Values-focused coaching to encourage, equip, and empower children and young people.

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"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

Easy, fast, flexible

30 Minute Sessions

1:1, Pair, or Group

Once every 2-4 Weeks

Effective & Clear Coaching Tool

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

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

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

Speedy, values and solution coaching for children, young people, adults, and teams.

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

Discover the power in coaching young people

Listen to Heather Torrens tell the story behind VIVA-GO, and how it can help transform the lives of children and young people.

To transform society, we need to raise up good leaders.

VIVA-GO exists to encourage through values, empower through simple coaching steps and raise up young 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 young people to transform their:

Relationships

Building healthy, positive connections with others.

Responsibility

Developing accountability and taking ownership of actions.

Resilience

Strengthening the ability to cope with challenges and bounce back.

Reflection

Encouraging self-awareness of own values, vision and great decisions.

Go from here to there
with VIVA-GO coaching

Go from
here to there
with coaching

Coaching enables individuals to make conscious decisions and empowers them to become leaders in their own lives.

What is coaching?

A coach will listen more than they speak, so the coachee has time and space to reflect.

Coaching is a conversation, usually between two people.

Coaching seeks to create change through open questions which challenge thinking and is solution-focused.

A coach does not look deep and back (Counselling) or assume the role of the expert (Mentoring), but instead asks questions that empower the coachee to find answers.

Built on Values

Values are what we stand on to navigate life, like a compass to steer forwards, even when the waves are overwhelming.

So much in our lives, difficulty, stress and change is outside our control.

Values help us to connect to what really matters to us.

Values impact all behaviours, attitudes, decisions & relationships.

Values are based on deep beliefs from family, peers & culture.

Compare Coaching, Counselling, and Mentoring

Each has their place, but which one is right for you?

Compare Coaching, Counselling, and Mentoring

Each has their place, but which one is right for you?

Counselling

Focuses mainly on the past, exploring thoughts, feelings and experiences.

Mentoring

Focuses mainly on the present, where an expert gives advice and wisdom to help.

Coaching

Looks forwards towards the future. It begins with the belief that the coachee can make quick and successful changes for themselves.

VIVA-GO is for the time-poor, relationship rushed, anxious generation, where encouragement from someone kind with a bank of questions and a willingness to listen brings focus, vision and empowerment to a young life.

Testimonies

"It’s such a helpful tool to mine for the gold in them. As soon as you start unpacking it you say ‘Ah, there you are!’ because you find out who their inspiration is and who they hold most dearly."

So fun. It made me proud to go to VIVA GO. I want to still do this together. It will be the thing we really want to do. I was successful."

Julia, aged 7 (SEND)

So fun. It made me proud to go to VIVA GO. I want to still do this together. It will be the thing we really want to do. I was successful."

Julia, aged 7 (SEND)

So fun. It made me proud to go to VIVA GO. I want to still do this together. It will be the thing we really want to do. I was successful."

Julia, aged 7 (SEND)

“I just liked talking about what I like, ‘cause I don’t get to do that. It’s helped me feel more confident. I asked my mum if I could have a little bit of space. I just asked them and they moved my brother out of my room for a bit so I could do my drawing.

Craig, aged 9

"I have found Viva Go very easy to use with my young people. It is simple and highly effective for setting goals and seeing growth. I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a way to encourage young people and see them grow and develop in their education and personal lives."

VIVA-GO helped me to if I have been naughty, to be an angel. It helped me in my learning and to think about my maths and go on higher groups at reading. You have to try it because it will make you better at stuff! I like best that it makes me better at stuff. I will never give up. I try to not give up.

Charlie, age 7 (SEMH)

“VIVA- GO is one of the best things ever in my life. I was really bad, a zero, but now I listen and look and am at 10! I am more happy because I have people who care about me. It makes me be nice. If people talk over you, I get sad. When people say ‘do you want to talk?’, I am happy. I learned about other people and I help them. I know I can do some stuff without giving up.”

Zach, aged 7