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How to Deal with a Defiant Teenager

Mark Andreas
How to Deal with a Defiant Teenager
The above video is a very small sample of the in-depth principles outlined in my book Waltzing with Wolverines Responding to Defiance in Teenagers During the time I spent as a trip leader for a wilderness therapy program for troubled teenagers, I learned first hand how to connect with and lead defiant teenagers. Check out the […]
June 8, 2017

How to Deal with Bullying

Mark Andreas
How to Deal with Bullying
Standing up for the underdog (excerpt from my book Waltzing with Wolverines: finding connection and cooperation with troubled teens) One of the most supportive things you can do with your power as a leader and role-model with teens, is to stand up for the underdog. If there is a conflict between two kids who are […]
December 3, 2015

Working with Troubled Teens

Mark Andreas
Working with Troubled Teens
Not many people realize that before I started my private NLP coaching practice, I worked for two years as a counselor and trip leader for at-risk and troubled youth at a wilderness therapy program in Colorado. During those two years working round-the-clock shifts for three weeks straight, I learned more about human behavior than at […]
November 3, 2015

Eliminating Musical Performance Anxiety

Mark Andreas
Eliminating Musical Performance Anxiety
“I finished the audition and only when I walked out did I realize: I had no teeth chattering, no sweating, no shaking at all! It was just so crazy. I didn’t expect it at all!” Let’s rewind back to when I first met Maya. She was a bright high school student who played trombone in […]
April 7, 2015

Working with Youth: Humor and Fun

Mark Andreas
Working with Youth: Humor and Fun
If it ain’t fun, you ain’t doin’ it right! When I started working for the Monarch Center for Family Healing, a wilderness therapy program for at risk youth, I soon discovered that “at risk,” meant teens who were alive, and their parents were worried. The kids were sent to us for many reasons—drugs, sex, anger, […]
March 8, 2015

Where do you want to HAVE your “problem?”

Mark Andreas
Where do you want to HAVE your “problem?”
Our problems are solutions After having spent a lot of his time focusing on his family, a client of mine from Alaska wanted to get back into focusing on his business and bringing in an income again. He said he wanted to get back into that laser-like focus and flow with his business that he […]
August 29, 2014

Changing how you Behave

Mark Andreas
Changing how you Behave
In the following short video I reenact a humorous and inspiring story of a very creative response to a potential mugging—from my colleague Michael Perez. I love this story so much that I’ve shared it at multiple conferences around the US. Just watch the first 4 minutes, then see below how Michael, or other role […]
March 30, 2014
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