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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He’s a leading expert on fighting illness — particularly heart disease with dietary and lifestyle changes.
Dean Ornish talks in this video about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body’s natural desire to heal itself.

Dean Ornish [...]

Do know what the number one reason why individuals miss their opportunity to be promoted at work according to Harvard Business School’s recent study? It has been said that IQ lands you a job, and EQ keeps you in the job. A career in management involves coping with complexity; a life of leadership relies on your coping with change. If you want to lead, you need to be able to cope with change….

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These are demonstrations surrounding Phantom Limbs. The concept is interesting for understanding our body and the subject of proprioception and how we perceive our bodies.

Video: Derren Brown working with a man’s Phantom Limbs

Derren Brown works with a person’s Phantom Limb and demonstrates how he can touch limbs that don’t even exist. How he [...]

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Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming (Paperback) by Richard Bandler & John Grinder, Steve Andreas (Editor), John O. Srevens (Editor)

The Structure of Magic: A Book About Language and Therapy (Paperback) by Richard Bandler & John Grinder

The Structure of Magic II: A Book About Communication and Change (Book 2)
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Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the [...]

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.

This is a link to the transcript of a Catalyst Report which is about the Synaesthesia. This use of the term Synaesthesia is basically the same concept that NLP has had from many years ealier. See our previous article on Synaesthesia to understand a little more about the concept from both an NLP perspective, and [...]