Dan Smith presents The Magic of Metaphor

Published on 5 March, 2010 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Do you remember the stories from when you were growing up?

You might remember ancient myths. Or religious parables. Or maybe cartoons.

In the process of connecting with these story, we can internalize the patterns of these stories and live them out.

The stories that we hear shape our thinking and our lives by impacting upon our beliefs, attitudes and values. Yet so often these stories are presented to us without rhyme, reason or chance to review.

We move people through our stories. A great storyteller can sometimes get you to feel as if you were there. So your heart rate rises as the tension builds, you feel the tension in the characters as their journey takes an unexpected twist, and you might even feel warm and fuzzy (or laugh out loud or scream with terror) as the storyteller plans.

The patterns behind stories and metaphors are usually left lost in the stories themselves. And yet there are patterns.

Milton Erickson was just one of the famous figures modeled in NLP who used a lot of metaphors. Some of his clients were said to have reported that there was no hypnosis at all and that Erickson just told a few stories.

So the first session of the Year of the Tiger (another metaphor?) seems the perfect time to explore The Magic of Metaphor.

In this session led by Daniel Smith (GradCertNLP, Certified NLP Trainer and Certified New Code NLP Trainer):

  • Discover some of your metaphors,
  • Explore how to deliberately construct metaphors for influence and impact,
  • Start to experiment with how to weave these deliberate metaphors into ordinary conversations.

This is not intended as an “introduction to NLP” session, but rather an opportunity to play with one of the advanced aspects of NLP.

The Magic of Metaphor will be held Wednesday, 17 March, from 7pm at the REV Office.

There will be no charge for this session though registrations are essential.
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This event will be held in the REV Office: 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu, just north from Nanjing West subway station.

Latest from Tony Robbins

Published on 2 March, 2010 in profile. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

For a few years, I was on the trainer team with Anthony Robbins. As you might already know, Tony is one of the best when it comes to personal development, and has based much of his work on NLP. When I was speaking with Dr John Grinder (co-founder of NLP) about Tony, he said, “Tony is very good. I trained him myself.”

I personally discovered NLP by picking up Tony’s Unlimited Power, a book that some consider to be something of a stylized version of an NLP training.

Earlier today, I found out that Tony has just launched his new website.
Something that I found as I explored it was that you can now take his Personal Strengths Profile free of charge.

It’ll take about half-an-hour to run through it, but I just did it and thought it was good enough to suggest that you consider it too. It has a bit of Disc, but also a very interesting values assessment.

FYI I (Dan) have just finished the Graduate Certificate of NLP, and been certified as a Trainer of New Code NLP. As the first person in China to complete this, I’m pretty pleased about it. The GradCertNLP was 40 days of training, roughly equivalent to an advanced Master Practitioner training. It was a big commitment in time and energy, but I am really pleased with the results.

We are looking to having the first weekend of our Master Practitioner training at the end of March. This will be a great adventure for us, taking up some advanced NLP patterns, NLP Modeling, language patterns and an in-depth exploration of virtual questions, values and the core of what drives us. I am contemplating offering a Practitioner of New Code NLP training but we haven’t set any dates yet.

NLP Master Practitioner with Dan Smith

Published on 17 February, 2010 in training. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

I am really excited about our forthcoming Master Practitioner training.

Jeff has given me the lead on this event that will be the first of it’s kind in Asia where you will be able to learn not just more advanced NLP techniques, but NLP Modeling. We’ll cover more advanced NLP techniques of course. Though more than just a collection of techniques, what most attracted me to NLP in the first place is how NLP provides a mechanism to get access to genius by absorbing their skills. Continue reading ‘NLP Master Practitioner with Dan Smith’

Cynthia Zhai: The Disney Strategy of Creativity

Published on 3 February, 2010 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Cynthia Zhai for China NLPCynthia Zhai will lead us in exploring the strategy used by Walt Disney for planning projects in his film making business. This is an early and well-established model of NLP that can be applied to improve your creativity.

  • Have you ever felt frustrated and disappointed going  back and forth between your dream and the thought that “it can’t be done”?
  • Have you ever had an idea that seems going nowhere?
  • Have you ever got stuck in a project and run out of ideas?
  • Have you found it hopeless in finding options and choices?

The Disney Strategy shows in a simple and systematic manner how you can create a flow of creative yet realistic and viable ideas in business or personal life.

There is no charge for this event.

Cynthia Zhai: The Disney Model of Creativity
When: 7:00pm, Tuesday 9 February
Where: Shanghai

Fully booked – thanks!

John Dorris: Be the Change That You Want to See

Published on 20 January, 2010 in Guangzhou and events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

John Dorris23 January at 11:30am in Guangzhou

Indentify your personal Vision in 2010 and remove the obstacles you Believe are in the way

John Dorris is leading the South China NLP Society is back to kick off the New Year and help you identify your vision for 2010 and give you the techniques to achieve it.

Continue reading ‘John Dorris: Be the Change That You Want to See’

Types of NLP training

Published on 12 January, 2010 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

A few years ago, I completed an MBA. It was hard work but the path was pretty straight-forward, with a number of compulsory subjects and some electives. And once I finished, I graduated and could put “MBA” after my name.

There are three basic levels of NLP training.

The first basic level of training is “Practitioner”. An NLP Practitioner will typically have been exposed to between 7 and 18 days of NLP training, focused on learning the fundamental patterns, techniques and attitudes.

The second basic level is “Master Practitioner”. Building on the Practitioner, Master Practitioner usually involves an extra 6-18 days of training. Sometimes this is focused on learning additional “advanced” patterns, while other trainers will focus Master Practitioner on Modeling.

The third basic level is “Trainer”. NLP Trainers Trainings are usually conducted over about three weeks, and is less focused on improving “NLP skills” and more focused on how to present NLP material.

In a sense, the fourth level would be the Graduate Certificate of NLP. Continue reading ‘Types of NLP training’

K. Beate Richter on Influencing and Presentation Skills – Monday 18 January

Published on 18 December, 2009 in events. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

15 January UPDATE: K. Beate Richter will be leading this session on Influencing and Presentation Skills.

As Lynda Dyer explains:

Today we must create great presentation and communication skills or miss out on the business coming our way due to vigorous competition in the marketplace. This Influencing and Presentation Skills presentation will show you how to get instant results from this “hands on” fun and informative workshop that is based on excellence.

  • Imagine taking a quantum leap in your personal and professional development
  • Imagine being a Master Communicator – assisting others to change with the power of words
  • Imagine being a Master Communicator – taking your communication skills to the next level and accelerating your client’s results
  • Imagine being a Master Presenter – see nerves disappear and widely increase your circle of influence
  • Do you want to hear others praising your leadership abilities and seek your advice and expertise?
  • Would you like to feel that natural confidence that happens when you are in touch with your core identity?

K. Beate Richter, Monday 18 January, from 7pm

At the REV office, 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu (just north from Nanjing West subway station on Line 2).

We only have space for about 12 3 more of you, so if you want to come, you might want to register quickly…

We are now fully booked for this session – thanks very much!

Alec Baldwin’s film career is a failure

Published on 1 December, 2009 in article. 0 Comments

Alec Baldwin is a well-known actor. Many would consider him successful. He has starred in many moves and appears in popular television shows. Yet he sees himself a failure. Just recently, he said, “I consider my entire movie career a complete failure.”

I couldn’t help but ask myself, “How?”

Rather than trying to reassure him that he wasn’t, or denying that he was a failure, I got curious and wondered how he could feel a failure after so much ’success’. And sure enough, the answers were clear too. For him,

“The goal of movie-making is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that.”

And although he starred in the 1990 action film The Hunt for Red October, which made more than $200m, it was successful because it was based on a popular Tom Clancy novel – not because of his performance.

He feels that his career is a failure not because it “is” – after all, how can we really define whether someone’s career is a success or a failure? But he feels that is is a failure because of how he defines success.

What do you want most? What drives you?

Success?

Happiness?

Joy?

Achievement?

Love?

Money?

Each of us have many things that drive us. Some things that pull us forward – that we want to experience something. And maybe there are other things that we desperately want to avoid.

We all want to experience different things. And that’s great – that’s one of the things that drives the rich and diverse world in which we live. Yet how well are we setting ourselves up to feel good? There are so many ways that we can find to feel bad. And there are so many things in the world today about which we could feel bad if we wanted.

But what could happen if you could feel better more and more often?

(from DanielSmith.info)

Motivation Measured – an evening of self-exploration with Gabor Nagy

Published on 11 November, 2009 in events. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Gabor Nagy runs a training company here in Shanghai (HRO) and has developed an innovative Motivational Questionnaire (MQ). Similar to Metaprograms in NLP, MQ helps to see what drives us at work, and offers guidance to increase our self-motivation.

As a special offer to China NLP, Gabor is offering us the opportunity to take MQ at no charge.

Please register early, so you can complete the MQ questionnaire before 22 November.

24 November from 7:00pm at the REV Office

Thanks for a great evening, Gabor!

Adventures in NLP [with a dash of EFT and Hypnosis]

Published on 26 October, 2009 in events. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

This week, we will be rejoined by EFT Trainer Michelle Hardwick.

Michelle has a beautiful presence as a speaker and has shared with many of us from her heart some of her remarkable experiences. We love having her in Shanghai, and I’m pleased to let you know that as her public session is fully booked, she will be leading a session specifically for China NLP.

Michelle Hardwick – Friday 30 October – 6:30-8pm @ Frank ‘n’ Sense

The venue has a limited size, so please let us know you’re coming.

For the session, bring along a wish or an intention about something you would like to clear or release… something that you will be willing to share with and work on in the group.

And thanks again for Gabor Nagy and Chris Malone for their sessions in the past few weeks!

Coming up in the next few weeks are likely to be sessions with Marga and Marc, followup sessions with both Gabor and Chris, and I’ll probably look to do one more session before I head off, probably next Monday or Tuesday night…

Have a great week – and get along for Michelle’s session this Friday night!