The Dance of Non-verbal Communication: types of Nonverbal Cues reading body language Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and felt like there was something they weren’t saying? It’s like communication is a dance party and everyone’s invited, but not everyone knows the moves. Sure, we all know the words we’re supposed to…
Creative Thinking: Disney’s Creative Strategy In a world brimming with creativity, countless innovations and artistic masterpieces were once just figments of the imagination. Light bulbs and music to computers and Disney films, human ingenuity has turned dreams into reality. One person who consistently excelled at this magical transformation was Walt Disney. Applying NLP modelling principles,…
You start by looking at a map of the city. The map gives you a general overview of the city, but it doesn’t tell you anything about the specific streets or buildings. To get more information, you ask people who live in the city. They tell you about their favourite restaurants, shops, and parks. They…
Anchoring can help you feel younger! Ellen Langer, in her study of two groups of 75-80-year-old men at Harvard University, discovered anchoring can make you feel and act younger. Both groups were given a series of tasks to encourage them to think about the past. Group A was given tasks that encouraged them to write…
Random thoughts on over learning: Be on the alert now and forever. Being wide open will support maximum learning. Learning is far too important to take seriously. Keep the child alive in yourself and others. Everyone forgets most of what they learn. On average, after only a month people forget 98% of the totality of…
Tips for turning information into deep learning: Good to keep in mind when taking any training such as the NLP Practitioner. Deep Learning is a dynamic process and the rewards can be wonderful. Magic Number Seven ‑ The immediate memory span of an adult is fixed at seven plus or minus two “chunks” of information….
“Hang on a minute John, what do you mean to manipulate a group? Where are the ethics in this?” How many times have I upset someone by using the word manipulate? Is it bad to manipulate someone? Before we explore the subtle ways you can influence, let’s explore the word ‘manipulate’. When you go to…
The bell rings and Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) bounces out of his corner of the ring to face his fearsome opponent. The great Sonny Liston, tipped to win heavyweight champion of the world, steps forth. Cassius’s big strategy was to ‘float like a butterfly and sting like a bee’. With the boxing…
Storytelling We had finished running the storytelling workshop in Paris and had 4 hours and 45 minutes before we had to catch the plane. What would you do? Yes, we found a little restaurant in the back streets and, luckily for me, my companion Graham spoke reasonable French (whereas mine was patchy) and ordered a…
Dr Milton Erickson, the great American psychiatrist and psychologist who specialised in medical hypnosis, had a patient who only spoke in word salad. You may know this condition to be a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases. Naturally, the patient often became frustrated when trying to communicate with others who just…