EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE and
LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM
for teenagers
I am in the business to teaching young people to have a happier, strong and centered, as well as a confident life experience.
Nobody gets a handbook on living life and being successful. We all get thrown in at the deep end and have to find our own way to stay afloat. We all operate from our own reference framework that has been influenced by our parents, siblings, economic status, environment, family and exposure to the media in various degrees. That is the personal framework that everybody operates from.
Just like a garden cannot produce healthy beautiful and perfect fruit and vegetables when it is not cared for and nurtured, our inner world cannot support us into developing into healthy well balanced and successful adults if our emotional world and thought patterns are not healthy and nurturing.
Without the necessary nurturing mentioned above, depending on DNA and genealogical factures in every person, it depends on the individual to find the resilience and intelligence and grow into a successful person. No child is born with the ability to change his circumstances, but in finding the right tools to use to nurture his/her own inner world, supports and assist the young person to sustain him/herself emotionally.
Statistics confirm that a very high percentage of young people suffer from some form of depression and anxiety. This means that in order to function in the school, sport and social playing field, the group above has to take some form of mind-altering medication. This together with the growing use of Ritalin and Concerta, creates a large group of people in the school and university systems, medicated to cope with the daily tasks they are assigned. On top of that, all young persons are exposed to social media, where blatant cyber-bullying taking place, constant comparison, and exposure to a seemingly perfect world that they are not part of.
Now, this is where I come in. I have raised a son that has recently turned 21. When he was small, I made a decision that I will change my parenting style to suit his personality. In the process, I made mistakes and learned from them. In the meantime, I qualified as a certified Master Life coach and this has helped me in raising my teenage son. I am proud to say that he has done things that the average and not so average teenager does these days, but he had the self-awareness to understand that he does not like to play on the danger side of the street. He understood that in order for him to feel grounded, happy, contented and free from anxiety, he has to apply the tools that I taught him to his life. He found his balance and he has been successful in all his endeavor’s so far.
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He has found his balance on every level of life. Physical, health, mental, academic, financial and spiritual. He has a higher emotional intelligence than most his peers and he is astounded when he discovered recently when working on a project during the holidays, that the majority of young adults in their late 20’s has no idea where they are going, they have no road map to get where they would like to be and they have no sense of financial responsibility.
The school system churns out learners that have only two choices, getting a job or going to tertiary education. It is not part of the school curriculum to equip learners with the tools to navigate through life during and after school.
I have used my experience with my children as well as my training and research to create a program to equip teenagers and young adults to grow their emotional intelligence, there understanding of their own emotions as well as those of others and how they can work with their own capacity to become stronger, more resilient and most important, happy in their day to day experience.
Happiness is an inside job.
My program helps young people to:
- Create their own happiness and not search for it externally
- Find their own strengths and build on it to create confidence
- Learn how their thoughts create their emotions and how to change their thought patterns
- If they have a specific talent, they learn how to manage their goal setting, and achieving, setting them up for success if they are really good at something, instead of burning out before the goal post.
- Have a healthy self-image and self-love that makes it easier to communicate with others and not constantly taking things personally
- Learning how to plan their days as well as living consciously to be free from anxiety.