IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 16) It is important to be able to make the following distinctions when working with NLP: 1.  Content Often people come for coaching mistakenly thinking it will involve a review of their past.  This is an outdated view of personal development, perhaps a legacy of what we have heard about [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 15) An excuse? One of the reasons given regularly by people who aren’t interested in learning new things is, “I’m too old to change”.  Whether they realize it or not, this statement is not true and usually masks a lack of motivation.  Perhaps they think they have no reason to [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP  (Part 14) NLP offers a methodology for achieving personal change.  Most of us have changes we wish to make in our lives.  However, the process is not usually comfortable, or as easy as the self-help gurus would have us believe.  Here’s why. 1.  We can’t control change We often act as if change is [...]

 IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 13) Here’s a short video in which I talk about one of my most  favourite NLP presuppositions – “The Map is not the Territory”.  Click here if you would like to watch some more videos of colleagues of mine talking about the NLP presuppositions that they like the most.  We all [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 12) A presupposition is something which is believed or assumed.  There is a long list of presuppositions that those who work with NLP share and work with.  Some of them are quite controversial, or even shocking, at first read. The funny thing about these presuppositions is that even though you [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 11) Do you know what it is that may be tripping you up or holding you back from achieving your goals? One factor could be incongruence.  Incongrence arises when the conscious and unconscious minds are not in alignment.  It shows up in body language which does not match the verbal words expressed.  To [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 10) Most people take an interest in NLP, or other forms of coaching and self development, because they are wanting to make some change in their life.  If you want to experience change in yourself or when working with others, here a number of important elements to take into [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 9) In my posts in this series up until now, I have provided some background to the origins and history of development of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming).  It is a subject that defies easy definition, as it covers a wide range of applications and deals with the functioning of one of [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part Eight) If you have an academic leaning, you may want to understand what research exists to underpin NLP’s models and prove its efficacy.   The existing body of research is, unfortunately, not extensive, perhaps because, in the main, NLP practitioners have preferred practical application over academic study. Here are some of [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 7) If you have been reading my recent posts, all this talk of the “conscious” and “unconscious” mind may be making you feel a little schizophrenic by now!  Chris Morris of NLP Connections posted an amusing blogpost about this recently.  The divided mind, as introduced by Freud, was still a [...]