What is Children’s Coaching?

Did you know that our brains are wired to respond to a story differently than to hearing an instruction or a fact? Listening to a story engages various parts of the brain, including thinking, communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking, which is crucial for developing children's emotional intelligence. Through storytelling, without nagging, lecturing, or preaching, you can effectively plant ideas, explore tricky topics, and change perceptions. This approach aligns perfectly with transformational coaching principles, making reading a Wise For My Size storybook an impactful experience.

In Step two, we reflect on how the story influences our thoughts, feelings, and memories. This process is essential for enhancing children's emotional intelligence and serves as a powerful way to deepen the teachings that transformational coaching, like that found in Wise For My Size, can offer.

As we engage in transformational coaching for children, our approach must include elements of teaching to introduce new concepts, such as the comfort zone and self-talk, which are essential for developing children's emotional intelligence. 

In Step three, we explore new ideas and concepts and cultivate empathy by considering different perspectives of the story from each character's point of view, helping them become more Wise For My Size.

In Step four, by taking all this new learning and trying out new ideas, strategies, tools, and beliefs related to children's emotional intelligence through transformational coaching, we aim to discover what works best for everyone, including the concepts behind Wise For My Size.

If you want to develop new patterns of behaviour or new ways of thinking, especially in the context of children's emotional intelligence, it is essential to plan and prepare for when you will use them. In step five, we Prepare, focuses on getting ready for the next tricky time or opportunity, a key aspect of transformational coaching.

Practice makes progress! We are over perfection - it's all about progress! It is those little changes that make the most significant ripples in life, much like the lessons taught in Wise For My Size.

The final step teaches us that we must keep practicing our new tools, learning, and strategies until they become familiar and easy. This is essential not only for our own growth but also for enhancing children's emotional intelligence. Through transformational coaching, we can ensure that these skills become second nature. Then you are Wise For My Size!