To find out why life coaching teens and life coaching young adults has changes so profoundly and how to bring our life knowledge to this amazing generation, we have to understand what makes them so different and then how to mentor / life coach young adults using these new techniques.

1. Teens and Young Adults live online.There is no “real world” where the average teen or young adult that you would mentor feels comfortable in. Our job is get them to feel comfortable by starting where they live; online! That makes online mentoring of young adults the most powerful starting point. We shall use it to get them to be successful in the real world but we must start where they are.
2. Life Coaching Teens means “piercing the target”.This is one of Ken Rabow’s favorite methods. If you are life coaching teens and life coaching young adults you should be aware of the fact that whatever you talk about, i.e. Sputnik (no, it never comes up in conversation , as you mention the name, your Millennial has opened 12 different tabs on the subject. Millennials have a very wide knowledge base with not much depth (outside of what really, really interests them) and don’t know how to take the things they have profound knowledge into any other part of life.Why? Because when you see every possibility, it’s impossible to start as it means you aren’t doing the other 11 choices. This is why we teach “piercing the target”. Just starting little things and learning to stick their metaphoric toes in the water.
3. Communication with adults is fraught with judgments and dealing with the parts of life that suck.If you want to be a teen life coach, you have to start focusing on their goals and not what isn’t working. Too many people live their lives by their labels: ADD, Anxiety; ODD; Aspie, etc. We are not our labels. When you train with Mentors Professional Workshop to become a professional Mentor for young adults, you will learn the GCS. How to create goals, challenges to those goals and the first sign-posts of success. We amplify what we focus on. MPW will educate you on life coaching teens and life coaching young adults towards success. You will become a non-judgmental ally in their hero’s journey and you will learn how to re-introduce the best of these young adults to their families, teaching all of them great new ways to communicate.

If you are interested in going past Mentoring young adults and want to become a professional Mentor, learning a proven approach that helps each client build up towards personal success, read through this site cover-to-cover (so to speak) and then contact Ken for a consultation.

Your journey to life coach teens and life coach young adults and their families begins here.

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So many Boomers and Gen x-er’s are searching for meaning in their work life and yet, so many Millennials find work meaningless. Becoming a professional mentor for young adults is a great way to do that and also really help this amazing Millennial generation reach their potential. I believe that these young adults have what it takes to change this world for the better in every way. It is our generation who have let them down and then accused them of being self-centered, slackers who sleep and slave away on their superciliously synced smart phones. (I’m in an “s” mood today ☺)

While there is so much good to be had in mentoring young adults, there are two sides to even that coin. With all good things there is yang to the yin, the blessing and the curses (B’s and C’s) that one could never have imagined when starting upon this journey. Having been a mentor for young adults for over 16 years, I thought sharing my experiences on the B’s and C’s of this would probably work... but first….

Here are some thoughts from one of my newest Mentors In Training, Sean, about what he was seeking in becoming a mentor for young adults

“Hey Ken! I really am looking for a change in my life. Call it turning 50,. or a mid-life crisis. Call it being fed up with not feeling like I do something worthwhile for human-kind. Hell, call it a person being fed up with their corporate job.
I want to feel like I make a difference. Like I've helped someone. Leave a mark ... even if it's only in a small way.
All this being said ... I still have four mouths to feed, a mortgage, car payment and three kids to hopefully put through university. And currently I make a good living doing what I do (even if it is from behind a cubicle wall) So making a change is scary. Naturally.

No doubt you are a charismatic, well-spoken, polished individual that seemingly loves what he does and teaches. Can I take some of what you have and make it work for me?”

The answer: Yes! The people who have become professional Mentors were able to take what they were taught and make it their own. They do it part-time in the first year after training so they can slowly transition into a successful mentoring practice to either augment their current income or create a full time Mentoring career.

The B’s and C’s of Becoming a Mentor.

Top 5 blessings of being a mentor for young adults:

5. It’s all done on Skype, so your pits and mouth can be stinky and you’ll still seem like you know what you are talking about. (but take pity on your dog’s olfactory receptors)
4. No traffic jams! No travel time to work! Just get your computer on, fire up Skype and Robert’s your father’s brother.
3. Imagine! Millennials sharing their thoughts; completely and totally honestly, thanks to the judgment-free environment you create.
2. You learn the coolest things about what’s happening in the connected world; people; songs; apps. Hey, I heard “Badger, badger, badger, badger” way before my any of my friends did... if they ever did.
1. After being with you as their Mentor for six to eighteen months, they graduate and know how to deal with anything life will throw at them with grace, wisdom and unflinching eyes on the prize.

Top 5 Curses of Being a Mentor for Young Adults:

5. As a result of being on Skype all the time, with no clients to sneeze or pass gas in your general direction, you are more susceptible to the various colds and flus when you do venture out. (Who knew those kids sneezing
on the teacher in class were doing them a favor?)
4. The internet service providers of the world seem to have it out for Skypers. It can be frustrating sometimes… frozen images… missed words occurring most often when you absolutely need to hear every word your client is sharing.
3. Imagine! Millennials sharing their thoughts; completely and totally honestly, thanks to the judgment-free environment you create. (This is a blessing and a curse.)
2. Try explaining Badger to your “grown-up” friends or why (name of funky group) really is cool. (sigh… caught between two generations).

The Kicker: 

1. After being with you for six to eighteen months, they graduate. You are sort of Mary Poppins for f**ked up kids. You heard them. They listened and then they must leave the Skype-nest. It is a sad time and a happy time.

This is what I live for in every hour that I mentor young adults and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Finally, I would like to emphasize, that it is such an honor to earn their trust and help guide them to their inner greatness. Helping the families go from major daily scream-fests to the truly loving relationships they were meant to have is simply icing on the cake.

In conclusion: surrender to your special skills of sharing the secrets of success to Millennials and start your sojourn from a snooze-fest existence to inspiring slackers.

Join us!

Learn to Mentor Millennials.
They are our greatest hope.
We need them.
They need you.

Interested in mentoring Millennials? Check out www.MentorsProfessionalWorkshop.com

Know a Millennial in need of mentoring? Check out www.MentoringYoungAdults.com

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My goal is to train people who love mentoring young adults and give them the tools to become a Professional Mentor.

What's the difference? It takes a special person to take on the challenge of mentoring young adults but it takes a system to create a whole life approach to helping young adults and their families truly succeed on all levels: 
Scholastically, Relationally, Emotionally and with a true belief in oneself.

This is what the World Wide Youth Mentoring (WWYM) Inc system does.
This is the system I have created over the past 20+ years.

In my work mentoring young adults, I have worked with countless young people who have made great changes for the better in their lives. Changes where they were responsible for the successful outcome. These successes are now part of who they are and how the see themselves and shall help guide them in whatever endeavors they take on in life. Mentoring young adults become something that empowered not only those I helped but myself as well.

The goal of this Workbook is to help you become such a mentor to young adults.

If you follow this process (in tandem with my book: The Slacker’s Guide To Success) you will find yourself helping young people to find their personal greatness. I cannot think of a nobler task or one that I consider to be more honourable to be part of.

Most systems of “repairing young adults” that I encounter seem to be focused on the symptoms.

They use their challenges to define the whole of the person. Statements such as: “I’m ADHD”. Hello, my name is Skeeter and I’m an alcoholic” "I can't do that, I have been diagnosed with anxiety". “I’m such a (fill in the blank)” ring throughout the land.

To those who spend so much time on their symptoms, I would suggest you think of the following: We amplify what we focus on, in word, thought and action. The more frequently we are defining ourselves by what we lack, the more we allow our inner thoughts to validate our beliefs in our million micro-decisions of the day.

We cannot underestimate the amount of people who are in denial about their personal foibles.

I am not suggesting self-delusion as the road to success. I encourage you to (and by extension the young adults you mentor) to “own” their challenges as well as their strengths, but please do not let these young adults be defined by their challenges.

Let me share with you my belief, my mindset and my intention for mentoring based on my Mentoring of Young Adults since 2001:

Every young person I have ever met has the ability to be successful in every way of their lives. That may seem like a bold statement but the truth is, evolutionarily speaking, if you are alive, then you are doing something right. You must also come from a line of people who were able to thrive. The DNA of success is built into you. It just may present itself in a way that doesn’t fit into a standard mold. What may seem like the opposite of success may simply be indicators to look for a different way, to find your own personal way to succeed. For many generations mentoring young adults was a right of passage but what way can one use now?

The Slacker’s Guide to Success is one such way.

It works by building up a person’s belief in themselves in quiet daily tasks that help build character. It is in the small daily tasks one does away from public view that we build up our own faith in ourselves and it is these same small tasks that have been taken away from this generation.

Shining shoes? – Velcro!
Tying your shoe laces – More Velcro!
Cutting the lawn? – no more lawns – robot lawn mowers – or paid help.
Washing the dishes? Dishwashers!
Vacuuming – Roomba!
Getting the mail (what’s mail? Oh! That stuff before texting!)
Spelling (duh … spellcheck!)
Multiplication tables (do calculators have those?)
Walking the dog (did kids ever really walk the dog?)
Homework (isn’t that what tutors are for?)

I won’t go on. It’s too depressing. 🙁

What daily tasks will inspire young people to learn self-discipline, build character and belief in oneself?

Since the “old ones” are gone. They need to be replaced with new ones. (Not that new):
1: Self-reflection.
2. Exercise.
3. Creativity
4. Generativity.

I will elaborate on these in chapter one.

Although I say that each person has the potential for success and that I have found my system to be highly effective, it does not mean that I work with every person who comes to interview with me or that they all stay the course and succeed using the World Wide Youth Mentoring system.

When parents seek my help for a troubled teen or young adult, they often find me through one of my articles at Huffington Post, or from our sister website for Mentoring Young Adults.

Once we have determined that this system could be a good fit for a potential client (ages 12 to 28) we then begin the first 8 sessions which will determine if the program truly works for the new client. If you are trained in our system, you will eventually reach my success ration, of those I accept on the sixth session of 95%!

What does this mean for the young adults?

It means that each one has in them the seeds for success and the challenge is to find the proper system for that particular person. Often, when someone I have worked with has risen above their addictions and gone back to school and succeeded well (very often for the first time) I will get referrals from friends. The chance of my particular system being right for that friend at that particular time is 50/50. The determining factor is; is this person ready?

Now, let’s talk about you. What you need to bring to this system and how you can determine when your “client” is ready for your mentoring.

Who knows your child better than their parents? They do. They may not know it or share all of it with them but a parent's understanding of their child is based on history. More than likely, theirs is about right now and tomorrow. The past is often the same place where broken toys reside. Rich and meaningful at one time, but now it is mainly of use for stubbing toes and tripping us up.

It is in the future and the now that we must begin the Hero's Journey of Success with our clients. This is how we being mentoring young adults.

Stay tuned for part two!

Are you interested in Professionally Mentoring Young Adults? Check out our home page on mentoring young adults by clicking here.

Know someone in need being professionally mentored? click here for our sister site. 

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What is a “Mentor”?
Mentor was a character in the Homer’s mythic poem the Odyssey. Mentor, the son of Heracles and Asopis, was a friend of Odysseus who put Mentor charge of his son Telemachus. Later on Athena visited Telemachus disguised as Mentor and helped encourage him to go on his hero’s quest. So, the father had sent for Mentor to help Telemachus and Athena acted as Mentor, both to help the young man find himself.

As Mentors, we take on the task set out by Odysseus, the parent, to guide, help and encourage our Telemachus, our mentee, towards their hero’s journey.

To this end, I have created a Mentor’s Credo: The values that will guide our process of mentoring.

1. Mentors serve the client/protégé/Telemachus/mentee
2. Never leave a stumbling block before the blind
3. A truth told before its time is worse than a lie
4. A Mentors goal is to witness the Telemachus’ greatness and guide them on their path towards it.
5. The only gifts of value are those earned
6. Earned gifts are equal whether they are small or great
7. When in doubt, honor the small gifts earned
8. Be humble
9. Enter the Telemachus’ world as a curious bystander
10. You are not their friend. You are their Mentor
11. Mentoring is best done at a distance.
You have succeeded when they leave.

Want to read about The Slacker’s Guide to Success? click here

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It is in the future and the present that one must be re-introduced to one's children. They are new people at every stage of development yet we still see them on the potty. The generation we don't seem to understand is truly... the internet generation.

How do we learn to see them anew and more importantly; how does the Internet Generation learn to see themselves through new eyes?

The ideal way is through a Professional Mentor who sees them for who they are now and who they could become, free of judgment and free of external limitations. That is the key to Mentoring Teens and Young Adults towards success.

To find that successful future, we must first look at what makes inhabitants of the Internet (a land I call WebFredonia) different.

People born before 1980 are not born of the land of the Internet. We are first or second generation CyberDonian immigrants. Those born of the Internet world are wired differently.

We should begin by asking ourselves: “Are they really different?” Didn’t every generation talk about how much better they were to their elders then the present generation and is it not a time-honored complaint?

It is the eternal complaint about each generation.

Having said that, there are reasons why the Internet Generations (IG) are truly different than most of those that preceded them. I say most because the Internet Generation has some common links with the generations that fought in the two “great wars”, as well as a few very big differences.

Those two great generations saw their entire world change in the span of a few short years. All the things they knew for certain, all the truths they took as being the way of the world were changed forever. You really couldn’t keep ‘em down on the farm after that.

Like those two generations, today’s generation of teens and young adults experience world-shaking changes on a regular basis in everything they know:

how they consume their music, from physical cd’s to proprietary mp3’s on their computer to the cloud;

How they communicate; from home phones, to cell phones, to emails, to texting, to face-booking;

How the world works – many “indispensable” jobs of middle and upper middle management will soon be gone. They will join the rapidly disappearing industrial and transportation jobs. Thanks to the constant advances in Artificial Intelligence.

Children today are virtually accosted by people gaining instant world-wide fame for the bizarre to the infamous. How can they ever compete with these one-second stars in making their mark?

Reality television’s ravenous appetite for championing people who crave their 24 episodes of world fame at any cost seems never-ending.

How can the Internet Generations compete when every voice is modified and every picture photo-shopped to create perfection  What should they aspire to?

Perfectionism is causing many kids to not bother trying.

What benefit is there to “striking out on your own” if every desire is catered to by every means?

Better to act entitled than to try for small personal successes… and there you have it. The IG mindset.

Then there is the Internet knowledge base. The Internet Generation has these wide swaths of knowledge without depth, for the most part. This makes their ability to take one choice, when there are so many possibilities, almost impossible

So what is the future to look forward to?

The future is not in the vertical thought process, nor the linear assembly line, it is in the lateral thinking of the age of ideas.

The future belongs to this generation and it is through ideas based on their personal goals and beliefs, nourished by a daily routine of personal development that this will become the greatest generation ever.

I believe this to be true because I see it happening in the young adults I mentor. People who come to me stuck. Unable to succeed, who, with a few simple steps towards self-actualization, towards “piercing the target” to start at anything and just experience the unfolding of craft.. they take to it like a duck to water and soar.

Time to give parents of the internet generation the tools to bring back their rightful place as the shapers of this great generation: Stay tuned for part 3!

For more information about becoming a professional Mentor for Young Adults, click here.

Become a Professional Mentor for Young Adults! Check out our next opening for 1st Degree Mentorship at Ken Rabow's Mentors Professional Workshop by clicking here

Know a young adult in need of mentoring. Visit our sister site: MentoringYoungAdults.com

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And what do you think I would want to start with on the grand journey?

You!

You must lead by example. That example is not “look at me! I’m doing the same crap you are!!”. No, we lead by living it but not preaching about it. Just understanding from our own challenges how to appreciate our client’s challenges.

As mentors, our duty is to grow as human beings. To take on our own personal and creative challenges and live by the guidelines we are setting for our clients.

To that end, we must add the following things in our lives.
I have spoken before about the times I would do Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and other healing modalities to people when I lived in Montreal.

Two things become clear that will help those who wish to Mentor Young Adults towards success in all aspects of their lives.

1) No outside force heals a person. It is the person’s choices and belief system that allows for the healing.

2) You can only truly grow when you add three things into your daily routine:

Something Reflective; Something Creative and Something Physical

1. Reflective
   Meditation etc.,
   Prayer
   Success Recap
2. Creative (performance)
   coding drawing writing
   i.e. Making something
   Using your canvas
3. Physical (walking)
   Muscle based exercise – Weights; Tai Chi; resistance training; etc.,

   Here are some more things I recommend that you incorporate into your life to prepare you to become a truly great life coach for young adults:

4. Meditation exercises (live with Ken ☺)
   General 10 min Visualization
   Grounding
   Sleep/Wake routine
   Thankfulness routine
5. Take your own Mentor classes when you can.
   Ask your fellow MIT’s to switch 30 min sessions – 1 with you as Mentor (real work) – next with you as Mentee.Do real work. First time do GCS – then start a daily routine the following week – share how this goes at your next class. Write down questions.
6. Also, keep notes to ask Ken
7. Volunteer Interim Mentee – someone you will work on in your second month of mentor classes.

Choosing a VIM.
Using the VIM form to sign.
Remember: You need your police report for mentoring outside of fellow MIT’s

A Mentor is: Calm, relaxed, prepared, confident and always looking for Gold in his clients.

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Now for the good news: There are ways to rise above anxiety permanently.

I work with Millennials in their teens and twenties coming to me with issues such as: failure to launch, low self-esteem, pot addiction, video game addiction, school failures and even Asperger's Syndrome. 90% of them suffer from Anxiety and most of the time it is that under-current that propels all their other issues.

Anxiety is a major impediment these days. We can think about the reasons of why this is happening in such great numbers or we can just start helping young adults suffering from anxiety right now using the following four vanquishers.

The Four Anxiety Vanquishers: Breathing; Negative Self-Speak; Dorothy Syndrome; Visualization

Breathing:
Remember Marvin Martian?

That is what most people starting to ramp up in anxiety look like (minus the ray-gun). AKA: Shallow breathing. The new apple watch has it right. Take time in each day to do deep, diaphragmatic breaths, a minimum of three good, deep ones and up to five minutes of it each day (if you can stand it). The shallow breathing tells your mind/body that you are in distress. Your body goes into action and pumps you full of natural chemicals that guaranty the fight-or-flight feeling. That translates into anxiety for those who have been living that pattern. The first step... the deep relaxed breaths. (Think of puppy sighs).

Positive Self-Speak
The voice that you hear in your head is a sort of loop that can be helpful or ramp up your anxiety. Train your inner-voice to be helpful. If it says something like "you're going to end up in the hospital" when it is not the case. Argue with it. Point out how you usually survive your anxiety attacks without the need to escalate. Find a phrase... eg: "Your are going to be fine" or "You can make it through" etc.,

Dorothy Syndrome (There's no place like home).

I have noticed that a lot of the young adults I mentor have a specific barrier as they leave home where anxiety kicks in. It could be 10 blocks, it could be at a certain landmark or major intersection. Oddly enough, they often aren't aware of this geographical boundary. Check to see if you have one. If you do... drive to somewhere in the comfort zone of your boundary and slowly, day-by-day push up to, then past that boundary. Over time, you can soften and then eliminate it.

Visualization

So many people find that it is almost impossible to stop their mind from thinking every moment of the day. This can lead to trouble sleeping but is often I cause of anxiety issues in the young adults I work with through Skype. What I recommend is to find a five minute visualization exercise that speaks to you. Try it every day. Slowly build up the time; five minutes, ten.. fifteen.

There will be days when you need to go back to the minimum and their will be days that if you can stop your mind's chatter for three seconds that this is a good session. Be kind to yourself and notice when you have these three seconds of silence.

A good Mentor for young adults uses all these techniques to help start the path of helping people get in control of their bodies and minds. It is not a quick change but it can become a lasting one. Be kind to yourself, find a good mentor and share your concerns with people who will actively listen.

You are not alone.

Interested in mentoring millennials? Check out www.MentorsProfessionalWorkshop.com

Know a millennial in need of mentoring? Check out www.MentoringYoungAdults.com

If you or someone you know is at risk please contact your nearest Crisis Centre or call Kids Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868 to speak to a counsellor.

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Through World Wide Youth Mentoring, you will be offered your ideal clients based on what you have helped us learn about you over your year of training at Mentors Professional Workshop.

Get the support you need. Mentoring is rewarding but is also a challenge on some days. Through World Wide Youth Mentoring (WWYM), you will have access to live chats with other Mentors throughout the world who are experience what you are experiencing. The support will help you keep mentoring young adults for a longer period and getting the connections you need.

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This is our expertise. This is all we do. Parents are in desperate need of help for young adults and you will get the skills from us. Everywhere you look there are families suffering with young adults with anxiety, young adults with depression. Young adults failing to thrive.

Mentors Professional Workshop is a vehicle to share some transformative discoveries by Master Level Mentor Ken Rabow. Ken has been life coaching teens and young adults since 2001. He created a system based on his study with a great drum Master, Jim Blackly, who taught Ken the art of life through drumming. As Ken was seeing Millennial challenges in these music students, he began to create a system based on several different teaching that would address these challenges.

The system works!

Eventually, Ken realized that he would need to share this with more people who really care about helping young adults, so that the system could live on. He also wanted to recreate all the pieces he had in place to help the new mentors.
A complete online, live training program.
A powerful web presence to get the right clients to the right mentors.
A support system of higher level Mentors helping the 1st or 2nd degree mentors with unusual challenges.
Ongoing life-long training and mentor emotional support.

That is what Mentors Professional Workshop does for your Mentor training.

That is how World Wide Youth Mentoring supports you in your Mentoring career.

Check out more about Ken's journey by clicking here.

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Friday May 18 to May 20th 2018

Secrets to Becoming a Professional Life Coach

Time: Fri: 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. EST Sat and Sun 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.; 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST

Place: On your computer

This weekend workshop gives you the big picture of becoming a Professional Mentor and introduces you to the primary tools for helping mentor teens and young adults. Meet and interact with the creator of this program Ken Rabow as well as your fellow students. Experience some of the techniques you will be learning to use in this program. All from the comfort of your own home.

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