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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

Waltz with Wolverines

Mark Andreas
Waltz with Wolverines
Click here to get Waltzing with Wolverines: finding connection and cooperation with troubled teens. (In Kindle Edition and Paperback) Waltzing with Wolverines in Schools Donald Samson, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Juniper Ridge Community School in Grand Junction, CO, recently ordered a copy of Waltzing with Wolverines for every teacher at his school. […]
April 25, 2016

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
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