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A night with Daniel Smith in Guangzhou

Published on 25 August, 2010 in Guangzhou. 0 Comments Tags: Daniel Smith, Guangzhou, John Grinder, New Code, NLP Practitioner.

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.

And you can register here:

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: Beijing, Daniel Smith, introduction, John Grinder, New Code.

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:

See you there!

Fun New Code NLP with Daniel Smith

Published on 14 July, 2010 in events. 0 Comments Tags: Carmen Bostic St Clair, Dan Smith, John Grinder, New Code, Shanghai.

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: Carmen Bostic St Clair, Hangzhou, John Grinder, mirror neurons, New Code.

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: Carmen Bostic St Clair, Dan Smith, John Grinder, New Code, Taipei.

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: Frank Farrelly, Frank Pucelik, John Grinder, meta model, Milton Erickson, milton model, modeling, New Code, NLP modeling, Richard Bandler, Virginia Satir.

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 NLP^Modeling) 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: coaching, Hangzhou, John Grinder, New Code.

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’

Latest from Tony Robbins

Published on 2 March, 2010 in profile. 0 Comments Tags: Dan Smith, GradCertNLP, New Code, Tony Robbins.

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.

Types of NLP training

Published on 12 January, 2010 in article. 0 Comments Tags: GradCertNLP, John Grinder, master practitioner, New Code, NLPU, practitioner, Richard Bandler, Robert Dilts, Tad James.

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’

New Code NLP session

Published on 17 September, 2009 in events. 1 Comment Tags: Dan Smith, New Code.

$Sunlight refracting from the SWFC prism$ The other morning, I noticed the sun reflecting off the top of the Shanghai World Financial Centre. And the building was acting like a prism, with beams of light scattered off the surface. Yet, as I looked up at the beautiful beams of light, it occurred to me that I couldn’t see the light itself as much as I could see the dust from which the light was reflecting. As beautiful as it appeared to me, it was the dust in the air that allowed me to even perceive it!

You can’t see the light without the dust in the air.

Next Wednesday night, we will be having a session on New Code NLP

You will learn the New Code change format. This simple, elegant and generative strategy will be something that you can use immediately.

After all: What if you could take your best state of mind and resources with you where you need them the most?

You will also learn how to work “Content Free” – so you don’t have to spend so much time talking about the challenge and move your focus instead onto dealing with things and moving forward.

New Code NLP describes the recent work of Dr John Grinder. Much of what is taught as “NLP” these days is focused on the techniques produced through modeling genius. They found eye accessing, submodalities, anchoring, the Milton Model, the Meta Model and patterns like the Swish, Collapse Anchors and Reframing – amazingly powerful techniques. Yet the techniques that NLP leaves behind are not NLP any more than the dust in the air is the light itself.

You can learn more about New Code NLP in our session next Wednesday night.

Learn about “Content Free” processes. Learn the New Code change format. Enjoy a great evening.

New Code NLP with Dan Smith – 23 September – 7:15pm start – 100RMB

We’ll be in a convenient central venue just north of West Nanjing Road subway station, the REV office. That’s Unit 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu.

We can only hold 12 people, but if you’d like to come, please let me know to hold a place for you.