The Adventures in Wisdom®
Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum
With the Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids story-based curriculum, you help children develop a mindset for happiness, confidence, and success in their lives.
We all want our kids to be happy and to walk in the world with their head held high – the question is, how we help them get that?
It doesn’t matter how much we love our children, we can’t give them self-esteem, self-confidence, or success in life. But what we can do is help them to develop it in themselves.
And that’s what The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum does!
About The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum
The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum™ is a proven story-based coaching curriculum designed to help children develop essential mindset skills and life skills in an engaging, interactive way that works.
This research-based curriculum is grounded in neuroscience, personal development, positive psychology, congnitive behavior theory, and emotional intelligence in a non-clinical child-friendly process that helps children develop skills they will use long-term.
The curriculum teaches 27 core mindset skills and is used by certified WISDOM Coaches to deliver life coaching for kids through stories, guided coaching conversations, reflection activities, and real-life application.
Who This Curriculum Is Designed For
The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum is designed for certified WISDOM Coaches who want proven, child-friendly tools they can confidently use to coach children.
Since 2013, WISDOM Coaches in over 30 countries have been using this coaching curriculum and our proven STORY Coaching Process to help children develop the mindset and the skill-set to navigate the ups and downs of growing up, to proactivly build their confidence and self-esteem, to become self-leaders, and to acheive their goals so that they are confident and prepared to thrive in life and reach their fullest potential.
Parents often review this curriculum as well to understand what their children will be learning and to build trust in the coaching process and the WISDOM Coaches who deliver it.
It’s fun. It’s engaging. It’s proven. Coaches love it. Kids love it. And it works!
Why this Curriculum Works for Children
Children learn best when they feel safe, engaged, and understood. The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum uses coaching stories, guided discussions, and interactive activities to help children learn and grow in a way that works.
All coaching stories are written in a fable format and teach a specific mindset skill. While story characters may change, one trusted guide remains consistent throughout the curriculum: Wyatt the Wise Wizard. Wyatt serves as the mentor within each story, helping characters discover how the skill they are learning can help them navigate real-life challenges.
WISDOM Coaches “partner” with Wyatt the Wise Wizard as they guide children through each story, connecting the lessons to the child’s own experiences through coaching conversations, reflection, and practice. Stories create emotional safety, coaching conversations build awareness, and repetition turns learning into lasting skills children can use in everyday life.
How the Curriculum Is Organized Using the WISDOM System for Coaching Kids™
The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum is organized using the WISDOM System for Coaching Kids™, a framework that groups skills into five core areas of social and emotional development.
WISDOM represents how children grow across key areas of thinking, self-leadership, confidence and self-esteem, achievement, and resilience.
This system helps coaches understand how skills build over time and ensures children develop in a balanced, intentional way.
W.I.S.D.O.M.
is an acronym for what kids will learn with the curriculum
Let’s look at each step in more detail…
WISDOM
System for Coaching Kids
W – Wire Your Brain for Happiness and Success with MindPower™
MindPower is the secret behind why some people live a life of their dreams while others seem to struggle…never quite creating the life they imagined or dreamed of.
Kids learn how their thoughts create their experiences and what they can do to shape their thoughts. Kids learn how both their conscious mind and their subconscious mind work and how belief systems are at the core of shaping how they experience their lives. They learn secrets as to how their mind works and how to build a belief system based on possibility.
The MindPower Segment lays the groundwork for the rest of the Adventures in Wisdom™ segments.
| Skill # | Skill Book Title | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Skill 1 | How Your Mind Shape Your World…and What You Can do to Shape Your Mind | “Who’s Flying Your Plane?” |
| Skill 2 | Power of Possibility – Why You Achieve What you Believe | “Power of Possibility” |
| Skill 3 | Building Neural Pathways – How to Create Your Path to Success | “Pathway to Success” |
| Skill 4 | The Secret Radar in Your Brain! How to Use Your RAS to Achieve Your Goals | “Your Radar for Success” |
| Skill 5 | Power Shifting – How to Choose Your Power Even When Things Don’t Go Your Way | “Power Goggles” |
The secret to creating happiness and reaching your fullest potential is understanding the power of your mind and how to use it!”
I know I’m helping kids develop skills they will use for life!
I have taught in Elementary Education for 30 years. “I became a life coach for kids because I have a huge heart for students that are a little extra unique. I wanted to teach them and help them understand that being perfectly imperfect is beautiful. Every day I work hard in my classroom to build independence and confidence while instilling the love of who they are…”
The benefits of life coaching for students include that students are more confident and understanding of what they think, and why they believe what they believe. I have taught the Adventures in Wisdom program for 2 years in an afterschool setting. I have heard from other teachers at my school how much more confident the students are and how they handle challenging situations in the classroom so much better.
The parents in my classroom have mentioned how happy they are that I am teaching some of the skills from the program in my classroom and how their child comes home and teaches them what they have learned. It provides the parents with an opportunity to talk about subjects they wouldn’t normally discuss like comfort zone, being unique, how to handle failure, goal setting, etc. It is a win-win program for everyone!
What I love most about being a life coach for kids is knowing that I am making a positive impact they can carry with them on their journey through life. The skills instilled in their heart and mind at any age will help them create a life of success and acceptance as they navigate the ups and downs of the world!
WISDOM
System for Coaching Kids
I – Identify “Who” You Want to Be and What You Want for Your Life with InnerPower™
What will kids do when grownups aren’t there?
Peer pressure is not only one of the toughest challenges kids face while growing up
but also one of the top reasons why kids get into trouble.
…and in the age of camera phones and the Internet,
the mistakes kids make can haunt them…
for the rest of their lives.
To stand up to peer pressure, kids must decide who they are and what they stand for; choose what they want for themselves before they are in a tough situation; and learn how to say “no” to their peers and “yes” to themselves.
In this segment kids will learn…
- Four core values of self-leaders (including self-responsibility, integrity, respect, and self-respect)
- How to make good decisions and decide what they want for themselves in key areas of their lives
- How to recognize 5 different types of peer pressure
- Key phrases for saying “No” to their peers
| Skill # | Skill Book Title | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Skill 6 | The Power of Self-responsibility – How to Be “The Boss of Me” | “Victim Victor Finds His Power” |
| Skill 7 | Choosing Integrity – What You do When No One is Looking | “No One Will Know Nelson” |
| Skill 8 | Make Your Mark with Respect – Understanding Your Impact on Others | “Make Your Mark with the Golden Rule” |
| Skill 9 | Making Your Mark with Self-respect – Understanding Your Impact on You! | “My “Mark” on Me” |
| Skill 10 | How to Make Good Decisions – Choosing What you Want for You | “Charlie Chooses Charlie” |
| Skill 11 | Standing Up to Peer Pressure – Say “Yes” to You and “No” to Peer Pressure | “Copy Cat Cathy” |
“Every moment of every day you get to choose who you want to be…. Choose you!”
The Teacher Noticed!
WISDOM Coach Limor was working with her own son on the InnerPower program where they focused on the values of self-leaders – responsibility, respect, self-respect, and integrity.
When the teacher called she asked Limor if anything had happened to Johnny ? Was everything OK? Because his behavior had changed.
Her first thought was, “Oh no, not again.”
But the teacher said, “Oh, no – he’s really good! He opened the door for me, and he opened the door for the other kids, and he helped out, and he offered to help other kids.”
The change was so noticeable that WISDOM Coach® Limor launched an after school program at her son’s school. It was so popular, the school created two classes.
Limor shared, “The curriculum gave us a common language. I could ask, ‘Did you give golden hearts today?’ and he knew immediately what I meant.”
WISDOM
System for Coaching Kids
S – See Your Inner Superstar and Shine with MePower™
How kids feel about themselves and whether or not they believe in themselves will directly impact their happiness and what they create in their lives. Although you can’t give your kids strong self-esteem and self-confidence… you can teach them to develop it in themselves, from the inside out, so they can feel good about themselves and believe in themselves no matter what comes their way.
With this segment kids learn…
- How to develop powerful self-esteem and build self-confidence that doesn’t rise and fall with the ups and downs of life
- How to honor their uniqueness and the uniqueness of others
- The secret behind powerful self-confidence and self-esteem
- How to self-coach and make every day their master piece
| Skill # | Skill Book Title | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Skill 12 | I Love Me! How to Develop Soaring Self-esteem | “Yucky Me. Yahoo Me!” |
| Skill 13 | I Honor Me! How to Be Yourself and Honor Your Uniqueness | “The Sun, The Wind, and The Rain” |
| Skill 14 | I Believe in Me! How to Develop Unstoppable Self-confidence | “Canville and Cantville – A Tale of Two Towns” |
| Skill 15 | Self-Talk – Mastering the Secret Behind Self-esteem and Self-confidence | “Choosing Your BFF (Best Friend Forever)” |
| Skill 16 | Self-coaching – How to Conquer the Day-to-day Ups and Downs and Create Daily Mastery | “Migration Frustration” |
“What you say to yourself is more important than what anyone else says to you!”
So much more advanced than the program I use to coach adults
“This [Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids] program is so much more advanced than the program I use to coach adults through. What you have created is POWERFUL. I need to make sure you know that! I am forever grateful because AIW is also going to transform my babies lives too.”
WISDOM
System for Coaching Kids
D – Dream Big, Live with Purpose, and Make it Happen with DreamPower™
Throughout history, humans have made the once “impossible”, possible…
From airplane flight, to cell phones, to wireless phones, to open heart surgery
– impossible dreams have become day-to-day conveniences
of the modern world.
But how does this happen?
By dreaming!
Someone thought of an idea…believed in that idea…and took action to make it happen.
In this segment kids will learn…
- How to create a vision for their lives so they live life with intention versus drifting through life
- How to use goal setting to turn their vision into action
- How to use the Law of Attraction tools of Visualization, Affirmations, and Gratitude to “program” their mind for success.
With the knowledge in this segment,
children can create an extraordinary life…
whatever that means to them!
| Skill # | Skill Book Title | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Skill 17 | Creating Your Vision – What Do You Want? | “A Tale of Two Voyages” |
| Skill 18 | Goal Setting – How to Turn Your Vision into Action | “I Wanna Donna” |
| Skill 19 | Introduction to the Law of Attraction | |
| Skill 20 | Visualization – How Winning in Your Mind Creates Winning in Your Life | “I Hope Holly Helps Herself” |
| Skill 21 | Affirmations – How to “Program” Your Mind to Reach Your Goals | “It Ain’t Happenin’ Harry Learns Affirmations” |
| Skill 22 | Gratitude – How an Attitude of Gratitude Prepares You for Your Dreams | “Gotta Have Gary Gets Gratitude” |
“Life is not about discovering who you are… it’s about creating who you want to be. What do you choose?”
I Struck Gold!
I am a Child and Family Psychologist in Westchester County. NY My approach is very unique in that my focus is on growth, empowerment, health, and wellness; whereas most psychologists in my area still take a very western medical approach and focus on symptoms, diagnoses, problems, and weaknesses….
I searched for quite some time but never found a program that worked for me. Then I stumbled upon Adventures in Wisdom and my search was over!! I knew I struck gold, I am so excited to incorporate this fantastic program into my work with children, whether in groups or when working privately with clients, I also plan to incorporate this into the school-based wellness programs that I have created. I feel right at home Knowing that I am among like-minded people who really love and care about kids!”
WISDOM
System for Coaching Kids
O – Overcome Obstacles and Create Courage
M – Manage the Ups and Downs of Growing Up
with Slaying Dragons!
Fear…Failure…Mistakes…Change…Conditional Thinking
These are the dragons that keep so many people from their dreams….Help kids learn how to slay these dragons!
In this segment kids will learn…
- How to move through fear and “go for it”.
- How to put failure “in a box”, learn from it, and let it go
- How to use “The Five “I’s” of Managing Mistakes” to replace blame and excuses with responsibility and action
- How to manage and embrace change so that fear of the unknown doesn’t hold them back
- How to avoid conditional thinking and go for their dreams
Learning to slay the dragons helps kids create magic in their lives!
| Skill # | Skill Book Title | Story |
|---|---|---|
| Skill 23 | Overcoming Mistakes – How to Learn from Mistakes and Let them Go | “The Weight of Mistakes” |
| Skill 24 | Managing Fear – How to Create Courage and Bust Outside Your Comfort Zone | “The Knight and Three Dragons” |
| Skill 25 | Moving Past Failure – How to “Put it in a Box” and Keep on Goin’ | “Afraid to Fail Fred” |
| Skill 26 | Managing Change – How to Embrace Change and Thrive | “Changes in Paradise” |
| Skill 27 | Conditional Thinking – How “If…Then” Keeps You From Happiness | “If Then Ben” |
“Dragons are just creations of your mind!”
As you can see, children learn very powerful mindset skills when working with a Certified WISDOM Coach!
Each skill book has a Mentor’s Guide and a Children’s Guide
- The Mentor’s Guide contains background information and coaching tips for you.
- The Children’s Guide contains the story, discussion questions, activities, and Wyatt’s Wrap Up which summarizes the key points of the lesson.
How to become
a Certified WISDOM Coach®
Step 1
Complete Your Application Today
Step 2
Watch Overview about WISDOM Coaching!
Step 3
Talk with One of Our Success Coaches!
Step 4
Coach Kids and Grow Your Business!
History
The Adventures in Wisdom Life Coaching for Kids Curriculum was created before the WISDOM System for Coaching Kids and the WISDOM Coaching Certification Program, which were later developed to support consistent, high-quality delivery of the curriculum by trained coaches.