Coaching Options

Workshop or one-on-one coaching

  • Combines teaching, coaching skills, action steps and reflection
  • Offers a series of exercises and practices
  • Provides a text book, workbook and practical information

Ono-on-one Coaching

  • For parents
  • Single mothers or fathers
  • Caregivers
  • Time frame for coaching is 10 weeks

NB: One-on-one coaching follows the workshop format and is tailored to the needs of the individual/s - hence the longer time frame

Workshop Outline

Week One

  • Introduction
  • How well do you know your teen/s?
  • The relationship
  • Command and control parenting
  • The seven deadly habits that destroy relationships
  • Respect
  • The seven connecting habits that strengthen relationships
  • Practical distinctions that can be used in parenting style immediately

Week Two

  • Review outcomes from previous weeks
  • How well do you know your teen/s?
  • Information component
  • Point of View listening - an extremely powerful approach to communication
  • Explore communication styles
  • Practical distinctions that can be used with teen immediately - be amazed by the results

Week Three

  • Review outcome from previous week
  • How well do you know your teen/s?
  • Information component
  • Learned helplessness
  • Responsibility
  • Accountability
  • Practical exercises - get into action and get your life back

Week Four

  • Review outcomes from previous week
  • How well do you know your teen/s?
  • Information component
  • Over-parenting versus under-parenting
  • Support versus rescue
  • Independence versus dependence
  • Practical exercises

Workshop Suggestions

  • Get a group of mothers together
  • Or a group of dads
  • A mixed group
  • Run at your workplace - "Parents At Work"
  • Organise through school or community organisation

´The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children´.
Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
´The guys who fear becoming fathers don´t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent´.
Frank Pitman, Man Enough.


´Don´t worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you´.
Robert Fulghum



´Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath´.
Arnold H. Glasow