Guangzhou – 28 July – from 7pm

Take a moment to imagine what you want most to achieve in your life. Now consider what is stopping you from having that. Ask yourself, “What do I believe this is keeping me from having what I really want?”

The ideas that stop us from achieving or fulfilling the life that we want are called limiting beliefs. They may fill our lives and have many well thought out reasons to keep us from being the person that we want to become. But what if they didn’t have to?

This month, we will take some time to identify what are limiting beliefs and how they have affected us. We will go through fun and easy coaching activities to challenge those beliefs and create personal breakthroughs. These are techniques have been used to change lives and create a greater sense of personal freedom and empowerment by NLP practitioners, coaches, and motivational speakers around the world.

Topics include:

• The Frog in the Well,
• Self Talk, and
• WTTTTPP.

John has been leading China NLP sessions in South China since completing his NLP Practitioner training.
Read more about John’s background here.

Guangzhou – 28 July – from 7pm

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Please come along from 6:30 for socializing so we can start the session at 7pm.

Venue: 13 Factories, 7 Tian He Bei Jie, Ti Yu Xi Lu, Tianhe District
体育西路天河北街7号
Their phone number is （020）3884 9230

Daniel Smith

New Code NLP offers simplicity, understanding and powerfully elegant methods for creating excellence.

After founding NLP in the 1970s, Bandler and Grinder went their separate ways, offering different styles of NLP in their trainings.

Along the way, many people missed the point of NLP. They got lost in techniques and ‘magic phrases’ instead of continuing to explore the structure of magic. New Code NLP brings together the work of Dr John Grinder in directing NLP to where it belongs – the most powerful tool in the pursuit of excellence in the world today.

In two hours with Daniel Smith, you can learn some fun basics of New Code NLP, experience some “New Code Games” and the “New Code Change Format”.

Quick summary: In this session, we explored the Breath of Life, the Rhythm of Life and applied them to the New Code Change Format. We also spoke about the origins of NLP, and how New Code NLP focuses upon modelling, unconscious signals, state manipulations (rather than behavioural manipulations), using New Code Games and working content free.
Thanks for a wonderful night!

Join us next Thursday night, 15 July, as NLP Trainer Hu shares some of his experiences in learning 8 languages (!).

We’ll be aiming to start by 7:30, though based on his last engaging session, you might want to get there by 7pm to get a seat.

This session is full – hope you can make it next time!

Venue: The REV Office, 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu.
(Just a short walk north along Shimen Er Lu from West Nanjing Road subway stop on Line 2)

Hussene, known to some of his friends as Hu, is a Mozambique-born Indian, raised in the United Kingdom where he took out 9 (!) A-Levels, a BSc in business, and picked up 8 languages (English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian and German!). In his 11 years in business, he has run companies across four countries. Now in Shanghai, Hu is a linguist and entrepreneur with his own trading company.

Before NLP, Hu describes himself as unhappy in relationships, in his work and generally with where he was heading. Since NLP training – he did his NLP Trainers’ Training with Wyatt Woodsmall – he has enjoyed improved relationships and better work performance through modeling excellence.

This should be a fascinating session – hope you can join us!

Thursday night, 1 July, from 7pm in Shanghai.

We have many kinds of teams including our work teams, our families, some of us have teams we play with for fun, or work with for charities and individual passions. It seems that being a part of a “team” and collaborating with other people is a part of all of our lives. Being able to understand each other and why we are similar and different can change and improve any team environment. When we can better understand each other we can begin to create strategies and habits that can improve our happiness when we work with others, our team’s effectiveness, and hopefully the quality of our life.

Meta Programs describe the some of the ways our unconscious mind defines our thinking and actions. We will look at 8 easy to understand meta-programs that are commonly encountered and easily observed in our daily lives.

We will talk about what methods we can use to affect our own meta-programs and how we can begin to improve our relationships with the people in our lives. This is an easy way to create an understanding about why some teams work and communicate better with the teams in our lives.

John Dorris, South China NLP’s organizer, has over seven years of experience working with teams across China and as a coach for high level leadership teams. In this session we will do a self-assessment and talk about how to better understand and work with the teams in our lives.

Guangzhou – 23 June – from 7pm

Location: 13 Factories: 7 Tian He Bei Jie, Ti Yu Xi Lu, Tianhe District 体育西路天河北街7号

To reserve your seat for this event please e-mail John Dorris (john_dorris@altec.com.cn). You can also reach him on (020) 3762 1431 for more details.

And that information – what we call submodalities – is useful.

Submodalities can help you like the taste a vegetable that you used to dislike; to feel more motivated towards something that used to leave you feeling flat; to take a dream and evaluate whether you even want it at all.

So, that’s right: Submodalities are powerful!

And Robbie Zhang (NLP Practitioner) will be leading a session for us on submodalities next Thursday, 3 June, from 7pm.

Robbie is a professional interpreter who discovered NLP only recently, but who has thrown himself into training, experimenting and experiencing its various facets. If you’re like most people who have spent much time with Robbie, you’ll find that he’s knowledgeable, engaging and great fun! Robbie is an NLP Practitioner and is mid-way through his Master Practitioner training.

This is Robbie’s first session for China NLP, so please make him feel welcome!

Flavoured Submodalities with Robbie Zhang in Shanghai, Thursday 3 June, from 7pm.

Most likely you will have to communicate and interact with someone at some point to get it done. No matter what you do the ability to quickly build and maintain relationships, or rapport as we say in NLP, with a large number of people from different backgrounds will help you to get what you want.

The basic idea behind building rapport is this: When people are like each other they like each other.

On the other hand when people are not like each they don’t like each other. NLP practitioners know there are six elements of build­ing rapport that can be used to break down barriers and create quick yet lasting connections. These six elements are often combined into a simple expression, mirroring and matching.

NLP practitioners have used these techniques to help in improving their relationships, improving their effectiveness at sales and negotiations and even creating romantic relationships with potential lovers!

John Dorris, South China NLP’s organizer will share the techniques he uses in building lasting relationships as a coach and mentor as well as a successful business person. You will have opportunities to begin practicing your rapport build­ing and can leave the evening with new tools to improve your life and your relationships.

To reserve a seat for this event please e-mail John Dorris (john_dorris@altec.com.cn); you can reach him on (020) 3762 1431 for more details too.

This will be in Guangzhou at 13 Factories, 7 Tian He Bei Street, Ti Yu Xi Lu, Tianhe District 体育西路天河北街7号

Remember, that’s next Wednesday, 26 May, 2010 – from 7pm

For example, you might enjoy dining out. And eating at fine restaurants and enjoying delicious food can be a wonderful experience, can’t it!

What specifically do you enjoy about dining out? Is it just the food? Is being surrounded by friends? Is it the atmosphere? Or perhaps something else entirely?

The activities that give us pleasure even at a basic level (dining out, exercising, getting a massage) will often have levels of meaning beyond the surface.

You might call it “meta-pleasure”. And we might not be aware of these higher values most of the time. But what if you could free and empower yourself and discover some of those higher values – the things that drive you and the people you live with?

This session will be conducted by Gregory Ernoult. Gregory is an Executive in the hospitality industry with more than 15 years of experience in the luxury and up-scale hotel business across Asia. He is also an NLP Practitioner and member of the Singapore NLP association who uses NLP in his day to day job in a very practical way.

Gregory Ernoult on Meta-Pleasure

Wednesday 14 April, from 7pm

Again there is no charge for this event, though our last session was full, so please register early:

As of 10 April, 3 places remaining.
As of 9 April, 5 places remaining.
As of 8 April, six places remaining.
As of 29 March, 10 places remaining.

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!

• 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!