Problem Statement

 

The problem is that many Valencian people do not have access to coaching (for whatever reason, e.g. lack of awareness or financial limitations), while needing it in order to better understand their priorities and goals, that is, to effectively develop personally. Although this problem is not gender or age specific, we are targeting adult women during the piloting stage of the project. 

 

 

Target Group

 

The target group during the piloting stage of the project is adult women living in Valencia, further grouped in practice as needed based on their specific backgrounds. In the longer term, the target group will be any person living in Valencia that could benefit from the type of coaching that we will be providing. 

 

 

Proposed Solution

 

We have started a collaboration with a professional coach that has extensive expertise about the problem that we are trying to solve. She has generously shared her group-based coaching method with us and has committed to actively support us and to adapt the method as needed throughout the duration of the project. We are planning to stably implement her method in Valencia via Global Shapers trainees. 

 

 

Hub Activities

 

Some of the activities relate to our training. On this front, we have attended two pilot workshops (both nationally and internationally) designed by our collaborator and implemented by either her or other groups. We have also collaboratively designed our first workshop in Valencia, which we will launch on the 21st of May. 

 

Once we are solidly trained, in the future we expect to more autonomously design and deliver similar workshops to different groups of adult women in Valencia. Along these lines, we are already contacting organisations that could act as intermediaries with potential target groups. Two of those intermediary organisations are attending our launching workshop on the 21st of May.

 

 

Short & Long-Term Goals/Results

 

Our short-term goal is to successfully launch our pilot workshop on the 21st of May. 

 

In the longer-term, our goals are (i) to create a stable community of trained coaches from Global Shapers Valencia, and (ii) to consolidate our reputation and create a rich community of beneficiaries. 

 

 

Available Metrics

 

For the first year of the project, we measure success through the achievement of three specific goals: (i) the obtainment of rich feedback from the attendees of our first workshop on the 21st of May; (ii) the delivery of at least one additional workshop by Global Shapers Valencia, with external support from our collaborator; (iii) the solid training of at least the current participants of the project from the Valencia Hub, to the point in which they can train new people and deliver workshops autonomously.

 

Collaborators

 

Victoria Doebbel (http://www.victoriadoebbel.org/).