Resourceful Change NLP Blog

Subsidised NLP Training for 2012

docphi1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:27:04 +0000

I have just received confirmation of a Grant which will subsidise our NLP Practitioner courses starting with our July practitioner training. The grant will only cover our July and October 2012 NLP Practitioner trainings and our November 2012 NLP Master Practitioner training. This means that the cost for those NLP Practitioner training will drop from …

How do I know I’m really doing Hypnosis?

docphi1 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:23:17 +0000

This is a question I have thought about a lot over the years – and the answer isn’t as simple as you might think. Here’s where I am with it now. I know that many people use the presence of deep trance phenomena as an indication that hypnosis is occurring and not ‘something else’. However, …

Happy Easter

docphi1 — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:02:50 +0000

Happy Easter everyone, Phil And Susannna

Embracing change

docphi1 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:33:42 +0000

It’s Spring at last – a time for beginnings and new growth. What new ventures are you considering at the moment? Previously, I talked about the importance of change. I’m actually going to go so far as to say that change is inevitable. Not eventually. Not dramatically. Not at some carefully considered point in the …

About Planning – An Update

docphi1 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:33:08 +0000

It’s no secret that most of us spend too much time thinking before we move into action. When most of us think or talk about doing something, we call that activity ‘planning’. I’ve written a lot about the virtues of planning correctly, so let’s look at the liabilities with certain types of plan. Your plan …

Why you should abandon Hope

docphi1 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:48:05 +0000

Hope is an interesting concept – on the face of it, it seems like a really good thing. But what is hope exactly and what does it do? The first thing I’ve noticed is that hope is often a substitute for real action – or is used when people think they’ve run out of effective …

Hypnosis in Business?

docphi1 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:46:54 +0000

When I talk about hypnosis to business people, I often get some strange looks. It’s also fairly obvious what they’re thinking at that point: “What place could hypnosis possibly have in business?” This is a perfectly natural response because most people don’t really know about or understand hypnosis, so they draw upon one of the …

Are we Predictably Irrational?

docphi1 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:45:53 +0000

This month, I want to recommend Dan Ariely’s excellent book Predictably Irrational [UK version] The book’s premise is that we often make decisions that – when we look at them rationally – make little real sense. However, the quirks in thinking that cause these strange and common behaviours are highly systematic. Predictably Irrational is a …

Book Recommendation – “A Whole New Mind” by Dan Pink

docphi1 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:48:20 +0000

I was reading this interesting book last week and one point in particular caught my interest. The author, Dan Pink, says ‘story’ is one of six factors that are becoming increasingly important in our modern world. How? It’s a product of information availability. At this point in history, there is so much information at our …

Dare to take that step now

docphi1 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:33:48 +0000

Right now, I see a lot of people who are so nearly ‘there’ – they really could be where they want to be if they just dared to keep going and take that last – seemingly risky – step. This isn’t new, of course. “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not …