Archive for March, 2009
The BBC launched a new series of The Apprentice last evening here in the UK and so, over the next three months, 12 precious hours of my life will be devoted to watching it. I did try to ignore it last year but succumbed after, I think, the third episode and was once again hooked. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re into Day 2 of the current NLP Core Skills programme. It’s a great group, as always, and as part of today’s schedule we have been exploring NLP and Rapport. And discussing how many NLP books and NLP trainings still offer the ‘matching body language’ technique as a method for creating rapport.
This technique has been around now since NLP began in the early 70s – nearly 40 years ago! Yet, amazingly, some people still believe that it holds true today. Read the rest of this entry »
The latest Pegasus NLP Newsletter is the first in a new series on using NLP in the workplace.
Being able to present our ideas confidently, clearly and professionally is an important career skill because whether we are presenting to a small meeting or to a large gathering we are on show and are being judged by our audience. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the 3rd of the Six Relationship Freedoms – and many people find this a particularly difficult one to offer to one’s partner.
There’s a game that some couples play which goes along these lines:
‘What are you thinking about?’
‘Nothing’
‘You must be thinking of something!’
‘No, honestly, I wasn’t…’
‘I don’t believe you – what are you trying to hide from me!’
‘Nothing’
‘Yes you are – you’re thinking of that man/woman I saw you looking at (in the café, at work, at the party etc etc) – otherwise you’d tell me!’
It’s the ‘If you truly loved me you’d tell me your thoughts’ game. And it’s often based on ‘my’ insecurity: Read the rest of this entry »