Mentoring

Overview

Maximising Students Opportunities & Potential: Tailored interventions for students missing out on or struggling to stay in education, college / university, work placement or employment.

The roadmap is to identify the plan, the action, the steps, the movement to undertake where you need to be, to reach your required destination, goal or achievement.

Holistic approach, effectively de-escalating crisis and equipping students with the tools and skills for their mental wellbeing.

Targets based around social and personal pathways.

Are you struggling or have gaps in specific areas, such as: confidence, self esteem, stress, life balance, relationships, career, anger management, do you seek solutions to move forward in a constructive way for successful outcomes.

Comprehensive steps, roadmap to maximise opportunities, potential and fuel ambitions.

1. Self Awareness

Self awareness is the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts or emotions do or don’t align with your internal standards.

The 5 elements of self awareness:

• Self Concept
• Thoughts
• Feelings
• Body
• Emotions

2. Types of Self Care

• Physical
• Social
• Mental
• Spiritual
• Emotional

When it comes to physical self care, ask yourself the following questions to assess whether there might be some areas you need to improve:

• Are you getting enough sleep?
• Is your diet fuelling your body well?
• Are you taking charge of your health?
• Are you getting enough exercise?

It is okay to put yourself first. Self care is an important part of managing your stress and can help you stay happy and healthy.

Self care is what you do to care for your mind, body and spirit. Practicing self care can help anyone feel mentally and emotionally strong when dealing with life’s many ups and downs.

Common self care techniques include mindfulness and meditation, but there are many ways to care for yourself. It’s important to explore your options and find activities that are enjoyable or meaningful to you.

3. Relationships

Resilience relationships are able to handle the weight of conflict. They are stretchy like a rubber band, not fragile like eggshells. Practices of resilient relationships include showing up, seeing and being seen, sharing power, disagreeing well and taking breaks.

Healthy disagreements is especially important for relationships to be strong.

Friendships of pleasure exist between you and those whose company you enjoy.

Friendships of the good, are based on mutual respect and admiration.

Friendships have a huge impact on your mental health and happiness. Good friends relieve stress, provide comfort and joy and prevent loneliness and isolation. Developing close friendships can also have a powerful impact on your physical health.

4. Purpose

Your life purpose consists of the motivating aims of your life. The reasons you get up in the morning. Purpose can guide life decisions, influence behaviour, shape goals, offer a sense of direction and create meaning. For some people, purpose is connected to vocation, meaningful, satisfying work, Things to do.

Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you are sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgement. Practicing mindfulness involves breathing methods, guided imagery and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress.

A meditation exercise: focus on an aspect of your breathing, such as the sensations of air flowing into your nostrils and out of your mouth, or your belly rising and falling as you inhale and exhale.

Life Coaching: will help people navigate the complexities and uncertainties of life.

If you require, we can look at a self/need assessment, tailored for your personal development.

• Train your mind to believe you can make good things happen in your life.
• Don’t blame yourself when things go wrong.
• When something good happens, give yourself some credit.
• Remind yourself, setbacks are temporary.
• Notice how other people talk about themselves.

5. The Importance of Small Actions

• Confidence can be raised or restored.
• Progress is being achieved or completed.
• A task is started or being finished.
• A goal can be commenced and broken down to small actions, that can lead to a long term goal.

Small steps can be big progress. By hiring a coach, will support you with specific actions, will keep you motivated through any difficulties or challenges you may face, to keep you on the right path. Coaching has helped many people improve their lives.

6. How To Open Your Mind To More Possibilities

• Understand yourself and your situation. Be open to new ideas, new opportunities.
• Shift your thinking, reach out to other points of views, write then down, consider your options.

7. The Importance of Exercise & Mental Health

Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, strengthen bones and muscles and improve your ability to do everyday activities, boosts energy and can boost self esteem.

Many people do not realise that exercise can dramatically improve mental health and wellbeing. Consider things like: yoga, swimming, cycling, jogging and various sports.

8. How To Define What Success Looks Like For Yourself

Success looks very different for many of us. Sometimes we feel pressure to be perfect. [Nobody is perfect].

Success is being able to look at yourself in the mirror and feel good about yourself and the choices you make.

No person is without their mistakes, but you learn through the process.

Ultimately, the way that you define success will lead you towards living a more contented life that is aligned with your values.

Hiring a coach will support you to put in place action plans to reach where you want to be with your path to success.

9. 5 Practical Tips For Being More Present In The Moment

• Focus on one thing at a time. [Not multitasking].
• Practice deep breathing exercises.
• Spend time with people who make you feel happy and fulfilled.

10. How To Create A Winning Mindset

• Define your why. List 3 top reasons that you want to succeed.
• The first reason should be personal and for yourself, the second reason can be based on loved ones, and the third reason could be for anything important to you.
• Make a plan, the plan should include short, medium and long term goals.
• Then include the how, when, where, who and what, needed to be in place for implementation.
• Share your plan with a friend or family member who is willing to cheer you on and be honest with you. Even better get a small group of supportive and positive people who will hold you responsible and keep you on the plan.
• Make a daily routine and scheduled. A winning mindset is built on momentum. Checking off each thing on your to-do list daily will help you see progress and give you motivation to continue.
• Use visualisation [sessions] to see your goals completed, this will drive you on.
• Make a plan should you fall. Evaluate what is going on, what happened. Have a system in place that you are comfortable with to learn from mistakes.You could keep a journal, make amendments to get you back on track, use any support you have.
• Mistakes and misfortunes can occur and delay success, but it doesn’t matter as long as you get there.

Hiring a coach involves helping clients bettering themselves and bringing about necessary changes.

The benefits of transformational coaching are endless, but some examples: self awareness, exploring your strengths, areas you want to focus on, learning to reflect, new insights, problem solving, expanding out of your comfort zone, fulfilling potential.

Life Coaching: will help people navigate the complexities and uncertainties of life.

I offer employment/career coaching to a wide range of people, to strengthenskills, to raise confidence through educational transition.

I provide empathy to your needs and work with you through action plans with the big steps you will take to reach where you need to be, for job readiness, career path evolution and for your journey ahead.

I hope this has been helpful and something you can reflect on.

Session/s will sharpen your skills.

“I agree to coach / mentor you to the very best of my ability, to believe in you, to encourage you and to give you 100%of my energy and commitment.”

“Never judge a person for their mistakes, judge a person on how they fix them.”

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