worth-it and is a leading Positive Psychologist and Educator. She has been developing evidence-based, co-produced early prevention programmes for young people within schools, the NHS and local authorities for over 12 years.
Consultant
Jonny is an expert in coaching and training with young people. He has over nine years’ experience, working with over a thousand young people and youth workers to develop their confidence, communication, mental health and wellbeing. Many of whom were categorised as at risk, NEET, refugee, SEN and ESOL.
Area Lead Consultant, UK Midlands & North
Kim is a qualified Positive Psychology Practitioner, combining her knowledge of applied positive psychology in schools with 10 years’ experience teaching psychology, extensive experience of secondary school leadership and a great passion for developing school mental health and wellbeing.
We have created this Coach training course to support practitioners to learn how to coach young people. We realise that in some situations you may need to increase your organisational capacity to support young people through our direct coaching support.
In order to address this, we are able to provide one-to-one or small group coaching with young people from your school or organisation.
Our work and research has shown that skills for resilience and wellbeing skills are developed through the experience of the coaching relationship, through explicit learning with their coach and through practising the skills and strategies for wellbeing and resilience inside and outside the coaching sessions.
Our approaches allow young people to take responsibility and ownership for their thinking, feelings and behaviour. The wellbeing skills and resilience strategies the young people develop through positive psychology coaching combine these three broad interrelated categories.
Skills and strategies that develop positive relationships and the skills to make and maintain them. This can include communication skills, friendship and teamwork skills.
Strategies that develop self-knowledge, self-acceptance and positive self-image. These are combined with strategies that develop emotional literacy.
Skills that help young people develop a positive outlook, deal with challenges and take responsibility for their progress through goal setting, action planning and problem solving.
Coaching is evidenced to be the most effective way of providing support to develop resilience. Resilience is an important area of psychology research within the field of Positive Psychology. This training uses research and applied practice from both positive psychology and evidence-based coaching. These approaches have been adapted and made accessible for young people ages 13+. This integrated approach has been demonstrated to increase self-awareness, self-regulation, interpersonal skills, wellbeing and positive outcomes for vulnerable young people and provide a proactive approach to prevention.
Our Coach Training integrates strategies that include solution focused coaching, the development of helpful thinking skills, how to raise emotional and self-awareness, the development of positive interpersonal and communication skills, strengths-based approaches and goal striving behaviour.
Our CEO & Founder has conducted and published research to understand how Coaching can effectively support the prevention of mental health problems in young people. This research underpins this Coach Training Course.
Our Worth-it youth Coach Training is an Accredited Award in Coach Training (AACT) provided by the Association for Coaching (AC), you will gain student membership to the AC when you enrol on this course.
Our Coach Training course has been approved by the Guild of Positive Psychology. Once you have completed the course you can join the guild as a registered Positive Psychology Professional Member.
Empower young people to develop positive mental health and wellbeing.
Make a real difference in supporting young people.
Learn and develop new skills and competencies.
Practice and take part in will the course has to offer.
Provide clear boundaries and expectations about the role and remit of the coaching relationship.
Are looking for a quick fix.
Not willing to uphold the ethical guidelines of coaching.
Will be very directive and leading.
Have their own agenda that they are wanting young people to action for them.
Are not willing to put into practice the skills and suggested learning and development opportunities.
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We deliver our coaching training in partnership with organisations.
We require a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 16 delegates to deliver our Coach Training Course with your team.
Below provides a breakdown of the two options for organisations.
Online Training Part 1 and 2
6 half day 4-hour practical coaching skills workshops
7 online learning modules
26 hours of online and blended learning and practical learning tasks
Toolkit of 30 coaching tools and downloadable resources
Bonus group coaching workshop
2 coaching development support sessions
20 hours of coaching practice evidenced by 5 reflective coaching logs
Attendance at the 6 live workshop sessions
Completion of all 7 online learning modules
Learning record of self-directed learning
Completed between 8 - 12 months
Training Part 1 and 2
6 half day 4-hour practical coaching skills workshops
7 online learning modules
26 hours of online and blended learning and practical learning tasks
Toolkit of 30 coaching tools and downloadable resources
Bonus group coaching workshop
2 coaching development support sessions
20 hours of coaching practice evidenced by 5 reflective coaching logs
Attendance at the 6 live workshop sessions
Completion of all 7 online learning modules
Learning record of self-directed learning
Completed between 8 - 12 months
4 half day 4-hour practical coaching skills workshops
5 online learning modules
16 hours of online and blended learning and practical learning tasks
Toolkit of 30 coaching tools and downloadable resources
10 hours of coaching practice evidenced by 3 reflective coaching logs
Attendance at the 4 live workshop sessions
Completion of all 5 online learning modules
Completed between 4 - 6 months
2 day Coaching Skills Training Course
Practical coaching skills to work with young people
Evidence based wellbeing and resilience coaching activities
Workbook of resources to use with young people
14 hours of training
*Accredited by the Association for Coaching, Award in Coach Training and Guild of Positive Psychology
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