the book you have been waiting for
“YOU ARE BRAVER THAN YOU BELIEVE, STRONGER THAN YOU SEEM, AND SMARTER THAN YOU THINK.”
A.A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh
You can create your own ME MAP to get to know yourself - the foundation for a successful life!
The interactive exercises in this book will help you recognize and manage your emotions and influence your thoughts - so you can be effective and confident!
Learn how to collaborate and communicate effectively - a compass for making friends!
Aquiring knowledge and completing the excercises will allow you to lead a happier life.
This book is for you, and it is about you!
Me Map Teens helps you to understand the changes in your brain and their effects, and to learn approaches so you can meet life’s challenges easier.
We know you like things to be interesting and easy to understand, so the brief descriptions are made even more enjoyable with humorous illustrations.
“I really liked the book. It was interesting and kept my attention all the way! The exercises and illustrations are very funny, and they helped me understand everything. I would recommend it to everyone who feels lost, lacks confidence or just wants to know themselves better.” (Danny 13 years old)
Buy on Amazon.com: Me Map Teens
BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE!
With the help of this book you will:
• get to know and embrace yourself
• find out what goes on in the teen brain
• learn the mindset that leads to success
• develop responsibility and resilience
• be able to express and manage your emotions
• make more friends and be a better friend
• communicate and resolve conflicts more effectively
• get tips on how to be happier
The ME MAP Teens book help you as teenager in the very formative years of 10-16 to discover more about yourself and to be more effective in different life situations.
For example:
• To discover more about who you are now and what has shaped you, do the exercises on pages 8-31.
• If you want to learn more about the teen brain, go to pages 32-39.
• In case you have issues with self-confidence or with managing your emotions, pages 40-71 will help you.
• In need of better or more friends, reflect on pages 72-92.
• To think about how you can be happier and what you really want, read pages 95-99.
• To summarize what you can be proud of, fill in pages 100-102
“It describes all the things we encounter on a daily basis.” (Zsófi, 12)
The subject is you! Do you think you’re too serious?
The book is easy going, fun, and a quick read.
“A very creative book and interesting too.” (Ray, age 11)
Immediately and always.
If you get to know yourself better, you will find it easier to get on in different areas of your life.
You can use the strategies and methods, for example:
– the next time you get angry
– when someone asks you to do something you don’t want to
– in a clash at school
– when you have to decide which extracurricular activity to take on.
This book is written for 10-16 year olds.
But it can be a good choice regardless of age too if you want to work faster, in less depth, with fewer topics.
Or if you just want to try out creating your ME MAP!
If you want to go deeper, we recommend our other book, ME MAP YOUNG ADULTS.
Of course, these are only recommendations, not limitations.
If there is a time when it’s important to learn about ourselves, manage our emotions and develop the right attitude, it’s the time when someone starts to grow into an adult: the teens.
These skills are very important for becoming a happy gown up, yet not always easy to master. The future success of today’s teenagers will clearly depend on how well they learn these skills.
This is exactly what the Me Map Teens (work)book helps kids from age 10 and up to do: to learn about themselves, to recognize and manage their emotions, and to develop self-confidence and a positive mindset.
Me Map Teens is written for the age group 10-16, and it was confirmed during the testing and proof-reading phase that teens can read the book and do the exercises on their own.
The short, simple descriptions supported by appealing, humorous illustrations make it easy for your child to work on the book independently and understand the content.
However, it is even more impactful for them to read the book and do the exercises together with a parent, or with an older friend or sibling. Reflecting with someone on real life examples can bring the concepts even more to life.
In fact, experience has shown that parents often learn from the book too, and they end up rethinking their own approach or perhaps even how to talk to their teenager!
The exercises are very diverse, interesting and thought-provoking.
They range from listing one’s own character traits, drawing your family tree, or exploring your circle of relationships to playing ‘gratitude board game’ and identifying your love language.
The exercises should be done over time, moving on only after the topic has been discussed and practiced. Spending a few hours per week on the book is most effective.
“This is not your average book: the creative exercises make it very colorful and give a whole new perspective on the subject. Lots of teenagers struggle with self-awareness and self-confidence issues – the book will help them!” Flora, 16 years old
Our book for older readers, Me Map Young Adults, provides much more information on the topics and is a must-read for anyone helping teenagers work with the Me Map Teens book.
You can also find more content under the FURTHER READING menu item.
No problem!
Even if your child doesn’t like to read, Me Map Teens most probably will still work for them as it is an easy read and has relatable content. Furthermore, the book’s visual communication (fantastic illustrations and colorful pages) “explains” the content too.
You can also choose to read the short descriptions to your child. Or even to tell them about the topics based on the book’s content.
other info
Hajni Sagodi-Sturm is an internationally acknowledged (ICF) Master Certified Coach, a trainer, and a trusted advisor for leaders and organizations. She has helped hundreds of clients to transform their lives and has several coach and profiling tool certifications (CPCC, ORSCC, MBTI, Kantor, IOpt, TDS, ValueDrives). She lives in the Netherlands with her Dutch husband and together they have five grown up children.
Ria Horvath is a teacher, trainer and coach living and working in Hungary. She trains professionals and leads trainings for teens on self-discovery and on study techniques. She uses the Kokas pedagogy to help kids improve their life skills: an approach that leverages perception of (classical) music, movement, activity and creative work. She has two grown up children.
The Me Map Teens and Young Adults books won the COACH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 award in Hungary.
The prize is awarded by the Hungarian Coach Organizations’ Association, which was established by leading Hungarian coach organizations and Hungarian chapters of international coach organizations (for example, ICF, EMMC, Gestalt Association, European Coaching Association) to promote the coaching culture in the country.
Every year the award is given to the best coaching book. A professional jury decides which candidate books are eligible for the prize based on professional content and quality, after which public vote decides the final winner.
That the Me Map books received this award proves the quality and professional content – many coaches call the books “the treasure chest of coaching tools”!
But it was not the only reason!
Both the jury and the public loved the unique way of presenting the knowledge: short descriptions help to get to essence and the knowledge is made memorable by metaphors while the content is more enjoyable and understandable by the fantastic illustrations and visual communication of Andrea Balazs.
The professional jury also praised the books for bringing the important content to young people in a way they love.
The books can be used by teachers (for example, as basis for mentor classes), coaches (as part of individual coaching but some run Me Map Clubs for groups of young people based on the books) and psychologist too to give color and a creative twist to treatments.
If you like the book and want that as many teens as possible can read it, share the information in your social media groups!