Coaching & Workshops
Student-led Coaching
We believe self-understanding is foundational for long-term success, happiness, and personal development. Our coaching services are student-led and student-centered, where you drive the kind of coaching you want to receive.
What do you mean by personal development?
Learning is a lifelong process, and working with a teacher, coach, or mentor who is there to help you along the way can make your college experience more meaningful. Virginia Tech is a large school and it can be easy to get stuck in one place, not knowing how to get involved or connected to accomplish your goals while you’re here. Personal development is the process of learning more about who you are, what is important to you, and how you can make small changes to your behavior or mindset over time to become the person you want to be in the future.
How does coaching help me accomplish personal development?
Since learning is a lifelong process, you will need a teacher, coach, or mentor to help you along the way. Students can sign up for single appointments as well as multiple coaching sessions where our coaches invest in your success and development over time. We use a coaching method that helps you practice with methods for planning goals, experiencing campus, and learning powerful self-reflection. This process is the key to growth and personal development: plan, experience, reflect, and learn.
- ExperienceVT Coaching helps you answer the question: "How can I get involved at Virginia Tech to find my people and place?"
- ExperienceVT Coaching helps you clarify your goals and strengths, and translate those into meaningful involvement at Virginia Tech.
- This kind of coaching involves 1-3 coaching sessions over the course of a semester.
- SPARK Coaching helps you answer the question: "What can I do with my life–both during and after VT?"
- SPARK coaching helps you to identify and connect with your authentic self. By exploring your Story, Purpose, Aspirations, Relationships, and Key Practices, you can unlock your true potential and live a life that is truly fulfilling, both during and after your time at Virginia Tech.
- SPARK coaching involves approximately 6 coaching sessions over the course of a semester.
Faculty and Staff Services
Consultation for Student Affairs Departments
Want to evaluate or re-energize your training, process, or facilitation? OLP will consult with your team to improve the teaching and learning aspects of your work with students. Email learningpartnerships@vt.edu to start the conversation.
- This workshop aims to help your team learn the in's and out's of partnership at a large university like Virginia Tech.
- OLP staff will lead your team through a facilitated training to identify the values and strategies you bring to a partnership or collaboration, and how to avoid the pitfalls that keep us from being productive when we work with others.
- Email learningpartnerships@vt.edu to start the conversation.
- This workshop walks participants through the essential elements of facilitation and equips your team with knowledge and strategies for facilitating meetings, trainings, events, and more.
- Email learningpartnerships@vt.edu to start the conversation.