Mastery and Artistry in NLP
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Truly, incredibly, thanks to the UKweather, I spent the weekend reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
Incredibly, because what I know, understand and care about baseball is zero. Even saying that doesn’t quite convey the deep chasms of my ignorance and lack of concern, like, as the young folks say….whatever.
According to Gary Trudeau (Doonsbury), “You win by not getting out.” Hmmm.
Read MoreEspecially if you don’t want to be a trainer or therapist? Do we, as a field, have any plans for this?
Maybe you’ve done your training, you’re still excited about learning NLP, but somehow never get round to really challenging yourself to take your learning to the next level?
Or you’ve done a couple of the shorter courses and you believe, and in some cases have been told, that you are pretty much ready to call yourself an expert? (yikes!)
Maybe you just don’t know there’s anywhere else to go?
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Intrigued by this article by Tim Parks in the Guardian, having enjoyed his 'Teach Us To Sit Still'. I am reading, slowly, this very engaging study in family and systemic therapy by Valeria Ugazio.
Her work has explicit roots into Bateson and Haley, referencing 'double binds', 'the cybernetics of self' and 'pragmatics of human communication' among other things. It's a subtle, touching account of her work, specifically focussed on dealing with phobias, eating disorders, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
This is a wondrous little gem collection of all the many ways in which human beings are deluded and and crazy. Here are our self deceptions and wrongful calculations, the lies, distortions and marvellous idiocies of the ways our minds work - and that's on a good day!
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Some of you will have already heard this on R4 Book of the Week or see the extracts and reviews in the press. I was lucky to buy my copy at the launch party at the Wellcome Institute and I started on it immediately on the train home!
I'm always interested in books about the therapeutic process and the history of how 'mental health' or psychological problems are understood and treated.
Check out Judith Lowe's latest film, shot in her garden where she gives you an update on what's happening at PPD Learning, and also some reminders for practicing your NLP
Read MoreJanuary NLP Community Matters Newsletter 2014
It's here at last! NLP's own new Wiki: NLP Wiki - New NLP Encyclopedia. For many years professionals in the NLP field have been frustrated and despairing about the toxic, disparaging, highly distorted and inaccurate NLP entry on Wikipedia.
Read MoreIn our new ‘post-truth’ world being heralded in triumphantly by Mitt Romney, the unloved and unloveable Republican candidate in the U.S Election, I have been practising my new spiritual discipline of staying calm and centred while egregious lies rain from the heavens.
Mitt’s campaign is so full of outright sh*te I can barely believe my eyes ands ears.
Read MoreWell, how wonderful was that?!
Of course the map ain’t the territory and every version of the past, present and future is just a story and always a biased and distorted one too. Maybe even more so when it’s our national myth and we’re going through such a huge sea change?
Lots left out, much bad not said… but hey, the isle was certainly full of noises.
Read More’m somewhat wearily engaging in the current Richard Wiseman NLP Eye Cues research debate.
Ridiculous really, as his position that he has ‘debunked’ a major claim of NLP is based on zero reality. In fact his research on lying is, somewhat ironically , itself based on a lie!
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