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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

Client Rapport through Metaphor (how to be clairvoyant)

Mark Andreas
Client Rapport through Metaphor (how to be clairvoyant)
I recently presented a fascinating and very unique way of working with metaphor at the American Council for Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE) Conference in Pasadena, CA. I received a lot of positive feedback on the presentation, and had a great time exploring metaphors as a group. Below is one example from the stories I shared of […]
October 2, 2014

Where do you want to HAVE your “problem?”

Mark Andreas
Where do you want to HAVE your “problem?”
Our problems are solutions After having spent a lot of his time focusing on his family, a client of mine from Alaska wanted to get back into focusing on his business and bringing in an income again. He said he wanted to get back into that laser-like focus and flow with his business that he […]
August 29, 2014

Befriending Critical Internal Voices

Mark Andreas
Befriending Critical Internal Voices
Lucy was working on a manuscript and wanted to become more comfortable in her writing. She wanted to improve her ability to let the information flow easily into type when she sat down to write, instead of having it feel like she was “pulling teeth." She wanted to enjoy the process of writing and feel […]
July 1, 2014
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