Visualization and metaphors
These NLP techniques give teachers an alternative way of handling situations. The technique of visualization is widely used by sports psychologists to improve athletic performance, but it is equally useful as a tool to help achieve specific learning outcomes; the use of metaphors encourages pupils to think differently. Both techniques are a powerful means of providing positive messages which can change a student’s mind-set, so they can be very useful way of replacing limiting beliefs, engendered by lack of confidence or external factors such as bullying, with positive messages and suggestions.