Presenters: Jen Krafchick, Ph.D., CFLE, and Lindsey Weiler, Ph.D., LMFT  

Emotion coaching in a mentoring context is a new and innovative approach. The webinar presenters will demonstrate how this approach can provide youth-serving professionals with new skills and tools intended to support youth’s emotional needs.

The dramatic rise in rates of adolescent depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues has resulted in concern regarding adolescent well-being. Multiple indicators demonstrate high numbers of youth are struggling emotionally, especially youth with adverse childhood experiences. Youth need support to improve their emotional well-being. Those who work with youth need enhanced skills to offer appropriate support. Therefore, it is essential for family practitioners to possess the necessary skills to offer support to adolescents and improve their emotional well-being. One effective approach for practitioners working with young individuals is emotion coaching. Coupled with trauma-informed practices and a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework, emotion coaching provides an effective approach to mentor/protégé interactions.

Emotion coaching, a relational approach, was first discovered in high-quality parent-child relationships. Emotion coaching is an accessible and impactful coregulatory approach. Applied by volunteers or professionals working with youth, emotion coaching fosters youth’s capacity for emotion regulation. Adults engaged in emotion coaching with youth can provide practical skills to manage stress, emotions, and relationships; specifically assisting youth improve their emotion regulation (i.e., identifying emotions, modifying or tolerating emotions, practicing regulatory strategies, and evaluating success of those strategies). Youth who have access to emotion coaching are also more satisfied with life, show more empathy, are more socially adept, and have greater success in relationships than those who do not have emotion coaching. Coupled with trauma-informed practices and a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework, emotion coaching provides an effective approach to mentoring interactions.

The webinar presenters will provide youth-serving professionals and practitioners with the basic concepts of emotion coaching and its benefits. Participants will acquire skills and tools to provide empathetic support to their youth protégés.   

Attendees will leave this webinar with the ability to:  

• Implement and model the basic concepts and skills of emotion coaching in their work with youth;  
• Create mentor-based programming that integrates emotion coaching concepts and skills as outcome objectives; and  
• Demonstrate to youth and their families the benefits of emotion coaching (e.g. in conversation or promotional materials).  

Intended audience:
Practitioners who work with youth, particularly those working in a mentoring context

Approved for 1.0 hour of CFLE continuing education

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About the Presenters

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Jen Krafchick, Ph.D., CFLE, is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) at Colorado State University. Dr. Krafchick serves as Director of Undergraduate Student Affairs in HDFS and as Co-Director of the award-winning Campus Connections (CC) Therapeutic Youth Mentoring program that pairs with local youth who have experienced adversity with student mentors to participate in a semester long mentoring program. CC is a licensed program at other universities in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Zealand. Dr. Krafchick is a passionate educator who teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level and studies mentoring and student success.  

Lindsey Weiler, Ph.D., LMFT, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Weiler studies the process and impact of youth mentoring programs for populations exposed to adverse childhood experiences or other adversities. She is a trained family therapist and prevention scientist who applies this expertise to the use of relational interventions for positive youth and family development. Dr. Weiler is co-founder of the Campus Connections mentoring program and serves on the Research Board of the National Mentoring Resource Center. Her research has been featured in various local and national outlets. 
 

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