NLP/Hypnosis

ShareI had an interesting conversation with a client of mine recently who’s an NLP Trainer. I asked him whether he was an academic or an engineer….
He at first said neither, he was an NLP Trainer!!
So I pointed out that he was behaving like an academic. He had a deep interest and fascination with his subject [...]

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ShareA client commented to me the other day that she thought I was overly critical of NLP and hypnosis. In replying I made the distinction that it’s actually most of the people trained in NLP and/or hypnosis that I’m critical of…
I think NLP is an extraordinarily useful skill set to be learnt and hypnosis is [...]

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ShareI liked this blog from: http://ypulse.com/ (see below) the pdf from Scientific American Mind is interesting as well. In particular the point of the positive correlation between the extent to which teens are infantilized and the extent to which they display signs of psychopathology. One of the biggest learning’s I got from Jeff Leiken (http://www.mentorcounselor.com/) [...]

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ShareI love technology and all the toys I get to play with because of it, from extropian and transhuman to Futurama and the heads in jars (are people still just cryogenically freezing their heads?  HELLO!! YOU HAVE A BODY AS WELL, and the head is not going to work without it).
A little over ten [...]

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ShareUsing the MythoSelf process is conversational AND jargon free. This does not seem to be the case with NLP, though I get that’s a big generalisation.
Because I work from the positive bias, I’m asking people about what works. And I’m interested in if they’ve done any personal development type stuff.
What I notice about [...]

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ShareFor the scientists here, it’s about elegance.. Things are as simple as they are and no simpler.
My good friend Charlie, whose teacher was Koichi Tohei said he always learnt the most by fucking up, sometimes life just slams you on to the mat. And if you’ve ever been thrown by a really good martial [...]

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ShareIf you got to a therapist, NLP practitioner, master practitioner, Trainer etc. They’ll start out by asking you what’s wrong? So they may not explicitly use those words, but that’s the intent behind the questions. It’s the NLP ‘paint by numbers’ approach of ‘identify problem’ so I can apply technique ‘x’ to solve it. It [...]

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ShareJoseph has drawn influences from a variety of sources as any true innovator does. I’d point out that Joseph explicitly gives credit to where he draws his influences from, this is in contrast to a lot of other teachers who either claim credit for others peoples work or just ‘forget’ to attribute the source of [...]

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ShareI think it is down to lack of acuity on the behalf of a lot of NLP people that they are willing to ride roughshod over people’s realities. I actually used to think it was an ‘attitude’ thing with NLP people, the ‘I know best, I’ve spent a whole 10 days training to be a [...]

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