Archive for 2010

Following Your Dream – not someone else’s

Peter May 28, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Sir Ken Robinson is a wonderful speaker – and when he illuminates for all of us what we REALLY should be doing in education then I applaud till my hands are sore. I spend all my teaching time encouraging the children to discover what it ...

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Serious Play and the ability to focus better…

Peter May 23, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This is probably not quite what you are expecting from a discussion topic suitably titled…but is prompted partially by this particular TED talk in a link posted by Nina Lancaster on NLP Connections forum:- http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html Now apropos of this and not entirely unconnected comes from ...

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Work in Progress…

Peter May 12, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

It a simple enough phrase…”Work in Progress”… And yet I’ve discovered that when using it with young sportspeople, that it actually liberates them from any performance shortcomings where (more often than not) they would hang their heads, beat themselves up, and all the other attributes ...

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The Sea omnipotent – Clean Case File #5

Peter May 3, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I met a very intelligent, intense and vibrant lady who is MD of her own successful company. She wanted to raise her energy levels through a better understanding of exercise and fitness and have more positive feelings about her appearance and lose some weight. She ...

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One person’s structure of food cravings

Peter April 30, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Sometimes I meet a client who has cravings for certain foods, and doesn’t wish to have them erased from his or her menu of “likeables” – which is what would happen if we mapped across submodalities using Like to Dislike technique. It’s quite for ok ...

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Metaphors reveal behavioural structures…

Peter April 22, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

When a client admits “I have issues with X because there are times when I feel really out of control”…then I am sat with virtual machete in hand, knowing that I need to help them hack a new pathway through the jungle of X – ...

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Encountering Dogma

Peter April 20, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I was recently approached by a student writing a thesis called “Hypnotherapy and the Christian” for my views; with particular regard to the dogmatic Christian approach towards trance – often described as evil, and that therapists could be described as “charmers” as biblically referenced in ...

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Like >> To >> Dislike …. And why the white plate?

Peter April 12, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Whenever I find myself dealing with removing particular food cravings for clients, by mapping them across to ones they have a certain revulsion to – there seems to be something of a recurring theme…or even a recurring dream, as someone once said to me. It ...

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All Clients are amazing!

Peter April 9, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

On Thursday I had a second meeting with a client who, I’m discovering, is probably one of the most insightful and amazing people I’ve met to date. He is seeing me, ostensibly, to talk around topical areas of exercise, health, food, motivation and such. By ...

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Revealing Metaphors!

Peter April 2, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Clean Language questions are great for eventually eliciting a person’s unconscious metaphors, those that are driving, or that are linked to, certain behaviours. Often people have no conscious idea what these metaphors might be, and find that once they are known, immediate and profound changes ...

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