{"id":29266,"date":"2016-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/que-se-logra-con-coaching-para-adolescentes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:53:29","slug":"what-coaching-for-adolescents-achieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/blog\/posts\/what-coaching-for-adolescents-achieves\/","title":{"rendered":"What does coaching for adolescents achieve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching for teenagers and their families is the result of my personal and professional journey from psychology, executive coaching to educational and family coaching.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I studied psychology and my specialisation and professional career have always been linked to organisations and the professionals working in them. I have always liked to work in the development of people. I started to get involved in the adolescent and family environment when adolescence came into my own family. I am the mother of three beautiful children with happy childhoods in a good family environment (at least that's how I have experienced it) and my eldest son's adolescence caught me off guard. And I started to think that if coaching brings important advantages to organisations and professionals (I am aware of this from my own experience as a coach) why not bring this to a group at a stage when there is a clear need for a change of perspective.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 I started to design how to bring coaching to teenagers and EEC gave me the opportunity to develop the <em>Teen Class,\u00a0<\/em>aimed at teenagers, with the idea that they would acquire coaching skills to become more mature, autonomous and socially effective. Two years into the programme, I realised two important things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Needed specific knowledge<\/strong> I decided to do a specialised master's degree in adolescence and family that I didn't have just because I was a coach or psychologist.<\/li>\n<li>Generating an effective growth process in children is slow and ineffective without the involvement of their families. For this reason, I developed the <b style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\"><em>School for parents<\/em><\/b> and I started working as a coach in a systemic way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My commitment to accompanying other colleagues who wanted access to these collectives has led me to develop since 2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/programmes\/specialisation-in-adolescents-and-families\/\"><em>Adolescent and Family Specialisation Programme<\/em> in the EEC,<\/a> aimed at coaches, teachers and anyone involved in any way in the personal growth of children.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are witnessing significant changes in different contexts, social, cultural, family, climate, energy. Education seems to be giving special relevance to young people acquiring a high level of knowledge, and this is undoubtedly necessary. We live in a society where information is the primary educational objective. But are we preparing their personal dimension in equal measure so that, from their maturity and self-management, they can make the most of this knowledge? Will the collection of data help them to face these changes in which we are immersed and those yet to come?<\/p>\n<p>It seems that quantity takes precedence in our current education over quality in thinking. Thus, a need for development arises in our young people that is not being satisfied by other disciplines and where coaching can provide a complementary vision.<\/p>\n<h2>What does coaching bring to the table?<\/h2>\n<p>If I had to summarise the most peculiar aspects that characterise the work developed through coaching they would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is not intended to provide knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>It works on the basis of the client's free choice of his or her own objective.<\/li>\n<li>It acts on people who can take charge of their own reflection and actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coaching works with clients, not with <i>patients<\/i> or <i>students<\/i> and this is where it can complement the work with other disciplines, without replacing them. .<\/p>\n<h2>How does the coach work with an adolescent?<\/h2>\n<p>In the years that I have been working with this group, I have come to the conclusion that working in a systemic way is much more effective and agile than trying to achieve the challenge of the youngster only with his or her participation. The adolescent, by definition, is a person who is in a transitional stage from childhood to adulthood and, therefore, is dependent on the family context.<\/p>\n<p>It is not possible to work on their maturity and autonomy without involving the people with whom they live and who are precisely the ones with whom they establish the agreements that will help them to achieve their future independence. The objective in adolescence is to ensure that the child has the necessary maturity to separate from the family and maintain an autonomous life. The first piece of bad news that we have to prepare parents for is the idea that your child is not yours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>My child is not mine<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Today's society does not always help. It asks parents to take care of their children without limits and, in this task, we have created a hyper-protective model, where the responsibilities of each one are not delimited and this is a breeding ground for insatistic families and lost adolescents. Involving parents in this work makes the results much more effective and shortens the time taken to achieve them.\u00a0<strong>I am convinced that there are no problem adolescents, there are ineffective models of adolescent support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When we start working with the adolescent and his or her family we have to take into account a number of basic considerations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nothing is irreparable<b style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\">. <\/b><\/strong>Everything can be repaired in a context of normality, which is the context in which we move in coaching. This is a powerful belief for the coach, even if it is not a fact.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>No one is to blame and we are all jointly responsible<\/strong>. Starting from the idea of ineffective models of accompaniment, the first thing to do is to work with two types of guilt.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The boy's guilt<\/strong>, The parents are suffering as a result of what is happening. And in the same bag, the one that the parents blame on the boy. \u00abMy son is guilty of\u00bb.\u00bb<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parental guilt,<\/strong> because they feel they are to blame for what is happening to their child. I often hear a mother or father say: \u00abThe most important thing in my life is to raise my children well and look what is happening\u00bb. \u00abI'm doing a terrible job\u00bb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The more pain, the more love\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>If instead of starting the process from the guilt, the problem or the suffering it causes, we channel it towards repairing the damaged links (whether with the other or with oneself), the path becomes much lighter. I believe that in the end everything is resolved when the relationship that has not been built effectively is repaired. Whether it is the child's relationship with himself, or with his parents, or with his peers, or with his teachers. <strong>The source of the problems lies not in the individuals themselves, but in the quality of the relationships they create with others and with themselves.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, I would say that my tool is that of the ontological coach, <strong>the word: the power of the word that creates effective conversations that sustain facilitative interactions that create empowering relationships and bonds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching para adolescentes y sus familias es el resultado de mi recorrido personal y profesional desde la psicolog\u00eda, el coaching ejecutivo hasta el coaching educativo y familiar.\u00a0 Estudi\u00e9 psicolog\u00eda y mi especializaci\u00f3n y carrera profesional siempre estuvieron ligadas a las organizaciones y los profesionales que trabajan en ellas. Siempre me ha gustado trabajar en el [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[595],"tags":[642],"class_list":["post-29266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post","tag-adolescentes-y-familias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37352,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29266\/revisions\/37352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escuelacoaching.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}