Coaching Youth

Let's get a bit of discussion going here. If youthworkers and teachers learned the art of coaching youth what would happen? What would it look like? What would be better that what exists today?

Mark Dowds

Comments

[brillant]

coaching is about space and choice, for me coaching allows young people the chance to set the agenda and then have someone walk through a series of processes that helps them clarify what it is that they wish to achieve. education still focuses on attainment which is narrow in its development of an individual. where is there scope for skills such as innovation and entrepenship to be developed. as a sports coach i found that you can have a team that sticks to a rigid game plan or you can give them a rough pattern of play and allow them the space and choice to be themselves. i think many young people are looking for permission to have space and choice in being who they were made to be