Mark's Blog: Tools & Tales of Change

Below is an example of one of my client sessions using Andy Austin’s fun and insightful Metaphors of Movement Process. Tale of the day: Parrots Don’t Understand I asked Paul what he wanted my help with and he said, “I want to get back to reading and learning,...

Tale of the Day: Flex Cop & The Dork Police Below is a holiday gift of two stories from my book “Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree.” Just yesterday the second story got a request from Macmillan Learning to be included in a popular text book...

Today is election day in the United States, so “hot button issues” seems like an appropriate theme. Today should be a national holiday, not a work day, and voting should be a celebration of democracy. Yet for many in the US the process of electing...

Tale of the day: Core Transformation as a practice “My career could not have continued without this.” ~George Simmons Before I share George’s story I want to say that often people do Core Transformation (or any NLP process) once, and if it “doesn’t work,” they give up....

I want to be sure you know that the Kindle edition of my new book is on sale today for only $0.99 (a 90% discount). Each day the price will go up by a dollar until the end of the month when it's back to the regular price of $9.97....

Tale of the day: “Why” with ourselves, and responding to “Why?” In my last blog post I focused on many of the difficulties that can arise when we ask others “why.” In this post I’ll explore how these principles play out when we ask “why” of ourselves....

Tale of the Day: Deserving Jan was sad over the loss of her long-time friendship with Hannah. Hannah was still pleasant to Jan, but after a period of being much less available, Jan asked Hannah what was up. Hannah explained that while she valued their friendship,...

Tale & tool of the day: Standing up for the underdog (excerpt from my new book Waltzing with Wolverines: finding connection and cooperation with troubled teens, now available in print) One of the most supportive things you can do with your power as a leader and role-model with teens,...

Tale of the day: Working with Troubled Teens Not many people realize that before I started my private coaching practice in NLP, I worked for two years as a counselor and trip leader for at-risk and troubled youth at a wilderness therapy program in Colorado. During those...

Tale of the Day: Dissolving the everyday sense of the ego “I’ve been at this hypnosis conference for 3 days now, going in and out of trances, and that simple thing you said just put me into the deepest trance yet.” ~ Participant at Mark’s workshop at the...