HELP! I've never worked with kids before...until now

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Welch on July 14, 2011 at 11:05pm

Hi Sharon if you search through the discussions on this group you will find a load of information to help you on that subject a recent discussion was on that very thing.

 

Its pretty much the same as working with adults just more fun and shorter keep session to 45mins to and hour as a rough guide.

 

There are countless ways to work with nightmares, as you have the weekend read some of the articles and then ask some more questions. As a group we will have you up to speed over the weekend smiles Nath

Permalink Reply by Lee Pelletier on July 15, 2011 at 7:37am

Kids can be great fun as others will tell you.  You might want to do something a little different that I learned from Don Rice.  Have her imagine that she is with the crew that has been called in to repair whatever is giving her nightmares.  There can be lots of embellishemt...with kids the big story around it is more important, so I would look for something like "Prince's Quest" or some other fear conquering story.  Mixed in to telling her the story say that the repairpeople are here to fix the whole nightmare thing.  Tell her subconscious to guide them to the right spot and tell them just what to do to fix it.  give her time (hynotic time about 2 minutes, if she doesn't signal "done" by whatever way you want her to signal done or she picks to signal done.  Tell her that she might be surprised by what disrupted things.  (doing this takes away the particular power of the movie).  Make it fun for her like a 10 yr old should have fun. 

 

I am just working through Don Mottin's material on Kids as well.  I have also bought Harry the hipnopautomous and some other story books.  if you follow what Don Rice has been teaching about hynosis in general and kids in particular, then you will have a good time keeping things super simple (KISS  Keep It Super Simple).

Permalink Reply by Nathan Welch on July 15, 2011 at 12:41pm

 

I work almost exclusively with children, stories are powerful and they are not limited to once upon a time if you have a read of my articles here you may find some useful advice to help.

 

Create the story in collaboration with the child and make it multi sensory use props, drawing, paint, toys, dolls, games anything that allows it to become multi sensory and fully absorbing utilise the trance/feeling state they have of nightmares look at how they structure this and what phenomena and narrative binds it together. 

 

Then through the collaborative story de-hypnotise from the nightmare state and then together build a new positive resource state that can be anchored to sleep time, a mantra/spell they can say in their dream, the use of a babylon candle (stardust) once lit it transports them to a safe place there are a million variables.

 

Trust your instincts and skill, let the client guide you with what path to take utilise what they bring and work your magic.

Big smiles Nath

Permalink Reply by Sharon Altman on July 20, 2011 at 7:41am

Dear Nathan and Lee,

Thank you so very much for your thoughts and encouragement.  The referral source finally made contact with the client, so I was off the hook.  Nevertheless, it's been a nice learning experience.  I took your advice and read through other discussions in this group...learning alot.  Perhaps most valuable of what I gained is a renewed appreciation and respect for those who work with children - your creativity is inspiring!  Again, thank you, thank you, thank you for coming to my aid, guys!

 

Cheers

Sharon

Permalink Reply by Nathan Welch on July 20, 2011 at 8:49am

Thank you for your kind words and I'm so glad you had a read around this group and some of the great work and knowledge that is here. There are some truly amazing people who contribute and we all get to learn from each other, I think thats about as good as it gets!!

 

Smiles Nath