Introducing a groundbreaking, strengths-focused online training course…

Positive Young Minds
A Certified program, giving you the specialist skills, tools and confidence to positively help children, young people and their families

Grow your skills, your client base, and your joy by empowering young people to overcome their biggest challenges and reach their amazing potential…

Coaching

There is no doubt that the world is currently experiencing a serious low self-esteem epidemic within our younger population.
We all know that in order to make the world a better place, we need children and young people growing up with confidence, self-awareness and the ability to be happy and make a difference.

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Full course fee $995

Here are some of the things you will learn and experience on the training course:

  • check_circle How to work safely and effectively with Children and Teens
  • check_circle Pre Talk including fun exercises for parents and children which instil confidence and buy-in to the process
  • check_circle Working with parents in a collaborative and creative way so that you create positive ripples in families and in the community
  • check_circle Beautiful techniques for younger children incorporating real world situations and objects including favourite puppets or soft toys
  • check_circle Guided meditations, visualisations and self-hypnosis sessions suitable for children and young people at different ages
  • check_circle “My Amazing Place” landscape for change
  • check_circle The importance of building Self-Esteem and Confidence and how to do it quickly and almost effortlessly
  • check_circle Use of transformational story and metaphor techniques for empowering children
  • check_circle Child friendly timeline technique using the “Magic Carpet Ride” (makes positive, holistic and aligned changes in their past, present and future)
  • check_circle 5 tested protocols for children and teens including scripts and strategies for Enuresis (bedwetting), coping with bullying, separation anxiety, fears and phobias and nail biting
  • check_circle Setting positive and motivational resource-anchors for children and teens
  • check_circle Recorded demonstrations of sessions with transcriptions and study notes/ strategy points
  • check_circle Case Studies and demonstrations
  • check_circle My Calm Tool Box sheet for children of all ages
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Full course fee $995

The training course includes instant access to four x 3 hour pre-recorded live Zoom training sessions. Plus an invitation to all future live zoom workshops AND a treasure trove of resources and tools to help young people thrive and blossom into their true potential.

Positive Young Minds

Course Content

Module 1 – Confidence and Self Esteem

  • check_circle The intake form and interview
  • check_circle Fun activities to get started – ways to explain how powerful the imagination is!
  • check_circle Overview of brain function at different ages
  • check_circle Goal setting for children and teens
  • check_circle Ways in to working with the child or teen
  • check_circle My “Amazing Place” – Landscape for change
  • check_circle Toys and props
  • check_circle Home-play and the value of recordings
  • check_circle When and how to work with parents
  • check_circle Ethics activity

Module 2 – Anxiety and Fears

  • check_circle Overview of Stress and Anxiety for Children and Young People
  • check_circle Breathing Techniques and why these work
  • check_circle Fight Flight Freeze explained
  • check_circle Meeting the Anxious part
  • check_circle Phobias and the boogie monster
  • check_circle Separation Anxiety – Stones of connection
  • check_circle Bullying – Shrink the bully script
  • check_circle Circle of influence
  • check_circle Mindfulness – Spidy Senses Walk
  • check_circle Other useful techniques
  • check_circle My Calm Tool Box sheet for children of all ages

Module 3 – Habits and Behaviour Patterns

  • check_circle What are habits?
  • check_circle Future Practice
  • check_circle Regression – The Magic Carpet Ride
  • check_circle Setting Anchors
  • check_circle Thought-stopping
  • check_circle Study Skills and Memory
  • check_circle Sports Improvement
  • check_circle Bedwetting procedure
  • check_circle Nail biting procedure
  • check_circle Building Beliefs by meeting the future me

Module 4 – Big Emotions, Illness and Pain Management

  • check_circle Anger and other big emotions
  • check_circle Case Study 1
  • check_circle Review of the intake form
  • check_circle The use of Guides and Wizards
  • check_circle Using Animals to bring messages
  • check_circle Processing grief – The meeting place
  • check_circle Illness and pain overview
  • check_circle Body Check In
  • check_circle Injections - the magic spot technique
  • check_circle Healing energy
  • check_circle Control room


In addition to the course content, the course has a simple Certification option.

Gain your Professional Practitioner Certification So You Can Advertise Yourself as a Positive Young Minds Specialist & Expert in Helping Young People Blossom and Grow!


Next Live Online Zoom Workshop
28th August 2025 6.30pm

2-Hour Practical Group Workshop with Sara

These live online certification sessions are repeated several times each year. Each one focuses on a specific technique or area of practice so you will be able to constantly add to your toolbox.

These workshops are recorded so you have lifetime access to them. Each one focuses on a unique aspect of Positive Young Minds Practice.

Enrol today, and receive your complimentary starter pack and gift set immediately.

This includes audio recordings, transcriptions and study notes/strategy points for the following practical sessions:

You will be welcome to use these with your current clients as well as family and friends straightaway.

Sara Wilson as well as being our National Training Director, is an extremely talented and passionate hypnotherapist, coach and Positive Young Minds Specialist herself…

Sara Wilson

In addition to being a qualified teacher, her biggest area of focus in her life coaching and hypnotherapy clinic is in helping young people build their self-belief, overcome fears and challenges, and reach their full, amazing potential.

Sara’s passion for helping children started in 2015 when she heard the news that no parent wants to hear - her 6 year old son, Jake, was diagnosed with leukaemia. He really struggled to take the medication. But after just one session with a hypnotherapist - all that changed!

That was the moment she decided to train in hypnotherapy. Along the way she has added even more tools to her toolkit - Mindfulness, Life Coaching, EFT, Havening, Meditation, Breathwork, NLP and more. Her vision is that all children grow up understanding the awesome power of their minds to make changes easily and quickly.

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What parents are saying about Sara’s work with children

"The confidence to move forward in life!"

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"We were looking for help for my daughter who has had anxiety for most of her life - she was not so keen to try counselling so thought we would try hypnotherapy. I found Sara and so pleased I did. Our daughter has gone from having panic attacks ending up at the doctor's surgery - to now being able to live alone in Queenstown - and that is only after 4 sessions with Sara.Thank you so much Sara you have given Jaime the confidence to move forward in life and she enjoyed so much coming to see you. You are an angel."

Chrissy Lamond

"You have changed my boy’s life"

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"Thank you so much Sara, you have changed my boy’s life, he is well on his way becoming a positive young man and sleeping a whole lot better. You truly tapped into my boys needs and he enjoyed coming to see you.Thanks Again x"

Julie Forrow

"Much happier and carefree"

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"Thank you so much Sara! My 9 year old girl has become a much happier and carefree wee person, anxiety was really getting her (and the whole family) down. now she (and the rest of us too) have the skills and tools to bring calm to us all. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you"

Frances Anink

"Amazing… such a positive experience"

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"We have had such a positive experience working with Sara. Our wee girl was struggling with anxiety and getting to school each day. She would cry each day and get so upset the night before. After a few sessions with Sara over a period of weeks I was able to take her to school this week for three whole days with no tears no nothing !!! Which believe me is amazing !!! Thank you Sara you don't know how much this means to all of us. Thank you :0 🙂"

Brett Day

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"His confidence has been boosted"

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"Our son had extra anxiety and stress over school, crying and vomiting before school over stress and worries, Sara worked with our boy (5yrs old) he listens to his personal hypno each night before bed. He no longer cry's or is sick before school, has leveled up and goes into school from the school gate without me or a teacher. His confidence has been boosted and his overall mood has calmed. It is a huge relief for us that he is doing so well.
Thank you so much Sara"

Amber de Silva

"Forever grateful for Sara & her incredible work"

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"Our daughter suffers with really bad seperation anxiety & has been for the past couple of years, we've been at our wits end trying to find ways to help her to try switch her way of thinking into a more positive outlook etc especially since starting school this year.. We are so glad we got in contact with Sara ! She is so great & you can tell she really cares about her work & the people she's working with 😁 our daughters 6 & she loved going to see Sara & filling her in on all the big girl stuff she'd achieved since seeing Sara at their last session! Every session Sara would make a special audio for Ashlyn to listen to to help change her way of thinking etc as alot of anxiety is caused by how the brains working etc.. We are forever greatful for Sara & her incredible work she's done with our girl ❤️"

Kate Millar

Who is this course for?

If you are:

...then you definitely won't want to miss out on this :)


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Full course fee $995

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