NLP is Not a Therapy
There is a regrettable tendency among some practitioners of NLP to refer to themselves as an NLP Therapist or even an NLP Coach. It’s regrettable because we are supposed to be practitioners of a communication art and those titles are inaccurate at best and misleading at worst. NLP is not a therapy so you can’t be an NLP therapist, and, …
Creative Lying and Applying the E.A.S.E. Method
“Creative lying” is not about lying to someone else. I’m talking about carefully choosing the way you represent things to yourself in order to stay motivated and continue to better yourself.
The Starfish Story: You Can Make a Difference
The following is one of my favorite stories I often tell in my Coaching practice. The author is unknown – although it’s been told, altered and adapted by MANY people. Sometimes the characters are presented as different ages, different sexes… probably depending on who you’re telling it to.) While walking along a beach, an elderly gentleman saw someone in the …
They were Training Jokes
Using Funny Stories and Jokes in Training and in Therapy. When conducting Hypnosis and NLP trainings – or any trainings for that matter – I tell a lot of stories. Story telling is an age old tradition. The use of “teaching tales” can be traced back to the beginning of recorded human history. Milton H. Erickson gained a well deserved …
Using Poetry in Trances
When I first started to create my own trance inductions for people I was a bit intimidated by the thought that I didn’t know what to say. I wanted scripts. Then something one of my teachers, Dave Dobson, said to me changed everything. He said to time the rate of the speaking to the client’s breathing. When I did that, …
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