Promoting and developing Neuro-Linguistic Programming in China…
I had a great time with Peter Lin and his team at Magic NLP in Taipei for New Code NLP with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair.
Over the five days (14-18 May 2010), the students were sensational – full of energy, insight and a willingness to jump right into the experiences and adventures.
Here's a photo of the group on the last day. If you look carefully, you can see me there on the right of Carmen in about the middle of the second row...
What do you want most in life? Can you get it by yourself or will you have to work with other people to get it done?
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
I just received word that our friends at NLP University have launched their new website. It seems to be mostly the front page but if you’ve been interested in Robert Dilts and Judith DeLozier, you might checkout the work that they’re doing.
Remember that Judith is coming to Shanghai to deliver a Master Practitioner training in June. Of course, if you’re interested, let me know.
Learn New Code NLP Coaching with co-founder Dr John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair in Hangzhou this May 22-27.
Take advantage of this very special opportunity to learn from the co-founder of NLP how to apply New Code NLP into coaching. Continue reading ‘New Code NLP Coaching with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair’
Have you ever wondered what drives you?
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.
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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):
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!
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.
Cynthia 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.
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!
