Where Teens Develop New Skills, Self-Knowledge, and Goals Through Their Intrinsic Motivations!
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Passion Coach Certification Intro
Welcome to Passion Coaching!
Passion Coaching provides teen life coaching services directly to teens and youth serving professionals that guide any teen in exploring, developing, and believing in their intrinsic motivations.
In a recent poll taken by Passion Coaching, high schoolers said that they experience Intrinsic Motivation only 15-20% of the time in high school. In other words, high schoolers feel "in control" of what they do only 15-20% of the time in school. The rest of the time they feel "controlled", or extrinsically motivated.
High school is a highly controlled environment, whereas, College, Career, and The Real World are highly open environments. To succeed in controlled versus open environments requires different approaches. In a controlled environment such as high school, knowing what is valued and doing well at what is valued is the path to success. In an open environment, such as college, knowing what you value and doing well at what you value is the path to success.
Teens need to understand how to approach both environments to maximize their success, mental health, and emotional well-being. While teens may not have much choice in high school, they will in college, career, and the real world.
That's why Passion Coaching provides services that build Intrinsic Motivation in teens. Exploring, developing, and believing in their Intrinsic Motivations prepares teens to incorporate their Intrinsic Motivations into the choices and decisions they will make in College, Career, and The Real World.
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10 Evidence-Based Reasons to Build Intrinsic Motivation in Students
We offer the following science-backed, intrinsic motivation-based services:
Passion Coach Certification The Passion Coach Certification trains youth-serving professionals to center conversations with youth around their intrinsic motivations. When conversations center around IM, youth experience more positive thoughts and emotions, deeper connections and belongingness, and explore what excites and gives them confidence about their life, their potential, and their future.
Teen life coaching for high schoolers that includes three coaching options: Passion Coaching, Academic Coaching, and College Coaching. All coaching packages provide expert guidance to youth in exploring and growing their intrinsic motivations.
Passion Consulting is available to schools and organizations that want to grow their students' intrinsic motivations in their own unique style. We develop classes, programs, activities, or coaching models that plug into your existing systems and models.
Passion Coach Certification Testimonial
Now that I’m a certified Passion Coach, I’ve come to recognize the powerful benefits passion coaching can offer both students and staff. It goes beyond simply identifying individual passions—it encourages people to actively pursue and apply them, which is a perspective many young people may not explore until much later in life. Additionally, it provides staff with an opportunity to reflect on their career paths and gain clarity on where they are truly meant to be. Passion Coaching has the potential to be transformative for everyone involved!
-Alia Rodriguez, Assistant CASA After School Program Manager
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Benefits to teens who experience Passion Coaching:
1. Mental Health - It’s much less stressful and much more exciting when a high school student's intrinsic motivations are included in school culture and community.
2. Strengths, Gifts, & Talents - Students identify where their intrinsic motivations and natural abilities meet, revealing strengths, gifts, and talents they are highly motivated to develop.
3. College Choice - It’s clearer which colleges or universities to apply to when students have specific or broad intrinsic motivations they can connect to what they want to puruse in college.
4. College & Career Success - College students who are driven by passion (the strongest form of intrinsic motivation) are top performers and launch more lucrative careers than students who choose majors based on extrinsic factors like money, status, or feeling pressured by others.
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Featured Partner - Summit Prep Charter High School
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."
Featured Partner - Cooline Kids
Christian Sbragia, Founder of Cooline Kids
"Passion Coaching equips students to live a healthy, fulfilling, purposeful life."
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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.
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