Please choose one of the following options:

1. Coaching for the Musician

2. Helping Kids, Helping Ourselves: An Innovative Approach to Keeping Kids
in the Classroom

3. Services for Athletes, Teams, Parents and Coaches


Coaching for the Musician

Life coaching is an ongoing relationship designed to focus individuals
and/or groups on taking action toward the realization of their goals,
visions or desires. A process of inquiry and discovery is used to
strengthen awareness and personal responsibility, and clients are
provided with appropriate structure, feedback and support. Coaching is
extremely useful in reaching goals which might otherwise go unmet,
vision which might otherwise go unrealized.

Coaching is about vision and the future - the paradigm of possibility.
It is designed to be fun and light-hearted. Clients and I are able to
be extremely purposeful and direct in co-creating ideas and
recommendations, all stemming from abiding musical and personal
strengths. The process is concentrated and efficient. Feedback is
given very directly and honestly with a clear eye toward meeting the
goals as developed. Clients can expect to feel empowered and supported
with sensible, challenging structure and guidance. The emphasis is on
sustainable, measurable, practical change, both short and long-term, and
people need to understand that they will be held accountable to those
innovations to which they commit. The goal is always to engender
self-reliance and a true change in a client’s consciousness.

Individual and/or group coaching for musicians

This is an opportunity to create a musical vision for yourself and to
design plans to reach that vision, feeling supported and sustained by
realistic, powerful and compassionate guidance and encouragement. A
musician himself, Jeff has lived the process and understands the joys
and pitfalls involved with regard to practice, performance, attitude and
finding one’s authentic voice.

The expression of music is a deep, soulful process, and many personal
“gremlins” enjoy interfering! Life coaching, whether on an individual
or group basis, tames those gremlins. It will allow for enriched
practice and performance and ultimately, more powerful, authentic and
satisfying self-expression whatever your instrument may be.

You can expect:
• to begin meeting your goals for practice in terms of time, structure
and energy
• to experience a richer sense of pleasure and satisfaction in your
playing, both solo and in ensemble
• to watch your competency grow on your instrument
• to be able to hear all music differently, more as soulful expression
• to begin learning how to really go for your musical dreams

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Helping Kids, Helping Ourselves: An Innovative Approach to Keeping Kids
in the Classroom

“Only in striving to fulfill his or her emotional needs can an educator
truly begin teaching every child.”

Educational leaders find that many students are placing increasing
emotional demands on faculty and staff. Because of this, bright,
talented and dedicated people are more difficult to find and retain.
Often, one or two troubled youngsters in a classroom setting can
effectively destroy the learning environment and significantly frustrate
teachers and staff, causing feelings of helplessness and failure -
nobody wins.
In the Helping Kids, Helping Ourselves Program, educators
find practical solutions to working with students of all descriptions
and, in so doing, discover effective and practical ways to increase
their own well-being and effectiveness professionally and personally.
This personal and professional growth develops hand in hand with the
increasing stability, happiness and productivity of all students,
particularly those who were previously the most troubled, potentially
upset and/or disruptive.

Workshop Benefits
• unproductive and/or disruptive students grow academically and
personally - behavior steadies and improves
• staff feel happier and more productive
• educators enjoy increased unity and morale
• staff no longer fall prey to students’ emotional “button pushing”
• all students and staff benefit from a healthier school climate
• district operates in a far more cost-efficient manner

Creating Powerful Relationships with Troubled Kids

Personal relationships are obviously at the very heart of all the good
things that happen for students and faculty in schools. The Helping
Kids, Helping Ourselves Program offers strong training in how to think
incisively about students who inevitably bring a variety of issues to
the table, including any variety of family issues, anger, substance
abuse, depression, attentional challenges and the like. Key concepts of
developmental theory and effective psychotherapy are presented and
discussed, and plans are developed together as to how to integrate them
into participants’ actual work with students. An Individual Clinical
Teaching Plan is developed for each and every student of concern. It is
important to note that no one is asking faculty to act as therapists for
kids. However, with the workshop’s support, participants develop a
powerful handle on their own (inevitable) personal issues that have been
interfering in their work with kids. Where educators’ buttons were
previously pushed by students, they now begin to feel empowered and
emotionally balanced as therapeutic agents, adding invaluable and
powerful relationship-building skills that help with every student.

Self-Care

Educators engage in solid training, learning to take good care of
themselves physically, mentally and emotionally, all the while bearing
in mind the demands of the public school environment. The group is
provided resources and ideas and establishes camaraderie of a mutually
supportive nature. People learn how to manage the stress that comes
with any position in a demanding school and to engage in an
understanding of the importance of their work. Participants also find a
kind of centered approach that will bear fruit personally and for every
child with whom they work.

A Community of Educators

Mr. Levin helps create a safe, confidential, supportive atmosphere
within the group, and this forum provides a foundation for the
integration of didactic material in both areas in the Workshop.
Participants broaden their understanding of their students and
themselves and enrich their sense of educating kids in the fullest
possible manner. By the conclusion, educators develop a strong grasp on
clinically informed ways of thinking about all kids: a powerful tool
which can only sharpen with practice and continued group involvement of
one kind or another. Where before there were roadblocks and frustration,
educators will find avenues for success with their charges and much
greater personal fulfillment and happiness.

Format/Cost

Depending on a given school’s schedule and needs, the Helping Kids
Training can be offered in any variety of ways, from a day-long workshop
to ongoing internet support to weekly, small-group meetings. Clearly,
this kind of flexibility is paramount given the busy, demanding rigors
of school life.

• Full-day workshops: $1200 • Half-day: $750 • Small group meetings:
$150 per hour • No charge for internet support & phone calls fifteen
minutes or less •Travel expenses are additional and special rates can be
established depending on level of involvement.

Facilitator

Jeff Levin, M.A.T., M.S.W is a former public school teacher, resource room counselor and dean of students at Vermont Academy. Currently a life coach based in Concord, New Hampshire, Mr. Levin also maintains a private practice of training and consultation. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Smith College School for Social Work, Mr. Levin has worked as a life coach and consultant to parents, families, schools, athletes, teams and corporations all over New England. He tries to find balance in his life by playing and singing blues and rock and spending as much time as possible outdoors.

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Services for Athletes, Teams, Parents and Coaches

Athletics are at the core of a young person’s life experience. Though the majority of competitors may never play professionally, the memories and lessons of team, coaches, and the lifelong friendships that are gained are of inestimable value.

In addition, the playing field is a kind of crucible of experience for young people. It is here, particularly if the athlete’s commitment is strong, that he or she learns about perseverance, commitment, pain (and its value), success, teamwork and, finally, about character and about self. People are, in some ways, truly formed on the field.

Life coaching supports that development, finding its foundation in the athlete’s deeply held values, strengths and core beliefs. Students at this age are already in the process of examining these seminal, personal questions and find great, natural passion in so doing. Mr. Levin’s work can help set the stage for strong personal growth and development in all areas of life, not just on the playing field.

Jeff works with individual athletes and/or teams to prepare for the upcoming season, maximize personal and team effectiveness, and allow for an energized pursuit of clear and deeply held goals and objectives.

Individual Athletes Will:

• Discover deeply motivating core values and goals.
• Get more deeply connected to and motivated by those core beliefs.
• Develop a plan, based on those values and beliefs, for athletics, school, family and social life that supports success in all areas.
• Remain accountable to that flexible plan, realizing increasing personal satisfaction, balance and opportunity in life, particularly in moving toward post-secundary choices.

Teams Will:

• Develop crystal clarity about goals for the athletes and coaches.
• Demonstrate the deepest commitment to these goals.
• Field individual athletes whose personal goals engender the highest levels of participation and commitment to team and self-development.
• Embody ideal of putting leadership ahead of oneself.

Facilitator

Jeff Levin, M.A.T., M.S.W is a former public school teacher, resource room counselor and dean of students at Vermont Academy. Currently a life coach based in Concord, New Hampshire, Mr. Levin also maintains a private practice of training and consultation. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Smith College School for Social Work, Mr. Levin has worked as a life coach and consultant to parents, families, schools, athletes, teams and corporations all over New England. He tries to find balance in his life by playing and singing blues and rock and spending as much time as possible outdoors.
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