As little as the training courses for youth coaches are similar in terms of content, they also vary in length. Whether 9 days (IPC Academy), 14 days (Coaching Institut Living Sense) or 27 days (Bildungszentrum für Evolutionspädagogik), each course in child and youth coaching takes a different amount of time.

A youth coach can contribute to the following:

• Helping young people to overcome acute problems
• Bringing children into potential
• Utilize resources
• Release blockages
• Encourage fun in learning
• Strengthening motivation and resilience
• Increase self-esteem
• Fewer conflicts

Coaching young people"? is about the following:

• Careful clarification of individual needs
• Development and joint implementation of action strategies
• Imparting the necessary knowledge
• Tapping resources
• Expanding competencies

You should have the following personal qualities for a youth coaching course:

• Good access to young people
• be communicative
• be independent and proactive
• be able to work in a team and deal with conflict
• be flexible, resilient and assertive
• have organizational and administrative skills

Training to become a certified child and youth coach at the IPC Academy takes 9 months. In addition to the 13 days of face-to-face or distance learning, there are also four to eight hours of self-study per week. This is the IPC youth coach.

This child and youth coaching course is divided into three sections, which overlap with the attendance phases. In the first attendance phase, participants are introduced to coaching as a model for action. They learn more about the basics and the coaching process, coaching skills and the solution-oriented coaching approach. In the second attendance phase: Reasons for the effectiveness of coaching, the psychology of perception for coaching, communication models and the neuropsychological background are discussed. Current learning concepts from brain research and the systemic approach are dealt with in the third attendance phase with the topic "Consciously promoting developmental steps as a coach", as well as learning in the various roles.

In the training to become a learning consultant / evolutionary pedagogue, participants are trained in learning counseling, parent, child and youth coaching. Participants try to gain access to the unconscious areas of the human brain in which behavior and learning motivation arise in order to convey a different perspective. To this end, content from Evolutionary Pedagogy® is combined with its perception, behavior and communication of the respective brain development stages, from motor development with movement diagnostics and from neurology with brain networking.

The continuing education, further training as a youth coach or certified family & children coach CIS focuses on a wide range of topics, including: Relationship coaching (language of love); motivation; development in families / groups / systemics; crisis coaching; resilience; reconciliation with the inner child; inner bonding with the inner child; values and changes in the life cycle; crises and conflicts; learning coaching / exam coaching; educational coaching; puberty; worries in children; talent coaching, career choice, changes and developments in families. For comprehensive information on this continuing education, further training in child and youth coaching, please contact the Coaching Institute using our contact form.

The prices for coaching courses vary greatly. However, you can expect to pay around CHF 5,000 for training as a child and youth coach. Please contact the individual schools and training providers via our contact form to find out the exact and current prices of a youth coach training course.