For Youth

For Youth

For Youth

Values-based coaching to encourage, equip and empower young people

Values-based coaching to encourage, equip and empower young people

"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in"
Desmond Tutu

Too many young people are falling in the river.

Research on secondary schools shows that in each average class:

  • 5 students are facing mental health challenges

  • 5 students have special educational needs (SEND).

  • 5 students start their day without breakfast.

  • 8 students are disadvantaged.

  • Over 1.25 million young people had referrals to NHS mental health services

They need upstream intervention!

What we do

We empower young people through values-based coaching to lead their own lives and love learning.

Our tool, VIVA-GO, is evidence-based, quick, and fun.

How we do it

We train a coach for every school and organisation working with young people with an accredited Level 3 program, providing all resources, support, and supervision.   

Through the 4Rs Cornerstones of Relationship, Responsibility, Resilience, and Reflection, we help bring hope and a future to young people.

Developed with the help of Oxford and Exeter universities, learners with significant needs, and young leaders.

Easy, fast, flexible.

Easy, fast, flexible.

In just 30 minutes

In just 30 minutes

1:1, Pair, Or Group

1:1, Pair, Or Group

Once a month (Flexible)

Once a month (Flexible)

Effective & Clear Coaching Tool

VIVA-GO takes little effort and time for great impact, to support children, young people, and adults.   

In just thirty minutes, once a month (flexible), the coachee learns to approach challenges and opportunities with confidence using their own core values and strengths as motivation and compass. 

Raise Strong Leaders

Raise Strong Leaders

Raise Strong Leaders

VIVA-GO exists to encourage through values, empower through simple coaching steps and raise up people who can lead themselves and others. Created from 30 years of experience and backed by 8 years of research, development, and international trials, VIVA-GO has been the subject of an Oxford University Farmington Scholarship and Exeter Masters Action Research.

VIVA-GO is an evidence-based, early intervention tool that enables coachees to transform their:

Relationships

Healthy, positive connections with others.

Responsibility

Accountability with choices and actions for own goals.

Resilience

Strengthening the ability to cope with challenges and bounce back.

Reflection

Gain insight into own great values, vision and decisions with self-compassion.

Testimonies

What’s so impressive about Viva Go is seeing students who didn’t hold belief in themselves, begin to recognise that they have agency and can be THE change in their own lives. The students see this initially via small, safe steps which they set for themselves, and then they see their goals grow and grow. It’s a brilliant resource.

Former Headteacher

What’s so impressive about Viva Go is seeing students who didn’t hold belief in themselves, begin to recognise that they have agency and can be THE change in their own lives. The students see this initially via small, safe steps which they set for themselves, and then they see their goals grow and grow. It’s a brilliant resource.

Former Headteacher

What’s so impressive about Viva Go is seeing students who didn’t hold belief in themselves, begin to recognise that they have agency and can be THE change in their own lives. The students see this initially via small, safe steps which they set for themselves, and then they see their goals grow and grow. It’s a brilliant resource.

Former Headteacher

Bespoke vision inspired pupil coaching…has improved pupil wellbeing, aspiration and attendance… Pupils are active leaders, planners and evaluators

SIAMS school inspector

Bespoke vision inspired pupil coaching…has improved pupil wellbeing, aspiration and attendance… Pupils are active leaders, planners and evaluators

SIAMS school inspector

Bespoke vision inspired pupil coaching…has improved pupil wellbeing, aspiration and attendance… Pupils are active leaders, planners and evaluators

SIAMS school inspector

For me, one of the key things is that in coaching you unpick your own value system…then decide you want things to pan out is based upon your own value system… so it’s congruent. Not someone else’s value system. It has changed my way of interacting… and my advice and guidance to them. More and more I realise that there is no one in schools to help them break their goals into manageable definable chunks that are based on their value systems

Schools advisor

For me, one of the key things is that in coaching you unpick your own value system…then decide you want things to pan out is based upon your own value system… so it’s congruent. Not someone else’s value system. It has changed my way of interacting… and my advice and guidance to them. More and more I realise that there is no one in schools to help them break their goals into manageable definable chunks that are based on their value systems

Schools advisor

For me, one of the key things is that in coaching you unpick your own value system…then decide you want things to pan out is based upon your own value system… so it’s congruent. Not someone else’s value system. It has changed my way of interacting… and my advice and guidance to them. More and more I realise that there is no one in schools to help them break their goals into manageable definable chunks that are based on their value systems

Schools advisor

Coaching in one-to-one settings has been absolutely amazing in helping my students gain confidence and feel empowered. They manage to overcome their self-identified issues and goals with ease. They get to own their areas of concern and feel amazed when they achieve progress based on their own efforts and engagement based on the values they resonate with. 95% of my students have gained academic strength because of this inside out approach.

Academic coach- Singapore

Coaching in one-to-one settings has been absolutely amazing in helping my students gain confidence and feel empowered. They manage to overcome their self-identified issues and goals with ease. They get to own their areas of concern and feel amazed when they achieve progress based on their own efforts and engagement based on the values they resonate with. 95% of my students have gained academic strength because of this inside out approach.

Academic coach- Singapore

Coaching in one-to-one settings has been absolutely amazing in helping my students gain confidence and feel empowered. They manage to overcome their self-identified issues and goals with ease. They get to own their areas of concern and feel amazed when they achieve progress based on their own efforts and engagement based on the values they resonate with. 95% of my students have gained academic strength because of this inside out approach.

Academic coach- Singapore

You can apply it to anything and I felt incredibly empowered, because when you break it down, it’s totally doable. It doesn’t feel like this huge, overwhelming, unbearable task. The values are really important, and it linked into things that I hadn’t thought it might link into, like the place where you feel motivated, and people

Student

You can apply it to anything and I felt incredibly empowered, because when you break it down, it’s totally doable. It doesn’t feel like this huge, overwhelming, unbearable task. The values are really important, and it linked into things that I hadn’t thought it might link into, like the place where you feel motivated, and people

Student

You can apply it to anything and I felt incredibly empowered, because when you break it down, it’s totally doable. It doesn’t feel like this huge, overwhelming, unbearable task. The values are really important, and it linked into things that I hadn’t thought it might link into, like the place where you feel motivated, and people

Student

I have adapted it for students who cannot yet hold a self-reflective conversation due to limited development of emotional literacy and self-development…Most of my students are very active, so sitting and reflecting is alien and deeply uncomfortable for them. i…begin the questions by e.g. walking in the countryside / local parks / seafront, or talking while travelling / driving! Levels of self-worth and empathy for others are very low in most of the young men, and so they struggle to accept they have any personal agency or influence over their own lives or others, unless they are breaking rules and norms. I have found that using the VIVA headings has been useful to start a conversation that their world doesn't have to be as it is now. From there it is little steps to each heading, so timescales are necessarily flexible and extended, but building in smaller goals in order to give progress markers.

Leader of KS3, KS4 young men, educated offsite due to anxiety and behaviour risks

I have adapted it for students who cannot yet hold a self-reflective conversation due to limited development of emotional literacy and self-development…Most of my students are very active, so sitting and reflecting is alien and deeply uncomfortable for them. i…begin the questions by e.g. walking in the countryside / local parks / seafront, or talking while travelling / driving! Levels of self-worth and empathy for others are very low in most of the young men, and so they struggle to accept they have any personal agency or influence over their own lives or others, unless they are breaking rules and norms. I have found that using the VIVA headings has been useful to start a conversation that their world doesn't have to be as it is now. From there it is little steps to each heading, so timescales are necessarily flexible and extended, but building in smaller goals in order to give progress markers.

Leader of KS3, KS4 young men, educated offsite due to anxiety and behaviour risks

I have adapted it for students who cannot yet hold a self-reflective conversation due to limited development of emotional literacy and self-development…Most of my students are very active, so sitting and reflecting is alien and deeply uncomfortable for them. i…begin the questions by e.g. walking in the countryside / local parks / seafront, or talking while travelling / driving! Levels of self-worth and empathy for others are very low in most of the young men, and so they struggle to accept they have any personal agency or influence over their own lives or others, unless they are breaking rules and norms. I have found that using the VIVA headings has been useful to start a conversation that their world doesn't have to be as it is now. From there it is little steps to each heading, so timescales are necessarily flexible and extended, but building in smaller goals in order to give progress markers.

Leader of KS3, KS4 young men, educated offsite due to anxiety and behaviour risks

How to get in touch

Send an email to info@viva-go.co.uk