Using NLP with Children

Parents frequently ask for help from NLP coaches for their children with learning challenges, emotional difficulties, social problems and discipline issues. Many NLP Practitioners are uncertain how to adapt their NLP and communication skills for this unique situation. On this training you will:

• Identify which problems can be solved by working with children and which can be solved by working with parents.
• Practice the process of elegantly refocusing parents from trying to “fix” their children to solving their own problems.
• Use NLP and Vygotsky’s theory of Proximal development to maximise children’s learning new cognitive skills.
• Use art and play to concretise any NLP process so it works with younger children.
• Learn how to coach parents to reframe childhood challenges and build self-esteem.
• Design metaphors to induce unconscious-level change utilizing a child’s own specific interests.
• Get specific ideas about how to effectively work with children using trance and NLP.
• Practice how to begin with a parent’s desire for a “quick fix” of behaviour problems … and link to teaching them the Transforming Communication programme.

Richard Bolstad is a parent and grandparent. He was a single parent for 4 years when his son was aged 4-7 years old. By the time Richard trained as an NLP Practitioner, his son was 14 years old, and the next year he attended the first NLP trainings that Richard ran. Richard has experience working with children and families, using the NLP processes he will explain on this weekend. He is a member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, and a Registered Nurse; and he formerly taught Human Growth and Development to Registered Nurses.