Stop it with The Labels!: Parents & Professionals

Since the birth of modern psychology in 1879, there have been more refined and accurate diagnosis of mental health difficulties and learning differences. As awareness of these have increase, so has casual labelling of traits that we recognise from the world of psychology.  However, having a label –[…]

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Creating Responsible Attitudes: Parents & Professionals

In this video, I’m sharing a strategy that we use at NLP4Kids to get young people to feel empowered to take more responsibility. It’s extremely simple but all of the steps are important to do to ensure it works effectively.  The key thing to remember is that if[…]

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Under Pressure: Parents & Professionals

A few days ago the UK government released a white paper detailing their goals to help more primary aged children meet the expected standards in Education. This has lead many to ask the question: How do we improve standards with our increasing the levels of pressure and stress[…]

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How to Handle Resistance to Resolution: Parents & Professionals

I have 3 tips to dealing with resistance to resolution. Resistance to resolution is when a young person is not compliant with the ideas or strategies you offer that would obviously make their lives better! Sometimes this happens not because the young person is resistant to improving themselves[…]

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Dealing with Repetitive Behaviours and OCD Tendencies: Parents and Professionals

Here are 9 tips for helping a young person who has some obsessive or repetitive tendencies in how they behave. Whilst this is not a video specifically for OCD, it may still have some benefits. Often we use the term OCD without a diagnosis and to describe repetitive[…]

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What’s Your *Real* Problem: Parents and Professionals

Before working with any kind of practitioner or reaching out to an organisation to ask for mental health support for a young person, it’s a really good idea to properly define what the problem is.  The benefit of doing so will enable the practitioner to offer the right[…]

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The Beetle in Your Shoe: Parents and Professionals

Sometimes we know what the problem is but are just too tired or distracted by other things to be able to do anything much about it. The problem with putting things off (and hoping eventually they’ll just sort themselves out) is that it is costing you more energy[…]

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How to Stop Children Growing Up Too Fast: Parents and Professionals

Here are 8 top tips about how to let the children you care about make the most of their childhood and avoid somersaulting into the adult world too soon and the effects it can have if we do not proactively help children being over-exposed to adult content, material[…]

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Teaching Children Chunking

Today I’ve been teaching NLP chunking to a 12 year old. If you have no idea what this is, or what it does, read on! In the past I’ve taught chunking to teachers to help them have a method for thoroughly explaining new projects to their class. However[…]

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NLP4Kids Came Highly Commended

NLP4Kids got invited to the Mum and Working Awards Ceremony on the 16th October 2014 at The Campus London – in the heart of East-London’s Tech City. There were around 100 finalists and we had business leaders, judges, VIP guests, the press and the finalists who travelled from[…]

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