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Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech?

6 Comments / Beginning NLP, Rapport & Calibration / By Tom Dotz

Found this one in the local weekly, “Westword.” 🙂 “Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech? In this recently posted video, for instance, Obama is accused of using “the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis,” to … As you may have heard, Barack Obama recently became the […]

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More Money Than God

Stories / By Tom Dotz

In the spirit of these economic times, let me tell you a story about conferences and congruence. Thirty-odd years ago, I’m walking in Manhattan with a long-time friend. A piece of paper blows by. My friend grabs it up, hands it to me and says, “Keep this. It’s really valuable.” I look at it –

Applying NLP: More Stories in Coaching, Consulting, Leading

1 Comment / Intermediate NLP, Stories / By Tom Dotz

Last week we brought you another great story of the power of applying just one of the most basic NLP techniques for establishing rapport (“Tuning In” Jan 23, 09) Here is another example – excerpted from one of the most popular articles we posted last year – of the effectiveness and transformative qualities of NLP

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Are You Tuning In?

Rapport & Calibration / By lisaj

A client told me today “I’m becoming increasingly, keenly aware of the concept of rapport … and how my responses control and influence every situation.” “Really?” I ask. She says “Since the NLP workshop, I’ve been sitting in meetings, practicing looking around, changing my body posture, watching my facial expression, aligning with the ideas being

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Twas the Night Before an NLP Christmas

Stories / By Dr. Ed Redard

What if Milton Erickson was Santa Claus? What if he came every year to give all the good little NLPers a hypnotic gift? Going down the chimney into your unconscious mind and leaving presents while you relaxed in a deep sleep…you can imagine that, can’t you? I wrote the following poem as I was was coaching

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Season’s Best Wishes (except to Martha Stewart)

Stories / By Tom Dotz

Article word count 614, average reading time 2.5 minutes Uh oh. Another holiday letter. If you throw this away unread you won’t miss much. Just my story about how Martha Stewart screwed up our holidays awhile ago. We’d had a great year, actually. Our son Jared (then a teenager) and I didn’t drive each other

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NLP And The Deep Structure of Marketing

6 Comments / Trainers & Coaches / By Tom Dotz

NLP And The Deep Structure of Magical Marketing – Tom Hoobyar This is an outline for a new kind of NLP training I’m designing, and I wanted to run it by you. Consider this a “peek under Tom Hoobyar’s tent”. I’ve noticed for fifteen years that some very accomplished NLP Practitioners have had trouble when

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Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life

147 Comments / Beginning NLP / By Tom Hoobyar

Want to know how NLP can help you Live Your Limitless Life? Click here to schedule your FREE, one-on-one NLP Discovery Session with Tracy! 12 Laws of Life Tom Hoobyar These are non-negotiable and there are no escape clauses. No excuses are accepted. Ignore them at your own risk. I got this information over decades

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What Takes Your Breath Away?

7 Comments / Beginning NLP / By lisaj

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” — Ralph W. Sockman Have you asked yourself lately: “What is the positive intention of our current economic situation?” I was on the phone with a friend today who spoke beautifully about the

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Five Great Stories

9 Comments / Beginning NLP, Stories / By lisaj

by Lisa Jackson, NLP Master Practitioner One of my favorite tools in the NLP toolkit is the use of metaphor — especially “teaching stories.” Stories are universally powerful teaching elements because they create a sense of possibility. They are also vastly under-utilized in the world of business. Too often, leaders over-focus on the dry stuff

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