Workshops in NLP for teachers
We run regular workshops of between 90 minutes and four hours in Capital Federal and other venues. We are available to give them in the Provinces. Please contact us for prices.
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In these practical sessions, based on the techniques and research of NLP, will give you a wealth of insights into the learning process each of your students uses, their reactions and responses in class and the magic of clean communication. You will learn how to effect improvements in your classroom environment and to enhance your lessons to better reach all students. The titles in purple are newly added.
Training in NLP applied to education
Working Wonders with rapport
Establishing rapport is the basis of good communication, which in turn leads to creating a more effective learning atmosphere. What exactly is the key to successful rapport? How can it be achieved with all students at any time? This practical workshop will explore non-verbal communication and its role in facilitating teaching and learning.
Successful Learning - incorporating VAK into your teaching
This workshop will identify the characteristics of the different sensory learning channels and give participants the opportunity to learn practical ideas for handling the mixture of visual, auditory and kinasthetic learners that can be found in any classroom. We will also work on how to adapt materials and activities to suit all learning styles.
Empowering yourself and your students through language
The meaning of our communication is the response we get and often it may not be the response we are seeking. This workshop will show some of the reasons why this happens. You will discover how to use language more precisely to facilitate learning, understand your students more clearly and achieve the objectives you set.
Everyone's a winner - conflict resolution in the classroom
Many of the difficulties facing teachers when trying to motivate students are caused by different needs. Learn how to resolve these conflicts using techniques from Neuro Linguistic Programming so that everyone realises their objective and nobody loses out.
What's driving our students? Managing their individual styles
Our inner mental programmes set our priorities in life and learning. Discover how to perceive some of the factors that are really driving our students at a subconscious level and why certain actiivities, approaches and words lead to a positive response. We will see how by structuring communication to take this into account, we can facilitate learning and improve performance.
Building our future: goal setting for teachers and student
Effective learning involves setting and working towards goals. Nevertheless, many of our students lack clear personal objectives relating to their subject and progress more slowly than we would like. The key to getting where we want is forming realizable objectives. In this workshop, we will seek the help of techniques fron Neuro Linguistic Programming to assist in mapping the future that we and our students want.
Beyond belief: How beliefs affect teaching and learning
Beliefs are fundamental in everything we do. As teachers the beliefs that both we and our students bring to the classroom can have a huge effect on learning. In this practical NLP workshop, you will learn how to identify what is functional and non-functional in a particular belief and what can be done to replace limiting beliefs with more useful ones.
What lies beneath?
What we do and how we behave in class are simply manifestations that can be seen on the surface. What really drives us as teachers and learners are our beliefs, the underlying ‘filters’ we have of our world. Discover a way to liberate yourself from limiting thoughts and ideas and move towards empowering new mental pathways.
Making Learning Memorable
Fixing learning is one of the biggest challenges facing teachers. What are the factors that help us to remember what we have learnt? In this workshop, you will explore the answer to this and learn practical ways of implementing these features in the classroom.
Being a resourceful teacher
Discover the keys to expanding your horizons. How to communicate more efficiently with your students, establish common goals and successfully manage different types of students.
They`re playing our song
Learning is not only intellectual but a question of the senses and the body as well. Join us to find out how multisensory input can facilitate acquisition.
Effective teaching made easy See how to work smarter, not harder, with simple and effective NLP techniques. Ways to save our time and energy in which we better harness the talents of our students.
What do I want?
Discover the key to making your dreams come true! Achieving our objectives can be a challenge for us all. Through the use of simple productive techniques, we will learn to better identify what our real aims are and how to go about reaching them. These activities are also designed to be used with students.
I am in charge of my choices
Acquire strategies to handle challenging moments in class. Expand the ways you have of freely interpreting and responding to the different demands made of you as a teacher.
Values in the English Language Classroom
In this session, we explore different possibilities of resourceful leadership to foster and model desired learning behaviour in our learning communities.
If you can reach them, you can teach them!
Using all the senses increases the chances that all our students will learn effectively. In this workshop, we will discover what NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) approaches and activities can best maximise our lessons, enhancing learning and enabling us to reach all our students.
The teacher and sensory acuity… Learning to observe… NEW
A lot of people have become very interested in facial expressions, non-verbal language and other paralinguistic features, after watching “Lie to me”, the American television series that premiered on the Fox network. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language.
In this workshop we will see how to use that information in a very practical way to improve communication with our students and facilitate their learning.
Specific Teacher Skills
Language for Flexibility
The way we respond to difficult situations can lead the way to a rapid solution or not. What can we say in the face of resistance, excuses and simple ‘I don´t knows’? This workshop will give you some easy to remember language tips to help unblock the flow of communication.
Really Listening
Do we really listen to what the other is saying? As teachers, this skill is becoming increasingly central to our work. Efficient listening can smoothe communication and speed up work. In this session we will explore means of listening more effectively and show how this ability can be transferred to work with students.
I´m a Superteacher
The work of a teacher includes many facets that are not taught on the training courses. Let´s recognise these and learn simple ways of appreciating and protecting ourselves so that we can give our best to our students.
Finding your creative spark
Why do we use visualisations and other creative tools in class? In this workshop we will enjoy practical exercises to improve the creative output of your students.
Teachers inevitably play a major role as leaders in the classroom. This workshop will explore practical ways of developing our skills at showing the way, managing people and refining our communication so we can lead and empower our students more effectively.
Activating your thriving gene We can all blossom and flourish in our classes! By activating our ‘thriving gene’, and employing quick Resourceful Teaching techniques we can grow and develop as professionals.
The teacher as learner Some of our most insightful moments as a teacher are when we can be in the learner’s shoes. This workshop focuses on how we can develop ourselves as learners while we are actually teaching.
Enjoying the whole spectrum To be effective researchers in the classroom, teachers can benefit from using tools from NLP which allow them to notice much of the unconscious and non-verbal information that can help in understanding learner and teacher performance
Time Management… Self- Management? NEW
In this session we will see how self-management is essential to manage time effectively and efficiently. We will delve into topics such as delegation, trust, self-motivation and motivation of others.
We will reflect on how to set priorities, how to schedule and have goals. By becoming aware of how we use our time as a resource in organising, prioritising, and succeeding in our jobs as teachers, coordinators or heads of staff, we will learn how to “save” our energy to be active and vibrant when we get home after a long day at work.
Apart from the moments of deep reflection you will be getting very practical ideas to start using as soon as you finish the workshop.
Focus on learners and NLP
Training your students to become better learners
The essential training teachers need to systematise reflection about the learning process with their students in the classroom. Incorporate techniques to maximise your students’ potential, discover their learning styles, preferred channels of perception and different sorts of filters that determine their success in the acquisition of the language.
The teacher as host
Good teaching is an act of hospitality. Find out how to make your classroom warm, safe and comfortable so that all your students feel they belong and are at ease to learn.
One of the keys to effective learning is an active, flexible and creative mind. Creativity has a very important in our learning process and in the development of our students. Learn empowering ideas to stimulate you and your young learners’ minds in ways that are fun, memorable and innovative.
Go with your flow
How to create moments when your students are absorbed in their work and when learning flows effortlessly.
Learners in charge! Getting our students to take the reins of their own learning can work wonders for their motivation. In this workshop we discover ways of improving and sustaining student enthusiasm and effort.
Design for learning Let’s learn how to be the architects of efficient learning. Managing our classroom environments to provide a stimulating and safe world can produce instant improvement in our student’s work.
How students really learn! NEW
This practical session will explore the latest classroom research on student learning and give activities based on ideas from NLP on how teachers can make the most of their classes to facilitate student acquisition.
Emotions and language learning NEW
Damasio (1999) states that “There is nothing distinctively about human emotions since it is clear that so many nonhuman creatures have emotions in abundance; and yet there is something quite distinctive about the way in which emotions have become connected to the complex ideas, values, principles, and judgements that only humans can have ”.
In this workshop we will see how from a neuropsychological perspective, emotions are very important: they exist in our brain and are biological, apart from elaborated by culture.
We will also discuss the implications for English language teaching and learning and we will work with some very powerful ideas to tap into optimal emotional states to learn a language.
NLP and practical ideas for the classroom
Passionfruit
A delicious range of multisensory activities for the classroom. All levels, ages and interests. How you can harness the passion of your students and improve their productive skills.
Another slurp of Passionfruit
More multisensory activities for the classroom. This workshop will present new ideas using the passion of your students in their creative work so that they produce more and have a real investment in the use of the language. All levels, ages and interests.
Passionfruit: more creative juices flowing
A new workshop in the series with delicious new multisensory ideas to improve the creativity and language use of your students. Come and learn a range of generative activities for the classroom for all levels, ages and interests.
Silk purses
Making seemingly flat and inappropriate exercises rich and meaningful for your particular group of students. Integrating their learning preferences into your lessons using the materials you already have.
Enriching your creative work
Why do we use visualisations and other creative tools in class? Practical exercises to improve the creative output of your students. How to write and use visualisations and to stimulate the student´s imagination.
The Art of the Question NEW
Can we polish our question-making as teachers to elicit better learning? Can we help our students find questions which lead to more discovery and reflection. Through quizzes, games and other activities we will practise the skill of finding the right question.
Literature, creativity, learning and fun NEW
In this presentation we will be working with the theory of creativity, plus specific ideas to put into practice in the classroom. Assuming creativity can be learnt, we will see ways to help both teachers and students to become aware of the creative process and its application to language teaching and learning. We will also be reading poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and we will take delight in the production of Haikus.
NLP and Language development
A rich tapestry of words
Do your students lack ideas or words to express their thoughts? Learn new techniques to help them enrich their vocabulary and experience.
Care for a top up?
Ready for a cocktail party of words? Many vocabulary items do not fall into easily taught lexical sets, yet provide richness in the language of native speakers. Here we will have fun with a wide variety of words, terms and expressions used in natural spoken and written English.
Creative writing for you
Writing creatively is an excellent way to expand and develop our language and a means of expressing ourselves. In this session we will practice a variety of great ideas for use in class.
How do you say it?
This session explores current language usage, issues of register and confusing terms and rules. Bring along your own doubts and questions for answering.
A 2010 map of the English speaking world NEW
In these days of information overload and fast-changing technology, what can we expect our students to learn and know about the world of English language and culture? This session will combine general knowledge and language styles and registers to help us identity what is essential to know and what is purely interesting and of lesser importance for the classroom as we enter the second decade of the new millennium.
NLP and personal development for teachers
Nurturing the teacher’s soul
A special workshop for you, the person inside the teacher.
Being fully present NEW
Apart from NLP, there are a large number of complementary therapies and energy techniques being taught in the world today. Many of them are very old knowledge that has been rediscovered.
How are they relevant to the classroom? Can teachers integrate aspects of them into their work? This session will consider a variety of these techniques and give a special introduction to that of EMF (Electromagnetic field) Balancing which helps people to become fully present in their daily activities.
For Administrators and coordinators
Options for Resourceful Leadership
In these days, heads and administrators of educational institutions need a wide variety of skills to deal with the demands of their work. Neuro Linguistic Programming has numerous useful tools for handling the challenging situations involving students, teachers and parents that you may be facing. It can also provide clear strategies for helping your institute or department function smoothly and efficiently.
Topics related to NLP
The Enigmatic Enneagram
What is the Enneagram and how is it relevant to us today? We will study the connection between NLP and the Enneagram and see how it can give us a greater understanding of ourselves and our students.