The above video is just a very small sample of the full Metaphors of Movement process. Tale of the day: 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...
Tale of the Day: 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...
Tale of the Day: One of my favorite mini-metaphors “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...
Tale of the Day: I recently presented a fascinating and very unique new 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...
Tale of the Day: 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...
Tools & Tales of the Day: This month I'm posting the link to an hour-long interview I did with Jordan Harbinger from The Art of Charm. This is the first time NLP has been a topic on Jordan's show. As he says in his intro to...
Tale of the Day: 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...
Tale of the Day: Trusting the unconscious Recently I had a client come to me because of a “big black sea of emotions.” Frank told me he felt tense, like he didn’t even want to “go there.” I began by working with the part of him...
Tale of the Day: Rewinding out of a bad experience Did you ever wish you could press rewind and just reverse right out of a bad experience? Well it’s actually possible. I know because I do it about three times per year. And it works every time. I...
Tale of the Day: Sleepless Nights? Lack of sleep negatively impacts all areas of life. Countless studies show lack of sleep correlated with huge losses in productivity, happiness, safety, and long-term health and longevity. “Sandy” came to me recently complaining of severe lack of sleep. It could...