Elevate Your Students By Bringing Coach Ho To Speak And Inspire
Raise Their Potential
Over decades of athletic leadership and classroom teaching, John Hochstetler (Coach Ho) has developed a straightforward self-care and self-leadership initiative for youth and young adults that enhance their movement toward becoming responsible, healthy, and productive adult citizens.
In learning to take agency over their lives with a coach’s intentionality, preparation, and strategic readiness, their actions and reactions will become like the fine-skilled instinctive play of an elite athlete.
Coach Ho teaches self-ownership and accountability that helps students develop critical traits that help them find daily success.
Coach Ho has taught students in large urban areas and small rural communities for almost three decades. With each class and team, he consistently creates pathways that help students thrive by actively participating in their daily preparation and real-time offensive actions.
The Coach Within
The essential coach is the one that exists within each of us. The journey into adulthood requires planning, evaluation, and self-awareness. Through peer discussion and introspection, Coach Ho helps today’s youth learn to identify what they should focus on as part of their preparation and practice in character development.
An athlete has learned not to show up to game night unprepared; through Coach Ho, we learn not to approach our daily lives without readiness in work, class, and relationships. Some real-life moments with low consequences are like practice, while other opportunities might be more like a midseason game. And yet, many important instances will require our best while carrying the high risks that parallel a championship game.
Students learn to treat their daily life with intentionality, preparation, practice, evaluation, and adaptation used in athletic training; the parallel approach helps them to create personal and relational success.
High Standards
No Excuses
Coach Ho's mantra, High Standards - No Excuses wasn't just something we said when we broke it down after practice...it is something I still try to live up to each day.
Teaching students to utilize their Coach Within requires helping them set and meet that bar. It will be different for each person, but by maintaining their own standard, they will elevate their character and thrive in the skills they continue to develop. Once equipped for adversity and ready to play, they will win regardless of the outcome.
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Coach's Model
The process begins by creating a space for students to review their journey toward adulthood by examining the phases young people transition through as they grow into adulthood.
The critical next step is self-examination to identify specific qualities that make winning every day possible—the process of coaching ourselves as we value routine, accountability and repetition.
Students then identify perspectives and pathways through social, extracurricular, and academic avenues that will give them the most significant opportunities to thrive.
• Social growth through healthy relationships.
• Servant behavior socially, as a valued teammate and loved one.
• Developing self through academic diligence.
The challenges that will present themselves throughout the students’ adolescent and adult lives are not obstacles to avoid but opportunities to overcome. Potential downfalls of poor choices: – social network – social temptations – peer pressure.
In each moment of every day, the student learns to be both a player and coach in their own life. Every step of their life is an opportunity for practice and performance, to learn and excel.
Much of our lives are spent preparing for big moments, graduation, 1st day of class, boot camp, wedding day, 1st day on the job…
A coach seeks regiment through repetition (this must be well defined to be valuable). Cueing, routine, and consistency prepare us for these big moments.
