Hi ​@MichaelA 

Start by reassigning its child nodes. Manually drag each child node to a new parent node and then delete the box.

Also, make use of the Mind map associated post which will help you out to learn more user experience.

📣 Updated mind map experience in Lucidchart! | Community

How to create an interactive mind map with expandable nodes and associated icons (& content) in Lucidchart? | Community

Hope this helps - Happy to help further!!
Thank you very much and have a great one!
Warm regards

Thanks, that didn’t help. I attempted to do this but deleting the box still deletes the rest of the mind map. There must be a way to do this where i don’t need to write everything out again?

Hi ​@MichaelA 

Attached is the three step process and have you tried something of that sort ?

Best Regards

That doesn't quite work, or at least I don’t really follow, and now it has messed up my map.

It would be best if I could share and show. See below.

Hi ​@MichaelA 

Please follow the below screens

Step-1

Step-2:

Step-3:

Step-4:

Sorry, its like trying to read German, and I don’t speak German. The images are not clear, as far as I can tell, I have tried exactly this, it didn’t work and I wasn’t able to return my map to it’s original state.