Understand their world. Adapt your tools.
An NLP specialization in working with children, teens and ADHD: expand your work with fears, attention difficulties and self-image, in language that fits the child's age and the way children experience the world.
For holders of an NLP Practitioner certificate or higher. Certification in the specialization requires completing NLP Master Practitioner.
Registration for the cohort is currently closed. You can start with the intro session.
Join the free intro sessionChildren and teens bring a world of their own to every session:
screens and social media,
questions about where they fit in among their friends,
fears, doubts and struggles with self-confidence,
and also strengths that can be discovered and worked with.
How do you meet them where they are?
In the specialization we will address social pressure and comparison with others,
body image and self-confidence,
attention difficulties and ADHD,
and adapting your facilitation to the emotional and social difficulties that arise.
In the specialization you will learn to adapt NLP tools to the world of children and teens:
to build rapport, to use play and guided imagery, and to work with the difficulties and strengths each child brings to the session.
Teachers and educators: Those who want to empower their students and help them realize their potential.
Therapists and coaches: Those who want to focus on working with children and teens, and learn how to adapt their facilitation to a child's age, attention and way of expressing themselves.
Parents and grandparents: A chance to gain tools you can apply with fun and play with your children and grandchildren, to help them cope with fears, difficulties, insecurity, avoidance and more, and to build good communication.
Professionals who work with children: Those who want to broaden how they communicate with children and learn tools for working with fears, difficulties and cooperation.
A prerequisite for joining the specialization:
An NLP Practitioner certificate
Certification is conditional on completing NLP studies up to the NLP Master level
A calling and professional fulfillment: There is nothing more rewarding than helping children and teens create positive change and alter the course of their lives. It is a world in itself, one that fills those who do this work with a deep sense of satisfaction and purpose.
Professional focus: Go deeper into working with children and teens, and adapt your facilitation tools to their needs and to the questions that come up from their parents.
Room for play and imagination: Working with children invites the use of movement, imagination and play. In the specialization you learn to weave them into NLP processes.
It keeps us full of life: Working with children is a joy. They infect us with their vitality and energy, always surprise us, and keep us young and creative.
Speaks the children's language: You use imagination, visual props and play to adapt the process to the child's language and way of expressing themselves.
A clear goal for the session: You learn how to structure the first session, set goals and choose processes that match the difficulty the child brings.
Working with the senses: You practice visual demonstrations, guided imagery and positive anchors, alongside work with inner dialogue and self-image.
Structured and empowering: You learn structured processes for working with perspectives, resources and self-confidence, and adapt them to the child's age and situation.
Building on the experience you already have: The tools are also meant for educators, coaches and therapists who have studied NLP. You can explore how to bring communication, imagination and play into your professional work.
We have carefully built an in-depth, inspiring and comprehensive specialization,
with 12 Zoom sessions that will let you acquire a wealth of tools and processes
and practice working with children, teens and ADHD using NLP tools.
How children process information and draw conclusions, and how you can help them change thinking habits effectively.
Everything you need to know about working with parents:
the structure of the first conversation, what to do in the intake meeting with the parents, staying in contact with them during treatment, how to set expectations, how to question parents, dealing with complex families and more.
The structure of the first session with the children:
how to build rapport, how to set goals, what to do at each stage of the session, and the processes and tools that suit the first meeting.
Difficulties typical of children that you are likely to encounter, and how you can help them overcome them.
You will learn a wealth of creative NLP tools and processes that work wonderfully with children:
coping with trauma and difficult experiences, processing grief, coping with illness, creating positive anchors, treating anxiety and fears, discovering and using the children's resources and strengths, strengthening self-image and confidence, dealing with social and emotional difficulties, dealing with siblings, parents and authority figures, protection against harassment and bullying, working with the time line, guided imagery for children, releasing negative and limiting habits, coping with inner conflicts, preparing children for changes and transitions, and more.
How to adapt treatment to adolescents (ages 12-18): applying and adjusting, for the teens themselves, what you learned about working with children during the specialization and with adults (in Practitioner or Master).
Everything you need to know about ADHD: the three types of ADHD, the characteristics of attention difficulties, hyperactivity, impulsivity, the accompanying challenges for people living with ADHD, and more.
How to question and create an effective treatment plan for people living with ADHD.
A wealth of tools and processes for coping with attention deficit disorder:
changing negative thoughts and automatic thinking patterns, moderating impulsivity, organizing the mind and self-organization, treating procrastination and concentration, improving low self-confidence, coping with social and emotional difficulties.
Protocols for facilitating with children, tailored to the age group.
You can use them as they are, or adapt them as needed.
Additional tools to help you adapt what you learned to different situations and cases.
Ethical guidelines for working with children and teens, and for dealing with parents and other professionals.
Procrastination and how to treat it: "creating a second skin"
The future in steps, adapting familiar NLP processes for children, and a wrap-up
"NLP for children – every tool is an amazing process, a fast process, processes that work."
"My children received the best gift they could possibly have!"
"It is amazing – everything I learned serves me, and it has upgraded my communication with the children in my clinic"
"It is simply like keeping a toolbox you can pull out,
to bring the children to a better place with less effort"
"As soon as I finished the specialization,
I opened my own clinic.
The course gave me all the tools
I needed"
"Treating children is truly, truly a joy,
it is real satisfaction!
And Retter College is the best college in the country, and its specializations are the most professional"
"As soon as I finished the specialization,
I opened my own clinic.
The course gave me all the tools
I needed"
"It works both in the clinic and with my son"
"The children who opened up in therapy
led to an innovative program inside a school"
Specialization students receive the recordings of the sessions,
so you can review the material again and again,
as much as you need, even after the specialization ends.
If you missed a lesson, or part of one –
the recording lets you catch up on the material with no problem at all.
In the Zoom sessions you can practice with children and get guidance from the instructors. You can also invite your own child to take part in a demonstration.
After the session ends and the material has been covered,
there is extra time for questions and answers.
Join the sessions through Zoom
and save the trip to class:
no need to leave the house,
or waste time on travel, parking and running around.
Between sessions you will put what you have learned into practice, so you build experience already during the specialization.
During the sessions too, after the instructors' demonstration, you will have time to practice what you learned with children – it can be your own child, a neighbor's, a relative, a friend's son and so on.
Of course, you will receive professional guidance and supervision all along the way.
After each practice you will be asked to submit a report, which the specialization's assistants will review.
A printed booklet written by Daphna and Noga Retter and sent to you by mail. It gathers knowledge and tools for working with children, teens and ADHD, for study and practice during the specialization and after it.
Galit Zimel, a graduate of the children, teens and ADHD specialization,
founded "Galit's Place" following the specialization –
a growth space for children, parents and educational staff.
Workshops, lectures and individual guidance.
Joining "SuperRetter" – when you complete the specialization you will join a supervision group
run by a graduate of the specialization who has a successful clinic for children.
In the group you can share, consult, create collaborations, ask questions
and get answers from the assistants and the other members of the group.
The specialization is taught together by Daphna and Noga Retter –
mother and daughter, who live, speak and breathe NLP.
For 3 years now they have been recording the successful podcast "Living by NLP" together.
Beyond their professionalism, experience and clear way of teaching,
the special dynamic between the two is inspiring and adds to the atmosphere of the studies.
Founder and director of Retter College, one of the field's leading figures and a pioneer of the method in Israel.
Holds the NLP Master Trainer certification from both NLP University and ABNLP
Treats children in her clinic, with rich experience and high success rates, even in complex cases.
A mother of 5, one of whom is Noga :)
A graduate of Retter College, working with NLP and guided imagery since 2013.
In 2016 she was crowned the youngest NLP practitioner in the world to be certified as an NLP Master Trainer by NLP University.
Has taught Practitioner and Master courses, and the children's specialization, at the college since 2017
Runs a very successful private clinic, treating children with NLP tools.
Supervisor for college graduates who work with children and teens.
Within a few months you will have wonderful tools for working with children and teens,
tools that can change the course of their lives for the better.
This is not just a specialization – it is a calling!
For holders of an NLP Practitioner certificate or higher. Certification in the specialization requires completing NLP Master Practitioner.
Until registration opens, the intro session lets you get to know the program and see whether it is right for you.
You can get to know the program before deciding how to continue.
Zoom burst into our lives with the lockdowns, and both we and our students got hooked (a healthy addiction). It is efficient and works great, and it is super convenient: you can study without leaving home and without wasting time and money on travel. The sessions are run completely professionally, the material is presented clearly with slides, the assistants help with technical and professional questions, and there are even bonuses that do not exist in in-person studies: extra time for questions and answers, and recordings of the sessions – which let you review the material and enjoy the knowledge with no time limit.
Let's separate two things. There are exercises during the lesson. Those can be done on a child, or on another course participant who has no children.
Between sessions you will need to find a child or teen to practice on. You can practice with a child from your extended family, a neighbor's child, or a friend's.
From experience, finding children to practice with is much easier and simpler than it seems, because many parents are glad of the opportunity. And if you still cannot find one, we will give you tips and the wording of a message you can post on social networks and the like, to find a child to practice with during the specialization.
Absolutely. The children, teens and ADHD specialization requires prior NLP studies at Practitioner level at least. It does not matter where you studied – what matters is that you have the prior knowledge.
One of our goals in this specialization is to help parents, and even grandparents, help their children and grandchildren, including with ADHD. Alongside the many gifts of ADHD, everyday life comes with a great deal of tension, from the surroundings and inside the home.
In the specialization you will learn tools that you can use in a playful way to help your child cope with procrastination, impulsivity, behavior problems and the emotional difficulties that come with the story. You will understand your child better, and you will know how to help them better.
You will learn processes that help them at home or outside, with siblings or friends, at preschool or school and anywhere you need. And you will be able to do all of it in a fun way, so that your child cooperates and, with your help, experiences success, builds their self-confidence and realizes their abilities.
One of our goals in this specialization is to help parents, and even grandparents, help their children and grandchildren, including with ADHD. Alongside the many gifts of ADHD, everyday life comes with a great deal of tension, from the surroundings and inside the home.
In the specialization you will learn tools that you can use in a playful way to help your child cope with procrastination, impulsivity, behavior problems and the emotional difficulties that come with the story. You will understand your child better, and you will know how to help them better.
You will learn processes that help them at home or outside, with siblings or friends, at preschool or school and anywhere you need. And you will be able to do all of it in a fun way, so that your child cooperates and, with your help, experiences success, builds their self-confidence and realizes their abilities.
The booklet cannot be purchased. It is given exclusively to those who register for the specialization.
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