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A night with Daniel Smith in Guangzhou

Published on 25 August, 2010 in Guangzhou. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

China NLP brings NLP Trainer Daniel Smith for his first session on New Code in Guangzhou next Thursday night, 2 September.

We will explore some basics of NLP, particularly focused on Daniel’s extensive recent training with co-founder of NLP, Dr John Grinder in New Code NLP. We will be particularly introducing the Alphabet Game and the New Code Change Format, a simple but powerful tool for creating personal change and giving yourself more choice and freedom.

Whether you are new to NLP or more experienced, we look forward to exploring and interesting evening of “New Code Games”, the New Code Change Format and the adventures of spending weeks training directly with the genius himself.

And with an NLP Practitioner training in Guangzhou coming up in just a few weeks, this would be a great opportunity to find out more information.

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Thursday, 2 September, 6:30 for 7pm in Guangzhou

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

Introduction to New Code NLP in Beijing

Published on 24 August, 2010 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

China NLP brings NLP Trainer Daniel Smith for his first session in Beijing next Wednesday night, 1 September.

We will explore some basics of NLP, particularly focused on Daniel’s extensive recent training with co-founder of NLP, Dr John Grinder in New Code NLP.

Whether you are new to NLP or more experienced, we look forward to exploring and interesting evening of “New Code Games”, the New Code Change Format and other insights and adventures from spending weeks training directly with the genius himself.

Starting from 7pm – please register your interest below so we can let you know the venue:

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Fun New Code NLP with Daniel Smith

Published on 14 July, 2010 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Shanghai – Wednesday, 21 July – 7-9pm

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!

Mirror neurons – 镜神经元 – in Hangzhou

Published on 23 May, 2010 in training. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

When I want my son to smile, I just have to smile at him. When pretty girls smile at him, he’s already learnt to smile back at them… perhaps even more important than learning to smile at his father!

The same thing happens when we want him to open his mouth to eat – we open our mouth nice and wide, and he responds by opening his mouth. It’s like magic :)

A few weeks back, I taught my son to blow raspberries. It’s a simple thing – you just stick your tongue out and blow, but he’s really mastered it now. Though he hasn’t yet figured out that he shouldn’t do it when he’s feeding…

I’m in Hangzhou assisting with the New Code Coaching training led by Dr John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair, and one of the topics that just came up was ‘mirror neurons’ (or ‘镜神经元’). According to wikipedia, a mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Mirror neurons offer the neurological basis for rapport and explain why we can connect with people by mirroring their body language, gestures, words and rhythm.

Another website describes them this way:

“Mirror neurons are active when the monkeys perform certain tasks, but they also fire when the monkeys watch someone else perform the same specific task. There is evidence that a similar observation/action matching system exists in humans. The mirror system is sometimes considered to represent a primitive version, or possibly a precursor in phylogeny, of a simulation heuristic that might underlie mindreading.”

If you’re interested in how to build stronger connections with the people around you, you might want to check out how our brains are wired to help us learn from other people, just by watching them.

New Code NLP with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair

Published on 20 May, 2010 in event review. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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...

Who says the earth revolves around the sun?

Published on 19 April, 2010 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

On The Genius Project, I wrote the following:

In the past two weeks, I watched my four-month-old son learn to blow raspberries. Inspired by reading that this would be good for his language development (seriously!), and knowing that his mother can’t blow raspberries, I made the sacrifice and regularly blew raspberries at him. He was surprised at the start, then he started laughing. Then he started trying it out for himself. It took a while, and he ‘fell over’ a bunch of times. Even now, his raspberries are particularly sloppy. But he watched me and he did it – today, he can reliably exit a room and blow me a raspberry!

Interesting skills are usually the most difficult to transfer. We can learn Newton’s Laws, but it’s another story entirely to learn to think as Newton thought. Those tacit and almost invisible skills that sometimes leave behind traces of brilliance are the ones where we lack the language to teach the skills. Often we lack the explicit knowledge as to what is being done at all. Yet an infant can learn without language. They just look out at the world with eyes wide open and a willingness to explore, experiment and experience.

In NLP terms, we could call this modeling. Modeling is how Dr John Grinder learned to do Gestalt Therapy from Richard Bandler and Frank Pucelik, the process yielding what we now know as the “Meta Model”. Modeling was then applied by them, and the original study circle, to learn from Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson, Frank Farrelly and others, thereby creating the original foundations of NLP.

NLP Modeling (or NLPModeling) is more than just Strategies, and seems mostly taught explicitly and comprehensively as part of New Code NLP trainings.

New Code NLP Coaching with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair

Published on 12 April, 2010 in training. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

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’

NLP Master Practitioner with Dan Smith

Published on 17 February, 2010 in training. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

I am really excited about our forthcoming Master Practitioner training.

Jeff has given me the lead on this event that will be the first of it’s kind in Asia where you will be able to learn not just more advanced NLP techniques, but NLP Modeling. We’ll cover more advanced NLP techniques of course. Though more than just a collection of techniques, what most attracted me to NLP in the first place is how NLP provides a mechanism to get access to genius by absorbing their skills. Continue reading ‘NLP Master Practitioner with Dan Smith’

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’

Richard Bandler’s Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning

Published on 24 August, 2009 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

One of the first things that stands out to me as I watch Richard Bandler training in Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning is just how similar it is to New Code NLP.

Richard and John worked together or “ran together” (as John phrases it) for about seven years at the start of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

More recently, Richard has branded his work as Design Human Engineering™ and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning™, while John has channeled his focus into New Code NLP. While both might appear to be superficially different, each is in the pursuit of modeling excellence.

And if you look beyond the surface, they are remarkably similar. Let me give you an example… Continue reading ‘Richard Bandler’s Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning’

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