Coaching course helps teens find their life path

Fashion, Health and Beauty by Denise McNamara

When career and life coach Joe Delaney set about developing a course aimed at teenagers from his base in Loughrea, he could never have predicted he would have had such a captive audience.

The coaching industry is the second fastest growing sector in the world, worth an estimated $15 billion last year – much of it centred in the US.

While it doesn’t claim to diagnose or treat any condition, coaching aims to guide you to find your own solutions. The idea is that the tutor or coach picks apart your thoughts of where you are in life and helps to identify your life goals, helping to point out ways to get you to where you want to be.

Joe developed a coaching programme which he called ‘5 Steps to Success’, giving people the tools to “cope, adapt, improve, maintain and enjoy”.

“The framework allows people to cope better with everything that they are experiencing and adapt a different mindset or relationship to those thoughts.  From there, they will learn what they need to improve and maintain – that will get them closer to enjoyment in their personal and professional lives jointly,” he explains.

“We developed the company – called Career & Life Pltanning (CALP) – using this framework and we work with clients globally from our office in Loughrea supporting them to manage change and improve performance in work and home.

“Once this framework was proven and working well for people within the labour force, we began receiving requests from clients who had teens asking if there was a programme for teens.”

He had taken out a licence for a teen coaching course but found the content was very American so he adapted his programme to create Success 4 Teens, which is aimed at 13-19-year-olds

As the father of four – two of them teenage daughters – he knows that the hardest thing is to grab their attention.

And right now there has never been a more apt time for teens to sit down and assess their lives, process their feelings and chart a path forward, given they are unable to go to school or college, meet their friends, play sport or engage in their favourite activities.

The course is held over zoom on their phones, laptop or tablet for two hours on four consecutive Saturdays.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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