Finding your Purpose - Ikigai

The Community Cafés continue to provide peer support and encouragement for ANLP Members.  One person explained their current coaching business and asked for some input and feedback… the response from several of those on the call was supportive and instructive, like a personal coach or supervisor adding value to a great idea and practice.

Two new attendees joined us from the Philippines and Australia, both ANLP International Ambassadors and both introducing themselves to the group with their aspirations and ambitions for NLP…

And that led onto a deeper discussion about the natural flow of ‘being’, paganism and the celebration of nature and Ikigai (the Japanese concept of “a reason for being”).  We discussed how Ikigai may help the student to find their purpose, the resources that are available on the internet and how this seems to align with Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels.

This was a discussion to help one person in their thoughts about how to start an NLP-led business, using The NLP Professional as a template and ‘finding their purpose’ in specialising in a particular area of coaching… the resolution and bravery required, the different ways of supporting yourself with a paid job in order to have time to build the business and the specialisations of others at the Café and their successes…

Everyone at the Café got to speak, be heard, be vulnerable and to learn.  It’s truly awesome to be a part of these sessions and to sit in wonder at the wisdom of a community that we are honoured to be a part of.  Ego tends to be moved aside and the desire to help our friends and colleagues comes to the fore. 

It is alchemical… and we look forward to the next Community Café!

Members can join us for the ANLP Community Cafés by signing in and visiting: ANLP Members Community Cafe