Grow Your Passions with Passion Coaching!
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Welcome to Passion Coaching!
Many teens struggle with school, mental health, and their future orientations because they don't understand their passions and how to grow them. Passion is an internal motivation that has five roots teens must be self-aware of in order to grow.
PASSION'S FIVE ROOTS
Passion is (1) a strong inclination toward a specific object, activity, concept, or person that (2) one loves, (3) highly values, (4) invests time and energy in on a regular basis, and (5) that is part of one’s identity (Vallerand et. al., 2003).
Passion Coaching guides teens to become self-aware of and grow the roots of their passions so they can incorporate their internal motivations into their future ortientations, including their plans, hopes, dreams, goals, aspirations, and ambitions.
We offer the following services:
1:1 Life coaching for high schoolers to explore their interests and passions, develop new skills, explore entrepreneurial and prosocial goals, and learn new strategies for tracking patterns in their interests and passions throughout high school that reveal college and career aspirations.
1:1 Academic coaching for at-risk high schoolers, including students who are at risk of dropping out, lack academic motivation, struggle academically, or experience behavioral challenges.
1:1 Career coaching for college grads and people who want to find careers that align with their passions, talents, and values.
Passion exploration class for groups of high schoolers to explore their interests and passions and learn new strategies for connecting their interests and passions to their futures.
Career exploration class for groups of high school or college students to explore social, life, college, and career aspirations that build on their interests and passions.
Professional development workshops for high school teachers to learn motivation strategies and techniques that boost trust, connection, and community in the classroom as well as academic motivation.
Featured Partner
Matt Darling, Dean Of Expeditions, Summit Prep Charter High School
"One particularly striking example comes from our freshman mentor, Mr. S. After just two months of working with Passion Coaching, he shared that their guidance has given him a toolkit to make his daily 60-minute mentor sessions with 20 freshmen both sustainable and rewarding. This is a remarkable shift from the burnout he had reported before. Similarly, his mentees have become more vocal about their aspirations. One student, who had previously disengaged from classes, chose to reengage with Algebra 1 after connecting the dots between their dream of starting a business and the math skills they needed to succeed."
Lucas Smith, 9th Grade Math Teacher & 9th Grade Mentor, Summit Prep Charter High School
"When my mentees met Paul and Mariamne, they were greeted with a personalized and compassionate structure that my mentees were not accustomed to and were challenged to think about their own motivations. After only four short days with Paul and Mariamne, I noticed an immediate change in all of my mentees demeanor; this made me invite Paul and Mariamne into my mentor class to continue working with my mentees."
"Passion Coaching equips students to live a healthy, fulfilling, purposeful life"
Featured Services
Career Exploration Class
Career Exploration Class
Up to 20 students can take our Career Exploration class at a time. We will come to your high school to cultivate the passions of a whole class during or after school.
Students benefits:
Self-Exploration - Take stock of the full range of their interests and passions going back to childhood.
Future Orientation - Make connections between current interests and passions and future orientations in college and career.
Talent Mapping - Identify what skills and strengths intersect their interests and passions.
Engagement - Spend time meaningfully and purposefully engaged in self-exploration.
Psychological Growth - Develop new layers of self-awareness, resilience, confidence and excitement around their interests and passions.
Connections & Community - Build community, collaborations, and new friendships with their peers.
"Passion Coaching allowed us to tailor programming"
I found my dream job"
1:1 Academic Coaching
1:1 Academic Coaching
1:1 Academic Coaching is for students who struggle in school. Often, the struggle is more motivational than ability related. In other words, students more often than not are unmotivated to try in school more so than lack the abilities to do well.
1:1 Academic Coaching provides students with:
Extra social-emotional support.
Extra motivation to learn.
Extra support learning new skills and knowledge.
New source of resilience, confidence, and excitement for learning, school, and their futures.
1:1 Life Coaching
1:1 Life Coaching
1:1 Life Coaching is for students who need extra support thinking about their futures and what they want in school, life, and career.
1:1 Life Coaching provides students with:
Extra time to explore their interests and passions.
Emphasis on learning new skills and exploring goals in three domains: skill development, entrepreneurialism, and nonprofit.
Learn to set goals near term and long term that are rooted in their passions.
New source of resilience, confidence, and excitement for learning, school, and their futures.
We customize solutions for schools and nonprofits. Contact us about developing a custom coaching model for your organization!
About Us
Passion Coaching is a social impact organization started by Paul Thiebaut III and Mariamne Borden with the generous support of Sobrato Philanthropies. Our mission is for all students to live up to their potential in and out of the classroom by activating their intrinsic motivation to learn.
Together, we boast 25+ years experience supporting students in transforming into intrinsically motivated learners. We have founded 4 organizations (including Passion Coaching) that have built intrinsic motivation to learn in thousands of young people ages preschool-college.
Paul and Mariamne with budding intrinsically motivated learners doing a pop up nail salon at school!
Paul and Mariamne with budding intrinsically motivated learners doing a pop up nail salon at school!
Read our article:
10 Evidence-Based Reasons to Build Intrinsic Motivation in Students
Or, drop by our Teen Passion Center in Los Altos!
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