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       Certified Master Coach Course - Some Introductory Notes: Child Coach and Behavior Change Process
      The Process of Behavioral Change and Child Coaches as Change Agents
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          -How to bridge the transitional change gap -the need for specialist child coach training as agents
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Why Child Coaches need to be trained in the fundamental behavior science mechanics about change.

Child Coaches are required to both change the level of mental, personal and life skillls sets, emotions, mindsets, attitudes, thinking, beliefs, values, motivation etc of an individual or a small group, in order to help them be better. Child Coaching is fundamentally all about achieving behavioral change (what children do and say).

 

Psychology: Is the study of emotion, cognition, and behavior, and their interaction. A critical aspect of psychology concerns the science of behavior change. This involves the study and the discovery of principles and laws that govern behavior, the extension of these principles, and the development of an applied technology to facilitate positive, lasting changes in behavior.

 

To accomplish substantive and sustained behavior change in a child, certain psychological methods must be used and specific protocols followed:
The change process in coaching, in essence, is a psycho-logical one and thus requires a specialist tools, skills and finesse on the part of the child coach.

 

In order to help children change significant facets of their behavior it is essential that child coaches use proven change models and processes from the behavioral sciences. From the perspective of today's behavioral sciences (incorporating neuropsychology, neuroscience and neurocoaching)  -there are exciting "new proven strategies" how to change behavior and employ next generation, evidence-based models, tools and techniques etc available to be co-opted by the professional child coaching discipline.

 

  Change Agents:
A change agent is a person who is formally conducting a change effort. The change agent is involved in all steps of the process of change.

 
Child Coaches are Change Agents -however most child coaches are only traditionally taught to assist children and their families / caregivers to make life skill changes and as a consequence only see them fail in the process of behavior transition:
Yes, change is situational and physical, like applying new skills. But, there is a transition period, a psychological process, which children must pass through to come to terms with the new learning, skill, situation etc. Transition starts with an ending. When you move forward, you have to have an ending of where you were. For a child to successfully make a change, they must leave the past/where they were. This takes expert guidance by a professionally trained child behavior coach in the use of proven psychological methodologies.

Transition has a period in a 'neutral zone' where little momentum is achieved:
This psychological period of transition is much slower than the physical change/learning how to execute new actions. When a child moves to a new area, the physical change usually occurs fast. But the inward psychological transition happens much more slowly because instead of becoming a changed individual as fast as a child can change outwardly, they actually struggle for a time in a state that is neither new nor old. The child feels like they have let go of one trapeze and are waiting for the next one to appear.
 
The 3 Phase Psychological Re-orientation of Change: Ending – Neutral Zone – and New Beginning:
You can only make a new beginning if you first make an ending and spend some time in the neutral zone. However, most child coaches are trained only to start with the new beginning without finishing the old. These coaches, who have not been trained in the use of the behavioral sciences, tend to take a performance deficit approach with children and spend much of their time in the 'New Beginning' zone concentrating on the application of a new skill etc. They fail to pay important attention to the endings (of why a child was where they were to then become committed to move on) and the existence of the neutral zone (of how to successfully make the transition/the move/the journey from the old to the new).
 
A child coach needs to establish what a child first needs to move forward:
A child needs to feel understood and be heard and have time to wrestle with many emotions such as; denial, fear, anxiety, uncertainty, confusion, frustration, apathy, scepticism and isolation. Questions and issues concerning self exploration, self awareness, self control and self expression must also be addressed. Other questions include: What do they need to get on with the transition? What are they holding onto? What do they need to leave behind? What can they bring with them?
 

Parent's Psychological Contract of Support with their children:
For optimum results a child coach must also spend a considerable amount of their time with the child's family and/or caregivers. During the transition phase it is also important that the child coach has the child's support group provide a climate of openness and risk-taking. The child is encouraged to be open with their support group about what they are going to change. It helps that the child's family are also "fellow travellers" in the journey of change and are also trying to improve their parenting skills. 

Child Coaches -are the bridge builders across the Neutral Zone:

Unless successful transition takes place, behavioral change will not work. The neutral zone is the critical time for the coach to ensure the child is able to achieve sustainable renewal and development. It is critical that a child coach be taught how to employ the latest, behavioral science based change skills and tools necessary to guide and support children through this time of transition to achieve genuine, measurable, lasting behavior change and new skills.


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The Behavioral Coaching Institute's invitational, fast-tracked Certified Child Behavior Coach Courses (international Self-Study Format) meets the critical needs for child coaches to be trained in the use of validated, reliable psychology-based tools and techniques.
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