by admin | Apr 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Building Confident Young People – Why Early Support Matters Confidence is often treated as something that comes with age. We tell ourselves young people will grow out of any anxieties or worries they have as a child and as they hit adulthood, wham, everything...
by admin | Mar 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
‘I don’t want to be here’. It’s something I occasionally hear from a child at the beginning of a confidence coaching session. Sometimes it’s said quietly, with eyes fixed on the floor, sometimes it’s defensive, and sometimes it’s wrapped in humour, but...
by admin | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today, I want to share something special. Most of the feedback I receive as a coach comes from parents, educators, or other adults, and it’s always valuable, of course, but now and then, a young person says something that stops you in your tracks. Earlier this week, I...
by admin | Oct 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Because youth work isn't a real job, right? When I started the youth-work-specific elements of my degree – the parts that focused on the teen years, there was a great anecdote found in one of the books (Harrison and Wise, 2005), telling of a mother who visits...
