Published under "Basic NLP"

For this celebration issue, I’m celebrating the element of NLP that has had the biggest impact on my life: setting ‘well-formed outcomes’. This is my...
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Regular readers of my columns and articles over the years will know the strategies have helped me enormously. And yet, they’ve never fully worked for...
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When I first came across NLP, I worried about the potential for it to be used to manipulate people. But then I learned about the...
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In so many areas of life (national politics, the state of the world and the planet itself) I keep thinking of that scene in Austin...
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Istarted drafting this during the red weather warning for Storm Éowyn. In the nearly six years I’ve lived in the Wild West (of Ireland) I’ve...
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Ilove the NLP way of chunking up to connect with the big picture and chunking down for more detail. In this column, I’m sharing an...
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When you imagine a happy, fulfilled Future You beyond what you normally allow yourself to imagine, what springs to mind? STOP IT! Don’t immediately talk...
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I’ve loved the (neuro)logical levels since first training in NLP nearly two decades ago. I just made a mini series of videos about them (available...
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People keep forgetting the toll the past few years has taken on so many. Many keep putting ridiculously high expectations on themselves, forgetting that their...
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One of the presuppositions of NLP is that we have all the resources we need (or we can create them). These resources can be internal...
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We all know we need to delete, distort and generalise the gazillions of bits of information and sensations flying at us all day, every day...
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When I was chair of BACP (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) Coaching, I used to attend occasional meetings where several coaching bodies got...
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Ithought I had self-care and Self care (that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most miraculous part of yourself) pretty well figured out. I’d done so much...
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Attempting to see everything as information and to not argue with reality helps me take some of the charge out of heated situations, especially when...
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I’ve been doing an enormous amount of inner child work lately. I’ve been doing it for decades (trauma therapist = occupational hazard), but never as...
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When we use all our senses and honour our capacity for flexibility, we stop judging ourselves for letting new information or sensations adjust our course.
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In yoga, there’s an expression about how you are on the mat being how you do everything. The idea is to encourage a greater awareness...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about failure recently because, apart from one element of my work (the freelance journalism) involving more rejection than many other...
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Can you imagine back then if we’d known how long things would drag on for? As we learned to live in a very different way,...
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By reframing the focus to a far better formed outcome of balancing the blood sugars to help balance the hormones and minimise the symptoms, I...
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