“Every picture is worth a thousand words, but the right metaphor is worth a thousand pictures”, Daniel Pink, 2008

We often talk in our training about the concept of changing ones intention, changes the person’s attention and then we focus on certain aspects in our field of view. Our attention fixing is both useful (focussed), but also limiting because we miss very obvious changes in the world around us too. Using [...]

What Hallucination Reveals about Our Minds
Added by Sonya Yeh Spencer, ITANLP Trainer, Educator & Coach
Did you know that about 10 percent of the hearing impaired people get musical hallucinations and about 10 percent of the visually impaired people get visual hallucinations? How do we do it? In this facinating video, you will learn a little [...]

By By Sonya Yeh Spencer, ITA NLP Trainer, Educator, Coach
The old Chinese saying, roughly translated here, “Know thy self and your enemy will ensure you win every time” doesn’t sit so well with me these days.  I prefer to think “Know thy self and others for long term success”.  Why do I say for “long term [...]

By Michael Carroll, nlpacademy.co.uk
The field of NLP is moving forward in an exciting new direction. A group of collaborators working under the mentorship of the John Grinder team are creating and developing new processes that fall into the genre of New Code NLP.  NLP was originally coded using the underlying principles of early computers, hence [...]

Our Master practitioner program is unlike any other in the world. This is one of the most comprehensive, in depth and practical NLP Master Practitioner courses that will help students take the quantum leap in their skill level to artfully applying NLP in all areas of their life. The key focus is on the core [...]

This has got to be the only way New York looks cute! I love these tilt-shift movies. Look for strange behaviours in people, patterns of relating, walking, dodging, greeting…
Noticing the larger patterns
So much to be said when we mentally speed up people we are modelling and this gives you a long-distance hint into what you [...]

Added by Mark Spencer, ITANLP Trainer, Educator and Coach
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal or human acts and also when the human or animal observes the same action performed by another.
From an NLP perspective, we would say that the functions of Mirroring were discovered 20 years earlier by Grinder [...]

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In this Issue

Tips on how to get a grip on Stress, Part 2
Know the Purpose for Creating Change
Book Reviews – Metaphors we live by
Podcast – Manipulating Moral Judgement
Video – Modelling Nature? A different perspective
NLP Practitioner Training – Hot offer for [...]

There are many prominant developers of NLP and importent figures who have influenced NLP since its inception.  Each one of them bringing in their uniquness and infused NLP with multi-faceted applications.  Here is a series of videos to get you associated to the names, their voices and ways that they express things, and some of their [...]

Many of the skills that Derren Brown is using are pure genius. Not everything here is meant to be done at home – that is not our intention for showing these. These videos are brilliant examples in some cases of deep rapport, language skills and anchoring – showing just how things can happen. [...]

A few contrastive articles on how we percieve ‘others’ unconsciously in those initial moments of encountering a person.

Researchers are developing a new understanding of how we judge people. By Marina Krakovsky, Scientific American
Excerpt from ScientificAmerican.com
We’ve all heard that people favor their own kind and discriminate against out-groups—but that’s a simplistic view of prejudice, says Amy [...]

From literature to architecture, academics and entrepreneurs are using neuroscience to explain everything from why we like a complex narrative thread to why round tables are more social. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
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…all sorts of industries are jumping to use any new brain information [...]

By Sonya Yeh Spencer, ITA NLP Trainer, Educator, Coach
In our last Newsletter we had an overview of where stress and anxiety came from – as a response to life events. I have challenged you to ask yourself “if there is a positive purpose or message that this feeling (stress or sense of anxiousness) has for [...]

Podcast: Using Light to control the Brain…..this approach—called optogenetics—could return controlled movement to mice suffering from Parkinson’s. Beyond controlling neural firing in the brain, scientists have recently found that by inserting another gene cells will glow green when they fire. That means they can watch the brain in detailed action, a step towards decoding [...]