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What have Jamie Oliver’s Foundation, the Salvation Army and many other schools and communities across the country all invested in?
 The Essential Youth Coaching Skills Programme
A certificated training programme for as many of your pupils, teachers and parents that you can fit into your hall  
“If celebrities and senior executives invest readily in life coaching and personal development and its good enough for them, then why is it not available to young people?”
That was the question Harry Singha, Chairman and Co founder of the UK’s Youth Coaching Academy, asked himself after successfully becoming accredited as one of the UK’s first life and corporate coaches.
The answer was simple - lack of awareness and availability.
So it was decided by the founders of the Youth Coaching Academy that one way to address these two fundamental challenges was to train young people and those who work with/care for them in coaching skills with the added value of coaching specifically for young people.
Coaching Skills Programme for Schools
Are you a school…
  1. •Frustrated with the effectiveness of your peer mentoring programmes?
  2. •Whose peer mediator programme is losing momentum?
  3. •Whose Youth Council could be even more effective and win you ‘gold stars’ with Ofsted?
  4. •Concerned about not having an in house service to support those young people on the brink of exclusion?
Or
  1. •Do you not have a peer support group in your school yet and want one?
  2. •Are you a school that passionately believes in working with your pupils to overcome the challenges of your school?
Making them part of the solution rather than the problem
If you are a school that sees the above statement as more than some fancy outcome and want to take some measurable actions towards it, then this programme is for you.
The Essential Youth Coaching Skills ( EYCS © ) programme
A seven-module leadership and personal development programme for your pupils, teachers and parents! Created by the leaders and pioneers of  Youth Coaching.
What does the programme cover?
Session One
The principals of accelerated learning. How we learn. Dramatically improve your performance in any subject.
Session Two
State management. Learn what determines our behaviour and feelings and better still, have some simple yet effective strategies to manage this for yourself and support others to do likewise.
Session Three
Listening & Questioning. Covering how not to do it and some techniques to dramatically improve your levels of listening and questioning. Become aware of some powerful questioning techniques used by accredited life coaches to support clients to move towards their goals.
Session Four
Rapport. Learn the most advanced communication skills. Engage with those who are ‘hard to engage with’. Find out how to totally connect with others to enable them to understand you and (more importantly) you them.
Session Five
Beliefs, Values and Identity - Find out why people make the decisions they do and do what they do (including you). Learn why some things feel really difficult to do and others effortless. Learn the essentials of self-motivation and how to motivate others.
Session Six
Coaching – Learn what this really is and how does it differ from mentoring, counselling and teaching. Learn how to use a coaching model to support anyone to;
  1. 1.Identify a goal/outcome,
  2. 2.Become clear about where they are now in relation to that goal/outcome
  3. 3.Create a workable action plan to move towards the goal/outcome
Session Seven
Review and celebration - Putting it all together. An opportunity to practice the skills even further and instil a greater level of competence and confidence in supporting self and others to realise their aspirations and overcome challenges.
Then celebrate with the awards of certificates and sharing how individuals will use the learning to support themselves and their school/communities
How is the programme delivered?
As it is a modular programme it may be delivered in many permutations. The following are the most common:
                            Option 1
Two full days training within your school
or at an agreed venue.
                            Option 2
Four half-day (three hour) training days
scheduled at dates to suit you.
                            Option 3
Seven 1.5-hour workshops, after school,
delivered over a period to suit you.
Option 3 has demonstrated to be by far the most effective for the following reasons:
  1. •It is spread over a longer period therefore skills learnt may be applied and measured.
  2. •It is out of school hours and does not require pupils to miss any lessons
  3. •Requires parental consent and therefore the school gains critical parental support and awareness of their peer support programmes. This awareness is critical when asking parents to support future peer support programmes financially.
  4. •Enables a larger representation of the school community to attend.
Whichever option is chosen, the Academy’s assigned youth coach will address every pupil via, short five minute slots at assemblies. Ensuring they know what the programme is about and the benefits to them. This process attracts around 100 young people as opposed to only sending out a letter to the young people and getting them to take it home for consent.
Who are the Youth Coaching Academy?
The only not for profit coaching body focusing solely on the Youth Sector, created following the demand for coaches who wish to work effectively with youth.
The Youth Coaching Academy is now widely recognised as the leading authority on Youth Coaching. The Academy is the home of many leaders in the personal development field, youth work, and youth legislation from all over the world, who provide support and guidance on quality standards for youth coaches, commissioners of youth coaching, parents and young people.
The Academy has the largest pool of accredited youth coaches and the only pool of accredited youth peer coaches (young people aged 13-17).
With Harry Singha, the leading authority on Youth Coaching as our Chairman, Jamie Oliver as our patron and an enviable pool of supporters, the Academy continues to inspire more of the youth population to be the best they can be and to support their peers to shine too.
Here’s what others have said about the programme.
“We had over ninety pupils sign up for this programme and to see the pupils
engage week after week and apply the skills was amazing.”
Clarence Venson,
Learning Mentor, Eastlea Community School
“Thanks Harry, not sure what you did on the course, the guys have come back with so much enthusiasm
and are committed even more to supporting the other graduates, amazing!”
Tony Elvin,
 Training and development Manager,
Jamie Oliver’s 15 Foundation
“We embarked on an adventurous programme to empower our services users to be able to deliver personal development programmes to other service users. The first part of this was to have all of our staff trained with the essential coaching skills programme. I am pleased to say the feedback has been tremendous. Something that is effective, we can use with confidence and builds on our current strengths and values.”
Major Paul Kingscott,
Divisional Director, Salvation Army
“At first I was not sure what the course was about and from the first session I learnt so much that I could use in my life. So I attended every session. This course taught me skills to help me be how I want to be.
I still use these skills every day.”
Avneet Kaur,
Year 9 Pupil, Little Ilford School
Reminder of the benefits
  1. •As many pupils, teachers and parents that you can fit into your hall, gain the same essential skills that the UK’s top youth coaches are being trained in.
  2. •If you have a school council or peer support programme the young people and the co-ordinators will be empowered to become even more effective, immediately.
  3. •You will be able to see demonstrable results to gain recognition in this area from OFSTED
  4. •Pupils, teachers and parents will create an accelerated learning environment based on cutting edge techniques.
  5. •You will actively demonstrate to your whole school community your commitment to supporting your pupils to support each other. Reinforcing the belief that Youth Can make a positive difference to the challenges and aspirations of your school.
  6. •You will have a model of working with those young people at risk of exclusion before they/you hit crisis point
  7. •The opportunity to select a few pupils and members of staff to develop their skills to receive an accreditation with the Open College Network (OCN level 2/3) at a subsidised rate.
What is the investment?
£3,500
Special Offer for May 2007 !
The first ten schools to book for this school term (ending July 2007) will receive an amazing sponsorship of £1,000!
This sponsorship is from our amazing team of coaches who at a recent training the trainers event decided they wanted to contribute to one school each, this term.
So the whole programme irrespective of the mode of delivery, including:
  1. •Presentation at year assemblies
  2. •Essential Youth Coaching Skills (EYCS) course
  3. •All course material
  4. •Facilitators
  5. •Support coaches for exercises
  6. •Certificates for all those who successfully complete five or more modules
  7. •Feedback and monitoring sheets.
For only £2,500
All your school will be required to do is:
  1. •Provide a suitable room
  2. •A digital projector and screen
  3. •Sound system (if available)
  4. •Flip Charts with pens
  5. •Ensure parental consent has been gained for all participants on the course
  6. •Keep a register
  7. •Assign a member of staff to review the effectiveness and impact of the programme via the feedback and monitoring sheets.
Everything else will be taken care of by the Academy team. This programme requires minimal staff time.
What to do next
You have the following options to ensure you capture one of the ten sponsored spots before the end of May 2007
Complete the simple on-line booking form

 


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Name of School

 

Or
Call the Academy on 0870 262 648 stating you wish to take up the EYCS for Schools offer.
Or
Email the Academy on office@youthcoachingacademy.com Requesting a call from the central team to take your booking. Please ensure you leave a name, number and suitable times to call.
Remember
  1. •The sponsorship offer is for the first ten schools, who book before May 30th 2007.
  3. •Any applications after this date may not be delivered this term and will be at the full price of £3,500
Plus Additional Bonuses !!!
        
All ten sponsored schools will:
  1. •Have at least one session of the programme delivered by either one of our co-founders, Harry and Bob Singha
  3. •Two young people from your school will receive a package of six coaching sessions each from one of the Academy’s Coaches for Free!
  5. •One teacher will go into a competition to win a fully sponsored place on the Youth Coaching Academy’s level 3 accredited Youth Coaching Course in July 2007, worth £3,500!
Give your school community the gift of the Essential Youth Coaching Skills Programme
and take advantage of these amazing offers
Thank You

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