Product reviews for NLP for Teachers

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is an established set of principles for teaching, learning and personal development. It brings with it a range of methods and models and offers new understandings into how people think, behave, learn and change.

NLP for Teachers is certainly a book that many people have been waiting for and a great resource for all in the field of education. It contains a wealth of information on NLP, including the essential background to the most important tools and techniques.

One of the main strengths of the book is that it is directly aimed at classroom practice. As such, it is jam-packed with excellent advice and useful strategies as well as motivating and practical ideas. There is a bank of tips, Just Do It activities and a wide variety of NLP Toolboxes, all of which have immediate application to day to day classroom situations.

A small example of the areas and topics covered include

• The Presuppositions of NLP & The Study of Excellence
• How to plan successful lessons from inside out and reach your outcomes
• Using sensory preferences in language
• Building Rapport & Developing Effective Relationships in the Classroom
• How to be elegant in your use of language to influence others and affect change
• How to use body language to manage your learners
• How to see the world differently and increase your success
• Anchoring _ Harnessing the resources within yourself and your environment
• How who you are affects what you do _ Working out your values hierarchy
• The art of questioning and conversational belief change
• The skill of being artfully vague and using language to get what you want
• How to keep motivation on target

A regular feature of the book is the Jargon Buster which helps to clarify some of the concepts behind NLP and make its value all the more obvious and relevant.

As you work through the chapters and try out the activities and become more comfortable with the principles, presuppositions and skills of NLP, you will find that you in become a better and more effective teacher, not only in terms of what you do, but also in terms of who you are both inside and outside the classroom.

Also particularly useful are the short Resource Zones, which add academic depth to the chapters and cover a wide variety of areas such as mirror neurons, hypnosis, emotional intelligence, eye movements and much more. Written in simple and easily accessible language, they reference work from other fields relevant to NLP and also include an extremely useful and detailed list of sources for further research and study.

In addition, the book also includes an Instant NLP Training Day, which includes a number of mini-training sessions and useful advice on how to bring the learning back into your own context.

Overall, NLP for Teachers really is a very useful book. It is an excellent balance of practical ideas and theoretical insight and an essential resource for those in the educational sector interested in being the difference that makes the difference.