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Youth Coaching

Isla Baliszewska

Coaches can play a vital role in a child's long term attitudes and behaviours. The average child today has to deal with a good many stresses and challenges connected with their school and personal lives, peer pressure and other's expectations of them. Having support from someone objective unconnected with them through school or family ties, helps them to explore their strengths and abilities in a non-critical and non-judgmental way. Children can begin to understand their own motivations and behaviours, which helps to improve their performance and their relationships with parents, teachers and peers.

Isla offers one-to-one sessions with children and young people aged 11-19. She works with Cirencester College Career Academy as a mentor for 16-19 year old students and holds workshops and talks for groups through schools including:

~ Being at a New School - A one hour talk looking at issues about being in a new, sometimes scary and usually bigger, school environment using games and interactive exercises.

~ Who Am I? - Year 8-9 and 10-11 A one hour session examining social skills and personal emotions within the school environment, encouraging the development of good social interaction and high self-esteem.

~ Why Should I bother? - Year 8-9 and 10-11 A one hour session to nurture the development of personal aspiration, self-motivation and self-managed achievements.

~ What Am I going to do with the rest of my life? - Year 10-11 A workshop to help GCSE level students make informed and considered choices which they can be committed to and which they will enjoy, about their future at school and beyond.

~ Workplace Skills - Years 12-13 A life skills workshop to give students an understanding of the skills required in the workplace, and to help them in the search for the right job or career.