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NLP for people who like to think for themselves!
Strong leaders?
Since we began using outdoor activities in our trainings in the 90s which has repeatedly occurred in team development sessions: the tendency for a new team to produce one or more ‘strong leaders’ – and for this to result in the rest of the team becoming ‘weak followers’ or in their emotionally opting out of the activity. (It was from observing this dynamic that our ‘Strong leaders create weak followers’ theme began.)
Team dynamics in action
The ‘Low Ropes’ session is a great team development experiment which we introduce on the first afternoon of every NLP Core Skills course. It’s an opportunity to experience, from the inside, how a team forms, develops and pulls together and what gets in the way of this.
On the Low Ropes you are part of a group of 5-8 people who have to negotiate a series of non-strenuous team challenge and problem-solving activities, and, ideally, become a team in the process. To do this you have to pull together because the activities are designed so that one person cannot do them alone. Continue reading
The Reviewing Model
The Reviewing Model is a pragmatic adaptation of the Experiential Learning Cycle. It is one of those deceptively simple yet powerful methods for learning through doing and reviewing – which is the style of learning we use in our Pegasus NLP courses.
What is it?
The model provides a quick-and-easy three-step structure for learning and benefiting from your experience – any experience:
Step 1. What? What did I experience? What did we do? What happened first, next, etc? What was it like? What did I learn? How did I think and feel during the experience?
Step 2. So What? What can I do with what I experienced? What are the lessons and applications? Where can these be used in my everyday life?
Step 3 Now What? Okay, what am I actually going to do in the coming days and weeks? (This is where we commit ourselves to putting the learning points into practise. )
Curiosity…
He was walking along beside me, looking around him – and being uncharacteristically quiet. Then, as four or five-year olds do, he stopped and made a few attempts to say it but in the emotion of the moment the words sort of log-jammed a bit before he could get them out: ‘Why… emm why… why are the clouds so high?’
It was one of those ‘get out of that one questions’! Do you give a sensible and logical and scientific answer, which would damp the moment of curiosity and wonder, or do you keep the mood going by throwing the question back to him?
I did the latter, with a ‘what do you think?’ question, and we had a wonderfully existential chat. Continue reading
She didn’t dither nor mess about. She got straight to the point. She wanted information which she knew she had a right to and she expected me to give to her!
Her email arrived today via our web contact form and read: ‘I am actually getting fear of closed spaces I want to treat myself and help my followers in my sports profession.. many undergoing these symptoms.’
That’s it – exactly as it arrived (apart from her contact details, of course. No attempt to create rapport. No real information. No reason for me to respond. )
The pe2000.com website
The message came via our pe2000.com website which provides free information about how we can manage our emotions and deal more effectively with anger, panic, fears, phobias and so on. Most of the information is based on my experience and observations from working with individual clients as a psychotherapist and with groups as a stress management trainer since 1984. Continue reading
There are articles on Goals and Values on our main website
Goals and Values – your hot buttons (1) http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_and_values1.htm
Goals and Values – your hot buttons (2) http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_and_values2.htm
Goals or Dreams (1) http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/goals_or_dreams_1.htm
Goals or Dreams (2) http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/goals_achieve_them_2.htm
People who are going to have a great future http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_future_on_wheels.htm
NLP in Selling: http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_sales.htm
Using stress to motivate http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_live_your_dream.htm
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