Jona Saetran (Jóna Björg Sætran), is Icelandic and she lives in Iceland most of the time. Jona's major is in teaching, M.Ed, she is also a PCC coach, Professional Certified Coach, certified by the International Coach Federation. Jona is also educated in CBT, Cognitive Behavior Theory.

Jona Saetran has over a 40 years experience in teaching and education and during this time she has taught students of all age groups, young kids, teens and grownups, she has also a long experience in administration. Jona is the founder of and CEO of Namstaekni ehf. (founded 2004), a small teaching and consulting business where she has worked with hundreds of clients through the years, in office as well as online, people longing for enhancing their self esteem, longing to get over anxiety to be able to feel anxiety free or just wanting to make a better life for themselves and their loved ones.

Jona's personal coaching is in English as well as Icelandic as many of her clients live in faraway countries and of many nationalities, but making use of being coached by Jona online via Zoom.

Now you can find some of her seminars, workshops and articles along with her coaching and mentoring in English at jonasaetran.com

The plan is to translate more of her seminars, workshops and articles to English this coming winter, 2024 - 2025 as well as this book we are presenting here, Að læra að læra - með sjálfseflingu (in Icelandic) which in English translates to "Learning to learn".

In this students handbook, Að læra að læra - með sjálfseflingu, Jona makes use of the methodology of personal coaching as well as the methodology of the CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) + learning strategies and maximum performance studies, to show young teens numerous ways to make use of learning strategies to make all their schoolwork and studies so much easier. Here the teens also learn some strategies to remember much better than before what they have learned.

Learning new ways to make better grades is just one-third of the book because Jona Saetran, speaks of several delicate matters such as

• self empowering
• how to enhance one's self esteem
• how to deal with negative thoughts
• as well as on anxiety and
• bullying

How to improve one's communication skills is also addressed.