The above video is a very small sample of the in-depth principles outlined in my book Waltzing with Wolverines Tale of the Day: Responding to Defiance in Teenagers During the time I spent as a trip leader for a wilderness therapy program for troubled teenagers, I learned first hand how to...
Tale of the Day: Transforming an Inner Critic Last year I taught the “Transforming Negative Self-Talk process” from Steve Andreas’ (my father) book “More Transforming Negative Self Talk,” in this recorded webinar program available for viewing here. Below I’ve included a transcript of my demonstration with...
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,...
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....
Tale of the Day: Painting Again! I recently met for one session with a painter who had lost confidence in her painting. Dawn had barely painted in the last 2 years. She’d tried willpower and therapy and neither had helped her. This was her profession and...
Tale of the Day: Understanding “why” Today I want to focus on a common word that we use a lot, but which can be very misleading and unhelpful. The word is “why.” When I was teaching in an NLP Practitioner Training last summer, a participant in the training—who was in...
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 of the Day: Last August I gave a 1-hour workshop at a conference in Las Vegas on the power of story as a tool for creative conflict resolution. What I didn't know at the time is that later that night one of my participants—probably the smallest woman in the group—was...
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...