Working with Young People

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  Step Up! International Ltd
  
  Born To Win! Programme For Young People
  
  We help Young People to create the life they want as apposed to the life that they fall into.
  
  You know how some young people find it difficult to believe in themselves today or to ignore peer pressure? Which sometimes makes it difficult for them to do the right thing, concentrate on their education or even stay out of trouble? Well, we help young people to have the SELF BELIEF to create the life they want as apposed to the life that they fall into, which means that they can take action today to make it happen!
  
  “You have within you an inner guidance that always knows what you need to do. Trusting this inner guidance will set you free and help you to move the obstacles that you once considered to be mountains.”
  Jennifer McLeod © 2005
  
  Vision Statement
  
  Our vision is to make a difference in taking Parents and Young People to their highest levels of conscious awareness.
  
  Mission Statement
  
  Step Up! International Ltd is committed to providing the best possible quality and highest possible quantity of service in the best possible spirit to all our clients.
  
  We strive to deliver our services with the passion necessary to take parents and young people to their highest levels of being ‘there’. ‘There’ being where our clients are able to be or want to be on their journey of their own personal and professional development and fulfilment.
  
  We work with clients who are willing to learn and grow and who want the best for their team members.
  
  We work from an ethical standpoint, ensuring the greatest possible level of integrity in everything that we do.
  
  We work within an holistic framework, developing ourselves and our clients from a mental, emotional, spiritual and physical perspective, ensuring our clients’ true growth and success.
  
  “Set yourself up to WIN in life.”
  Jennifer McLeod © 2006

Who Is Our Born To Win! Programme For?

Our Born To Win! Programme is for ANY Young Person who:

Is from age 14 -19 years

Is in school or any other educational establishments and existing formal structures and frameworks

Is out of school and is being supported by other agencies such as Referral Units

Is part of the N.E.A.T. (Neither in Education And Training) programme and processes

Is ambitious

Has lost all self belief

Has little or no confidence and low self esteem

On the borderline of achievement and non-achievement

Are throwing their life away just to fit in with their peer group

Whose home life is affecting their studies and the learning environment

Have taken on too much and are struggling to fit it all in

Have potential but are not performing to their ability

Habitually Self harm

Have low aspirations

Believe that they could not get anything else other than the lowest paid job

Are feeling guilty, afraid, angry, or generally not feeling that they are good enough

Is a Teenage parent or parent-to-be

Just wants someone to believe in them!

Is doing well and want to do even better!

Who wants to move from good to great to excellent!

Wants to ensure they achieve the exam grades that they need

How Do We Do That?

We have Solutions for Young People as part of our Born To Win! Programmes ranging from:

• Workshops
• 1:1 Coaching
• Modular accredited coaching programmes for smaller groups of young people needing more intensive work or on a 1:1 basis
• Solutions for Teenage Parents and Teenage Parents To Be
  
  Benefits Of Young People Using Our Service includes:
  
  
• Our Young People’s Solutions focuses on the young person as a whole person and not just on any particular one aspect, e.g. academic achievement
• Our solutions pay for themselves!
• Have someone else believe in them
• Our reputation is second to none!
• We are independent and impartial from parents, educational establishments or other agencies.
• Our Unique, highly successful Easy Tiger™ Parenting Models for young people, together with our 21 Day Parent Coaching Model
• Opportunity to share with others and build support networks
• After Service support systems and structures
• New Life! New Freedom! New You!
  
  “Get Yourself out of the way so the REAL YOU can get going.”
  Jennifer McLeod © 2005
  
  
  Benefits To Educational Establishments and Other Agencies working with us, includes:
  
  
• Getting the right result for the young person
• Helping you to achieve your targets
• Ease your frustration in supporting the young person of having their breakthroughs
• Help to keep the young person within your existing framework, structures and programmes
• Inspire and enable the young person to have self belief
• Higher achievements and attainments for the young person and your organization
• Our independent and impartial approach
• Our ability to connect with young people.
  
  
  Testimonials
  
  Our successful Born To Win! Programme has helped Young People in different ways to have their breakthroughs and take control of their life. Don’t just take our word for it,
  here’s what some young people and others have to say about our services:
  
  ‘This is the best Workshop we’ve had’
  Birmingham University Student
  
  It was useful to understand our goals broken down and the steps needed for us to progress forward, for ourselves and no one else.
  Michaela, Halesowen College Student
  
  I really enjoyed the Workshop; it really boosted my self confidence and made me realise there are so many opportunities out there for me.
  Rufaro, Halesowen College Student
  
  The Workshop opened our minds about what we can achieve not just for our families, but mostly today, I learnt that it was important for me to achieve for myself.
  La Tanya Mais, Halesowen College Student
  
  The sessions provided a rare opportunity for students to think broadly about what it means to ‘create their own success’. While all 8 tools were essential in helping students realise this phrase, I felt that the breakdown of the Life Action Plan and the Success Mindset Principles™ were very practical exercises that showed students how to pull apart and understand their aspirations and life choices. It also helped students learn from previous accomplishments, which I find an amazingly useful tool in my own life. Your workshops reminded students (and myself to be honest) that the onus is upon the individual to create the future they’d like to have. However, it also showed the importance of identifying available support and making full use of it.
  Rashidah Andrews, Training Consultant, Halesowen College
  
  Jennifer’s Talk tonight has helped to confirm and clarify my vision. It has pushed me to finish writing my plan (or else it will only remain a dream!). Tonight was a BLESSING J
  Nadine Grant, Women of Destiny
  
  ‘Can we do this again Miss?’
  Year 8 Pupil, Castle Vale School
  
  ‘From today, I will not to let anyone put me down’
  ‘I will value each opportunity I receive’
  ‘I am starting to think about how I can do what I want instead of how I can’t’
  ‘Start thinking about how I can do what I want instead of how I can’t’
  ‘How to break down the problem of getting a job into manageable chunks’
  City College Students
  
  ‘The Workshop to help young girls to achieve their dreams was very inspirational. The majority of the 90 girls who took part were really interested in finding out how to reach their goals and benefited not only from the stepped approach from the fact that they were told they could achieve whatever they put their mind to.
  
  The girls were actively involved in both the Talk and Workshops and enjoyed making their dream-boards as it gave them a chance to reflect on their future (both long and short term) which they do not really get time for in the busy life of school.
  
  I would definitely recommend the workshops to other schools as it inspired both students and staff to give things a go and really believe that they can reach their goal and I would definitely have you back again.’
  Louise Maher, PSHE Coordinator, Head of Year 11, Perry Beeches School
  
  
  So What Does All Of This Cost You?
  
  Contact Jennifer McLeod directly on +44 (0)121 551 1668 or +44 (0) 845 056 3840 or email info@PositiveInspirations.co.uk for further details and a FREE 20 minute Consultation with no obligation to buy!!
  
  
  “Step Up! to the song inside of you. Following through with that thing that makes your heart sing is likely to help you find your life purpose. Then you will really have something to sing about!”
  Jennifer McLeod © 2007
  
  
  With Inspirational Blessings
  Jennifer McLeod
  info@PositiveInspirationS.co.uk

Jennifer McLeod Inspirational Quotes

Jennifer McLeod Inspirational Quotes




Here are some Inspirational Quotes to keep you going:


“Get Yourself out of the way so the REAL YOU can get going.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2005


“You have within you an inner guidance that always knows what you need to do. Trusting this inner guidance will set you free and help you to move the obstacles that you once considered to be mountains.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2005


“What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2005


“Beating yourself up doesn’t make your situation any better; in fact, it only prolongs it.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“When you’ve been “there” you really know it.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“Set yourself up to WIN in life.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“Make your word your bond. It really does matter!”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“When you really go for what you want in life, you are helping more people than you realise”.
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“When you go for what you really want in life, you are helping people more than you realise.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“When you ignore that little niggling feeling inside, it comes back time and time again, bigger and bigger each time until it eventually stops you in your tracks.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“When you follow your heart’s desires and do that one thing that’s been niggling away inside you, it’s likely to be that one thing that will make your heart sing.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2006


“Take a leap of faith and do it. Sitting back and doing nothing does nothing for the soul”.
Jennifer McLeod © 2007

“Embrace life as if you really meant it. Treat it like a long-lost very close friend or family member. Now that you have found it, you will want to do everything possible to hold onto it, cherish it; do more for it; love it and make it better.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2007

“When you get ”there”, it is an experience like no other.”
Jennifer McLeod © 2007


“When you get “there”, it is an experience like no other. However, it is also the time to make sure that your action plans are in place to take you to your next level of “being there.” ‘
Jennifer McLeod © 2007


“Which of your characteristics or attitudes are your friends and/or family reflecting back to you?”
Jennifer McLeod © 2007


“Step Up! to the song inside of you. Following through with that thing that makes your heart sing is likely to help you find your life purpose. Then you will really have something to sing about!”
Jennifer McLeod © 2007


With Inspirational Blessings
Jennifer McLeod
info@PositiveInspirationS.co.uk

Easy Tiger(tm) Parent Coaching, Workshops and Consultancy

Step Up! International Ltd
Easy Tiger™ Parent Coaching, Workshops and Consultancy.

We help Parents to have a sense of relief, regain control and become peak performance employees.

You know how challenging it can be to discipline children today or even feel confident that they are safe, which makes it difficult for some parents to keep their cool and not get frazzled, angry, frustrated or even lose control of the situation? Well, we help parents to have a sense of relief, regain control and become peak performance employees, which mean that they can bring up their children in a way that is right for them and have the peace of mind to carry on with their work.

‘When you ignore that little nagging feeling in side of you, it comes back time and time again, bigger and bigger each time until it eventually stops you in your tracks.’
Jennifer McLeod

WHO Is Our Easy Tiger™ Parenting Solutions For?

Our Easy Tiger™ Parenting Solutions is for any Parent who:

• Wants to develop greater relationship with their immediate or extended family and especially their children


• Wants to create more ‘ME’ Time’ for themselves within a busy home life and work life


• Has experienced a relationship break up situation and needs support to manage the new and existing challenges alone


• Wants to establish or re-establish boundaries within the family relationships and especially with the children.


• Wants to establish their own identity as well as being a parent


• Gets frustrated on a regular basis with their existing situation


• Is constantly drained of energy and notices that they are on a downward spiral with the current situation at home


• Needs to have peace of mind to carry on with their work and put systems in place to make key decisions and ensure that the children are safe.


• Wants less stress and more peace and happiness in their lives


• Regularly feels overwhelmed or feel that they are losing control of their home situation which may also be having an adverse impact on their work place.


• Have inner conflicts, perhaps resulting from their own childhood experiences, that might affect the decisions that they make and how to bring up their children


• Is under threat of having their children taken off them by Social Services for unusual reasons e.g. Obesity, or through other formal settings


• Wants solutions that helps them to bring up their children in the way that’s just right for them


• Has low self esteem, little confidence and needs to gain a sense of self worth and confidence to manage their home life, their children and life generally.


• Wishes to develop a greater level of authority with their children


• Wants to bring some fun and laughter into their life and family environment


• Want to develop and create an organised, smooth running home environment.


• Recognises the value that they have in making the single most important difference in their children’s lives, especially with the various distractions children and young people have in today’s society, and want to do whatever it takes to make sure of their success.


• Managers wanting to support their employees who might be experiencing parenting challenges that are affecting their work.


• Managers wanting to support parents returning to work from maternity, paternity or adoptive leave
  

Which Parents?

We work with all parents is the short answer.

Married couples, co-habitees, single parents, lone parents, unemployed parents, working parents and teenage parents and parents to be.

How Do We Do That?

We offer a range of Easy Tiger™ Parenting Solutions including:

· 1:1 Easy Tiger™ Parent Coaching
· Easy Tiger™ Parent Workshops and seminars
· Easy Tiger™ Parent tele- seminars or tele-conferences
· In house Workshops and Coaching for employees and managers
· Written and audio products to assist you in your on-going growth
· Weekend Retreats
· Other Open life changing seminars
· Consultancy

‘Embrace life as if you really meant it! Treat life like a long last friend or family member. Now that you have found it, you will want to do everything possible to hold onto it, cherish it, do more for it, love it and make it better.’
Jennifer McLeod

Benefits Of You Using Our Service includes:

• Our Unique, highly successful Easy Tiger™ Parenting Models for adults and teenage parents, together with our 21 Day Parent Coaching Model


• After Service support systems and structures


• Personal, individual, 1:1 service to meet your own specific parenting needs


• Opportunity to share with others and build support networks


• Easy Payment Plans


• Our Parents Solutions focuses on you as a whole person and not just on your role as a parent


• Our solutions pay for themselves!


• Our reputation is second to none!


• New Life! New Freedom! New You!

Testimonials

Our successful Easy Tiger™ Parenting model has helped people in different ways to have their breakthroughs and take control of their life. Don’t just take our word for it,
Here’s what some people have to say about our services:

‘I was tired and feeling anxious about my exams and didn’t feel very confident that I would pass. I really wanted to make sure that I passed them this time, especially because my employer is paying for my studies, and it also means that I will be able to move on to the next level. After working with Jennifer, I felt totally confident in my ability to pass my exams and most importantly I had the energy that I need to do my revision as well as still go to work.

The knock on effect is that my daughter won’t need to be worried now about waking me up or me staying awake long enough to get my revision done’.
Sue Ranger, Supervisor, Birmingham City Council

“I was stuck in limbo not knowing what to do with a dysfunctional relationship which was affecting all areas of my life and making concentrating at work very difficult, even though I love my job. After our sessions I felt empowered enough to take steps to end the relationship. Since then my performance has improved greatly and I feel more settled and happy. Sleeping at night is easier and therefore getting up for work is no longer the great struggle it was.” This is the best training they have ever given me. If only more employers would offer this there would be lot less sick days, less stress… ”
Julia Chance, Advantage West Midlands


So what does all of this Cost You?

Our prices range from as little as £227 per month. Contact Jennifer McLeod directly on +44 (0)121 551 1668 or info@PositiveInspirations.co.uk for further details and a FREE 20 minute Consultation with no obligation to buy!!

With Inspirational Blessings
Jennifer McLeod
info@PositiveInspirationS.co.uk

Wife Swop - The Effects on the Children

I have to say that Wife Swop is a programme that previously I didn't think deserved the time of day watching, however, my children happened to be watching it one day, not something that they normally watch, and I decided to join them, more because I wanted to spend that time just chilling out with them.

As I got into the programme, I started watching it with more curiosity and from a different, more observational perspective because of my role of working with parents and young people. My initial thought was why on earth would someone do something like that? What are people's motives for going through a process like Wife Swop , especially when they have objections to the changes and new house rules that are created as part of the process?

Generally, from the few shows that I have seen so far, there seems to be positive changes at the end of the process for both sets of families in different ways, if for no other reason, than to have more appreciation for their own real families afterwards and an insight into other people's worlds.

Examples of effects of the Wife Swop programme on the children that I have observed (given that I haven't seen that many episodes) include:

1. the episode where a wife and mother of four girls and one boy had learnt at the end of the Swop experience to let her 21 year old son take more responsibility for looking after his dog and himself, which includes getting himself out of bed. After all, he was 21 and needed to have some sense of responsibility and accountability for his own actions, learning that it was his responsibility to deal with consequences of his actions. He also had the added privilege of eating his dinner first, alongside his dad, before his mum and his four younger sisters could eat. Unfortunately, this was his mum's doing and not his dad's. I guess the knock on effect of his upbringing now is that he will be expecting his partner to always be at his beck and call because that's all he has ever been used to. His mum wanted it this way for her whole family, including her husband, because this made her feel needed!


2. Unfortunately, his sisters have been brought up to accept that it was OK for men to eat first and that they had left overs. In addition, they also believe that their role is to serve men, including rolling their cigars etc - basically be at their beck and call, and still have a job outside of the home. I don't know how many of these four girls will be strong enough and confident enough when they are older to stop her partner using her like a doormat or indeed prevent her partner abusing her in any other way, such as domestic violence. What I do know is that their mother's unhealthy neediness and insecurities has given them all alot of 'stuff' to undo and get rid of if they are to lead a healthy, positive life.


3. Another example of the effects of Wife Swop on children is the episode when family 'A' Swopped with family 'B'. Family 'A' was made up of parents who are both Councillors and three children and family 'B' was made up of parents (one of whom was a step-parent) and I think three children.


4. In family 'A', there was constant activity around the local government councillor's role, which also involved one of the daughters as well. The phone was constantly on the go and the ethos was that people 'out there' need us, so be patient and accept that we need to drop everything that we are doing to attend to their needs whenever they call. This meant that the children, all in their teens, didn't have much time with their parents, as even meal times was interrupted by phone calls.


5. In family 'B', the mother's eldest son of fifteen years, was having difficulty getting on with his step-dad. This meant that he was out often, getting into trouble with the police and hanging out with the wrong crowd. His behaviour was clearly affecting the whole family, however, his step-dad didn't seem to take much responsibility for some of his own actions either.


6. The positive outcomes for family 'A' and 'B' was that both sets of children were better off as a result of the Swop experience. The children in family 'A' had more time with their parents and the phone was switched off at a certain time in the evening. The eldest son in family 'B' had developed increased confidence because the 'Swop mum' had booked him a session in a recording studio because of his love for music.

As parents we need to become aware of what we are doing to and for ourselves as well as how our own behaviours affect our children. It takes courage to put up our hand and admit that some things in our lives are not working and that they need to be changed and we are the ones to make the changes happen.

It is possible and it can be done and I have done for myself and for the benefit of my children.

With Inspirational Blessings
Jennifer McLeod
www.PositiveInspirationS.co.uk

Children Taking On Adult Responsibilities

Aged 12 And Looking After the Family
Channel 4 Monday 5 February 2007

This programme highlighted stories of British children who have had to take on adult responsibilities because of parental illness or disability.

As a mother and someone that works with young people, I found this programme disturbing and disheartening, with the portrayal of one family in particular. This was the family the blind/partially blind couple who want a large family of 7 or 8 just because their parents both had large families. I have no problems with people with disabilities having their own families and having as good a life as they can get within this challenging society that we live in today. However, my challenge was – and what disturbed me most, was the undue stress and heartache that the eldest children, 12 year old and 9 year old girls, had to endure looking after a family of 8, including the parents.

The toll on the two eldest girls was so visibly immense, so much so that the 9 year old attempted suicide when she was 8 years old, with very little support to deal with the situation. The Young Carer’s Association could only help her if she was actually carrying out ‘caring’ duties within the home, something which she couldn’t cope with but had to do. Additionally, she gets bullied at school because of her parents’ disabilities.

The eldest girl seemed to be devoid of emotion and insisted that she wouldn’t want a family of her own when she is older. They had four younger brothers, three of whom were pre-school children, to care for. The children carried out normal parental responsibilities of cooking, cleaning, washing, caring for the younger ones including getting them sorted in the mornings before going to school and changing their dirty nappies (which had been left on them all day) when they got back from school. The parents refused extra help from Social Services, insisting that they could manage.

Even with the undue stress on the eldest children of taking on such a burden at their tender age, the parents still insisted that they will continue having more children, so that the children all ‘share the workload of looking after them in their old age’. The reality is that not all the children will help out equally, if at all, especially as they get older and the chances are that the eldest two children will still be playing ‘mum and dad’ to a family of 9 or 10 if the parents continue with their plan.


With Inspirational Blessings

Jennifer McLeod
Step Up! International Ltd
www.PositiveInspirationS.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 121 551 1668/ +44 (0) 845 056 3840