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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[…]
Read moreThe Beetle in Your Shoe
Putting up with stuff that is not the way it should be, is a bad idea. If you need to find some motivation to get you doing the getting-things-on-track stuff, then just keep on reading… Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was working and working[…]
Read moreEncouraging a Problem Solving Attitude.
Here are some strategies to help young people with more independent problem-solving. Since C19 has happened, many young people have had anxieties and concerns about being back at school. There’s still a lot of social anxiety coming up as a result of being cocooned for 12 months. There[…]
Read moreUnder 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[…]
Read moreEvolution of Anxiety
Evolution of Anxiety A model that is used within biology to describe how things evolve can be used to explain the evolution of anxiety within a child or young person. Using this model, I’m going to share four different ways that we can tackle anxiety. This comes from[…]
Read moreHow 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[…]
Read moreDealing 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[…]
Read moreWhat’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[…]
Read moreThe 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[…]
Read moreStop Holding a Grudge – Children and Young People
“Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to get sick.” Basically, holding a grudge is only going to harm you, use up your energy and your concentration that you could be spending on far better things. In this video, I’ll share with you[…]
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