This handbook is meant for community organisers, to support their efforts in identifying local youth community leadership and to empower these individuals in accepting and engaging with their leadership role by implementing some basic coaching tools and methods. When we talk about life coaching tools, we mean those tools that require the set of competences heralded and promoted by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), namely:

(1) Meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards; (2) Establishing the coaching agreement. (3) Establishing trust and intimacy with the client. (4) Coaching presence. (5) Active Listening. (6) Powerful Questioning. (7) Direct Communication; (8) Creating Awareness; (9) Designing Action; (10) Planning and Goal Setting; (11) Managing Progress and Accountability. Which we will explore in more detail later in chapter 3. [3]

When we mention competences we mean the set of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values and behaviours a youth community organiser needs to deliver strong, effective and empowering coaching tools, and the whole concept of this handbook was developed on the basis of developing these 11 competences, and to apply them to community organising.

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