Inspiring and Empowering Kids…
ONE STORY AT A TIME
Empowering parents since 2011
Certifying coaches since 2013!
Inspiring and Empowering Kids…
ONE STORY AT A TIME
Empowering parents since 2011
Certifying coaches since 2013!
About Adventures in Wisdom®
Teaching kids how to use the power of their thoughts to create happiness, confidence, and success in their lives!
Every Child Deserves to Live Their Best Life
At Adventures in Wisdom, we believe every child deserves to:
- Discover the magnificence of who they truly are and build strong self-esteem
- Learn how to build the confidence and resilience skills needed to navigate the ups and downs of growing up, go for their goals, and achieve their fullest potential
- Develop the mindset skills needed to create a life of happiness and live their best life
And that’s what life coaching for kids is all about!
Life Coaching for Kids – the Global Mission That’s Changing Lives
Adventures in Wisdom is leading a worldwide mission to bring mindset development and life coaching to kids.
Since 2013, we’ve certified many hundreds of coaches in over 30 countries, helping them create a business they love as a life coach for kids while empowering children around the world.
Life coaching is a game changer for children as they learn how to build confidence, resilience, and mindset skills for life; and it is a game changer for coaches as they increase their impact and income while doing their work in the world serving kids.
And you can too!
Our Certified WISDOM Coaches use The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum – a proven, story-based coaching curriculum and our step-by-step STORY Coaching Process to help kids develop mindset skills – for life.
Together, we’re creating a movement that’s shaping the next generation of confident, resilient, and empowered leaders—one child, one story, one mindset shift at a time.
“No matter how much we love our children, we can’t give them self-esteem, we can’t give them confidence, we can’t give them success in life, and we can’t give them happiness. But what we can do is help them to develop it in themselves. And that’s what life coaching for kids is all about.“
What is WISDOM Coaching?
WISDOM Coaching is an innovative coaching program designed to help children develop the mindset and the skill set to be confident and prepared to thrive in life.
What makes Adventures in Wisdom so unique is that our certified WISDOM Coaches use a proven story-based coaching curriculum and a powerful step-by-step STORY Coaching Process to teach mindset skills to kids.
Coaching is delivered LIVE by a coach to ensure that children learn, understand, and experience the skills so that they use them in their everyday life—for life.
At Adventures in Wisdom, we don’t teach children what to think—we teach them how to think.
Life Coaching helps kids:
- Develop resilience and coping skills. Kids learn how to manage life’s “curveballs” — whether it’s facing a big change or dealing with a major disappointment, so that they can pick themselves up again and “go for it” in life.
- Build self-esteem from the “inside out”. Kids learn how to base their self-esteem on who they are and not on what they have achieved.
- Learn to believe in themselves and build self-confidence. Kids learn how to move through anxiety and fear, so they can stretch outside of their comfort zone, create courage, and go for their dreams with confidence.
- Develop their “inner compass” and self-leadership. Kids learn core values of integrity, responsibility, respect, and self-respect. They learn how to think for themselves and make good decisions, so they can stand up to peer pressure and be their own person.
- Learn to live life with intention versus drifting through life. Kids learn how to create a vision for their lives and achieve their goals so that they can reach their fullest potential.
Kids learn the brain science behind why these skills work
through the power of Coaching Stories!
See all 27 Skills
Why do we use stories?
Since the beginning of time, stories have been used in every country and every culture, to pass along traditions and to teach life skills.
And stories are also the most effective method for bringing life coaching to children. The key reason is brain science!
Unlike hearing facts, which primarily engage the intellectual brain, stories activate the sensory and emotional regions as well. This helps children imagine and feel what the characters experience, creating stronger memories and deeper connections to the lessons.
Stories also provide a non-threatening way for children to learn about life. Most children don’t like to talk about being nervous or afraid, but they love talking about “grungies” and “dragons”. These are terms from our curriculum that give children a safe way to talk about what they are feeling and thinking.
By experiencing skills through a character’s journey, children can safely apply those lessons to their own lives, making the coaching process fun, engaging, and highly impactful.
While the coaching stories are designed to lay a foundation of knowledge for kids, these stories are the first step in the five step STORY Coaching Process.
What is the STORY Coaching Process?
The STORY Coaching Process provides a clear, step-by-step framework for coaches working with children. Each step includes a dedicated coaching tool, ensuring kids not only learn and understand the skills but also experience and apply them in their own lives—for life.
This proven process is so effective that coaches often see results with children as early as the first session.
STORY is an acronym for each step in the coaching process.
A WISDOM Coach will:
S) Share the Coaching Story
Which teaches the child about the skill and includes scenarios children often experience in their own lives.
T) Talk about the story
Using the child-friendly discussion questions deepen the understanding.
O) Organize an activity
So that kids experience the skill in a multi-sensory way
R) Review the session with parents and give them a WISDOM for Home Sheet
So that they can continue the conversation at home.
Y) Yes! Confirm knowledge with Wise in Fives
Confirm the learning in the next session, before working on the next skill.
What is the WISDOM Coach Certification Program?
Certifying coaches since 2013
The WISDOM Coach® Certification Program is a unique training and business opportunity designed for people who want to make a difference in the lives of children by helping them build confidence, resilience, and self-esteem through mindset skills training.
Since 2013 we’ve certified many hundreds of coaches in over 30 countries to bring life to kids through stories!
Create success with children
The WISDOM Coach Certification program equips you with a proven, story-based coaching curriculum that teaches children 27 essential mindset skills to be confident and prepared to thrive in life.
The program combines life coaching techniques with engaging stories to help children learn how to develop self-leadership, manage challenges, and take inspired action. Through the STORY Coaching Process, children connect with powerful lessons, making it easy for them to understand, remember, and apply these skills in their everyday lives.
Create success in your business
As a certified WISDOM Coach®, you not only gain the tools to coach children effectively but also receive comprehensive business resources to launch and grow your own life coaching practice.
From marketing materials to ongoing community support, our program empowers you to confidently build a business while making a positive impact on the next generation.
Whether you’re a teacher, counselor, parent, or someone passionate about personal development, the WISDOM Coach® Certification Program is your path to creating a fulfilling business that transforms children’s lives.
See 9 key considerations when choosing a child life coach certification program
Why do we use LIVE Coaching? Why not videos or an app?
We use LIVE coaching as our model because that’s how children learn best.
A child’s brain is not fully developed, so they don’t have the critical reasoning skills that adults have, making it difficult for them to independently connect and apply information from a video or app to their own lives.
WISDOM Coaching is about providing human-to-human connection and an emotionally safe space to help children learn and apply these skills to their own lives. This requires conversation, exploration, and repetition.
Coaches also get to know a child, and their thought patterns, helping them learn how to identify and shift limiting beliefs that might be holding them back and helping them proactively create supportive believes that will help them build the self-esteem and confidence needed to navigate life’s challenges, be self-leaders, achieve their goals, and feel more empowered in their lives.
The human connection provided by coaches helps turn information into transformation for children.
“Just like an athletic coach helps children develop the skills, confidence, and ability to thrive in sports, a certified WISDOM Coach helps children develop the skills confidence and ability to thrive in life.“
Why Parents Choose a WISDOM Coach to Work with Their Child
When a parent seeks help with their child, it doesn’t mean that they are an “ineffective parent.” It’s exactly the opposite!
Life coaching goes beyond the traditional parenting roles of moral and character development, and it goes beyond learning how to treat others and learning how to “behave.”
Just as some children may require additional support learning math, playing a musical instrument, or developing sports skills, many children also need additional support in the areas of developing resilience and coping skills, building self-esteem, creating confidence, enhancing self-leadership, overcoming shyness, dealing with bullies, managing peer pressure, becoming self-leaders, learning to set and achieve goals, and so much more.
Life coaching for kids is about mindset development—it targets the root of the thought patterns that hold children back and helps kids create thought patterns that will help them soar!
Coaching empowers children with a specific set of skills they can use throughout their childhood, teen years, and into adulthood.
WISDOM Coaching has a proven track record and is available worldwide – via in-person and online coaching.
For parents wanting to learn more see, Is Coaching Right for Your Child
Who Becomes a WISDOM Coach?
WISDOM Coaches come from all walks of life, but they have three things in common. They are:
- Passionate about helping children build confidence, self-esteem, and resilience.
- Passionate about personal development
- Believe that working with children is part of their life purpose
Many coaches are:
- Educators who want to develop the “whole child”. Helping children develop the “growth mindset” and social emotional learning needed to thrive both inside and outside the classroom.
- Life coaches for adults who understand that many of the challenges that their adult clients face were rooted in childhood. They want to reach children while they are young to help them learn how to identify and shift limiting beliefs and proactive create supporting beliefs to navigate life and thrive.
- Professionals working with children—sports coaches, extracurricular teachers (martial arts instructors, music teachers, art teachers, acting coaches), and childcare givers, who know that mindset is just as important as skill set to help children perform in all areas of life—thriving on the court, on the canvas, and on the stage.
- Mental health professionals such as counselors, therapists, and social workers who want to proactively support children in building strong mental health. Coaching enables them to serve children before they are in crisis and enables many professionals to offer coaching services to children anywhere in the world.
- Parents, grandparents, mentors, and volunteers. Most start by wanting to help the children in their lives and their vision expands to help other children as well.
If you want a flexible business that aligns with your purpose and passion and you’re ready to make a meaningful impact on children and families, let’s talk.
Coaches Choose Adventures in Wisdom® Because:
Proven Curriculum and Coaching Process Designed Specifically for Coaching Kids:
- A story-based curriculum that teaches children 27 mindset skills through engaging and relatable stories.
- The proven STORY Coaching process helps children internalize key lessons and apply them to real-life challenges.
- Focus on building confidence, self-esteem, resilience, self-leadership, and other life skills children need to thrive.
Comprehensive Business and Marketing Support:
- Step-by-step guidance for launching and growing your coaching business. Follow your Success Map to know exactly what steps to take!
- A library of done-for-you marketing tools, business, and coaching tools.
- Resources to help you run workshops, group programs, and private coaching sessions
Global Community:
- Join a vibrant international community of like-minded WISDOM Coaches® who are passionate about empowering children. Connect daily in our private Facebook group where you can get your questions answered, pick up new ideas, get feedback, and celebrate your wins!
- Participate in regular Q&A calls and training sessions to stay inspired and grow as a coach.
- Be part of a mission-driven movement that is transforming the way children learn life skills and achieve their dreams.
Trusted by Leaders in Personal Development
The Adventures in Wisdom program is endorsed by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series and a global authority on success and personal development.
You can see Jack Canfield interview Renaye Thornborrow and discover life coaching for kids here.
ICF CCE Provider
We are also recognized as an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Continuing Coach Education (CCE) provider, offering professional development opportunities for coaches.
Message from Renaye
Hello Parents, Mentors, and future WISDOM Coaches®,
I’m Renaye Thornborrow, founder of Adventures in Wisdom® and leader of a worldwide mission to bring mindset skills training and life coaching to kids!
When my children were young, I knew that no matter how much I loved them, I couldn’t give them confidence, self-esteem, happiness, or success in life. But what I could do was to teach how to develop it in themselves. And mindset skills training was the key!
And that’s how Adventures in Wisdom® came to be.
Our mission is to inspire and empower kids to believe in themselves and their dreams and to help them develop the mindset and the skill set to make that happen.
Through our story-based coaching curriculum, children learn how to be confident and prepared to handle the ups and downs of growing up, to think for themselves and make good decisions, and to go for their dreams and reach their fullest potential.
Together we can change the world – one child at a time, one story at a time!
About Renaye Thornborrow
Renaye Thornborrow is a pioneer in bringing mindset development and life coaching to kids. Since 2013, her company, Adventures in Wisdom, has certified many hundreds of coaches in more than 30 countries, helping them create a business they love as a life coach for kids while empowering children around the world.
Renaye is the:
- Author of the Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum,
- Creator of the STORY Coaching Process
- Creator of the WISDOM Coach Certification Program
- Author of the book, A Parent’s Guide to Life Coaching for Kids – When to Add a Coach to Your Parenting Team.
She is a sought-after media and podcast guest who is passionate about raising awareness of how critical mindset development is for children and how effective life coaching is for kids.
For Renaye, motherhood was the catalyst for turning her lifelong passion for personal development into a powerful story-based coaching curriculum to help children develop mindset skills for self-esteem, resilience, confidence, self-leadership, happiness, and so much more.
Renaye is a personal development expert, member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and former 3-year board member for the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO).
She is a retired corporate marketing executive and the proud mother of 22-year-old twins – a son and a daughter.
Adventures in Wisdom is an ICF CCE (Continuing Coach Education) provider.
Elementary school kids smiling to camera during school break
Join the Movement
Becoming a WISDOM Coach is more than a career—it’s a calling. Together, we can help the next generation develop the mindset skills they need to thrive in life. If you work with kids or want to work with kids and are looking to expand your impact, Adventures in Wisdom provides the tools, training, and community to help you succeed.
Ready to make a difference? Learn more and join our community of change-makers today.
Contact Us
- Our team is here to answer your questions! To reach customer support, please email us at: [email protected]
(we have multiple team members supporting this email address – it’s the fastest way to get support!) - Adventures in Wisdom Message line: 860-580-WISE