In our first week together, we’ll explore the influence of your child’s personality and neurotype, the difference between stress and anxiety plus practical tips for supporting your child’s resilience throughout this course (and beyond!).

Importantly, we’ll also focus on strengthening your relationship with your child since (a) secure relationship foundations naturally boost children’s resilience and (b) children are more likely to push themselves out of their comfort zones and to shine for coaches (that’s you!) with whom they feel close.

You are perfectly placed to coach your child towards greater courage and after this first week, you’ll feel confident in your ability to do exactly that!

This week, we’ll dive into the topic of anxiety and discover what it is, how it presents, why it’s often helpful and when it’s considered a problem.

Our team’s goal is not to eliminate anxiety from our children’s lives (since that wouldn’t be safe or even possible), but instead to coach our children to be in control of their anxiety (rather than the other way around).

To feel in control of something, our children need to first have an understanding of it. And that’s exactly where you’ll guide them this week.

Week 3 is the first of two training weeks for your child. This week, we’ll focus on training their body.

For children to become skilled at feeling safe and calm in life’s anxious moments, they first need to be taught strategies that work for them.

Some strategies will be a good fit for your child; others won’t be. And that’s okay. We’ll explore enough strategies so that your child can figure out which ones they’d like to stick with, practise and master.

The training continues this week as we move to training our children’s minds.

Some of our children will be able to learn to challenge their thinking, so this will be a big focus this week.
(Some, but not all. And that’s okay).

When we’re coaching children, we coach them at their level, so for those who find these thought-based strategies too tricky, there will be some extra strategies covered this week for your child to explore instead. (And since you’ll be learning ALL the coaching strategies anyway, you can just add this week’s thinking strategies to your toolkit should you ever need to call on these in the future).

It’s game time.
To feel courageous, we have to do courageous things.

This week is all about starting to put your knowledge and skills into action. You and your child will figure out a few tricky situations for them to tackle while you cheer them along from the sidelines.

It’s not about throwing your child in the deep end or pushing your child before they’re ready.

Instead, it’s all about teamwork and moving at the perfect pace for your child, while celebrating their wins, along the way.

(When you’re first considering this Courage Coaching course, you mightn’t feel confident that you’ll be able to get to this stage with your child by week 5, but thanks to the knowledge, team skills and strategies you’ll learn along the way, you’ll be ready)

In our final week, we touch on some last topics that can help can help your child stay ‘on top of their game’, including perfectionism, the role of medication, our own self care and more.

Importantly, it’s also time for our team celebration, where your child is encouraged to share the moments of which they’re most proud.
As Nelson Mandela famously said, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it’. And what a triumph it is for us as parents, to feel confident that we can guide our children through whatever challenges life might throw at them.