Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Training to be a therapist or adding to the skills you already have

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Both Joseph and I have been doing some serious thinking (for those of you who know us, you know that means some thing’s going to happen!)
You see we’ve been invited back to Israel in November to teach Time Line Therapy again and this time to both Practitioner and Master Practitioner level. But that’s not all~ we have been asked to put on an extra day to demonstrate and teach the way we work with clients
Because we get results quickly we must be creating ways to use so many different tools, blending them one might say or developing them to really suit each client, the girls from NLPplus feel we have something of value to share.
This is where the thinking began!
This is when we asked ourselves questions like…..
What would it be like to learn more than NLP, Time Line Therapy and our real Hypnosis?
Who would want to not learn techniques but learn to use the tools with unconscious competence and more!? (like driving a car and knowing where you’re going ~ all at the same time)
Where would you go to get this?
Who has the passion to teach this?

Anyway a little more about the girls from NLPplus in Isreal

Paul with the girls of NLPplus in Israel

Efrat, Efat,Dena and Tami ~ really cool ladies with a passion to teach NLP and help people overcome trauma
I met these lovely people in Santa Cruz at the NLPU when we did our trainers training with Robert Dilts and Judith Delozier
I’ll post some more pictures of the last training soon

Oh! the answers to the questions ……………….coming soon………………….

Enjoy those heart beats
Paul

There’s no such thing as Hypnosis ~ another metaphor part 2

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

……………………..MONKEY BUSINESS

 

There once was a rhesus monkey who was put into a special cage.

This cage had red, yellow and green squares. After several days, an “experimenter” set it up so that the red squares gave off intermittent shocks causing the monkey much pain. The monkey became anxious but soon learned to avoid the red square. Next, the experimenter caused the red and yellow squares to give off intermittent shocks, and the monkey acted as if he was a manic depressive, alternating from hyper-anxiety to depression and withdrawal. The monkey soon learned to avoid the red and yellow squares and then all the squares were electrified. The little monkey began to bite itself, beat its head against the bars and defecated on himself. You might say the little monkey had been driven crazy. This experiment took one month. He was then transferred to a second cage with a white floor. Soft music was played, he was touched and held and fed. Within a short time, he calmed down and within two weeks he was playful and exploring his cage. He could not be seen as different from a monkey from a rhesus population that had not been subjected to the experiment. Well, what do you expect from a dumb monkey? He’s not as smart as a man. He didn’t know how to hold onto the past forever, nor continue to anticipate disaster. He only knew how to adapt to changing circumstances. When he was put back into the first cage, he was anxious for two days, but, after assuring himself there were no shocks, he began to be as playful in that cage, too.

Well, as I’ve pointed out, monkeys aren’t as smart as men. Maybe just smarter than rose bushes.

If, as you read the above meta-eights-a metaphor within a metaphor within a metaphor-you found yourself thinking, remembering, connect­ing, seeking, and understanding, it was only intended. To understand a metaphor, you must, in most cases, go into your own history, remember those situations that look similar and remember those words …

But there’s “know” such thing as hypnosis.

 

Great stuff ~ stories are so powerfull, yet usually so gentle and places of great learning if only we take the time to listen and then listen hear inside for the answers that have always been there.

Paul