About the Program

COACH stands for Creating Options and Conquering Hurdles. It’s a motivational program that allows you to accomplish your goals and create the personal life that you desire.

The COACH Program is a motivational, goal-setting peer program that draws from the vision in supporting our UC Irvine students in their college journey.  The C.O.A.C.H. Peer Program is sponsored by the Counseling Center and supported by UC Irvine’s Undergraduate/Undeclared Advising Program and School of Social Ecology. At the heart of our C.O.A.C.H. Peer Program, we aim to tap into students’ strengths, resilience, desire to grow and hope amid the obstacles. This program fosters empowerment and opportunity for the student to be paired with a peer life coach (who is also a UC Irvine undergraduate student) who will meet with the student for individual, weekly peer life coaching sessions. Our peer life coaches are energized to cultivate an inviting and compassionate space and partner with students in creating their roadmaps towards success across academic, personal and/or social areas of life.

The coaching process involves 3-steps:

1. Helping a student assess their needs.
2. Formulating an individual plan with specific steps, tasks and timelines.
3. Monitoring the student’s progress and refreshing/revising steps toward reaching their goal.

The methods of coaching are one-to-one in-person and/or video platforms to address some of the following areas.

•  Academic Performance & Confidence
• Stress Management
• Time Management
• Communication Skills
• Social Connections/Relationships
• Self-Esteem
• Social-Confidence
• Self-Care Habits