NLP Podcast 78: Best week of life and NLP in school

Florian W. was interviewed after a NLP in a Week Coach Seminar by co-trainer Annemarie Freitag about what the event brought him and how he thinks NLP can assist him in his job as a teacher.

"For the 2nd time, the best week of my life" (Florian W.) Florian had a NLP in a Week Coach, attended with Stephan Landsiedel, and said the days were very intense for him. He experienced the content as highly effective in his own transformation process and also in his role as a coach for the other participants.

His 3 highlights:

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These 3 experiences created a powerful connection for him and a great feeling of a network that has established itself. He found the group's cohesion to be excellent. He experienced a lot of human warmth. This made him feel that he could share some personal things about himself. He felt completely supported and enjoyed intense experiences.

How did Florian come to NLP?

Florian is a teacher at a public school for grades 5-13. Through the school, in a completely roundabout way, he came to NLP. Through an internet search by a colleague of Stephan, who established the connection to Landsiedel.

What has NLP done for Florian?

Out of curiosity and personal interest, he started with NLP and was quite positively surprised at how this transformation process can evoke similar effects that are actually intended in learning through NLP. NLP has the potential for a comprehensive learning grammar, practically a descriptive format to shape the learning process.

What NLP exercises can Florian imagine applying in the school context?

In his opinion, many:

Anchoring, like room anchors, so that the learning group behaves differently in the physics room than in the classroom. Or currently, he thinks of the anchor of a bell to allow for some calm. Whether this anchor is sensible and effective is another question. If one is aware of the anchoring mechanism and uses it purposefully, in a positive way, then NLP can be highly effective.
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Reduction of learning anxieties or exam anxieties even in groups, not just individually. Through dissociation, anchoring, and also with the help of other NLP formats and support.
In conflicts, 1-2-3 Meta, so that students learn to resolve their conflicts peacefully and approach each other again. "This will be highly effective, even within the framework of school social work," he says.
Learning or creativity strategies that students can learn to shape their own learning progress in an optimized way. Whether this is the Walt Disney strategy or others. And of course, he is also happy to find out that it works. If these strategies can also be successfully implemented, then it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then the children will be more eager to learn. Some students could positively experience and confirm their self-efficacy. An ideal goal.

Giving children certain strategies so that they can partly shape and achieve the path to the school goal with freely available materials. For example, that an 8th grade class also designs the lessons in such a way that co-learning takes place between students and teachers, learning synergistically from each other while also meeting the necessary level.

he can imagine combining and integrating NLP with the insights of John Hattie, a New Zealand educational researcher. Hattie has scientifically proven how and when students learn well for life, not just for school. The Pisa study is also tending in this direction, he interprets. So, in the concrete example of thermodynamics, students should clearly recognize and experience how to apply this concretely in life.

He finds stories and metaphors from mentors good to apply in school when these stories clarify that the protagonists have achieved something special despite resistance. Such personal breakthroughs have the potential to indirectly motivate children to explore their own areas of interest and gain great personal success experiences. They can then present these in class or publicly, which in turn motivates other students. The teacher somewhat reduces his role in the school process and enables the children to try things out for themselves.

Florian's ideal image of school in 10 years, with all the NLP knowledge:

Students are sad when they "have to" go on vacation. His goal is to make it possible to not decouple fun project work from everyday school life.

Last tip for the listeners:

NLP is worth it, even in the school context, because it is about transformation processes. NLP can be learned and applied for oneself or as a coach for others. Teachers often have the role of a coach more than they realize. And if they utilize this role, it can greatly enrich the teaching.

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