• Better handle a specific challenging situation that is coming up,
• Handle pressure better right now, so it doesn’t turn into stress,
• Clean up unpleasant experience and negative memories… so you can put the past behind you,
• Get into a high performance state when you need it the most.

You will learn how to use and personally experience the New Code Change Format, a simple yet powerful technique developed by Co-Founder of NLP, Dr John Grinder, with yourself, your friends and your clients straight away.

Monday 22 August from 7pm in Central Shanghai

New Code Games are typically used to generate Content Free High Performance States. These valuable states can then be used to enrich and upgrade our state in situations that we are facing – whether it is public speaking, creative thinking, problem solving or being out on the town – or to help us handle aspect from our personal history that have been getting in the way.

The Alphabet Game is usually the first one that I usually share. Rhythm of Life and Breath of Life are pretty straightforward too. The NASA Game is pretty well-known too, likewise the Croydon Ball Game. But there are always more.

Jack Carroll created Alphabet Touch as a variation of the Alphabet Game when he was working with a client who was blind. Though it’s easy to learn, scalable, and does away with the need for writing up charts altogether. Daryll Scott developed another overlapping the Alphabet Game with the Stroop Task.

Juggling itself has many of the characteristics of the content free high performance state. It uses a huge amount of our brain by virtue of its stimulation of our vestibular system, left and right motor cortexes – and for most people, it’s not a ‘normal’ activity, so the risk of overlap is minimized. Plus it’s fun – and my 16mo son loves watching me practising! The main limitations are the lack of engagement of our auditory loop (auditory short term memory) and the lack of easy scalability.

We have been experimenting with juggling while rhythmically reading off the letters of words. But not just left to right: Instead, the first letter, then the last letter, then the second letter, then the second last letter, etc. So, for example, D, L, A, E, N, I for Daniel.
Likewise, we have tried using variations on table tennis where the way the ball is hit is manipulated – combining aspects of Alphabet, NASA and Croydon Ball Games. It’s just limited to situations where you’ve got a table tennis table, though fortunately there are usually quite a few of those around

When you watch and hear the outstanding speakers of the world – the ones who really make you feel something – you might not have noticed that one thing that they share is that they are masters of their state.

They might be nervous. They could be excited. They may seem relaxed. But whatever the outward appearance, they will get into a state of mind that supports them getting their message across.

State Mastery isn’t just important for public speaking either – whether you’re working on an important negotiation, meeting someone for the first time, being pulled over by the police, or just spending time with your family, you need to be at your best.

You’ve probably been there too. You know, when everything ‘just flows’. And that is a great thing: In this session, you can learn how to start to make that your ‘normal’ experience, rather than just something that happens from time to time. You can learn State Mastery with NLP.

22 October in Beijing – more details coming soon…

And, more importantly, what can we do about it? If you have an important presentation or interview coming up, how can you get yourself into state quickly and on demand?

By taking on the body posture of confidence and power, you can transform the way you think and feel – in as little as just two minutes!

Our friends at HBS found that by holding one’s body in an expansive ‘high-power’ pose for as little as two minutes stimulated the release of higher levels of testosterone and lower levels of cortisol.

And it wasn’t just a little effect either. After just two minutes putting their feet up on the desk and leaning back with their hands behind their heads, testosterone – the hormone of power and dominance – was up by 19% and cortisol (the stress hormone) was down by 25%! And they could feel the difference.

After just two minutes in a high-power posture, people felt more powerful and were willing to take more risks.

Know that the way you move your body will affect your biochemistry and the way you behave. So the next time you need to perform, check your body posture.

For those familiar with the New Code of NLP, you might recognize this as being aligned with the Chain of Excellence – how Breathing affects Physiology affects State affects Performance. It’s nice when science catches up with NLP.

You can read the rest of the article here.

Some suggest that subsequent generations will be led by those biased against students who might surpass them, and that the ‘next great leader’ will only arise when the talent of the leaders is so corrupted that they don’t even recognize superior talent. But let’s hope not.

Besides, I was curious as to what was so special about O’Sensei, rather than the excuses.

One of the observations made by this master was that at some point, O’Sensei had become “enlightened”. While somewhat cliched, it occurred to me that perhaps one difference was that whereas other Masters might gain access to a powerful state of being, O’Sensei lived there.

I noticed something similar while I was in Brighton last month. There were Trainers, Trainer Assistants, and Trainer Candidates who had access to NLP techniques, methods and strategies. But there were a precious few who lived NLP. Who didn’t “do” NLP sometimes and live ‘normally’ the rest of the time, but who just experienced NLP as they lived their life.

Perhaps this is similar to the “personal congruence” that John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair so actively promote the New Code of NLP.

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

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.

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!

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.

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...