If you played with this weeks’ Tip, you noticed how anchors already are and have been affecting you for your entire life, and affect you to this day.
Here’s another set of examples in this article by Seth Godin, a brilliant marketer and a very good writer.  The context is familiar to all of us:  Meetings! [...]

Today notice the physical anchors that you have in place in your work environment. Does the cartoon on your desk make you smile? Does the chair where you normally sit elicit a positive state for you? How can you enhance (or change) physical anchors so that your work day is as pleasant and as productive [...]

Frequently advanced students of NLP seem to forget or pass over the benefits and strengths of Anchoring.  Perhaps because of its simplicity, perhaps because it’s taught early on in most NLP programs.  Whatever the reason, overlooking the effectiveness and ease of anchoring is a very big miss.
So the next few weeks I’ll be exploring some [...]

While everyone remembers the humor and the shock of the “seven dirty words” in the 70’s, most people missed the great definition of the process of nominalizing George gave in the introduction to his most well known comedy routine. Here in his own words (who else’s would you use) George gives us a wonderfully simple [...]

STRAGEDY: When Your Strategy Turns Into A Tragedy

by Jan Prince, NLP Author, Practitioner and Trainer

All of us operate out of unconscious patterns that “get us what we have always gotten.” When these patterns repeatedly harm our relationships or our careers we are unwittingly creating our own tragedies. If we can examine and experience [...]

Here’s Tom Best in a clip from “The Living Encyclopedia of NLP” Defining and Demonstrating the famous NLP Eye Accessing Cues! LIke it? Give us a thumbs up on YouTube!

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The first variation on the Swish, the distance/color swish, is a nice variation. Here it is, again from the classic NLP Comprehensive 24 Day Practitioner Training Trainer’s Manual.
A number of people have asked about this classic. Here’s the link to more information, and a special savings for you - enter this coupon code “Classic” (no [...]

Interesting updates from the scientific community on the perennial debate around the influence of language on perception and thought.
When Language Can Hold the Answer
“Naming, Dr. Lupyan concluded, helps to create mental categories.
The finding may not seem surprising, but it is fodder for one side in a traditional debate about language and

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Starting our “Sampling” series, this is an audio clip from the beginning of one of our Classics, “Stories That Change People” by David Gordon. MP3 format with intro by yours truly. I posted the first 50+ minutes which include a couple of great stories and the what and how of Metaphoric Change according to David.

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In preparing this address, naturally the first thing I did was look again at the conference title: “Modeling Excellence in an Increasingly Complex World.” And I thought back to when I was a kid, and recalled that it seemed pretty darned complex then, too. We were diving under chairs to protect ourselves from atomic bombs, [...]

THE SWISH PATTERN
(Richard Bandler)
Joke: A young recruit in the army began acting very strangely one morning. Instead of his regular duties, he was continually moving about, searching for something in a very distracted way. When questioned about it he would only say, “I’ve got to find it. I know it’s [...]

Following on your proactive practice with last week’s introduction and preparation, you’ll be able to step right in to this fundamental and powerful piece of NLP. Ideally use the same partner to work with, although if you enroll a new one and take them through the introductory portion again, you’ll just learn that much [...]