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When to Ask
22 November 2025

When to Ask

We all want to rush. We all want to push through to a solution or inspire a breakthrough. Our brains have evolved for pattern recognition, and when we see a pattern, we want to share it. But it’s hard to keep two brains in sync and your flash of insight might be brilliant and still not be what the person you are coaching needs.
2 minute recap
15 November 2025

Use NLP to Build Relationships

Relationships grow when two people have good reasons for connecting and pay attention to the way those good reasons are being played out in their connection. When you know what you want, it’s much easier to find it.
8 November 2025

The difference a word makes

To use words better, we need to know that the firing of patterns in the brain happens faster than we can move on to explanations or stories. We need to be conscious that some words no longer mean what the dictionary says they mean: they mean the connection of one meaning to others in a neural web. You can’t choose what fires when you use the word: you can only anticipate corrupt connections and use a different word instead.
24 October 2025

Leverage points: less struggle, bigger results

Three NLP concepts help you identify leverage points: Clarity about goals and values will drive your best unconscious choices. A change in perspective or emotion is effective in generating new choices and behaviours. You don’t have to be right. You have to try something and observe the results.
18 October 2025

Coaching presence with NLP

NLP offers an understanding of how to recognize the elements of coaching practice so that you can practice them. Here are three steps that show you where to start.
NLP is a craft, not a science
15 November 2024

Is NLP a Pseudo-Science?

NLP as taught at NLP Canada Training is neither a science nor a pseudoscience. It’s a set of practical tools that are updated to align with current science and provide a bridge from science to the choices you make everyday. You can think of it as an art or a craft, a way of understanding life that draws on science and experience and practice.
10 October 2024

Why Live Training Matters

Why videos and quizzes can’t teach you decision making and communication. Live training allows you to do more than consume information. You develop skills you can apply in your daily life, skills you’ll still be using in 3 months or 3 years.
5 September 2024

We make change happen here

This fall will feature two new ebooks, a new coaching website, and the latest version of our Master Practitioner training. We don’t just tell you how to change: we make change happen.
Late spring woods
21 April 2024

Prepare to make better choices

Thinking and decision-making are skills, no different than the skills you use to compete or perform in other fields. If you want to ensure your thinking is your best possible thinking, you need to prepare.