People frequently mistake vocabulary with knowledge thinking that if someone can talk about a subject really well that they must be really good at it.
There have been a lot of discussions recently on the social networks regarding how to choose an NLP Practitioner Course. Now some of you may now be thinking what is NLP? Very simply NLP enables us to understand how our brain works to be able to improve our performance and our ability to achieve our goals; its also an amazing set of tools that will help you influence and persuade with your communications. I attended my Practitioner Course initially as I wanted to be able to use these tool in business and found a whole lot more, its true to say that it actually changed my life enabling me in ways I hadn’t imagined.
An important consideration regarding any training is what do you want to achieve from the course? Once you have decided this it can be discussed with the trainers that you are considering. A good trainer will be able to help you refine and develop this as you work through the course. NLP is about personal development, and the focus of the course should be on you, to help you achieve your goals.
NLP is an experiential rather than theoretical discipline and many people find that it only makes sense once they have an experience of the training. With that in mind it is critical that potential students find out about the calibre and quality of the training, the trainers and their capabilities before signing up for any courses.
Many people, especially at this time have limited funds for training; professional training is measured by the quality of the course and the skill of the trainers. If your choice is regulated by price you can’t expect the same quality as with other courses.
Consider too the size of the class, some group are larger than others and whereas some people will learn in a large group others prefer smaller groups. Also, in the smaller groups the focus is more on your agenda and its easier to get assistance from the trainers.
My advice is to look on line and create a list of those trainers who you are drawn to. Call their offices and assure yourself that you are making the right choice and remember NLP is experiential and someone may be able to talk about NLP, use all the right words but can they actually use these skills. The best NLP Trainers use NLP to teach NLP, leading their students by example.
www.aventesi.com
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Monday, 2 January 2012
Whats inside your head?
What’s inside your head?
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year were all about the brain and how we process information and how our reality is not always what it seems. Everything that we are is a product of our brain and how we think. Each brain is unique and yet the same in the way that it functions.
All human beings have a brain, and yet how many of us actually know how it works and how to make it work for us? Who is controlling your brain? When you consider how much of our lives depend on what we do (how we respond), and what we do is a response of how we think, it makes sense for us to take control of our brain and yet how many people actually do this?
The brain is an electrical system with around 100 billion neurons sending electrical signals; which can be disrupted by electromagnetic pulses. This years lecturer, Professor Bruce Hood, demonstrated how, by stimulating certain areas of the brain with an electromagnetic pulse, you could disrupt thought patterns. With his first demonstration his demo subject was unable to speak, to repeat a simple nursery rhyme, another demonstration showed how the ability to perform a simple task like clapping was suddenly impossible as he fired off the pulse.
When we are born, we have all our neurons although not all of them are connected. In fact as a new born baby very few neurons are connected, these connections take place as we grow and begin to experience the world around us. If we never experience events the connections never occur, and the brain begins to prune neurons that are unused. If we don’t use our brain, our neural connections, we really do loose them.
The early connections we make can stay with us all our lives with certain things triggering specific responses. In NLP speak anchors are created from the very beginning as the brain learns from associating, creating different patterns/responses. For example listening to Brenda Lee singing Rocking Around the Christmas Tree immediately takes me back to being a child at the family Christmas Party. I begin to feel good inside and smile at all those wonderful memories.
Our brains are adaptive and we all have the potential to learn. At the first stage of learning, we store information in our short term memory. Our mind can be easily distracted and its easier to remember something with structure, something that creates a pattern. That’s why memory aids like mind maps and mnemonics are so effective. Without any structure people tend to remember information from the beginning and the end of a presentation much easier; and anything novel that grabs our attention.
Learning takes place whenever we recall experiences from the past, this creates electrical activity in the neurons and you begin to recognise patterns. With each repetition your brain becomes familiar with the information and you begin to expect it. For example when you learn to drive, initially having so much to consciously think about, steering the car, gears, clutch (if in a manual vehicle), checking the mirrors, watching the road ahead; and then at some point all this became automatic. So much so that you can now drive without much conscious thought to what you are doing at all.
Whilst we recall the information we are working on transferring this information into our long term memory, our Hippocampus. It has been found that London Cab Drivers Hippocampi is enlarged and this is thought to be due to the large amount of information they have to remember.
Our memories are fluid, each time you remember something you have to reconstruct the representation you created in your brain. Each memory having various elements to it, you may remember the way that something looked and you have an image come to mind; or maybe you are remembering what was said and replay a conversation in your mind imagining who said what and how.
Our brain represents our experiences visually, auditorally and kinaesthetically, through tastes and smells, creating patterns inside our memory banks, our brains are continually interpreting experiences looking within its data base to find a connection, a pattern that it understands. Try this experiment, mouth the words “Elephant Juice” to someone they will probably lip read this as I love you.
Look at the picture below.
What do you see?
Some people see an old hag whilst others will see a young woman. What you are aware of being created by your brain. And once you become aware of both the hag and the young woman suddenly they are both obvious.
We are aware of what we pay attention to. People who are anxious or fearful are only conscious of their anxiety or fear and the more they pay attention to this, the more fearful/anxious they are. Representing their world in a particular way. Taking something perfectly ordinary and safe and turning it into something completely different in their imagination.
Whereas people who are successful set high goals and are motivated to complete them; they have a different focus of attention expecting happiness, fulfilment, success, joy and a sense of accomplishment.
Our minds are bombarded with information all the time, so much information that it is impossible for us to focus on everything and so the brain has to decide what information to block out. And so we delete somethings; this means that at times we can miss something that is happening right in front of us as our focus of attention is elsewhere.
Apart from the deleting, as we review the world through our eyes there is yet more distortion and what we see is not necessarily what is there. We only ever process the central part of our vision as the edges are very blurred. Yet we see clearly, to enable us to do this we move our eyes around 4/5 times per second; this is how we create a clear picture of what is around us. If we were aware of these eye movements our vision would be very strange indeed, so our brain stops any visual input each time we move our eyes.
As an experiment look into a mirror to see if you are aware of this, ask someone else to watch for your eye movements too. You will find that you are unaware of the movement whilst you brain stops the visual signals whilst the person with you will be able to see your eyes moving.
With all that deleting and distorting going on its surprising that we know what reality really is.
When I first began to study NLP I was amazed that I had found a way to control my brain; I had found the handbook for the mind and it was easily understood and very simple to use.
Do you know how to control your brain?
NLP Practitioner and Practitioner Plus Training February 2012 details available www.aventesi.com
www.tina-taylor.com
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this year were all about the brain and how we process information and how our reality is not always what it seems. Everything that we are is a product of our brain and how we think. Each brain is unique and yet the same in the way that it functions.
All human beings have a brain, and yet how many of us actually know how it works and how to make it work for us? Who is controlling your brain? When you consider how much of our lives depend on what we do (how we respond), and what we do is a response of how we think, it makes sense for us to take control of our brain and yet how many people actually do this?
The brain is an electrical system with around 100 billion neurons sending electrical signals; which can be disrupted by electromagnetic pulses. This years lecturer, Professor Bruce Hood, demonstrated how, by stimulating certain areas of the brain with an electromagnetic pulse, you could disrupt thought patterns. With his first demonstration his demo subject was unable to speak, to repeat a simple nursery rhyme, another demonstration showed how the ability to perform a simple task like clapping was suddenly impossible as he fired off the pulse.
When we are born, we have all our neurons although not all of them are connected. In fact as a new born baby very few neurons are connected, these connections take place as we grow and begin to experience the world around us. If we never experience events the connections never occur, and the brain begins to prune neurons that are unused. If we don’t use our brain, our neural connections, we really do loose them.
The early connections we make can stay with us all our lives with certain things triggering specific responses. In NLP speak anchors are created from the very beginning as the brain learns from associating, creating different patterns/responses. For example listening to Brenda Lee singing Rocking Around the Christmas Tree immediately takes me back to being a child at the family Christmas Party. I begin to feel good inside and smile at all those wonderful memories.
Our brains are adaptive and we all have the potential to learn. At the first stage of learning, we store information in our short term memory. Our mind can be easily distracted and its easier to remember something with structure, something that creates a pattern. That’s why memory aids like mind maps and mnemonics are so effective. Without any structure people tend to remember information from the beginning and the end of a presentation much easier; and anything novel that grabs our attention.
Learning takes place whenever we recall experiences from the past, this creates electrical activity in the neurons and you begin to recognise patterns. With each repetition your brain becomes familiar with the information and you begin to expect it. For example when you learn to drive, initially having so much to consciously think about, steering the car, gears, clutch (if in a manual vehicle), checking the mirrors, watching the road ahead; and then at some point all this became automatic. So much so that you can now drive without much conscious thought to what you are doing at all.
Whilst we recall the information we are working on transferring this information into our long term memory, our Hippocampus. It has been found that London Cab Drivers Hippocampi is enlarged and this is thought to be due to the large amount of information they have to remember.
Our memories are fluid, each time you remember something you have to reconstruct the representation you created in your brain. Each memory having various elements to it, you may remember the way that something looked and you have an image come to mind; or maybe you are remembering what was said and replay a conversation in your mind imagining who said what and how.
Our brain represents our experiences visually, auditorally and kinaesthetically, through tastes and smells, creating patterns inside our memory banks, our brains are continually interpreting experiences looking within its data base to find a connection, a pattern that it understands. Try this experiment, mouth the words “Elephant Juice” to someone they will probably lip read this as I love you.
Look at the picture below.
What do you see?
Some people see an old hag whilst others will see a young woman. What you are aware of being created by your brain. And once you become aware of both the hag and the young woman suddenly they are both obvious.
We are aware of what we pay attention to. People who are anxious or fearful are only conscious of their anxiety or fear and the more they pay attention to this, the more fearful/anxious they are. Representing their world in a particular way. Taking something perfectly ordinary and safe and turning it into something completely different in their imagination.
Whereas people who are successful set high goals and are motivated to complete them; they have a different focus of attention expecting happiness, fulfilment, success, joy and a sense of accomplishment.
Our minds are bombarded with information all the time, so much information that it is impossible for us to focus on everything and so the brain has to decide what information to block out. And so we delete somethings; this means that at times we can miss something that is happening right in front of us as our focus of attention is elsewhere.
Apart from the deleting, as we review the world through our eyes there is yet more distortion and what we see is not necessarily what is there. We only ever process the central part of our vision as the edges are very blurred. Yet we see clearly, to enable us to do this we move our eyes around 4/5 times per second; this is how we create a clear picture of what is around us. If we were aware of these eye movements our vision would be very strange indeed, so our brain stops any visual input each time we move our eyes.
As an experiment look into a mirror to see if you are aware of this, ask someone else to watch for your eye movements too. You will find that you are unaware of the movement whilst you brain stops the visual signals whilst the person with you will be able to see your eyes moving.
With all that deleting and distorting going on its surprising that we know what reality really is.
When I first began to study NLP I was amazed that I had found a way to control my brain; I had found the handbook for the mind and it was easily understood and very simple to use.
Do you know how to control your brain?
NLP Practitioner and Practitioner Plus Training February 2012 details available www.aventesi.com
www.tina-taylor.com
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Stop #Smoking MasterCLASS
I once heard a man say “if you have to cut of your head to stop smoking – do it. It will be less painful in the end. A little extreme to say the least, you don’t have to go that far. Out of over 300 studies covering around 72,000 people in the US, Europe and Scandinavia, hypnosis has shown the highest success rate in the market place – these tests included using patches and gum.
Helping people stop smoking is one very easy and profitable way that you can utilise your hypnosis and NLP skills, this weekend 3 & 4 December at Kingston upon Thames, learn how Steve Crabb and I have successfully helped thousands of clients to stop smoking and change their eating habits.
We are running our annual MasterCLASS teaching hypnotherapists and NLP Practitioners how to improve their success rate and create a profitable practice. This weekend we will prepare you to help clients make new years resolutions they can keep as we teach you 2 unique models.
Check out http://www.aventesi.com/masterclasses.htm for details and to book your place; and if you’d prefer to ask a few questions before you book you can call Sarah on 02085403366
Helping people stop smoking is one very easy and profitable way that you can utilise your hypnosis and NLP skills, this weekend 3 & 4 December at Kingston upon Thames, learn how Steve Crabb and I have successfully helped thousands of clients to stop smoking and change their eating habits.
We are running our annual MasterCLASS teaching hypnotherapists and NLP Practitioners how to improve their success rate and create a profitable practice. This weekend we will prepare you to help clients make new years resolutions they can keep as we teach you 2 unique models.
Check out http://www.aventesi.com/masterclasses.htm for details and to book your place; and if you’d prefer to ask a few questions before you book you can call Sarah on 02085403366
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Hypnosis for Business
Hypnosis is a subject that has been shrouded in mystery and negativity probably since its discovery and use; it appears that most of this arises from exaggerated accounts of hypnosis and its effects. Yet even with all of the myths and hype, hypnosis continues to be something of a curiosity for many.
Over the years hypnosis has been found to be effective in many fields from Entertainment with the hypnotic stage and TV shows, Therapy helping people overcome many problems within their lives and in recent years as a tool for influence in business and marketing. Many successful business people are attending classes on Hypnosis each year (many of these put through the invoice as influencing skills).
You may be wondering how hypnosis can help in a business context, one reason is that through learning the process and the basic principles of hypnosis it enables you to expand on your own ability to communicate effectively.
People from a wide background including business coaches, sales managers, account directors, accountants and HR executives attend courses to learn how to influence their client base hypnotically each year. It improves their communication skills; for example personal development, presenting, sales, consulting, leadership and negotiation. And also teaches you how to build on your intuition and creativity.
The skills you learn within the hypnosis framework map across to business so easily; agreeing outcomes, developing rapport (leading as well as pacing), use of language and the impact of metaphor. Incorporating hypnotic skills in your business communications will enable you to increase your success at negotiation and persuasion.
Top salespeople seem to have something special when communicating with their clients, they command attention, build trust, their clients respect them and they manage to create unforgettable impressions and to close sales. How do they do this? By using conversational hypnosis. Linguists have studied the patterns within their communication and found top salespeople, negotiators and skilled lawyers all use similar forms of indirect hypnosis; and yet many of these people can not explain how they do what they do.
Many people are surprised to learn that many types of hypnosis occur nearly everyday. By learning these techniques you can learn how to increase your ability to influence others. When you communicate a message hypnotically that message is more likely to bypass the listeners conscious defenses. The hypnotic message goes more directly to the prospects subconscious mind.
Tina Taylor
Licensed Master Trainer of NLP
Next Hypnosis seminar 24 to 30 September at Kingston check out http://www.aventesi.com/hypnosis_certification.htm for details
Over the years hypnosis has been found to be effective in many fields from Entertainment with the hypnotic stage and TV shows, Therapy helping people overcome many problems within their lives and in recent years as a tool for influence in business and marketing. Many successful business people are attending classes on Hypnosis each year (many of these put through the invoice as influencing skills).
You may be wondering how hypnosis can help in a business context, one reason is that through learning the process and the basic principles of hypnosis it enables you to expand on your own ability to communicate effectively.
People from a wide background including business coaches, sales managers, account directors, accountants and HR executives attend courses to learn how to influence their client base hypnotically each year. It improves their communication skills; for example personal development, presenting, sales, consulting, leadership and negotiation. And also teaches you how to build on your intuition and creativity.
The skills you learn within the hypnosis framework map across to business so easily; agreeing outcomes, developing rapport (leading as well as pacing), use of language and the impact of metaphor. Incorporating hypnotic skills in your business communications will enable you to increase your success at negotiation and persuasion.
Top salespeople seem to have something special when communicating with their clients, they command attention, build trust, their clients respect them and they manage to create unforgettable impressions and to close sales. How do they do this? By using conversational hypnosis. Linguists have studied the patterns within their communication and found top salespeople, negotiators and skilled lawyers all use similar forms of indirect hypnosis; and yet many of these people can not explain how they do what they do.
Many people are surprised to learn that many types of hypnosis occur nearly everyday. By learning these techniques you can learn how to increase your ability to influence others. When you communicate a message hypnotically that message is more likely to bypass the listeners conscious defenses. The hypnotic message goes more directly to the prospects subconscious mind.
Tina Taylor
Licensed Master Trainer of NLP
Next Hypnosis seminar 24 to 30 September at Kingston check out http://www.aventesi.com/hypnosis_certification.htm for details
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy and NLP
There has been a lot of discussion on various sites about the legal requirements of being a Hypnotherapist/NLP Practitioner/Coach; and there is a lot of conflicting advice being given at the moment.
Some people seem to be focusing on what they think has brought us to this point. I think the problem stems from the fact that currently anyone can call themselves a hypnotherapist/coach etc and begin practicing without having had any training at all – there aren’t any guidelines (rules) in place to regulate us which has probably led to people attending a very short course in Hypnosis/NLP/Coaching or one of the other lesser knows “therapies” and think to themselves now I can change my career and set up my consultancy.
However it doesn’t really matter how we got here, surely its more important that we move forward and find a way for us to continue with the great work that we have begun whilst finding acceptance and dare I say it acknowledgement from the powers that be.
The Hypnotism Act of 1952 regulates the demonstration of hypnotic phenomena for the purpose of public entertainment; and there is legal guidance in the use of hypnosis for the Crown Prosecution Services but nothing so far for the Hypnotherapist etc. Well nothing explicit but we are governed by International Law in that we have a duty of care towards our clients and need to follow the guidelines set out by the Advertising Standards Agency when marketing.
When I first started my studies back in the 90’s there was a lot of discussion within the various Hypnosis Societies regarding government legislation that we would have to abide by; and even now those Societies have pulled together to take part in a Government Review of Hypnosis within the UK. Various rules being discussed that we will probably need to adhere to at some point, and will mean that any training taken will need to follow a certain path.
Those already established will find that we need to have so many hours each year of continuous personal development training as well as supervision once a month to name but a couple of regulations that have been discussed. These regulations are already in existence within a few of the Hypnosis Societies in the UK already in readiness for the changes.
www.aventesi.com for training in NLP/Coaching and Hypnosis
Some people seem to be focusing on what they think has brought us to this point. I think the problem stems from the fact that currently anyone can call themselves a hypnotherapist/coach etc and begin practicing without having had any training at all – there aren’t any guidelines (rules) in place to regulate us which has probably led to people attending a very short course in Hypnosis/NLP/Coaching or one of the other lesser knows “therapies” and think to themselves now I can change my career and set up my consultancy.
However it doesn’t really matter how we got here, surely its more important that we move forward and find a way for us to continue with the great work that we have begun whilst finding acceptance and dare I say it acknowledgement from the powers that be.
The Hypnotism Act of 1952 regulates the demonstration of hypnotic phenomena for the purpose of public entertainment; and there is legal guidance in the use of hypnosis for the Crown Prosecution Services but nothing so far for the Hypnotherapist etc. Well nothing explicit but we are governed by International Law in that we have a duty of care towards our clients and need to follow the guidelines set out by the Advertising Standards Agency when marketing.
When I first started my studies back in the 90’s there was a lot of discussion within the various Hypnosis Societies regarding government legislation that we would have to abide by; and even now those Societies have pulled together to take part in a Government Review of Hypnosis within the UK. Various rules being discussed that we will probably need to adhere to at some point, and will mean that any training taken will need to follow a certain path.
Those already established will find that we need to have so many hours each year of continuous personal development training as well as supervision once a month to name but a couple of regulations that have been discussed. These regulations are already in existence within a few of the Hypnosis Societies in the UK already in readiness for the changes.
www.aventesi.com for training in NLP/Coaching and Hypnosis
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
New Year - New You?
I wonder how many people will use this magical time – New Years Eve to make a resolution to be different in the new year.
Have you ever wondered where New Years Resolutions come from?
New Years celebrations are the oldest in our history, its believed we have celebrated the new year for over 4,000 years although we didn’t start to make resolutions till the Romans. Through many religious beliefs it is traditional to reflect on our wrongdoings and seek forgiveness. The concept is one of self improvement.
I gave up making new years eve resolutions years ago, like many people I’d write down my resolution keep it for a few days then go back to my previous behaviour. Then I’d feel bad as I hadn’t managed to keep to it, most of my friends did exactly the same thing. In fact one of them had been making the same resolution for years and years each time hoping that she would stick to it. She said things like maybe this will be my year, as if it was the new year that brought the changes she looked for.
A few years ago I was having a heart to heart with a good friend, and it turned into a giant whinge. As we moaned about relationships, our kids, time, stress, money etc etc etc. Sound familiar? After a while I got fed up with the vision of misery we were creating, each moan making us feel worse and worse inside.
So many people talk about, focus on, whats wrong with their lives.
So I stopped made some fresh coffee and we began to make a list about what was right with our lives and what we could do to make things better, and I decided to turn my life upside down. Now I don’t mean any positions that include my feet being higher than my head but turning my thinking upside down.
So now I work towards goals. I think about what I want – then check a few things including is it really what I want, will it be good for me and is it sustainable by me alone. I try it on (imagine) how it will be, what effect it will have on my life and those closest to me. Then if it passes all the tests I map out what I need to do to achieve my goal, and now I find that I do actually achieve my goals.
This is not a new idea, spiritual beliefs are based on counting our blessings; and theres a great side effect too. The more I focus on what is right, the better I feel, thus enabling me to think more clearly and make better decisions helping me to feel better.
Tina
www.tina-taylor.com
Have you ever wondered where New Years Resolutions come from?
New Years celebrations are the oldest in our history, its believed we have celebrated the new year for over 4,000 years although we didn’t start to make resolutions till the Romans. Through many religious beliefs it is traditional to reflect on our wrongdoings and seek forgiveness. The concept is one of self improvement.
I gave up making new years eve resolutions years ago, like many people I’d write down my resolution keep it for a few days then go back to my previous behaviour. Then I’d feel bad as I hadn’t managed to keep to it, most of my friends did exactly the same thing. In fact one of them had been making the same resolution for years and years each time hoping that she would stick to it. She said things like maybe this will be my year, as if it was the new year that brought the changes she looked for.
A few years ago I was having a heart to heart with a good friend, and it turned into a giant whinge. As we moaned about relationships, our kids, time, stress, money etc etc etc. Sound familiar? After a while I got fed up with the vision of misery we were creating, each moan making us feel worse and worse inside.
So many people talk about, focus on, whats wrong with their lives.
So I stopped made some fresh coffee and we began to make a list about what was right with our lives and what we could do to make things better, and I decided to turn my life upside down. Now I don’t mean any positions that include my feet being higher than my head but turning my thinking upside down.
So now I work towards goals. I think about what I want – then check a few things including is it really what I want, will it be good for me and is it sustainable by me alone. I try it on (imagine) how it will be, what effect it will have on my life and those closest to me. Then if it passes all the tests I map out what I need to do to achieve my goal, and now I find that I do actually achieve my goals.
This is not a new idea, spiritual beliefs are based on counting our blessings; and theres a great side effect too. The more I focus on what is right, the better I feel, thus enabling me to think more clearly and make better decisions helping me to feel better.
Tina
www.tina-taylor.com
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Overcoming Barriers to Learning
In this day and age there are opportunities for learning all around us; many people say they want a career change and some of these need to learn new skills possibly go back to college or university. Some of these are lucky enough to have companies who will assist them in their quest; the workplace can provide excellent opportunities for learning and continuous personal development.
Many review opportunities and never get started; whilst others start, they begin full of enthusiasm, excited at the prospect of creating a new future then something happens that stops them.
Firstly, let’s examine, what is learning? It is a physical process, some may argue that it is a mental process and this is the traditional way of defining learning. Yet when thoughts occur, something physical happens to us. When external events take place, physical processes take place in our bodies in reaction to them; these processes establish memories, reinforce or create behaviours and beliefs and change our physiology.
Our learning begins before birth, taking place in our development and continues throughout our lives. In the beginning we learn how to control movement, to feed and communicate with others; learning who we are and about the world around us. And it is here that we may learn other things, beliefs about ourselves, things that we inadvertently pick up from those around us.
For example: “I can’t dance”
“I’m not musical/artistic”
“I can’t spell”
“I can’t change”
“I always fail”
“I’m stupid”
These are just a few statements that people may learn about themselves, beliefs that hold them back limiting their self development. Beliefs that were learnt physically then metaphorically into their bodies through individual experience.
Can these beliefs be un-learned? Certainly and generally very quickly using various NLP techniques.
What we believe about ourselves can easily influence our ability to think and learn; this can also be influenced by the mood that we are in, our state. Our states serve as a filter for the information that we receive; when learning our physical and mental state is just as important as the level of training and information delivered. Discovering your learning state and how to access it will enable you to get yourself into the appropriate state as and when required.
As well as having a state that best suits the learning process people have individual learning styles that they have developed. For example some people prefer to be shown how to do something, learning by watching or reading; whereas others prefer to be told how to do something, learning by listening and discussion; and then there are those who learn best by doing, they like to try things out.
From the NLP perspective learning styles can be either paced or lead, as a tutor/trainer the information can be presented in a way that matches the person’s preferred way of learning; as well as helping the person to enrich their learning style by helping them strengthen their other senses. Recognizing peoples natural learning styles is an important skill for all communicators, and can enhance the effectiveness and ease with which they can influence their listeners.
Many people today are discovering that NLP is a powerful tool that can be used for personal development as well as in the business arena. Teaching techniques that enable us to get the best out of others as well as ourselves providing strategies for coping with and managing those difficult moments in life.
Much can be learned from books but NLP is experiential and learning from a skilled trainer is invaluable.
Come along to our practice group www.nlpmasterclass.co.uk to experience NLP for yourself.
Tina Taylor
www.tina-taylor.com
Many review opportunities and never get started; whilst others start, they begin full of enthusiasm, excited at the prospect of creating a new future then something happens that stops them.
Firstly, let’s examine, what is learning? It is a physical process, some may argue that it is a mental process and this is the traditional way of defining learning. Yet when thoughts occur, something physical happens to us. When external events take place, physical processes take place in our bodies in reaction to them; these processes establish memories, reinforce or create behaviours and beliefs and change our physiology.
Our learning begins before birth, taking place in our development and continues throughout our lives. In the beginning we learn how to control movement, to feed and communicate with others; learning who we are and about the world around us. And it is here that we may learn other things, beliefs about ourselves, things that we inadvertently pick up from those around us.
For example: “I can’t dance”
“I’m not musical/artistic”
“I can’t spell”
“I can’t change”
“I always fail”
“I’m stupid”
These are just a few statements that people may learn about themselves, beliefs that hold them back limiting their self development. Beliefs that were learnt physically then metaphorically into their bodies through individual experience.
Can these beliefs be un-learned? Certainly and generally very quickly using various NLP techniques.
What we believe about ourselves can easily influence our ability to think and learn; this can also be influenced by the mood that we are in, our state. Our states serve as a filter for the information that we receive; when learning our physical and mental state is just as important as the level of training and information delivered. Discovering your learning state and how to access it will enable you to get yourself into the appropriate state as and when required.
As well as having a state that best suits the learning process people have individual learning styles that they have developed. For example some people prefer to be shown how to do something, learning by watching or reading; whereas others prefer to be told how to do something, learning by listening and discussion; and then there are those who learn best by doing, they like to try things out.
From the NLP perspective learning styles can be either paced or lead, as a tutor/trainer the information can be presented in a way that matches the person’s preferred way of learning; as well as helping the person to enrich their learning style by helping them strengthen their other senses. Recognizing peoples natural learning styles is an important skill for all communicators, and can enhance the effectiveness and ease with which they can influence their listeners.
Many people today are discovering that NLP is a powerful tool that can be used for personal development as well as in the business arena. Teaching techniques that enable us to get the best out of others as well as ourselves providing strategies for coping with and managing those difficult moments in life.
Much can be learned from books but NLP is experiential and learning from a skilled trainer is invaluable.
Come along to our practice group www.nlpmasterclass.co.uk to experience NLP for yourself.
Tina Taylor
www.tina-taylor.com
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