Prompted by a musical about the circus (who isn’t?!) we explore the topic of reality and whether it should supersede imagination. Are humans any good at dealing with reality anyway? And if not, then perhaps we can use our inaccurate […]
Breaking Behavioural Conditions – Is it Possible?
Some rules and conditions have a great purpose in life. As children we are told “Don’t talk to strangers”. For those who follow this conditioning it helps to keep them protected. But what happens if you go through life, subscribing […]
Becoming an Confident NLP Practitioner
Hurrah! You’ve completed your NLP Practitioner training. The likelihood is it began to dawn on you during the training, or very soon after you left, that you’re now on your own. More importantly, that you don’t yet have all of […]
When Relaxation Isn’t Enough
Hypnotherapy training offers those who want to work with clients in a truly magical way, the ability to do so. Using hypnotherapy, we can help others overcome a vast array of problems with ease and speed. In this world, which […]
Tuning into Your Funny Feeling
If you’re someone who is new to (for example) NLP, it takes a while to begin trusting your gut feeling; or to tune into it; or to realise that you even have one. It takes time because you need to […]
When Hypnotherapy is Disempowering
As a hypnotherapist, it is easy to get sidetracked by the suggestions we give, the depth or the trance and the effectiveness of our post hypnotic suggestions. However, just as important as informing the client about what they hypnotherapeutic experience […]
How to Manage Negative Feedback
We’re very fortunate to be NLPers because there’s a code for conduct when it comes to delivering feedback. It’s called a feedback sandwich and is as follows: What was good What could be even better Overall what was great. The […]
NLP – For What Purpose?
I’m interested to hear from you about what NLP does for/means to you. I don’t mean your definition of NLP, I mean on a personal level, what has NLP done for you? For me, I came to know about NLP […]
Empathy Without Sympathy – An NLP Practitioners Guide
As hypnotherapists and NLP practitioners, we find ourselves listening to a broad range of challenges that people have experienced in their lives. Our job is to listen, question respectfully and to develop a sense of understanding of their present situation […]
Helping Non-Compliant Clients
Resistance in a client is a sign of lack of rapport. This is one of the presuppositions of NLP and on a recent NLP Practitioner training, one of the delegates questioned if this was always true. “What if you’re doing […]
