Coaching Youth Toward Greater Self-efficacy

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Communications

Social-emotional skills are vital for positive youth development and well-being because they are essential for connecting with others.
Use life-coaching as a means of higher engagement with youth and as a tool to activate and develop their critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
You will explore the science of questions as a framework for engaging young people. This training focuses on the practice and process of using a coaching methodology to effectively cultivate critical thinking and problem solving.

Your Learning Objectives

Understand the contributing factors that lead to higher youth engagement
Explore effective ways to navigate interpersonal interactions and better respond to perceptions and needs of young people
Learn about coaching methodology and gain tools to develop skill in guiding and influencing through questions
Learn how coaching youth toward greater self-efficacy directly impacts their social-emotional development

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Jack Witt specializes in social-emotional development and lives by a personal mission to help people live better together. He consults and trains in both non-profit and private sector corporations on Social-Emotional Wellness, Coaching & Mentoring for adults and youth, Conflict Resolution, and Interpersonal Workplace Relationships. Through his role in a foster care and clinical counseling agency, Jack created and directs social-emotional intervention programs for at-risk youth. Elevate Youth Solutions programs are impacting the lives of thousands of children in elementary, middle, and high school throughout California. He has a master’s degree in strategic leadership and is an International Coaching Federation and Institute of Social-Emotional Intelligence certified practitioner and coach. Jack is also the author of Trash Talk – How to Upgrade your Self-Awareness and Unclutter your Relationships.