The Federal Professional Examination in Company Mentoring is suitable for continuing education, further training in coaching for children. This is a federal certificate that is recognized and in demand in the professional world. This promotes professional and career opportunities.

The cost of child coach training varies depending on the provider and scope. However, you can expect to pay between CHF 4,000 and CHF 9,000. Ask the individual training providers about the costs and the services included.

Individual child coaching helps children and young people to solve their own problems in a sustainable and constructive way. It helps to train mental strengths and develop their own potential. It helps to combat school stress, conflicts with family or friends, anxiety, pressure to perform or self-esteem deficits.

Important topics in the training to become a coach for children are

• Learning and exam coaching
• Concentration training
• Stress, self-confidence, relaxation
• Metaphor and talent coaching

Depending on the provider, different admission requirements are set for continuing education, further training as a family and child coach. For example, basic training as an Integral Coach and basic knowledge of pedagogy and developmental psychology (which can also be learned independently) may be considered admission requirements. Please use our contact form to enquire directly with the individual training providers about the entry requirements for child coach training.

You should bring the following with you for a children's coach training course:

• Experience in working with children and young people
• The willingness to engage in a personal process
• Initial experience in supporting children and young people in a structured process
• Any coaching or training sessions for children and young people that have already taken place

"Becoming a youth coach / children's coach" works through targeted training. There you will not only learn what coaching is, but also what you need to pay particular attention to with children and young people. After the training, you will be well prepared to coach children and young people.

The "Coach Children" training enables you to accompany young people and their families on their path of personal development. The training is aimed at children, young people, parents and other stakeholders. The training enables participants to accompany children and young people in their development and to recognize and develop their inner potential.

The focus of training as a child coach can vary depending on the training institution, but is often placed on the areas of educational coaching, conflicts and crises, values, change processes, developments in families and groups, learning coaching, worries, fears, grief, bullying, the inner child, school problems, talent development and puberty.

Training to become a family and children's coach often takes around nine months, but can also take longer. In addition to the attendance times, you should also expect to spend around 120 to 200 hours on self-study.