Helping Children Grow Confident, Resilient and Ready for Life
Certified WISDOM® Coach & ICF-accredited coach.
Specialising in mindset coaching that empowers children to believe in themselves, handle challenges, and shine in their own unique way.
With over a decade of coaching experience, I help children aged 6-12 develop inner strength, confidence and the mindset skills they need to thrive, NOW and in the FUTURE.
Let's give your child the tools for life.
How It Works
The Wisdom System
My coaching programs for children are based on the WISDOM System for Coaching Children from Adventures in Wisdom. This system is a story-based coaching model for children, with fun and engaging programs. The system provides tools and resources to empower children to be leaders of their own lives by taking full responsibility for their journey. This, combined with the coaching tools I used during my extensive experience in executive coaching in FTSE 100 companies, delivers a unique approach that builds strong mindset skills early on — giving children the confidence, resilience, and self-belief they need to thrive at school and beyond.
Life Coaching for Kids and Teens
Life coaching for kids and teens is a supportive and empowering process that helps children navigate the challenges of growing up while developing essential life skills. Because children's brains are still developing, coaching them requires a unique approach — one that blends guidance, teaching, and coaching in a way that speaks to their stage of growth. As a certified life coach for kids, I create a safe, non-judgmental space where children can explore their thoughts and feelings, build a positive mindset, and discover their inner strengths. By investing in coaching for your child, you are giving them the tools they need to succeed in life and helping them become the best version of themselves.
Services
One-on-one sessions are based on The Adventures In Wisdom program exclusively tailored for children and teens. It includes 10 to 12 weekly 60-minute sessions. Workshops:I design interactive, story-based and truly transformative workshops for schools, libraries and museums. The Wisdom Club (extra curricular activities for schools); My after school program is based on a proven system called WISDOM Coaching System ™. Through coaching stories, engaging questions and activities, I help kids develop powerful mindset skills for school and life.
Why Life Coaching?
Childhood should be the best and happiest times of our lives but it can also come with its challenges. Most children do not have the tools to handle the inevitable such as life tansitions and disappointment. Life Coaching gives children the right mindset tools to handle them. As a Wisdom Coach I help kids learn how to identify and shift limiting beliefs that hold them back in life and proactively create supporting beliefs to believe in themselves, own who they are, and go for it in life.
WISDOM coaches like myself help children develop powerful mindset skills using coaching stories, engaging questions, activities/art projects and proven STORY coaching process. With stories, children can see mindset skills in action. This allows them to connect to their own thoughts and feelings so that they can apply the skills to their own lives.
While being in the program, children learn how to overcome self-doubt, manage mistakes, and deal with peer pressure so they can develop strong self-esteem and powerful self-confidence. The programs are designed in such a way that children feel at ease: the sessions are fun, but also teach skills and provide steps to take action.
We call this “teaching without preaching” or “learning without lecturing”. There are 5 coaching programs as part of the WISDOM System for Coaching Children and they teach children 27 powerful mindset skills for creating happiness, confidence, and success.
My Approach
I believe every child already carries the wisdom they need to grow — my role is to help them uncover it. My coaching is child-led, which means I meet each child where they are. Using storytelling, creativity, and connection, I gently guide them through self-discovery. Whether we’re exploring confidence, friendships, or big emotions, sessions are shaped by what the child brings — not just what adults expect. In a warm, safe space, children are encouraged to share, play, reflect, and stretch — all at their own pace.
Here's how I work:
- Mindset first – We explore how thoughts shape feelings and choices, helping kids shift from “I can't” to “I can.”
- Emotional awareness – Children learn tools to name and manage big emotions with confidence.
- Strengths-based – I focus on what's already working, helping each child trust their inner strengths.
- Parent partnership – After each session, you'll receive a short Wisdom at Home summary so you can stay connected to your child's journey.
My coaching isn't about “fixing” kids — it's about empowering them to understand themselves, grow their confidence, and feel proud of who they are.
About Me
I am Asli
Hi, I'm Asli Maltsios — mum of two, seasoned expat, and certified Kids Life Coach. I currently live in London, but my journey has taken me through Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus, and Greece.
For over a decade, I led international teams and coached senior leaders in FTSE 100 companies, helping them navigate challenges around mindset, confidence, and communication. While working with high-performing executives, I noticed a clear pattern: many of their struggles traced back to beliefs formed in early childhood. Even top achievers from prestigious universities often lacked the inner confidence, emotional resilience, and mindset skills needed to lead fulfilling lives.
After becoming a mum, I realised something powerful — all children come into this world with the WISDOM of curiosity, creativity, and courage. But as life unfolds, challenges, setbacks, and pressures often bury that wisdom. Their spark and eagerness to thrive can fade.
That realisation led me to my true calling: empowering children with the right mindset tools to face life's challenges while staying connected to their inner wisdom.
I earned my first coaching certification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and two years ago, I became a certified life coach for kids through Adventures in Wisdom®.
Today, I work with children and teens who may feel unsure of themselves — whether it's shyness, low self-esteem, or social struggles. I also support kids navigating big life transitions, such as moving abroad, starting a new school, or adjusting to a new sibling. These moments can shake a child's confidence, and that's where mindset coaching makes all the difference.
I love working one-on-one with children to build trust, insight, and confidence. I also design group workshops for libraries, museums and children's centres and extracurricular activities for schools with fun, story-based activities that help kids learn, grow, and feel supported.
Frequently Asked Questions
Life coaching for kids is all about empowering kids through mindset development. Kids learn how to use the power of their mind and the power of their thoughts to create happiness, confidence, and success in their lives, so that they can take their life, goals, and dreams wherever they want to go.
Although life coaching and counseling may have similarities, such as asking the important questions, listening, and finding patterns in people's lives, they are not the same thing.
Counseling is designed to help those with more serious issues lead a more normal, productive life or to get back on track – these types of issues might include anxiety, depression, or OCDs – moving past abuse or going through a personal crisis at home such as an illness or divorce.
Life Coaching is different. It is about helping people get from where they are to where they want to be. For most people that means reaching higher goals and creating greater success, creating more balance and happiness in their lives, and feeling more fulfilled in their lives and in their relationships – it's about creating what they want.
In many ways counseling is about resolving or managing issues from the past, whereas life coaching is about creating the future and helping clients achieve the ultimate vision they have for their lives.
Life coaching isn’t just for kids who are facing challenges or problems. Helping kids learn how to reach their fullest potential is about personal development and personal empowerment so that they will be ready to face any challenge that comes their way. The skills they learn can be used for the rest of their lives
People often confuse parenting and “life coaching for kids”. Life coaching goes beyond the traditional parenting roles of moral and character development and it goes beyond learning how to treat others and learning how to behave.
WISDOM Coaching is all about teaching kids’ empowerment skills and personal development skills, so they can become self-leaders of their own lives. Think of it as leadership training for kids. What we teach most grownups haven't learned.
The system we use is called the WISDOM System for Coaching Kids. Through the system kids learn how to use the power of their mind and the power of their thoughts to create happiness, confidence, and success in their lives. And the best part is... they get to learn it through stories.
Our coaches work in partnership with parents – they are part of that parent's team of trusted advisors to help their children thrive in life.
Through WISDOM Coaching, kids learn powerful mindset skills and success principals that are critical for creating happiness, confidence, and success in their lives – and the key is how they think about themselves and what is possible for their live.
Through WISDOM Coaching kids learn:
- • How to recognize and shift limiting beliefs that hurt self-esteem and hold them back in life. They also learn how to proactively create supportive belief that will support them in feeling good about themselves, believing in themselves, and increating a happy fulfilling life.
- • Kids learn the values of self-leaders such as the power of taking full responsibility for their lives, the importance of living life with integrity, and the importance of treating others with respect while always treating themselves with respect as well.
- • Kids learn how to think for themselves and make decisions...which helps them develop their inner compass and learn how to stand up to peer pressure.
- • Kids learn how to feel good about themselves even when things don't go their way so that their self-esteem is based on the inside-out and not based on who they know, what they do, or what they have.
- • Kids learn how to believe in themselves even after facing a disappointment so that they can move through their upset and their fear...to create courage and self-confidence.
- • Kids learn how to live life with intention and with direction, so they don’t drift through life.
- • Kids learn how to develop a mindset for creating success in their lives including learning how to set and achieve their goals.
These are skills that most programs geared for kids do not cover.
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