Memory Re-Solution®: Working With Anxiety – A Memory Re-Solution® Perspective

Working with anxiety in a professional context often raises questions about why anxious responses can persist even when there is no clear present-day cause. This live online professional workshop explores anxiety not as something to manage, reduce, or regulate, but as an organising pattern — often maintained by earlier experience and operating independently of conscious understanding.

Using the Memory Re-Solution® process as a reference framework, the workshop examines what changes when the organising impact behind anxiety is resolved, rather than managed.

This is a professional exploration workshop and is not a therapeutic group, personal development session, or clinical intervention.

Anxiety is commonly described in medical and psychological literature as a response to perceived threat, even when no immediate danger is present. Check out a general overview of anxiety.

What is covered in this Working with Anxiety workshop

This working with anxiety workshop provides a structured professional exploration of how anxiety patterns are commonly organised and why they can persist despite insight, reassurance, or coping strategies.

Topics explored include:

• Why anxiety can persist without an obvious trigger
• How anticipatory responses remain active even when circumstances appear safe or resolved
• Anxiety as an organising pattern rather than a presenting problem
• Understanding anxiety as an upward-mobilising response that operates independently of conscious reasoning
• The limits of management and regulation approaches when working with anxiety professionally
• Why insight, reassurance, and coping strategies often fail to produce lasting change
• Experience versus organisation
• Distinguishing between what someone feels in the present and what is shaping that experience beneath awareness
• How Memory Re-Solution® approaches resolution
• A high-level orientation to how the process addresses the organising impact of past experience, without instruction in the method itself
• Professional boundaries and appropriate use
• Clarity on where working with anxiety using this approach fits within professional practice, and where it does not

The focus is on understanding what changes when resolution occurs, rather than how to perform the process.

Who this workshop is for

This workshop is intended for:

• NLP Practitioners
• NLP Master Practitioners
• Coaches or facilitators with NLP training
• Professionals working with persistent anxiety patterns in a professional context
• Practitioners interested in resolution-based approaches rather than regulation or coping strategies

The session assumes professional training and is not designed for a general audience.

Application contexts referenced

While this workshop uses anxiety as the primary lens, the principles explored apply across a range of common patterns of experience.

Reference may also be made to patterns commonly described as:

• Anger – where responses feel rapid, forceful, or disproportionate
• Sadness – where withdrawal or disengagement becomes organised
• Fear – where vigilance or avoidance dominates decision-making
• Guilt – where internalised inhibition limits choice or action

These references are used to illustrate how the Memory Re-Solution® process approaches different organising patterns, rather than to provide topic-specific training.

What this workshop is not

To maintain clarity and appropriate boundaries, this workshop is:

• Not anxiety management training
• Not a mental health or clinical workshop
• Not therapy or treatment
• Not an accreditation or certification event

No personal disclosure is required, and participants are not expected to work on their own material.

Relationship to training & accreditation

This workshop forms part of a wider series exploring common patterns of experience through the Memory Re-Solution® process.

Attendance does not confer accreditation, certification, or permission to practise.
Where further training, registration, or licensing is appropriate, this will be discussed separately.

This working with anxiety workshop builds on themes introduced in the article “Why Anxiety Persists Even When Nothing is Wrong” in our Patterns & Experience Learning zone.

For those interested in the wider training background from which this work has emerged, Memory Re-Solution® has its roots in NLP and may be of particular interest to practitioners trained through Congruent NLP. For those seeking a broader, non-therapeutic and facilitator-led approach to understanding patterns of experience and change, the CongruentMind framework offers an alternative orientation grounded in alignment, resilience, and professional development rather than technique-based intervention.

Paul McGowran is the current rights holder of the Memory Re-Solution™ methodology and is actively developing the process further. His work is focused on integrating the approach into the CongruentMind framework, extending its application beyond individual change work into leadership and organisational development contexts.

If the listed webinar date is unsuitable, additional sessions may be available via the Memory Re-Solution® events page.