Posted by: nlpboot on: May 29, 2012
When someone tells you a story, they are giving you the benefit of their editing capabilities. They don’t just feed you an array of facts and leave it to you to sort out what’s relevant. The best stories, in my opinion, leave out interpretations, explanations and opinions as much as possible, but any story will, by virtue [...]
Posted by: nlpboot on: April 15, 2012
‘We went on to speak about the nature of thought, and how our experience of life is made out of the same invisible “stuff” that dreams are made of. And we don’t try to “fix” a bad dream – we wake up from it. And this is the real promise of a deeper understanding of [...]
Posted by: nlpboot on: August 7, 2010
There are many ways to model the activity of our minds, and one way is to think of ourselves as a flowing, cascading river of goals – or outcomes. Our brains are well adapted to the pursuit of goals. Every living organism, in fact, has its tacit and fundamental motivation away from painful stuff (heat, [...]
Posted by: nlpboot on: May 30, 2009
As I understand it, the point of listening for sensory-based words is to get an understanding of how the speaker (or writer) is representing reality to herself, which gives clues about how to communicate smoothly with them and how change can most easily and elegantly be accomplished. One application of this is to detect a [...]
Posted by: nlpboot on: April 25, 2009
Actually, nobody really asks me this question so I can’t claim that it is a burning issue for anyone, yet the genesis of the name has some relevance to why I’m playing host to our group practice and networking. One of the first associations people make is the idea of a boot camp. Personally, I’d [...]
