“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 [...]

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 [...]

The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman speaks on how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization’s performance.

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Daniel Goleman reinforces that one of the most critical skills is building [...]

An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day – Peter Bregman – HarvardBusiness.org
Excerpt… Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I wanted to accomplish. Then I sat down, turned on my computer, and checked my email. Two hours later, after fighting several [...]

Building Effective Business Relationships 101 will be presented by Blue-SkyTransformation in conjunction with ConnectWorking.com.au.
Trust will never be an issue after this course!
If you are interested in this course at this late stage – you will need to call us directly on 07 33559714!
If you knew all these secrets of Rapport Building, how would it [...]

NLP Practitioner Course    More information here  Click here to register
…offering certificates co-signed by the founders of the International Trainers Academy – John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll. This course is the only one available in Australia and NZ of this type.
The newly developed NLP Practitioner Course will be offered as a unique small [...]

NLP Café Brisbane
Tuesday 7 July 09
Topic: Unconscious Signals, n Steps of Reframe, Words that move people

This is for NLP practitioners and NLP Master practitioners only.
Come and join us for this special session on Tuesday 7 July 09
Topics:
1. Practice – New Code NLP: unconscious signals and N steps of Reframe
2. Practice – From Impossibility to Possibility [...]

The emerging field of social neuroscience — the study of what happens in the brain while people interact — will be familiar to any of you with NLP training. It’s the scientific proof of what we’ve been doing in this field all along.

We have enjoyed learning Spiral Dynamics Integral online over the last year, and here you can find out more information about SDi as a concept.
Spiral Dynamics Integral or SDi origins
About 5-Deep… 5 Deep is not a consultancy but an attractor field that enables emergence to a new and sustainable future. Change lies at its core. [...]

NLP Café Brisbane
Tuesday, 3-Mar-2009
Topic: Open Coaching / Mentoring (Public Workshop) and Schedule of activities
This is for both practitioners and public.
As described in the 26-Feb-09 session… This is a special session for NLP Practitioners who want to participate in the
Open Coaching / Mentoring activities, but this week with clients attending.
It is also great for those who [...]

The Corporation, DVD, MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT, Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, starring 7 CEOs, 3 Vice Presidents, 2 whistleblowers, 1 broker, 1 spy and 1 really big mess!
The Corporation was an unprecedented box office hit and multi award-winning festival

I enjoy having a theory that covers everything, at least at a broad 50,000ft view, and one which also makes some sense right down to the microcosms that we live with. It is efficient to have a unifying theory, but it also makes sense. Having already studied Spiral Dynamics which for me makes [...]