Awaken Your Genius with Dan Smith

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Dan Smith

In this session, China NLP Chairman Dan Smith will guide you through NLP, Accelerated Learning and Cognitive Psychology, to present the important findings from The Genius Project. Learn to develop your abilities, skills, gifts and talents, to expand your personal success and experience of joy and fulfilment.

Awaken Your Genius – Tuesday, 23 June – from 7pm – 100RMB

We will be in a central Shanghai location and will send you the details when you let us know you’re coming.

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Have you ever met someone outstanding? Someone that was not just competent, not just good at what they did, not even “excellent” – but someone who stood out as being exceptional?

Dan Smith did.
 In 1994, he noticed that there is a difference between someone who works really hard to get mediocre results and someone who effortlessly achieves excellence. And, surrounded by some of the most brilliant minds, he started to ask, “What is the difference?”

Because it’s not just talent…

Sure our natural gifts and abilities help us. And for some people they help us a lot. But you and I know people who have every natural advantage but who either waste it or just can’t get it right.

And it’s not just hard work…

We are taught that if we work hard enough for long enough, we will get what we want. But it doesn’t always work like that. Some people feel a failure. Which makes perfect sense when you realize that there is a part of you that knows what you are capable of, and that you are not achieving, experiencing and enjoying the success and fulfilment that you want.

It’s not enough to “learn by doing”.

To be your best – you need to concentrate and practice getting better. And it can take time. A long time. And it’s working at getting better too – not just playing around! We need to work smarter – not just work harder. And most of us just don’t do it. Are you showing up at your best?

What if you could be free yourself to be your best?

Thanks for your interest though we're now full! Please come along next time.

Dan Smith holds five University degrees (including Psychology and Innovation Management), a fourth degree black belt in karate, and started his first company at the age of 20. Dan is a Certified NLP Trainer, Distinguished Toastmaster and has been living in Shanghai for the past two years.

One of his German participants recently described Dan as “a very experienced trainer who helped me with his knowledge and a huge capacity of understanding to find out where I am, who I am and where I want to go and then provided me with practical and powerful tools to accomplish whatever I wish for.”

Jeff Tan in Guangzhou: Discovering Core Values and Motivators

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Jeff Tan

Jeff will be discussing how to invest in yourself by discovering and understanding your core values. By discovering in your core values, you stay ahead of life’s uncertainties because you know what you want out of life, you know what motivates and pushes you forward, you know just why you’re alive!

Jeff Tan | Wednesday, 24 June, 7-9pm | @Paddy Field, Guangzhou

Core values are what’s important to you and drives your emotions, thoughts and actions every second of every day. It’s a set of personal rules, principles and fundamental truths that give us the fuel and motivation to lead a meaningful, pleasurable and pur poseful. Values are generally discovered, not designed.

You can’t touch, smell, taste, see or hear your core values. But you can feel them inside you leading and guiding you all the time.

Just as important as discovering our core values, understanding what it means is critical as we attach our own personal and unique meaning to a value. For example, many people have happiness as a value yet to one person, happiness is when they accomplish a task, yet to another person, happiness is when they are one with nature. Same value – radically different meaning.

You can RSVP to join us by e-mail or through our facebook event page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=89425717502

Contact: John Dorris (020) 3762 1431, John_dorris@altec.com.cn; johndorris@gmail.com

Paddy Field Location Details
38 Hua Le Lu, Central Plaza 华乐路广怡大厦首层

Behind the Garden hotel (Japanese Embassy exit), on the corner of the 7-Eleven
Attendees are encouraged to arrive between 18:30-19:00. Prior to 19:00 will be a general time to relax and socialize.

Jeff Tan on Accelerated Learning

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Shanghai’s own Licensed NLP Trainer, Jeff Tan, lead a session on Accelerated Learning for 29 people on the evening of 3 June.

Imagine reading faster, retaining what you want to learn better, and recalling what you need quicker.
Here are some of our photos from the night:

Judith Delozier in Shanghai

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Through my friends Joanna Hsu, Samuel Lau and Porscher, I was lucky enough to meet Judith Delozier last weekend during the testing phase of her Master Practitioner training. While the training was being translated consecutively well, the atmosphere of the students was excellent. We hope that Judith will be returning to China next year.

Of course it helps when you’ve spent 18 days with one of the sources of NLP!

What is New Code?

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It was great to have Elsie and Marc able to attend the session with Dr John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair a few weeks ago, and I’m hoping to post a review from them here shortly.

The training was focused on “New Code”. While there are many forms and styles of NLP training in the world, New Code is the one most closely associated with NLP Co-Founder Dr John Grinder. As highlighted by this article from Michael Carroll (from NLP Academy in the UK), New Code focused more on personal congruence and the connection with your unconscious mind, developing “high performance states” and “content free” work. You can also find more information on New Code with Chris and Jules Collingwood’s Inspiritive in Australia.

We had a session in China NLP in January focused on New Code, but after reading Michael’s article, I thought it was worth mentioning again!

Creating Therapeutic Change – Richard Bandler in April 1989

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In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, “the techniques are an outgrowth of a technology that is about asking questions.”

I just came across a set of classic Richard Bandler videos. 11-and-a-half-hours of Richard actually, recorded in a training with NLP Comprehensive in Colorado. With an array of topics covering layering responses, propulsion systems, attitudes, perceptual grids, nonverbal amplifications, playing with problems and weaving complexes, I really appreciate Bandler’s insights and the sheer entertainment value of his style.

One of the things that always stands out to me when I spend time watching or listening to Richard is the deep similarities to John Grinder. It’s easy to get lost in the wonderful techniques, but despite their overt differences, Bandler and Grinder’s approach and focus on the underlying technology rather than the superficial techniques is remarkably similar.

Coaching and Limiting Beliefs in Guangzhou with Willbe Zeng

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Coaching and Limited Beliefs in Guangzhou with Willbe Zeng

Coaching and Limited Beliefs in Guangzhou with Willbe Zeng

We all run into situations where we feel particularly ineffective, we feel frustrated with ourselves and others when we try to communicate, we feel misjudged by others, or any other number of negative emotional states! For some of us it is easy to get trapped by our beliefs as we seek out ways to confirm that we lack the resources needed to overcome our challenges and succeed. These are the times we could use a little extra help from coaching to find a resourceful state to overcome our difficulties.

The definition, process, and even the styles of coaching are very different across industries, professions and situations. Regardless of your situation you will find that applying NLP presuppositions and Belief-Value-Rules systems can be very helpful as a coach or as the one being coached.

Join us as we look into how we can all apply some of the principles that makes coaching a buzz word among management gurus in our daily lives. We will spend the our time together to exchange ideas about coaching, how we can apply NLP techniques to coaching, and how we can begin to identify the beliefs we impose on ourselves to limit our possibilities.

NLP Certified Practitioner Willbe Zeng will lead this month’s NLP session. Willbe has a diverse background including HR Manager, Leadership and Organizational Development Consultant, HR Consultant, and Coach. Willbe’s background is in psychology, her undergraduate work was completed in China and she holds her MSc in Psychology with a focus on behavior and mental development from the University of Bristol. She’s currently an independent consultant and uses coaching heavily in her daily work.

13 19 May – 7:00pm – Guangzhou
* note changed date *

The Paddy Field, 38 Hua Le Lu, Central Plaza 华乐路广怡大厦首层
Behind the Garden hotel (Japanese Embassy exit), on the corner of the 7-Eleven

And you can see the event on Facebook here

Greg Layton: Advanced NLP Linguistics 7 May

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This Thursday night in Shanghai, we have a special session with an outstanding visitor from Australia, Greg Layton.

Thursday 7 May – from 7:00pm – 100RMB

In this special master class, Greg Layton, outlines the latest NLP techniques that empower mastery of communication and the importance of these skills in coaching, sales, negotiation and relationship building.

Specifically he will discuss how to use the following NLP Linguistic Patterns and more importantly how to ensure your success in using them:

  • Frames
  • Representational System Predicates
  • Metaphor
  • Meta Model
  • Milton Model

As part of the evening, Greg will coach a skills session on the Meta Model’s short form product, John Grinder’s Verbal Package ensuring that you come away with a new skill set to use immediately.

Having spent a few hours with Greg in the past week since his return from a modelling project at Shaolin, I am very excited that Greg has offered to share some of his high quality training with us.

7 May: Sorry, we’re full! But please put your details in the form below and we’ll put you on our wait list:

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Metaprograms with Andy Clark and Helene Liu

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Helene Liu and Andy Clark will introduce the field of Metaprograms in Hong Kong.

Trainees will have the opportunity to work with a partner to elicit their personal thinking patterns in order to understand more about themselves and others.

We will take a look at some common behaviours that those with certain meta-programs will produce and how these patterns can be recognised and broken.

2:00-5:00pm – Saturday 9 May

Banquet Hall A, Grand Promenade (in the clubhouse downstairs), Saiwanho
Hong Kong

Remembering the importance of state

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This afternoon I grabbed a coffee with Greg Layton. Greg and I went to school near each other and even studied business at the same time, though it was NLP that finally led us to meet. He had spent a few months training with my good friends Chris and Jules Collingwood, taking out his Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and as he shared with me his inspiring experiences, I was reminded of the importance of state.

Sometimes we are happy; sometimes we are excited; sometimes we are not so resourceful – some of us might even be a bit grumpy from time to time. That state – our subjective emotional condition – opens and closes possibilities. It’s like a pair of sunglasses that tints the way we see the world.

And for colour blind people like me, those filters change what we can see at all.

Greg reminded me how important it is that we can get back into our core state of being.

It’s about alignment. We can be happier and more fulfilled when we deliberately design our experiences and our lives so that we can move towards that core state consistently.

(from DanielSmith.info)