Most misunderstandings come not from what we say—but from what we leave out or assume.
The Meta Model helps you spot vague, distorted, or missing language and ask questions that bring clarity, reduce tension, and build trust.
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Emotional intelligence isn’t something you’re born with—it’s something you can train.
Using NLP tools like anchoring, perceptual positions, and precision language, you can build EQ from the ground up.
Learn how to shift from reacting to responding—and develop emotional skills that transform your relationships, leadership, and self-awareness.
We all run our lives based on internal maps—mental models of how things work. Some maps are solid. Others? Outdated, inaccurate, or based on assumptions we haven’t checked in years. The problem isn’t just that our maps are incomplete—it’s that we don’t realize it. That gap between perception and reality? It’s where people get blindsided. When Familiarity Becomes a Blind Spot Ever driven a familiar route and missed a stop sign? Not because you weren’t
Jeb Arcement taught science at a junior high school in Louisiana. The students at Jeb’s school were so tough that, in some years, the school lost a third of its teachers. Some new teachers didn’t even make it to Christmas. They’d get a new principal every 1-3 years. “It was a very toxic situation, to say the least.” “When I started teaching,” Jeb shared, “The kids were running my classroom. It was just awful.” Early
Four years of college, and you can’t even get on the day shift? I read an article yesterday that Americans have lost a lot of trust in our school systems. Aside from politically motivated false fears, students face the real threat of AI destroying the value of a career-oriented degree. How many careers will AI take over and transform? Speculation includes the legal, engineering, and some medical professions. Those not entirely replaced by AI functions
I just read a great article “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership” from the September 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review. It details fascinating new research by Daniel Goleman of “emotional intelligence” (EQ) fame. The emerging field of social neuroscience — the study of what happens in the brain while people interact — will be familiar to any of you with NLP training. It’s the scientific proof of what we’ve been doing in this field
Times of great turmoil and change within the human experience are the perfect time to discover how well we have cultivated states of inner peace and well-being. (So what if everyone is freaking about money. There really isn’t any less of it on the planet!). In “The New Earth” Eckhart Tolle writes “How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see
How to become a professional NLP Practitioner Thanks for your serious interest. I’m going to give you a straight answer, one my marketing folks won’t like. It’s practice that will make your skill, and skill that will make your practice. To achieve a skill level to succeed at practicing NLP as a profession takes more than just a lot of trainings. It takes actual practice, and the best kind is practice in a supervised
Coaching plays an important role in our society. It allows people to get help who otherwise might continue to struggle. Coaches support people through transitions that once were life altering, allowing them to get back to the “business of living” faster than ever before. [bctt tweet=”Coaches support people through transitions that once were life altering, allowing them to get back to the “business of living” faster than ever before.” username=”tracyhoobyar”] And in the 21st century
A coaching relationship involves two people. The coach and the client. Last week we talked about what kind of coach you want to be, what you want to specialize in, and how to share what you do with the world. (If you want to read more about that, check out Finding Your Clients) Now I’d like to talk about the other person in an NLP coaching practice (or any kind of coaching practice) …the client.