Mentoring Teens Through Life Coaching

Life Empowerment Coach and Huffington Post Blogger Ken Rabow talks about his work using different therapies  that helps self-sabotaging teens and young adults, and with all the new communication technologies that are changing so fast the younger generation seems to be adopting a new way of thinking about how to adjust to the world.

When asked to define what mentoring means to him, Ken Rabow, a life empowerment coach, who has been working with “self-sabotaging teens” for the past 11 years, described a mentor as “a person who imparts wisdom and life ideas and values and yet allows a person to walk the path ahead, while helping to guide them.” As Ken puts it “I am a tourist guide on the map of life.” This fascinating subject was the feature on Lon Woodbury’s Internet Talk Radio Show “Parent Choices for Struggling Teens” December 26, 2011 on LATalkRadio at http://www.latalkradio.com.

Ken specializes in working with struggling teens, ages 13-25, who need help in connecting and finding their way in life through a four part process: getting off the “treadmill”, start a daily routine of meditation to silence the mind, get physical…take a walk, working out or take a bike ride and get creative, through a daily journal, blogging, creating or working on music or art. Ken feels creating and using music changes us and can affect others. 

When asked why he focuses on this particular age group, Ken replied “this is an amazing generation. Everything in their lives changes, everything they do or what defines them changes every 2 years. Their lives are changing at a rapid pace, a pace that has never happened in the history of the world.” Agreeably so, shared Lon “these kids have to figure out their lives when everything is changing.” And both believe there is a “need for new ways of mentoring and working with these teens in this rapidly changing world.”

When Lon asked Ken if there a sense of feeling unsafe for these teens” Ken shared “these kids are living in their bedrooms where they have everything they need: a flat screen TV, a computer, music. These are their boxes of safety. And our job is to help them create small boxes of safety outside in the world.”

To listen to the whole interview, on Mentoring Teens Through Life Coaching,go to LATalkRadio at http://www.latalkradio.com/Players/Lon-122611.shtml.

Ken Rabow lives in Toronto, Canada and is a Life Empowerment Coach and Huffington Post Blogger.  Ken started his career as a music specialist and talks about his work through using many alternative therapies to help self-sabotaging teens and young adults.

Lon Woodburyas an Independent Educational Consultantis the owner/founder of Woodbury Reports Inc. and www.strugglingteens.com. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984 and is the host of Parent choices for Struggling Teens on LATalkRadio Mondays at 12:00 Noon, Pacific Time, Channel One.

The guests next Monday, Jan 2, 2011 are Linda Zimmerman, Founder and Director and Dr. Kurt Wulfekuhler, Clinical Director of Sandhill Child Development Center in New Mexico, talking on the topic of Reaching the Unreachable Brain.  They will discuss how advancements in the understanding of the brain have revolutionized treatment for children and provided hope in treating some children that, in the past, may have been seen as too damaged.  Questions for this interview are welcome and should be sent to [email protected], or during the interview through twitter account Lon Woodbury.

Woodbury Reportswas founded in November 1989, by Lon Woodbury, MA, IECA, CEP, as an Independent Educational Consulting firm to help parents of teens making poor decisions select a private, parent choice program that would help return the family to normalcy.  Through interviews with parents, communication with professionals who know your child well, and then thoroughly researching viable options, we can help parents make the right choices that will help your child get back on the right path.  For more information about Woodbury Reports Inc., call 208-267-5550, or email to [email protected], or visit the web site www.strugglingteens.com.