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

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 [...]

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an article by Steve Andreas
An example of the impact of nonverbal (tonal) qualities of a message. Recently I sent a note to some colleagues mentioning that I had noticed that some people—more often women—ended a sentence or a phrase with an upward inflection that usually indicates a question. I asked if anyone had an [...]

One of the key elements when building rapport is your ability to listen, with care and focus. One of our associates, Mr. Kevin Ryan states in his article “As the quality of listening drops across our society, one of the areas where it is most notable is in sales and customer service. In training in [...]

I love getting to the point where simplicity has ruled and then all things become so simple, so obvious and I then move with ease. It does take some time to see the patterns, to view the subject from different angles until it becomes so simple from the final perspective you have chosen.
Charles Mingus [...]

 ”Who ever is going to be responsible for dealing with the consequences of the decision makes the decision” is one of the understanding that served us well in both business conducts and personal relationships.  This is based on the NLP process of Outcome, Intention and Consequences, developed by John Grinder.  
This is especially useful in a [...]

In NLP we often focus on how to assist individuals and groups to perform at their best. One thing that NLP doesn’t usually mention is that to perform well, you need to be in a state of readiness, which includes every aspect of your wellbeing. One of the most [...]

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 [...]

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Do you think you can Model Nature? A different perspective
Milton Erickson often asked his clients to observe nature to draw inspiration and resolve life’s challenges. When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Can we Model Nature to improve [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the most important things you need to identify when creating change is “For what purpose”. Too often we hear clients saying “I need to change X, Y, Z” or complaining to us that for years they have been trying to improve their ability to do X, Y, Z but failed. Yet, when we [...]

To frame this introduction carefully given our training focus is in NLP, this book (Metaphors we live by. By GEORGE LAKOFF and MARK JOHNSON.) is not NLP nor does it really mention NLP as far as I have noticed. It is just an excellent book about the pervasiveness of metaphors in our everyday language [...]