Dan Smith presents The Magic of Metaphor

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 was held Wednesday, 17 March, from 7pm, with a full house. Thanks!