Pegasus NLP Blog

When you’ve had a moment to read the newsletter add a comment and let me and others know about your experiences in using NLP or other methods to throw off a weary mood or attitude.

The new Pegasus NLP Newsletter was due out today. Incidentally, it’s about using NLP and the ‘10% New Challenge’ to deal with weariness.

And then the Isle of Purbeck, where I live, had a major power cut. No electricity from 11 a.m. until about 5:30 p.m. Add another hour for sorting out the mess on my PC caused by the sudden shutdown when I had about five programmes running…

… and the newsletter will be delayed by a day or so. (Thursday 9 am: we’re sorted things - the newsletter has just been despatched!)

Phil Robinson is NLP Adventure’s answer to Ray Mears. Phil has been using the natural environment as his classroom for many years, working with groups in the art and craft of outdoor living. The Bushcraft & Tracking session is an opportunity to learn and practise primitive fire lighting skills (no matches or lighters allowed!) and to learn how to follow and read the tracks of a human being or animal to its origin or destination.

In NLP we explore sensory acuity in order to recognise subtle non-verbal clues as to a person’s emotional state. In this session we’ll be taking things a lot further - and learning to notice clues to where a person or animal has been and where they went! Phil’s daughter describes it: “It is like picking up a bit of string in the middle and following it to where it is going or where it has come from.”

I’ve briefly explored this with Phil a while back and it’s almost spooky how you can learn to see a faint footprint in the grass by shifting your physiology and your way of looking at things… Definitely a highly recommended session.

Since it was first announced we’ve had a very good response to the activity-oriented approach of NLP Adventure 2007 – and the move away from the traditional “talking and listening” formula which is already well-catered for by so many NLP get-togethers.

We’ve also had suggestions that we include some other-than-physical sessions, too, as long as these are fresh, fun-led, at no extra cost, and with an emphasis on doing rather than “talking about”.

The Happy with Heights workshop was announced last month and is already booking up. Now, Tara Dominick has offered to run an NLP Workshop on having fun singing. More details shortly.

In the Core Skills training we explore Comfort, Stretch and how little ‘10 % new’ stretches help ensure we don’t slip into the trap of living in an ever-shrinking Comfort Zone.

NLP Adventure 2007 is as an opportunity to explore lots of different kinds of 10 % (or more) stretches such as archery or tracking or woodland cycling - or how about a family High All-Aboard or getting a group of friends together for a raft-building (and sailing) team.

Mind you, it’s not just about the adrenaline activities… for some (including myself) the Barn Dance might reach a little more than 10% on the Stretch Scale – even though there will be an authentic Barn Dance Caller to guide us through the steps! Memories of attempts as a teenager to remember the steps in Ceili Dancing while still trying to look cool… (ugh). But then I don’t take myself quite so seriously nowadays… I think…

The first NLP Adventure 2007 get-together is being held in the New Forest from 14-16 September 2007 and is open to all who have attended a Pegasus NLP course plus friends and family - future weekends may be open to everyone.

The weekend is an opportunity to enjoy spending time with other Pegasus NLP people, meet friends from courses you may have attended, stretch yourself by trying out some activities you’ve never before tried, and learning a bit more about NLP.

We’re having a special free NLP Workshop “Happy with Heights” session on Saturday morning for those who would like to be able to feel a bit more comfortable being high above the ground! (All profits from the NLP Adventure 2007 weekend will go to the Barnardos charity and are tagged to benefit Young Carers in the Bournemouth & Poole area.

If you are coming along and have questions or comments or suggestions post them here - use the ‘comments’ tab to do this.

If you are not coming along but would like to have taken part let us know, too.