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The Academy for Family Coach Training has developed truly unique training and coaching offerings that no other company can match because it consists of a series of proven techniques that condense over 30 years of collective coaching, education and training experience into a proven system for working professionally with teens, young adults, parents and family groups.

We keep your busy schedule in mind! The benefits of all of our programs are designed to be user friendly for the working professional. Your learning can be applied immediately to satisfy your specific market, client preferences and business requirements, day by day and week by week.

To inquire and/or enroll in any of our courses worldwide: contact Dori Klass, Global Director of Marketing and Sales at dori@doriklass.com. or call 1-520-742-1951. Dori is based in the USA, Pacific Time. References gladly given of graduates as well as current students.

The Family Coach Training Approach

Our approach is a proven and practical model for improving and transforming the relationship we as adults have with the teens in our lives. It is based on the roots and synthesis of life coaching, positive psychology, Choice Theory, adolescent development, education and mentoring.

• As professionals, we work with our clients to help them examine their own core beliefs and respect their beliefs and also the emerging beliefs of our "emerging adults."
• Instead of teaching how to manage and control teens, our model helps us as adults appreciate the unique perspective of teens and young adults and to express respect, understanding, and support for who they are right now.
• We teach parents the Parent as Coach® Approach, which does not dictate how to grow up; instead, the parent learns how to guide young people to their own positive decisions, solutions, inherent gifts, and the path to a meaningful and purposeful life.

Who is the Family Coach Training Model and Parent as Coach® Approach For?

Parent as Coach® is for adults everywhere who find working with or parenting teens challenging at best, impossible at worst. It doesn't have to be this way. Relationships between adults and young people can be rewarding, fun, endearing, and energizing.

Why Was This Unique Coaching Model Created?

Out of necessity for one parent.

• Founder Diana Sterling discovered that previous ways of parenting were woefully inadequate as her child matured into a teen.
• This everyday parent, trained as a professional coach, found that what worked best in her personal relationship to her teenage son were the skills and processes she used professionally with her adult clients.
• Coming from her deep interest in wanting to help her teen and other young people grow into happy and productive adults, Diana developed a unique professional coaching model using the Parent as Coach® Approach for herself and for those who serve teenagers, young adults and parents everywhere.
• Diana went on to create model for parents to assist their young adults. However it was the increase demand from other professionals worldwide to learn what was working with Diana’s unique coaching approach, both personally and professionally. Her products and programs for professionals are based around The Parent as Coach® Approach and The Advanced Coaching Course, the flagship program for a comprehensive and rigorous training for professional coaches, therapists, educators, social workers, and anyone serving teens, young people, parents and families.
• Our models can be adapted to children, or parents of children as well, when you take the core techniques and create new applications for this population. Our students are wildly successful when their own creativity is applied to their younger clients with our coaching models.

Young people require adults who can help them to find their own way in life.

• Teens do not want or need adults who tell them exactly how, what, and where to do this, that, and the other thing.
• Teens who feel heard and respected can more readily access their own sense of self and create lives of joy and meaning.
• When teens feel understood they work harder, display more interest and curiosity, and are far more compassionate and easy to get along with.
• When teens feel that they are seen as responsible, they become more responsible.
• When teens feel appreciated, they are more willing to feel and show gratitude.
• When adults open the lines of communication through the Parent as Coach® role, the result can be harmonious and loving relationships that both parents and teens treasure.

To inquire and/or enroll in any of our courses worldwide: contact Dori Klass, Global Director of Marketing and Sales at dori@doriklass.com. or call 1-520-742-1951. Dori is based in the USA, Pacific Time. References gladly given of graduates as well as current students.

Why Should We Care?

• Parent as Coach® is about the safety, development, and happiness of the teens we love and hold dear in our lives.
• As parents, teachers and professional coaches and mentors, it is our responsibility to help our young people to build the confidence to handle the ups and downs of life, the courage to take on new adventures, and the capacity to develop compassion for all living beings.
• As educators and heath care professionals, we care because we want our work to make a difference beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic. We are responsible for providing our teens with the best possible tools to make conscientious life choices.
• As citizens, we care because we live in this world together. It is our responsibility to coach teens and impart coaching skills to their parents, to assist the young person to become proactive and accountable citizens.