Young Adult Coaching · Ages 16–25+ · Licensed Associates

You are not lost.
You are becoming.

The years between school and a settled life are not a waiting room. They are the most formative ground you will ever stand on.

Our Licensed Associates work with young adults across four distinct coaching tracks — from career clarity and academic excellence through to deep identity reconstruction and indigenous entrepreneurship development. All coaching is delivered under the Nomveliso Mbanga Teencoaching™ methodology, ICF CCE-accredited and indigenous-rooted.

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  • Standard Rate · R1,500/session

    1 session/month · 3, 6 or 12 months

  • Standard Rate · R1,500/session

    1 session/month · 3, 6 or 12 months

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    Intensive Rate · From R3,500/month

    Up to 2 sessions/month · 12 months

  • Intensive Rate · From R4,500/month

    Up to 2 sessions/month · 12 months

Work with a Licensed Associate

Our Licensed Associates are trained professionals authorised to deliver specific young adult programmes under the Nomveliso Mbanga Teencoaching™ methodology.

You don't need to choose a coach yourself.

Complete our short enquiry form and we will match you with an appropriate Licensed Associate based on the programme you need, your stage of development and coach availability.

Your Licensed Associate then becomes your primary coaching contact, providing your sessions and agreed between-session support according to the programme you have selected.

How it works

1. Choose your programme
Select the coaching pathway that best describes where you are.

2. Submit an enquiry
Tell us a little about yourself and what support you are looking for.

3. We match you
Mayine assigns you to an appropriate Licensed Associate.

4. Begin coaching
You establish your coaching relationship directly with your assigned coach.

Our Coaching Tracks

Four pathways.
One methodology.

Every track is grounded in the Nomveliso Mbanga Teencoaching™ methodology and delivered by certified Licensed Associates. The right track is determined by where you actually are — not where you think you should be.

01 - Core Coaching

Career Coaching & Self-Discovery

R1,500 per session · 1 × 60 min/month

For young adults who are figuring out who they are, what they are capable of and what direction they want to take.

  • Self-discovery

  • Career exploration

  • Direction and decision-making

  • Work readiness

Best for: school leavers, post-matric young adults and young adults who need greater clarity about what comes next.

02 - Tertiary Transition & Academic Success

Tertiary Readiness & Mindset of Academic Excellence™

R1,500 per session · 1 × 60 min/month

For young adults preparing for tertiary education and students who want to build a strong foundation for academic success, from first year through completion.

  • Tertiary readiness and transition

  • Emotional readiness and self-management

  • Mindset of Academic Excellence™

  • Academic and work readiness

  • Support through the tertiary journey

Best for: matric learners preparing for tertiary, first-year students and students at later stages who need renewed support to complete strong.

03 - Intensive Coaching · 12 Months

Young Adult Reconstruction™

From R3,500 per month · up to 2 sessions/month

For young adults who are in limbo and need sustained support to rebuild direction, structure and momentum in their lives.

Particularly suited to young adults who do not have matric, did not perform well in matric, have left formal education, or do not yet have a clear education or career pathway.

  • Long-term coaching and accountability

  • Career and life direction

  • Work and opportunity exploration

  • Practical life and work-readiness support

This is a practical programme. Young adults are supported as they take real steps forward and return to coaching to reflect, adjust and keep moving.

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04 - Founder-Led

Entrepreneurship & Personal Development

Founder coaching · Enquire for current fee

For young adults pursuing entrepreneurship who want to develop themselves alongside the businesses they are building.

  • Personal development

  • Entrepreneurial development

  • Business direction

  • Indigenous, identity-anchored approach

Currently delivered by the Founder. Licensed Associate delivery will be introduced as the appropriate training and licensing pathway is developed.

Weekend Residential · Annual

Young Adults
Retreat™

Ages 18–25 · 3 days · Application-based · Limited spaces

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A three-day residential retreat for young adults aged 18–25. The same immersive Nomveliso Mbanga Teencoaching™ methodology as the teen retreats — calibrated for the specific developmental reality of early adulthood. Identity. Purpose. Direction. Community.

—Full methodology immersion

—Identity and purpose work

—Peer community of young adults

—Led by Nomveliso Mbanga or Licensed Coach

—Application-based · limited to small cohort

—Dates announced annually

Who This Is For

You belong here
if any of this is true.

Career & Academic tracks (R1,500)

  • You have finished school and are figuring out what comes next

  • You are mid-degree and performing below your own standard

  • You have options but no clarity on which one is actually yours

  • You are transitioning into university and want to start strong

  • You want to explore career paths before committing to a programme

  • You are capable but coasting — and you know it

Intensive tracks — Reconstruct & Entrepreneurship (R3,500)

  • You have left school and feel like you are starting from nowhere

  • You need structure, accountability, and a consistent adult presence

  • You have a business idea but cannot separate yourself from it yet

  • You are pursuing entrepreneurship and want to build it from your identity out

  • You need more than one session a month — you need someone in it with you

  • You are willing to do the inner work alongside the external planning

What Makes This Different

Not coaching
about you.
Coaching with you.

Most coaching for young adults treats the young person as a problem to be solved — a career to be mapped, a behaviour to be corrected, a gap to be filled. This methodology starts from the opposite assumption: that you already carry everything you need.

The coach's job is not to direct. It is to excavate. To hold the mirror steadily. To stay in the room long enough for the real answers to surface.

  • All coaching is delivered under the Nomveliso Mbanga Teencoaching™ methodology — internationally accredited and indigenously rooted.

  • The entrepreneurship and reconstruction tracks use an indigenous coaching framework — not borrowed from Western business or psychology models.

  • All Licensed Associates work under active coaching supervision — ensuring quality, ethical practice, and consistent methodology across every client relationship.

  • For premium one-on-one coaching directly with Nomveliso Mbanga, visit the founder coaching page.

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"Self-discovery is not a detour. It is the work."

Nomveliso Mbanga · Indigenous Identity Strategist™ · Founder, Mayine Development Institute