Coaching and Learning Institute,
located in Portland, Oregon (a/k/a CLI Portland Oregon), provides
life coaching and tutoring for teens. Our coaches will travel to
your youth-serving organization-including a school or a youth mentoring,
tutoring, or after-school program-to train your staff in how to
use a teen life coaching approach to setting and achieving goals.
CLI's clients have included Portland Impact's Youth MAP program
and the "I Have a Dream Foundation" in Portland. CLI will
adapt its life coaching approach to help your organization achieve
its unique objectives for youth. Please see the forthcoming article
from the U.S. Department of Education (to be posted on this Web
site soon) about our work with Portland Impact's Youth MAP program,
a youth mentoring program. In the coming months, we will post examples
of CLI's work with Portland Impact's Youth MAP program.
Services (Click on a topic below to jump
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Coaching
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Coaching and Learning Institute (CLI)
has developed a unique method to empower young people at school,
at home, and in their relationships with others.
We have taken the best elements of life coaching and adapted them
to fit the visual and creative strengths of adolescents. Our approach
also incorporates key practices from education and youth development.
CLI’s approach builds incrementally on what is relevant to
young people. We start by helping them identify strengths and interests
that they are invested in developing further. Then we help young
people get specific about what they want in these self-selected
areas, and what they need to get there. Next, using life coaching
tools, we coach them to take concrete steps in the direction of
their dream.
Through life coaching, CLI ensures that this approach dovetails
with areas that are critical to success, including academic achievement,
career/school plans, and communication skills. But our approach
starts with topics that already matter to the youth, giving us a
base on which to build. Our approach is positive, not punitive,
and inspiring, not demoralizing. Young people come to see a connection
between what truly matters to them and the challenges they face
in areas that did not seem relevant before.
Please see our Testimonials page to learn
what young people and their parents say about our work.
Coaching and Learning Institute Services:
Coaching
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CLI provides life coaching for youth, ages 12-20,
who need to find their way in school or in their personal lives. Our
clients may not be achieving their potential in school or other settings
because they have not been self directed, or they lack motivation.
Some of our clients come to us having identified what they want to
explore, such as their shyness, academic achievement, or college plans.
Other clients are dragged in by parents who say they don’t care
about school, or friends, or whatever. CLI tailors its approach to
each individual client, identifying what he or she needs to be stronger,
happier, and more successful. Greater self-esteem is a natural byproduct
of this work.
We do life coaching in weekly sessions, one-on-one or occasionally
in groups. We maintain contact with youth between sessions via telephone
and/or email. In some cases we will conduct the weekly sessions by
phone. Our fee is based on a sliding scale. To arrange for a consultation
and sample session, please contact us at:
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Tutoring
CLI offers tutoring in most subjects, with an
emphasis on reading, writing, and communication skills, for youth
between 12 and 18 years of age. We help young people comprehend what
they read, think critically, and express themselves clearly, with
confidence and accuracy, orally and in writing. We also teach our
tutoring clients specific skills to engage them in their work and
help them manage their workload with fewer struggles. Time management
and goal-setting are important components of our tutoring. Our fee
is based on a sliding scale. To discuss, please contact us at:
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Training
CLI offers training and program support to youth-serving
organizations (e.g., mentoring programs) and schools wishing to
use our life coaching approach. Program staff, volunteers, and other
participants learn to help young people identify and build on their
strengths. We teach participants how to explore and make productive
use of the gap between a young person’s current situation
and his or her ideal vision. Participants also learn to listen attentively
to youth, putting aside their own biases, and come to agreements
with young people about how to support them in moving forward in
their lives.
Our typical training series includes workshops just for adults and,
if appropriate, workshops for adults and youth together. These combined
workshops are positive, playful, and activity based. CLI also recommends
that the adults we train undertake the same process that we use
with youth. Youth become coaches for the adults working with them.
CLI recommends that the adults we train also undertake the same
life coaching process we use with young people. The youth becomes
coaches for the adults who are working with them. This reciprocal
relationship allows adults to model the lifelong learning process.
It also strengthens relationships between youth and adults and gives
young people some insight about and experience with helping others.
Plus, some of the adults are quite surprised by the progress they
make through the life coaching work.
We customize our approach to meet the needs of the program and work
collaboratively to ensure that it is successful. We prefer to negotiate
our contracts as part of the planning stage. Costs are negotiable.
Because CLI’s goal is that programs and schools should
be able to sustain the life coaching effort after we leave, we also
offer program support and direct service options, described below,
to youth-serving organizations.
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Program Support
To support life coaching by trained staff/volunteers,
we regularly monitor the progress of trainees through follow-up
workshops, Web-based check-ins, and telephone consultations and
support. These monitoring efforts help us to fine-tune our approach
for the particular program being served.
Additionally, we offer a short-term life coaching program for staff/volunteers
that we train: six to eight weeks of individualized life coaching
from a CLI coach. We make this offer for two reasons: we want to
provide staff/volunteers with a concrete life coaching experience
so they can understand the process better, and we use the life coaching
effort to help staff/volunteers problem-solve issues that stand
in the way of their program goals.
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Direct
Services to Youth
CLI can implement a regular group activity for youth under the auspices
of the sponsoring youth-serving organization/school. For example,
we can implement a pilot “coaching club” for a small
number of youth, to develop interest among youth in the program.
Staff can participate or simply observe. Such a club would be conducted
on site and with liability assumed by the sponsoring organization.
With this option, organizations/schools can add to their youth programming
while simultaneously receiving training.
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