A Coaching Secret
I’m going to share a secret with you that I learned a long time ago. It’s a secret about effective time management. Now some of you might already be aware that effective time management is perhaps THE most important skill for ANYBODY to have – whether you are an artist or a bureaucrat – if you use your time well, you do well. …
Using Stories in Coaching
This is an old Chinese Taoist story that I already posted in a blog a couple of years ago.. It is a wonderful metaphor and I repeat it today because I want to use it as an example of how stories can be used in a Coaching Context. Once upon a time there was a village that was experiencing a …
Ericksonian Language Pattern: Quotes
One of my favorite beginning patterns to teach is the quotes pattern. I like it because it is so easy. I was teaching a class in Neo-Ericksonian Hypnosis over the weekend and we had a lot of fun experimenting with the various language patterns available to impart indirect suggestions in a hypnotic induction. The quotes pattern examples I gave to …
Going Under the Knife
Going Under the Knife I had the good fortune, a few years ago, to be a founding member of the Department of Complementary Medicine at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital under the auspices of Dr. Mehmet Oz. My job was to provide Hypnotherapy to patients prior to surgery to see if there would be measurable results in their surgical outcomes. …
FInding good stories
How do you find good stories? Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have made a fortune with their “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series of books, not for writing the stories but for collecting them. Good stories are happening all around us all the time. They are in the news, they are in your own life. So, how do you …
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