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A Metaphors of Movement Case Example: "At Sea"

Mark Andreas
A Metaphors of Movement Case Example: "At Sea"
I’d like to share some of the interesting elements that came forth in the Metaphors of Movement personal transformation training I taught in Boulder in 2019. For those of you who are new to Metaphors of Movement (developed by Andrew Austin from the UK), the basic thing we ask is, “OK, the whole thing you […]
January 9, 2020

Eliminating Musical Performance Anxiety

Mark Andreas
Eliminating Musical Performance Anxiety
“I finished the audition and only when I walked out did I realize: I had no teeth chattering, no sweating, no shaking at all! It was just so crazy. I didn’t expect it at all!” Let’s rewind back to when I first met Maya. She was a bright high school student who played trombone in […]
April 7, 2015

Working with Youth: Humor and Fun

Mark Andreas
Working with Youth: Humor and Fun
If it ain’t fun, you ain’t doin’ it right! When I started working for the Monarch Center for Family Healing, a wilderness therapy program for at risk youth, I soon discovered that “at risk,” meant teens who were alive, and their parents were worried. The kids were sent to us for many reasons—drugs, sex, anger, […]
March 8, 2015

Effective Communication and Ethical Influence

Mark Andreas
Effective Communication and Ethical Influence
Being raised by NLPeople Over the years, many people have asked me, “What was it like growing up with your parents using NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) on you all the time?” To which I like to respond, smiling, “How would you feel if your parents NLpeed on you your entire childhood?” Then I point out that there […]
February 3, 2015

Metaphors in Coaching and Therapy: Keys to Your Inner Experience

Mark Andreas
Metaphors in Coaching and Therapy: Keys to Your Inner Experience
The above video is just a very small sample of the full Metaphors of Movement process developed by Andrew T Austin. Awakening through Metaphor Last September I gave an interactive presentation for the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners' International Hypnotherapy Conference. I presented Andrew T. Austin's Metaphors of Movement process, exploring group metaphors and sharing examples of client metaphors from my […]
January 4, 2015

How to Have Fun

Mark Andreas
How to Have Fun
Last week I was re-reading one of my favorite nonfiction books, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.” Feynman was a young professor at Cornell, feeling somewhat “burned out” by teaching introductory physics classes. One day he was in the cafeteria when a guy was fooling around throwing a spinning plate in the air. Feynman noticed the […]
December 2, 2014

Communicating Through Mini-Metaphor

Mark Andreas
Communicating Through Mini-Metaphor
“But the fear keeps me safe...!” “I can’t let go of the anger or I might get hurt...!” This is the kind of thing I hear again and again from clients experiencing anxiety, anger, fear or other emotions causing stress, sleep loss, or compromising their relationships, careers, and life in general. The side effects of […]
November 2, 2014
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