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.

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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!

Gabor Nagy – FiTIn

Published on 14 October, 2009 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Thanks to Chris Malone for another session exploring hypnosis. We’ll be looking to have another one in the coming weeks for those that are really interested in experiencing being hypnotised themselves.

Next week – 20 October – we will be joined by Gabor Nagy. Gabor runs a training company here in Shanghai (HRO) and has developed the personality assessment tools FiTIn and MQ (Motivational Questionnaire). Comparable with MBTI, 16PF, DiSC or Harrisons Assessments, FiTIn and MQ examine what makes us think and work the way we do.

Quite like Metaprograms.

As a special offer to China NLP, Gabor is offering us the opportunity to take FiTIn at no charge, and to explore the results together.

Gabor Nagy: Metaprograms through FiTIn and MQ – 20 October – at the REV Office

To participate in this session, you will need to let me know in advance so that you can complete the online questionnaire. It’ll take a bit of your time but it’s easy. Let me know that you’re interested in coming along, and I’ll send you out your personalized link. We can cope with about 15 people at the most.

The test comes in a few languages too – so if you would prefer something other than English (eg Chinese, German). To help Gabor design this session for you, it would help if you could let me know a little of your background and what you’d like to get from the session…

Christopher Malone: Stage Hypnosis

Published on 3 October, 2009 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Chris Malone will be leading another session exploring stage hypnosis. This will be an experiential workshop with more demonstrations than explanations.

We are after just a small group of people who are interested in exploring and experiencing hypnosis. This will not be about ’self hypnosis’, ‘conversational hypnosis’, sleight of mouth, or building your ability to influence others. There will be no timeline or futurepacing: instead, we will be specifically focused on inducing states of trance as might be done in a stage hypnosis performance.

Shanghai – 14 October – from 7pm

We’re fully booked for this session – thanks!

Next session: 20 October with Gabor Nagy on the Metaprograms of FiTIn.

New Code NLP session

Published on 17 September, 2009 in events. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Sunlight refracting from the SWFC prismThe other morning, I noticed the sun reflecting off the top of the Shanghai World Financial Centre. And the building was acting like a prism, with beams of light scattered off the surface. Yet, as I looked up at the beautiful beams of light, it occurred to me that I couldn’t see the light itself as much as I could see the dust from which the light was reflecting. As beautiful as it appeared to me, it was the dust in the air that allowed me to even perceive it!

You can’t see the light without the dust in the air.

Next Wednesday night, we will be having a session on New Code NLP

You will learn the New Code change format. This simple, elegant and generative strategy will be something that you can use immediately.

After all: What if you could take your best state of mind and resources with you where you need them the most?

You will also learn how to work “Content Free” – so you don’t have to spend so much time talking about the challenge and move your focus instead onto dealing with things and moving forward.

New Code NLP describes the recent work of Dr John Grinder. Much of what is taught as “NLP” these days is focused on the techniques produced through modeling genius. They found eye accessing, submodalities, anchoring, the Milton Model, the Meta Model and patterns like the Swish, Collapse Anchors and Reframing – amazingly powerful techniques. Yet the techniques that NLP leaves behind are not NLP any more than the dust in the air is the light itself.

You can learn more about New Code NLP in our session next Wednesday night.

Learn about “Content Free” processes. Learn the New Code change format. Enjoy a great evening.

New Code NLP with Dan Smith – 23 September – 7:15pm start – 100RMB

We’ll be in a convenient central venue just north of West Nanjing Road subway station, the REV office. That’s Unit 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu.

We can only hold 12 people, but if you’d like to come, please let me know to hold a place for you.