YOUTH COACHING COURSE

The Academy’s pioneering Youth Coaching Course (YCC), still the world’s only level 3 externally accredited coaching course, which qualifies successful candidates as adult life coaches and youth coaches.

Have the confidence and competence to

 inspire young people to shine

Consolidate all your life experience and training with the guidance of the market leaders and gain the highest level, external accreditation for coaching in the UK

Support young people to transform their lives from:

There are so many people who work with and or care for young people who are so frustrated with their efforts to make any positive difference in the lives of the young people they genuinely care for (dare we say love)

Imagine being able to access and use tools that the most effective coaches who work with celebrities and large corporate organisations are using and being paid handsomely for because they work.

Imagine being able to utilise these to support your young people to reconnect/ create and realise their aspirations

This course was created following the murder of a 15 year old boy in East London in 2001. The whole of the year 11 group pioneered a personal and community development process to support each other during such a challenging period, led by Harry Singha, Chairman and Co founder of the Academy

One young boy of 16 asked Harry how he could become a coach.

This inspired Harry to create a course which, would cover everything that other life coaching courses had and add to it the essentials for coaching young people under 18

Harry along with Bob Singha (Vice Chair and co-founder) dedicated the next three months to create that course. The Youth Coaching Course (YCC) was born, it was awarded a level 3 accreditation by the Open College Network (OCN), the highest level for any coaching course!

There have been a few versions since then as we continue to add value both in the content and delivery. The latest versions have had many additional bonuses including business development tools to compliment any coach’s skills set! 

The course delivery is designed to accommodate both face to face immersion learning with self study and mentored practical assessments over a period of between 6-12 months study programme

Training – This will usually take place over a 5 days residential. These comprehensive and interactive days will immerse you with the essential skills of Life and Youth Coaching. At the training you will be introduced to your assigned mentor coach who will support you throughout the course. S/he will be by an accredited Youth Coach and or Experienced Accredited Life Coach and graduate of the course. You will agree with your mentor a study plan outlining intended completion dates for each stage of the process

Practical Sessions – Following the training you will be coaching one fellow student for six sessions (telephone/face to face), of which three sessions will be mentored.

In addition you will coach one young person (who will be allocated to you) for six

sessions, of which six sessions will be mentored. On completion of these initial contracts

You will then coach one further young person for six sessions, which will be observed/listened to by your Mentor Coach for the first, third and sixth sessions.

Post-Modular Assignments – For each module there is an assignment which needs to be completed. This can be presented either in a written essay of approximately 1000 words or in a recorded 20-30 minute audio/video presentation. You will need to submit these for assessment as evidence of study. At least 25% of evidence submitted needs to be written.

Reflective Essay – You are required to submit a 3,000-word essay as evidence of your learning throughout the course.

Reflective Journal – Your journal will be a weekly (or more) record of your personal progress throughout the course. This will not be required to be submitted as evidence. Your Mentor Coach may recommend shared learning to enter in your journal. it is recommended that you continue to keep a journal beyond this course for CPD purposes.

Viva – At the final stage you will be given a questionnaire to complete before having a telephone interview with the Course Tutor/Director to ensure all criteria have been met. Following this your portfolio is then submitted for internal and external moderation.

What is Youth Coaching

Simply put it is the medium for facilitating the expression of young people’s potential via the use of cutting edge and ancient wisdom personal development tools. Youth Coaching is now becoming recognised as one of the most effective ways to support young people. Coaching increases self-awareness, improves relationships, boosts emotional intelligence and encourages individuals to find their own solutions. The DFES and the National College for School Leadership are producing literature on the evidence of coaching in youth establishments. The governments transforming youth work agenda clearly states the requirement for youth services to carry accreditation and hence anyone considering coaching young people within educational or youth establishments may not get a look in without it.

Who are the Youth Coaching Academy?

The Academy are the pioneers of Youth Coaching and have the only pool of accredited youth and youth peer coaches. As a not for profit company focusing solely on the youth sector and those who work with and care for them the Academy is able to leverage partnerships with all key players in the coaching arena. With a robust ethics committee and an advisory board headed by our Patron Jamie Oliver the Academy represents the standard it endorses of Performance and Protection. The Academy led by Harry Singha is at the forefront of creating community coaching programmes where Youth/Youth Peer Coaches provide sustainable youth coaching services for their communities. This includes schools, Jamie Oliver’s 15 foundation, housing estates and mentoring projects..

Here’s what others are saying about Harry and the Academy

Who will be on the course and why should you?

The course is designed for anyone who has a passion for supporting young people and will have a diversity of participants. Previous courses have included people with little experience of working with young people from fitness trainers, builders, retail mangers, media producers and dancers to name a few. The majority of participants will be from the following disciplines:

·    Connexions personal advisors 

·    Youth workers,

·    Careers advisors,

·    Student support workers,

·    Youth Offending Team workers

·    Youth counsellors

·    Youth drugs workers

·    Outreach/community workers

·    Youth mediators

·    Learning mentors

·    Life Coaches wishing to add youth coaching to their portfolio

If you are serious about delivering formal coaching within your work setting and or setting up your own youth coaching practice then the Youth Coaching Course is the perfect route for you. With the added value of an external accreditation with the Open College Network you will be ahead of your competitors as the governments transforming youth work agenda clearly stipulates the need for accreditation. Those without it may not even get a look in especially if offering your services to an educational or youth environment.

What does the course cover?

The course will cover:

·    Definitions of Coaching

·    Emotional Intelligence

·    State Management

·    Rapport

·    Effective Listening

·    Powerful Questioning Techniques

·    Youth Legislation & Rights

·    Coaching Models

·    Education and Career Coaching

·    Relationship Coaching

·    Leadership Coaching

·    Pro-Social Behaviour Coaching

·    Ethics, Supervision and CPD

·    Informal and Formal Coaching

·    Confidentiality and Competency to Consent

·    Child Protection

·    How to conduct an initial session and what to cover

·    Closing Sessions

·    What to record and how

·    How to operate a school coaching system

·    Complete pack of all forms required for an ethical, effective and professional youth coaching practice

What is the training like?

The training is interactive, using digital audio/ visual media and has an emphasis on learners having opportunities to apply the skills learnt as opposed to theoretical based. Delivered using the most effective accelerated learning techniques, the training is designed to ensure the needs of all learning styles are catered for.

Led by Harry Singha the training is delivered by a team of dynamic trainers, who are experienced and accredited youth coaches supported by audio-visual technicians

The training is held in various locations across the UK and in the main is held in a youth camp type environment. You will have your own room and all meals, learning material and activities (oh yes some surprises) will be provided.

All non-residential training is primarily held at the Academy’s head office in Docklands, East London.

Benefits

Here’s what you get in addition to all the benefits outlined above

·     Five days residential training led by Harry Singha

·     Assigned mentor coach for the whole period of study 6-12 months, who will listen in on your calls provide feedback and act as a witness for evidence for accreditation

·     Welcome pack outlining all the process of the course, outcomes and expectations

·     Individual study plan

·     Work Book

·     Self Study Manual

·     Individual Conference call facility enabling you to have one number which you, your client and mentor call in (less than 3p per minute during the day) and all sessions are recorded digitally so can be submitted as evidence for accreditation.

·     Monthly teleconference where you may connect with other coaches and youth peer coaches

·     Course Coordinator to ensure you have clients allocated to you and to support any challenges you and your mentor may not resolve.

·     Opportunity to become a coach at the Academy’s flagship seminar Forever Young

·     Level 3 accreditation with OCN

·     Accreditation from the Academy as a Youth Coach

·     Everything you need to run your very own youth coaching practice. The confidence, competence and the systems

Dates for 2008

!!! NEWS FLASH !!!

Only one scheduled YCC for 2008 !!

July 14^th – 18^th 2008,

London, UK

Due to the demands on the schedules of our founders Harry and Bob Singha, who will be focusing on contributing the one day coaching skills programme to wider communities around the world, this will be the only YCC in 2008, where they will be facilitating and once again will be capped to a maximum of 15 delegates.

With this in mind the course will be specifically for those individuals who are convinced that youth coaching is a core part of their identity and are committed to developing young people’s personal development programmes within their communities.

This course will have all the benefits of the YCC programme {as above} plus many additional benefits including a copy of the full home study programme (worth £1,497)

The course fee for this very special YCC is £4,997 and course delegates will receive the following:

• Live training from both the founders of the Youth Coaching Academy for the whole week.
• The YCC Home Study programme (£1,497) will be sent to you to study before the course, so the week will be totally action packed with doing and evolve based on the individual and collective needs of the group. If you have already purchased the Academy’s YCC HS, even better, you will receive a £1,000 discount off the course!
• All additional course material
• Bonus sessions on how to develop your business and youth personal development programmes in your own defined community (whether it be town, city, state, region or country). One lucky delegate will win one years personal mentoring with Harry Singha, to become the leading provider for personal development for young people in their community. A prize worth £20,000 and the winner will be chosen by the course delegates
• An accredited/trained Youth Coach will be allocated as your learning mentor for the duration of your accreditation. This individual will be responsible for supporting you to create and adhere to a study plan for your accreditation and will witness some your practical sessions giving you valuable coaching and feedback as well as submit evidence for your portfolio. 
• You will be part of a peer group of international youth coaching leaders. Also present will be school teachers who are delegates as part of their schools coaching programme.
• You will also receive your very own personal telephone conference call and recording service, absolutely free for 1 year. To record evidence of coaching sessions and to use for your own purposes.
• The opportunity to attend the Academy’s Train The Trainer (T3) events for only £500 (half price) where delegates will be trained to deliver the Essential Youth Coaching Skills programme and be paid £500 every time you deliver it.
• Invitation to be a coach at the Academy’s flagship personal development seminar Forever Young
• Plus many other surprise bonus’ that come only when you are on an Academy residential programme!

The Academy has decided that the best way to ensure the right people are on the course is to implement an expression of interest process until 28^th March 2008 and then in April 2008 inform all applicants of the selection.

All applicants are asked to complete the following expression of interest form, on receipt of this you will be requested to pay a deposit of £500 {which will be fully refundable if not selected for this year’s course, before April 15^th 2008}

Please those who register their applications earlier will have a higher probability of selection.

For those who are not selected and interested we will add their names onto a waiting list, should any of the selected individuals not satisfy subsequent requirements.

For all those selected the following process will apply:

• In April 2008 you will be notified that your application has been accepted!
• You will be sent the YCC Home Study programme (£1,497) and expected to familiarise yourself with all modules over the next three months
• You will be guided on how to obtain an enhanced criminal records bureau (police check) appropriate for your country /community and for the purpose of the Academy’s accreditation. If you already have a satisfactory check you will be invited to send a copy in.
• You will be sent the following forms to complete and return with your full settlement of course fees, £5,000 {£4,000 if you have already purchased the YCC Home Study Programme}:
  • Final application
  • Delegate form
• You will be required to identify and liaise with a local school/youth establishment from your community, which you will commit to providing your youth coaching service, pro-bono (complimentary) for the period of your accreditation (6-12 months)

Delegates will arrive on the evening of Sunday 13^th July and the course commences on Monday morning. The YCC finishes at lunch time on Friday the 18^th where delegates will have lunch with the young people (12 – 17 olds) who will be attending the Youth Peer Coaching Course (YPCC), which commences straight after lunch!

A maximum of five delegates will be given the opportunity to stay on and experience the Youth Peer Coaching Course where they will:

• Experience the course again (accelerated as it is over 3 days)
• Witness the transformation and evidence that young people can be very effective coaches
• Connect further with the young people they may be coaching for their accreditation!

Details of this opportunity will be forwarded to successful applicants in April 2008.

	Your Name: Your E-Mail:

Connect with the Academy office on

0870 262 6448

office@youthcoachingacademy.com

Yes there is a guarantee

If you feel by day four (Thursday) the course is not everything it has claimed to be then we will ask you to return all materials and gladly reimburse you 90% of the course fee (10% retained to residential and venue costs)  

Also take advantage of our one day Free training simply by downloading your free coaching skills report and choosing from a location near you!