What is NLP?
‘Neuro’ is how we think, based on our values and beliefs about the world we live in and how it works. It’s how we process what we see hear and feel. It’s unique to us.
‘Linguistic’ is what we say based on those thoughts and our body language, it’s how we express ourselves, how we communicate.
‘Programming’ is the result we get from what and how we communicate, the patterns of behaviour and the result of how we behave.
By getting in touch with what we do unconsciously, the things that have become habits, and make them conscious, we can decide how we might change them in order to get the result we want now.
It is about change and the desire to change and make new patterns by examining how we think and what we say and experimenting with other options that will make a difference.
How will it benefit you as a parent , teacher, foster carer or social worker?
In parenting we fall into patterns of behaviour sometimes because that’s what we’ve always done, or it’s what our parents did, what we believe is the ‘right thing’ to do or say and despite evidence that it’s not working we continue to do these things in the hope that one day we will get the results we want.
‘If we always do what we’ve always done then we will always get what we’ve always got’. I ask parents what they want to change. What is their desired outcome? What do they want rather than what they don’t want. So often parents think in terms of what they don’t want. Tantrums, answering back, disobedience, cheek, untidiness these are often mentioned. Parents use the ‘don’t word all the time. They focus their attention on what’s not going well.
I encourage you to use ‘towards’ thinking and ask you to notice the behaviopur you want to see more of rather than the behaviour you want to see less of. What you focus on is what you get more of and that is so true in parenting.
How will it benefit your children or the children you care for?
There are a great many reasons why NLP works so well with children and young people.
You will learn lots of tools and techniques that will help children to:
How will it benefit you as an existing NLP Practitioner, EFT Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Coach?
Although you already know all the principles of your therapy modality and how to use the tools and techniques with adults, it is very different working with children. I will teach you how to use NLP with parents, children, young people, teachers and carers.
I’m often asked how it’s different working with children. Here are a few ways:
I design each course around individual students and who you want to work with.
On payment of the course fee, you are joined into the private student group where you have access to other students’ homework assignments, final assignments and can discuss cases.
Why should you train with me?
I have been training NLP Practitioners in working with children and young people for 10 years. I am certified as a trainer through ANLP and my courses are accredited to Sue Knight who trained me.
I have more recently qualified as an EFT Trainer with Karl Dawson although I've been using EFT with almost every client daily for nearly 3 years.
‘Neuro’ is how we think, based on our values and beliefs about the world we live in and how it works. It’s how we process what we see hear and feel. It’s unique to us.
‘Linguistic’ is what we say based on those thoughts and our body language, it’s how we express ourselves, how we communicate.
‘Programming’ is the result we get from what and how we communicate, the patterns of behaviour and the result of how we behave.
By getting in touch with what we do unconsciously, the things that have become habits, and make them conscious, we can decide how we might change them in order to get the result we want now.
It is about change and the desire to change and make new patterns by examining how we think and what we say and experimenting with other options that will make a difference.
How will it benefit you as a parent , teacher, foster carer or social worker?
In parenting we fall into patterns of behaviour sometimes because that’s what we’ve always done, or it’s what our parents did, what we believe is the ‘right thing’ to do or say and despite evidence that it’s not working we continue to do these things in the hope that one day we will get the results we want.
‘If we always do what we’ve always done then we will always get what we’ve always got’. I ask parents what they want to change. What is their desired outcome? What do they want rather than what they don’t want. So often parents think in terms of what they don’t want. Tantrums, answering back, disobedience, cheek, untidiness these are often mentioned. Parents use the ‘don’t word all the time. They focus their attention on what’s not going well.
I encourage you to use ‘towards’ thinking and ask you to notice the behaviopur you want to see more of rather than the behaviour you want to see less of. What you focus on is what you get more of and that is so true in parenting.
How will it benefit your children or the children you care for?
There are a great many reasons why NLP works so well with children and young people.
- Children are like sponges, they soak up new ideas and embrace change and choices. They have not become numbed by bitter experience or resentful. They are open and ready to learn.
- The NLP techniques and exercises are simple and easy to do and to replicate anywhere so kids can use them at school, home, anywhere
- NLP is positive, it is about focusing on what we do want not what we don’t want, focusing on when things are going well, modeling excellence, what we do well and the structure of excellence.
- We even teach that there’s no failure only feedback, how empowering is that for a child?!
- We do not prescribe, we give children choices and the more choices they have, the more flexibility and the more control they have in every situation.
- Everything is possible with NLP the only thing stopping a child is the child itself so you will learn how to help them overcome their limiting beliefs.
You will learn lots of tools and techniques that will help children to:
- Find different choices and solutions to issues they face at school and at home
- Overcome limiting beliefs including those created in earlier childhood
- Boost their confidence and self-esteem
- Manage their anger and causes of it
- Manage their anxiety and causes of it
- Learn more effectively by boosting their concentration and focus
- Improve their communication skills and rapport
- Improve their physical performance
- Manage the feedback they get and turn it into learning
How will it benefit you as an existing NLP Practitioner, EFT Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, Coach?
Although you already know all the principles of your therapy modality and how to use the tools and techniques with adults, it is very different working with children. I will teach you how to use NLP with parents, children, young people, teachers and carers.
I’m often asked how it’s different working with children. Here are a few ways:
- The child has probably not requested the appointment. They possibly don’t want to be there.
- They may not acknowledge that there’s a problem. It is probably someone else’s fault! They’re just fine!
- The ‘problem’ or ‘issue’ may not be theirs. It could well be the parents’.
- They know they have feelings, feel sad, confused, angry but they don’t want to talk about it or share the feelings.
- They don’t have the verbal skills to express what’s going on so we need to use play therapy, art, drumming, glove puppets, play doh and so on.
- Children automatically think the adult knows the answer so unlike an adult, they will say they don’t know quite a bit because they are scared to get things wrong. Therefore, it’s really important to be alongside them in a ‘not-knowing’ place. This is not what an adult client expects or wants.
- They may have been given a label which has become their identity and they feel this is who they are. It has become a ‘stuck state’ so no-one can help them.
I design each course around individual students and who you want to work with.
On payment of the course fee, you are joined into the private student group where you have access to other students’ homework assignments, final assignments and can discuss cases.
Why should you train with me?
I have been training NLP Practitioners in working with children and young people for 10 years. I am certified as a trainer through ANLP and my courses are accredited to Sue Knight who trained me.
I have more recently qualified as an EFT Trainer with Karl Dawson although I've been using EFT with almost every client daily for nearly 3 years.
-Qualifications
NLP Practitioner – Sue Knight
NLP Master Practitioner – Sue Knight
NLP Trainers Training – Sue Knight
NLP Sports Practitioner – Jeremy Lazarus
EFT Practitioner Level 3 - Karl Dawson
Matrix Reimprinting - Karl Dawson
Matrix Birth Reimprinting - Sharon King
Matrix Past Life Reimprinting - Caroline Jane Dawson
PTT (Picture Tapping) - Philip Davies
EFT Trainer - Karl Dawson
Author of NLP books
Teach Yourself: Be a happier parent with NLP – Hodder 2011
Engaging NLP series of Workbooks – MX Publishing 2010 /2011/2012
Parents, New Mums, Teachers, Children, Tweens, Teens, Back to Work, Work
Teach Yourself: NLP Workbook - Hodder 2012
Teach Yourself: Self-Esteem Workbook - Hodder 2012
Secrets of the NLP Masters – Hodder 2014
Understanding children and teens - A practical guide for parents, teachers and coaches - Free Association Publishing (2020)
NLP & EFT for Parents - Free Association Publishing (2021)
Experience with children
I am a mother - I have four children aged 19-31yrs
I ran a Montessori School for 7 years while my children were young
My background is children’s market research for TV companies, publishers and toy companies.
So children have been a big part of my life for many years even before I set up NLP Kids, coaching children and young people and training those who want to work with them.
How does it work?
My NLP Live training covers everything you would learn on a classic NLP training course and so much more; EFT, PTT, Time Line etc
- It is on Zoom so you can work from your own home, record the session and make notes.
- This keeps the cost down. Most NLP courses are over £2,000
- It is an individual session which means that you can ask questions as we go along, contribute your own experiences, discuss application of NLP or EFT and anything you don’t understand can be immediately explained.
- The sessions are weekly (or as you wish), giving you time in between modules to absorb and integrate what you have learned and apply it through a short homework exercise which usually involves working with a child or young person.
- If you intend to work with children and young people then I can offer you the benefit of many years’ specialist experience.
- The course focuses on working with children whereas most NLP and EFT courses are focused on the workplace and on working with adults.
- You get individual feedback from me on your homework and the opportunity to improve on it. I then invite you to share it in our private Facebook group where you can read other students’ homework and have feedback on your own.
- Once you’ve qualified you can continue to use the student Facebook group for advice and ideas and I can help or mentor you in any way you need.
- If for any reason you need to rearrange your session this can be done relatively easily.
- In addition to NLP, you will learn EFT, PTT, Time Line Therapy, Art Therapy, Inner child work and Mindfulness
You can record the session and make notes. There will be about an hour of homework. I’m looking for engagement with the content, thoughtfulness as to how you will apply it and something added by you at a personal level based on your own knowledge and work with children. You can Whatsapp me at any time to discuss the course content or any questions you have with your assignment.
In addition there will be opportunities to practise on your fellow students online or if you're local to me, we can have a practise session here with others attending on Zoom.
What will you learn?
Module 1 – Introduction to the course , what is NLP and how it works with children and parents. How you want to use it and create training schedule.
Module 2 – Beliefs of excellence / NLP Pre-suppositions.
Module 3 – VAK and the Metaprogrammes, Deletions, Distortions and Generalisations
Module 4 – Compelling Outcomes, Anchoring, visualisation, vision boards, Logical Levels
Module 5 – EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
Module 6 – PTT (Picture Tapping Technique)
Module 7 - Time Line and inner child work
Module 8 – Overcoming limiting beliefs : Perceptual Positioning, Parts Integration, Logical Levels of Change and Time Line
Module 9 – Art Therapy - Using art, sand, Lego, Clean Language and Metaphors
Module 10 – The Karpman Drama Triangle
Module 11 – Working with families
Module 12 –Working with schools
Zoom sessions have this structure.
- Quick update
- Content of module
- Discussion
- Homework set
After the 12th Module you will present a final assignment to me via Zoom and other students may join us. These will be individual 30 minute presentations on one element of NLP with Kids. You can choose whatever age group you want to focus on for the exercise and/or what issue. You are sent your certificate and you will be an NLP Kids Practitioner, ready to open for business!
I will be increasing the price of the live course to £1, 497 from January 1st 2021 and adding more features:
- regular weekly student Q&A sessions
- monthly swap sessions
- free webinars
NEW 'less-live' NLP & EFT Kids Practitioner Course
Following the publication of my new book Understanding Children and Teens , I will be offering a much cheaper online course which you can study in your own time which might suit those of you who work full time or live in a Time Zone that doesn't work very well for me (I can't be delivering live content in the middle of the night!).
I am currently writing the course which is a combination of the book and the existing course with additional exercises, reflection spaces and spaces for you to apply the learning to yourself and your family. This course will be fully available from January 2021 but you can start now and download each module as I write it and it is uploaded! Hot off the Press!!
The course will be £497 and as well as access to all the material, there will be access to a new student group on Whatsapp that is just for this course. You will be able to arrange swaps and practise on each other. I will drop in occasionally to do a 'live'.
Contents
Module 1 - Introduction to the course
Module 2 - What is NLP, EFT, PTT, Mindfulness and Clean Language.
Module 3 - How to be practically perfect in every way – The NLP Beliefs of Excellence or Presuppositions
Module 4- Focusing on the positive outcome – Setting compelling outcomes and identifying skills and qualities, Anchoring and Circle of Excellence
Module 5- Perception or Fact – Overcoming limiting beliefs using Perceptual Positioning, Parts Integration and Time Line
Module 6- Clearing negative thoughts and feelings using EFT tapping – Tapping explained and the process described
Module 7- The healing power of art – Using Art Therapy to help children and teens to express their emotions, including Picture Tapping Technique
Module 8- How to turn ‘comparing’ into ‘modelling excellence’ – NLP Modelling process
Module 9- Speaking so they listen – VAK and the Metaprogrammes and Meta Model - Deletions/Distortions/Generalisations
Module 10- Calming the busy mind – Mindfulness explained and exercises
Module 11- Escaping the Drama Triangle – Rescuer, Persecutor or Victim? How to step away from the rescuer role.
Module 12- Time travel to heal past hurts and change the future – Inner child work
I will be increasing the price of the live course to £1, 497 from January 1st 2021 and adding more features:
- regular weekly student Q&A sessions
- monthly swap sessions
- free webinars
NEW - Introduction to NLP & EFT for Parents of pre-school children
This is a 7 module course for those who only want to use the content for their own family and want to have specific age related material. At the moment I'm only running the pre-school version as I have a student requesting it. If you have older children, speak to me and I'll create one for you.
Delivered live online and can be shared with partner/ grandparents and carers. Cost £595
Module 1 NLP and the Presuppositions
Basic concepts of NLP and the 10 beliefs of excellence and how they are relevant to parents of pre-school children
Module 2 Compelling Outcomes
What sort of parent do you want to be and what are the skills you have already to achieve this?
Module 3 VAK and the Metaprogrammes
Understand how you and your children process your world for good communication.
Module 4 EFT
Managing emotions using tapping.
Module 5 Art Therapy
Exploring the power of art as a way to understand what’s going on for our children.
Module 6 Drama Triangle or Modelling Excellence
How to avoid rescuing/fixing your children’s problems and instead coach to build self-esteem
Module 7 - Modelling Excellence is about learning how you do what you do well and mapping across the underlying belief.
New Group Training Courses
You may prefer a deep dive into one or more of the modules. Each one starts with an individual one hour pre-course chat to check that the course will meet your expectations and give you some background theory so we can focus on the practical elements in the group sessions.
They are all 2 x 3 hour sessions with swaps and breakouts and they each cost £250 (Discounts available for NLP Kids past students and for Karl Dawson's EFT students) .
They are a much more intense training with a high practical element.
EFT - Learn how to tap for yourself, with your own children and those you work with, to ease and clear intense emotions
PTT (only as an add on to EFT or for existing EFT Practitioners) Learn how to use picture tapping, a combination of drawing and tapping for your own children and those you work with
Time Line and inner child work Learn how to find the source of negative beliefs so you can help your child or client move on
Art Therapy Learn how to use sand, drawing, writing, LEGO, vision boards and other playful activities to gain deeper insight
