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 [...]

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 [...]

By Sonya Yeh Spencer, ITA NLP Trainer, Educator, Coach
Stress, like many emotions, can have a positive purpose. It is undesirable when it creates a negative effect on you and others. We will be learning powerful techniques to work with our emotions, to change our responses and resolve the root cause in the next [...]

…Another fundamental skill that one can learn from NLP Practitioner training is how to re-program our own responses or neural-pathways to create change. The simplest way that you can do is remember a time that you might have lost your temper and reacted very strongly, only to regret what you said or did later. This is a bit like …

Change your thinking, change your feelings
Integrating Professor Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy & Philosophy (REBT)
We often live by many rules in our life. These rules express themselves in the use of language we use which consists of ‘musts’, ‘shoulds’ and ‘oughts’. Professor Albert Ellis calls them ‘mustabatories’. He also coined the phrase [...]

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Our question would be – what if there are alternatives to implants with NLP? This is not to say we should stop research or have any ill feelings to anyone who has already benefited from these devices, but if there is an alternative that we can provide through NLP or a related modality – then [...]

Chris Jackson, presenter of Inside Out in the North East and Cumbria, registered pet George with three industry bodies. Each one accepted a certificate from the non-existent Society of Certified Advanced Mind Therapists as proof of George’s credentials.

I Didn’t Sin—It Was My Brain Brain researchers have found the sources of many of our darkest thoughts, from envy to wrath.

by Kathleen McGowan; illustrations by Christopher Buzelli
From the September 2009 issue, published online October 5, 2009

This article talks about the research neuroscience has begun into such things as inhibitory cognitive control networks involving the [...]

How can NLP help you to resolve many of the Project / Program management issues? NLP can help in the following areas as a starter:

Elicit measureable, agreeable, specific scope definition using just three simple frame works that NLP presents
Deliver to stakeholder expectations, maximising existing project resources
How to get through barriers and establish progress from [...]

World Mental Health Day is on 10 October each year and it …raises public awareness about mental health issues. The Day promotes more open discussion of illnesses, and investments in prevention and treatment services. WHO statistics for 2002 show that 154 million people globally suffer from depression, only one form of mental illness.
If [...]

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 [...]