Session 10 – Designing the Future
At this point in the Academic Life Coaching program it’s time to plan the future. The first step is to create an outline of what further steps your child can take, while incorporating all of the skills and tools of the Academic Life Coaching Program. The concept is to look at what further well-designed actions (aka well-formed outcomes) can aid in your child’s continual progress.
This concept is useful at this point because your student will generally have some outcomes they’ll want to achieve while issuing their community project. It’s useful specifically because it gives the idea that this is a cyclical process, and takes practice to integrate into your life.
How to best support your teenager in a Life Coaching Program
My simple recommendation is to become curious and ask yourself what’s working and what’s not. Use your child’s life coach and the life coaching process as the starting point to create the initial action, and ask your child’s coach what recommendations he or she has on what you can do to best support your child. It’s also helpful to ask you kid what you can do that would be helpful. And if you’re asking yourself is it better to be more involved and get the task completed or let your child will sink or swim, I tend to go to the more involved side.
From the Academic Life Coaching Workbook
Just like life, after celebration, comes the work of getting to the next level. Incorporating your recent successes – and imagining a new set of success in the coming year – create a vision for yourself a year from now. From that point in the future, look back on what you have accomplished. Capture that vision either in a sound recording or draw it out on paper. Then listen to your recording or post the paper in a place you’ll often see it. The more you tap into that vision and take action steps while looking at the system you need to use to get there, the more effective and fulfilled your life will become.
Here’s space for you to take notes on that vision:
To make the process even more tangible, let’s first break down the vision into three Well-Formed Outcomes then look at what systems you can create that will help you achieve that vision.
Well-Formed Outcome #1:
Structures/Systems You Can Add:
Well-Formed Outcome #2:
Structures/Systems You Can Add:
Well-Formed Outcome #3:
Structures/Systems You Can Add:
Useful Links
Introductory Interview
Introductory Interview •
Busting the 4 Myths of Working with a Life Coach •
How to get the most out of a Life Coaching Program •
Thinking Styles •
Core Motivation
Session 1
Science Of Learning •
Engaging Multiple Senses •
Wheel Of Life •
Well Designed Actions
Session 2
Design the Client-Coach-Parent Alliance •
Recipe for Academic Success • Motivation for the Sake of Self vs. Other • Systems and Organization •
Vision Recordings
Session 3
Motivation Styles • Conditional vs. Intrinsic Motivation • Motivation Away from Bad Stuff vs. Toward Good Stuff • Motivation for the Sake of Self vs. Other • Setting Reminders
Session 4
Assumption Chart • Busting Limiting Beliefs • Signature Perspectives • Core Motivation Check-Up
Session 5
Trademarked Values • Making Decisions • Future Pacing • Self Alignment
Session 6
Session 7
Powerful Relationships • Building Empathy
Session 8
Identify your Passions • Leadership Styles with Core Motivation
Session 9
Leadership Project • Mission Statements
Session 10
Resilience • Celebration • Designing the Future • Completion
