Kids & Teens
Helping Young People Build Skills for Life
Growing up comes with more pressure than many young people know how to process.
Growing up comes with more pressure than many young people know how to process.
Stress, changing relationships, academic expectations, family dynamics, social pressure, big emotions, confidence, identity, and uncertainty about the future can all affect the way a child or teen feels, communicates, and responds to the world around them.
At Ledbetter Transformations, we create age-appropriate experiences that help young people better understand themselves while developing practical tools they can use in everyday life.
Through coaching, nervous system education, breathwork and therapeutic experiences, guided reflection, and practical skill-building, we meet each child or teen where they are while helping them grow in confidence, resilience, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.
THE LEDBETTER TRANSFORMATION METHOD™ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Our youth programs adapt the principles of the Ledbetter Transformation Method™ into developmentally appropriate experiences that help kids and teens understand what is happening within them and learn healthier ways to respond.
Self-Awareness + Emotional Understanding
Learning to recognize emotions, triggers, thoughts, patterns, and physical responses with greater curiosity and understanding.
Stress + Nervous System Regulation
Understanding how the body responds to stress and practicing simple tools to settle, reset, and regain a sense of control.
Confidence + Identity
Building a healthier understanding of self while strengthening confidence, self-trust, and personal responsibility.
Communication + Relationships
Developing skills for expressing needs, navigating conflict, creating healthy boundaries, and building stronger relationships.
Resilience + Coping Skills
Learning how to move through disappointment, change, pressure, frustration, and difficult experiences without becoming defined by them.
Purpose + Growth
Helping older youth identify their values, strengths, goals, and the kind of person they want to become.
FLEXIBLE PROGRAMMING
Experiences Designed Around Your Students
Youth Wellness Workshops
Practical tools.
Age-appropriate experiences.
Single workshops or short-format experiences introduce young people to concepts such as stress regulation, emotional awareness, communication, confidence, resilience, healthy coping strategies, and nervous system education.
Workshops can be customized for schools, youth organizations, homeschool communities, ministries, retreats, and other group settings.
6-Week Youth Program
Building skills through practice,
not just information.
A multi-week experience gives young people an opportunity to learn a concept, practice it, reflect on what they notice, and continue building from week to week.
Topics may include emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, communication, confidence, relationships, resilience, stress management, and practical coping tools.
12-Week Youth Transformation Program
Deeper development for skills that extend beyond the program.
The 12-week experience allows more time for education, practice, reflection, integration, and continued skill development.
Programs are customized around the age of participants and the goals of the school or organization while remaining grounded in the core principles of the Ledbetter Transformation Method™.
BUILT AROUND YOUR ORGANIZATION
Every school, group, and community is different.
Programs can be customized around age, schedule, group size, goals, and the level of support being provided.
Programs are customized around the age of participants and the goals of the school or organization while remaining grounded in the core principles of the Ledbetter Transformation Method™.
Not sure which fits your organization?
SUPPORTING THE WHOLE CHILD
A child’s behavior is only one part of their story.
Stress, relationships, family dynamics, physical wellbeing, environment, experiences, beliefs, nervous system responses, and developmental changes can all influence how a young person feels and responds.
Our approach looks beyond the immediate behavior to better understand the whole young person while remaining within the appropriate scope of coaching, education, wellness, and experiential support.
WHY WORK WITH
With The Ledbetter Transformation Method Supporting students takes more than teaching them how to manage stress. It takes people who understand education, behavior, emotional development, communication and the real environments students and educators navigate every day.
Ledbetter Transformations brings together a multidisciplinary team of educators, life coaches, trauma-informed practitioners and wellness professionals to provide practical, age-appropriate programs designed for students, educators and school communities.
Why Choose Ledbetter Transformations for Your School?
Our team includes professionals who have spent years working directly with children, teens and adults in educational and coaching environments. That experience matters. We understand that a strategy has to work beyond the workshop. It needs to make sense in a classroom, during a difficult conversation, before a test, after conflict, at home and in the everyday moments when students are learning how to understand themselves.
Our programs combine nervous system education, emotional awareness, stress-management tools, breath and mindfulness practices, communication skills, confidence building, boundaries and self-trust. Rather than simply telling students to “calm down” or make better choices, we help them develop greater awareness of what is happening internally so they have more tools available when it is time to make those choices.
Ledbetter programs can also support the adults surrounding the student. Educators, staff and parents are an important part of creating environments where these skills can actually be practiced and reinforced. Programs can be customized for students, faculty, leadership teams, parents or the broader school community.
Ledbetter Transformations is not coming into schools with a one-size-fits-all presentation. We work with each organization to understand its students, culture, needs and goals, then determine what level of education and support makes sense.
Whole-person skills. Practical application.
A team that understands both people and the environments where they learn.
Let’s Find the Right Support
Whether you’re a parent looking for individual support or a school or organization exploring youth wellness programming, the first step is understanding what you’re seeing, what you hope to support, and what kind of experience may be the right fit.
FOR PARENTS
Looking for individualized support for your child or teen?
FOR SCHOOLS & ORGANIZATIONS
Interested in bringing Ledbetter Transformations to your students or youth community?