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UPDATE: The date for this NLP Cafe is Tuesday 15th July
Sometimes we find ourselves in situations that trigger unresourceful states in us. A letter from the bank, being called into the bosses office, having to do the paper work, etc, etc.
Wouldn’t it be nice if that not so useful state automatically triggered a more resourceful state in that situation? Not surprisingly NLP has a number of state based processes to help that happen.
In the next NLP Cafe on Wednesday July 16th Tuesday 15th July we will use a simple technique called the Anchor Dance for automatically taking you from an unresourceful to a resourceful state quickly and easily.
Join Andy Hunt and Nigel Hetherington at St Oswald’s Hospice Teaching Centre between 7pm and 9pm on July 15th to find out how to do the Anchor Dance (courtesy of Vikas Dikshit an inventive NLPer from Pune, India).
The evening costs just £10 for which you will receive a Cafe Credit which will give you a £10 discount on any course run by Andy Hunt or Nigel Hetherington.
PS: This is a great way of finding out what we are like as trainers and the kind of thing you might expect to get from one of our IntegrityNLP Practitioner trainings.
In NLP a state is word describing the sum total of how we feel, our mood and our physiology.
Some states are very simple and have common every day names such as: angry, loving, dissappointed. Other states can be complex combinations of feelings and moods that may have no name but are very familiar to us.
Many people think that their state is something they are stuck with, in reality they are easy to change and choose. States and state management is a fundamental part of NLP.
In the next NLP Café meeting on May 20th we will explore getting in and out of states. In the first part of this practice group we will use a process to tease apart unresourceful states so that they are easier to change. In second part we will work on creating tailor made states for use on any occasion.
Join Andy Hunt and Nigel Hetherington to get in, and out of, a bit of a state at St Oswald’s Hospice Training Centre, Gosforth, Newcastle on Tuesday May 20th between 7pm & 9pm.
PS: If you have not trained with us before this is a great way of finding out what we are like and the kind of thing you might expect to get from one of our IntegrityNLP Practitioner trainings.
NLP is a skill set that is used in all sorts of fields from education, training, management, sales and medicine to name but a few. When learning about NLP for the first time people often wonder how do I apply these approaches in my line of work.
There are quite a few medical practitioners using NLP in their daily work. In this talk to the West of Scotland Pain Group Jonathan Bannister (anaesthetist) and Garner Thompson (trainer) discuss the application of simple NLP principles in a medical context. If you are in this line of work yourself you might like to listen into this discussion of NLP in action.
If you are a complete newcomer to NLP you might want to check out our three day Introduction to NLP that IntegrityNLP will be running later this year in Newcastle. If you would like to attend an NLP Practitioner training then we are starting our next on in September this year (I know that sounds like a long time away, but the earlier you book the less it costs).
We made a little boo-boo in the announcement of the NLP Cafe meeting for January. The meeting is on Wednesday January 16th between 7pm-9pm rather than January 9th as previously stated.
Sorry about that. We hope to see you there.
Do you take criticism personally?
Do you take in negative comments and brood over them?
Would you like to be able to respond to criticism more resourcefully learn from the experience and let it go?
Fortunately NLP has modelled the thought processes of people who are able to respond resourcefully to criticism. This process is easily learned and once learned it’s automatic.
In January’s NLP Café you can learn how to respond resourcefully to criticism. The meeting is on Wednesday 9th January between 7pm-9pm. The cost is £10.
We’ve just been covering the Meta Model in our NLP Practitioner training . The Meta Model is one of the foundations of NLP giving us a way of detecting the hidden patterns of meaning in another person’s model of the world.
Some people really like the Meta Model. It fits into their way of working and seems to be just an extension of common sense. For others (myself included) it can be a bit of a stretch to learn.
Fortunately there is a nice way of practising the meta model online courtesy of John David Hoag . He has created a collection of ‘flash cards’ on his website that you can use to practice your language detective skills.
There is a lot of stuff to learn in an NLP Practitioner training. It’s not like learning to back a cake there are lots of interacting themes, principles and ideas that need to be acquired and integrated.
So what sort of things do you learn in an IntegrityNLP NLP Practitioner training? And how do we help you learn them?
This is the first in a short series of articles about how not to get what you want. Here’s my first failure tip, follow this reliably and you are bound to go wrong
Spend your time thinking about what you don’t want
Think in great detail about what you don’t want, what’s wrong with
your life, work, relationships, etc. Make a detailed list of what’s
wrong.
If you’re a bit stuck here are some suggestions:
You might be asking: “But, what if this is true?” “What if I really
don’t want some of these things”. “Isn’t it good to be honest and tell
it how it is?”
It may be true, but it isn’t very helpful. Thinking and talking about what you don’t want sends your brain in the wrong direction. Focus on the problem and you’ll find yourself ever more deeply immersed in it. What you think about grows stronger. Dwelling on what you don’t want is a great way to remain stuck there.
Not only does thinking this way keep you stuck it also stops you
from considering where you would prefer to be. Humans like all other
life forms are goal seeking entities. We have needs and desires, we
want them fulfilled and we’ll take steps to get to them. However if you
don’t know what your goal is, seeking it can be very difficult.
Imagine you get into a taxi and tell the driver “I don’t like it
here, take me somewhere else”. The taxi driver is probably going to ask
“Where would you like to go?”. If all you can tell him is “Anywhere,
but here” you (and the driver) are in for a frustrating experience.
This is why this is such a great two-for-the-price-of-one failure tip - Focus on what you don’t want and you can stay stuck and avoid better alternatives.
Try this
If you are good at “don’t want-ing”, you might like to try this
little exercise as one way of turning what you don’t want into what you
do want.
1. Make a list of some of your ‘favourite’ don’t wants.
2. Add them one at a time to this question, ask the question of yourself and think about the answers
If you don’t want …………………………………., what do you want?
If the answer to this question is another “don’t want”, put that in the space and ask the question of that.
If you are very used to thinking about what you don’t want this
might seem like quite an effort. If you don’t want to be stuck it’s a
very useful first step on the way out.
Andy Smith of Practical EQ has written an excellent summary of ways to choose an NLP Practitioner course that’s right for you. Given the plethora of courses available in all sorts of styles, this is a very helpful guide to new ‘NLP shopper’.
Here’s my shortened version of his list.
I think this is a great list of things to look out for when choosing an NLP Practitioner training.
