Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Reviewing The 7 Master Steps for Lasting Change

Published on 28 July, 2008 in event review. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Daniel SmithDespite the heat, 24 China NLP supporters attended our event yesterday – Thanks so much for your support!

‘The 7 Master Steps for Lasting Change’ were great fun for me, an opportunity to explore creating change for ourselves and others, and how to enhance our subjective experience. We explored the Six Human Needs (Certainty, Variety, Significance, Love & Connection, Growth and Contribution) and reviewed some of our vehicles, before going through the 7 Master Steps one by one. Finally, we wrapped up with a review of how we can implement these steps

Special thanks to Wendy – the way that she handed me a glass of water in mid-sentence, gave a spontaneous demonstration of one of the steps, “Interrupt the Pattern”… and is such a simple action that we can use anytime.

At the end of the session, REV announced that they will conduct NLP Preview sessions on the 2nd and 16th of August – yes, that’s starting from this coming Saturday.

As our great supporters, we hope that you will be able to attend one or even both of REV’s sessions as more great opportunities to learn more about NLP.

While these aren’t “official” China NLP events, you can expect that they will be at the same or perhaps an even higher standard than our usual events – and they’re still free to attend.

You can RSVP to them by emailing revevent@chinanlp.org

Hope you can make it along!

This Sunday: The 7 Master Steps for Lasting Change with Dan Smith

Published on 22 July, 2008 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Sunday, 27 Jul, 2008 | 2:00pm-5:00pm | Arch II, 115 Changshu Road, near Changle Road

This Sunday afternoon, please join us to explore personal change through The 7 Master Steps for Lasting Change with Dan Smith.

These seven steps provide a structure within which we can apply the skills, strategies and techniques of NLP when working with ourselves or others to create change. It’s simple enough for you to love it yet comprehensive enough for you to use it.

Please do RSVP to 27jul08@chinanlp.org

Your RSVP helps us get your materials and catering ready – with massive thanks once again to REV.

And here’s a flyer you can download…

After an afternoon of Heroes, Archetypes and Anchoring

Published on 13 July, 2008 in event review. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Thanks to Andrew Shih and Ailing Wang for leading an engaging and exciting session this Saturday afternoon. Another big group – about thirty of us – enjoyed a few hours exploring A Hero’s Journey, Representational Systems and Anchoring, with demonstrations and partner-based exercises.

As we move from The Innocent, through the Orphan, Martyr, Wanderer, Warrior and onto the Sorcerer as we conquer our Dragons, we each find challenges. And we can each explore what is ready to take us to the next level.

From Ailing, we learnt how anchoring is a powerful tool that allows us to access states, memories and capabilities more readily and even on demand. More sophisticated applications of anchoring allow us to cancel existing anchors that don’t serve us by a pattern called “collapse anchors”. All this needs an appropriate context to be relevant.

In our next session (~27th), we can explore The Seven Master Steps for Lasting Change. This is the accessible and easy to manage change model made popular by Anthony Robbins, and is a model that I find invaluable in my personal, training and coaching/ counselling/ consulting experiences… simple enough to be robust, complex enough to be comprehensive.

Request for your input

  • Firstly, we have a number of people pencilled in for upcoming sessions. If you are interested in contributing to the group, please do let me know.
  • Secondly, I am interested in scheduling a mid-week session over the next month or so. If this fits with you, could you let me know whether Tuesday or Wednesday would work best for you?

More information to come – but see you there on the afternoon of the 26th..

The Hero’s Journey and Anchoring – 12 July with China NLP

Published on 9 July, 2008 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .
Next Saturday, 12 July, 2-5pm at Arch II, 115 ChangShu Rd (at ChangLe Rd)
The China NLP Society Presents …
“A Hero’s Journey”

Do you want to become the hero or heroine of your own life journey?

No man is a lone ranger, yet how many times have you heard from success stories that the best person to help you along is… “yourself”? Join us on 12 July as Andrew Shih and Ailing Wang guide you through the stages of one’s life journey, and show you how to achieve personal development with the aid of the fundamental NLP technique of Anchoring.

Inspired by the famous non – fiction book Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Andrew and Ailing will discuss the journey of the archetypal hero found in world mythologies, and guide us along as we become that hero.

The story of a hero repeats across cultures, across eras and across languages. The structure is the much the same – sometimes the hero is named Hercules or Luke Skywalker while another hero might be named Po (from Kung Fu Panda):

  • The hero starts in the ordinary world, and receives a call to adventure.
  • The hero then faces a road of trials.
  • At its most intense, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help along the journey.
  • If the hero survives, the hero may achieve a goal (a “boon”), which often results in important self-knowledge.
  • The hero must then decide whether to return this boon (the return to the ordinary world), often facing challenges on the return journey.
  • (If) the hero is successful in returning, the boon or gift may be used to improve the world.

And find out how the hero becomes successful with the help of the powerful technique of Anchoring…

Anchoring is the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimuli, in such a way that perception of the stimuli (the anchor) is led by reflex to the anchored response occurring. The stimulus may be quite neutral or even out of conscious awareness, and the response may be either positive or negative. They are capable of being formed and reinforced by repeated stimuli, and thus are analogous to classical conditioning.

Date Saturday 12 July, 2008
Time 2:00-5:00pm
Venue Arch II, 115 ChangShu Road (Corner ChangLe Road)
Entrance fee It’s free (thanks to REV)
… but do RSVP by emailing 12jul08@chinanlp.org for catering and material preparation!

It’s looking to be a great Saturday afternoon with ChinaNLP – we hope you can join us… Look out for our big blue banners at the venue!

Values systems and personal values

Published on 6 July, 2008 in event review. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

During our last session, we explored values systems and personal values.

Values systems is a way of looking at collections of values and beliefs that together present a relatively stable world view. These relatively stable configurations – somewhat like electron shells – are recognisable and present characteristic strengths and weaknesses. While we could just scratch the surface, it was thought provoking and challenging!

We also explored personal values, and went through a detailed exercise on how to elicit our values. After one volunteer brought out a few pages worth of her own values, we examined how to put them into hierarchies and resolve potential conflicts working as partners.

It was a great afternoon – see you at the next one!

Speaking of which, our next session is 12 July with Andrew Shih and Ailing Wang.

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