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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.
Notice. Guess. Test.
30 March 2024

The Art of Guess and Test

In NLP courses, we learn to build rapport and read changes in ourselves while we are connected to others. The mind you read is always your own, but it is your mind under the influence of someone else’s thoughts and feelings
28 January 2024

Is the world a friendly place?

How can you build optimism? It takes willpower to move your attention from problems to the strengths that will solve them. That willpower is a little easier when you surround yourself with people who are also looking for strengths and solutions. It’s not about looking for a bright sid
2 December 2023

Do you have it all together?

Flow is one kind of congruence. Another is a sort of touchstone that allows you to know when all parts of you agree on a next step. This often comes after you have deliberately gathered as much information as is avaiable to you before you make a decision. At some point, searching and testing alternatives stops giving you new information. When it’s time to choose, you do what feels right.  What feels right is congruence. It’s the choice that is grounded in your awareness, settling your body and your mind. It’s the choice you know you can live with.
21 November 2023

How Well Do You Know You?

The way the human being is structured, our enormously complicated brains run most of our behaviours outside of our conscious awareness. We literally don’t know what we’re going to do next, most of the time. How research and stories help us explore the vast territory that makes us who we are.
29 September 2023

3 Drivers of Growth: Purpose, Process & Perspective

The techniques and tools of NLP are processes for making change. But the real effect of these processes is only possible when you use them for a clearly shaped purpose so that you can observe tangible results. And you can only predict results when you deliberately adopt different perspectives to mentally model what is happening and what might happen next
28 August 2023

Who are you and what do you want?

A better way to think about the point of a mindfulness practice is to see it as a way to connect with what is present now so that you can recognize and adapt to change. Your choices depend on your answers to two questions: ⁃ who are you? ⁃ what do you want?
Breakthrough
20 June 2023

Where play and purpose meet

Fun is not something you create to build a team up so that you can break them down again with work. Fun comes from play and play leads to innovation. Play creates energy, openness to diversity, and a willingness to explore ideas which do not, at first, seem practical.

New Book!

Shifts: A Tool Kit For A Better You

The information and techniques in Shifts: A Toolkit for a Better You provide tools for building self-awareness and changing existing patterns so you can choose, act, and communicate with greater confidence and satisfaction.