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Have you heard that NLP helps you connect with people in a way that gives you more influence? How does that work exactly? 1) Making the connection begins when you understand that all human brains work through connection: they connect new information to information that is similar or related and store it in patterns. 2) The brain prioritizes information about other people and even modifies your own brain to reflect what you are observing (it shows up as matching and mirroring). This allows your brain to be more accurate in predicting who will help you and who might hurt you. 3) Your brain automatically tracks people who are paying attention to you so the fastest way to get attention is to give it.
This active connection is the foundation for influence.
Use the Swish, one of the core techniques of NLP (neurolinguistic programming), to refocus on making a healthy choice even when someone you care about is distracting you.
We often get nervous when we need to have a conversation that will give us something we want. We enjoy conversations for the sake of connection, but we don't know how to connect with purpose without becoming stressed or feeling manipulative. NLP offers you a better way to explore how significant conversations achieve connection and purpose.
A very quick version of our workshop on Your Purpose and Your People at NLP Canada Training. Pause after each exercise and let it resonate and settle before you move on to the next.
How can you stay calm, clear, focused and effective when you're in transition? Use these 3 tips to consider how to be (and how to help someone else) when you find yourself betwixt and between stages, opportunities, or situations.
This is a podcast version of a workshop on how to focus on the strengths in other people when those people are making it difficult. What can you do when you go into a conversation hoping for the best and find yourself being sucked into irritation or anxiety or confusion? Stop looking at the problems and start focusing on strengths. This podcast will walk you through three ways to do that.
This isn't about leaning on your friends, and it's not about choosing friends that you could lean on. It's about going into every interaction ready to find something you need to think better or feel better. This is a condensed version of our 90 minute workshop, so be prepared to press pause and think a little in between exercises.
It's crucial for managers, for parents, for teachers and for coaches: all of them need to have conversations that allow other people to take ownership of their problems and of their ability to make the choices they need to make. Learn the three key steps to engaging in a way that leads to the moment when you affirm that someone has the power they need to make a choice.
Linda explores the three steps from knowing there is something you need to learn through the risks of beginning, to the moments when you put what you learn to work in the world.
Three important ideas for using negatives better:
1) Uncover the benefits of starting with what you don't want
2) You need to match other people (with a negative) before you can get them to shift to a positive
3) The brain naturally weighs loss more than gain; it takes an effort to focus on the positive (when you start with a negative, you can lend someone some of your willpower so they can make a shift)
The final episode in our series on the core skills taught in the NLP Practitioner course. On their final day, our practitioners apply everything they have learned to three fundamental activities: learning, collaboration and influence. The point of all of them is the same: to engage with difference so that we move beyond individual limitations to feel better and achieve more.
How do you build a communication? The elements of structure involve setting things up so that what happens next will be useful. Understanding how many different parts are at work in a conversation can be intimidating, but that's why we do this on day 7 of the practitioner training. By then, you're learning to commit to your outcomes and use the immense processing power of your brain and body to drive results that will satisfy you.
Have you ever been in a conversation that went horribly wrong? Understand the fear of shame, conflict and consequences and flip it around so that your language supports connection, collaboration and clarity.
This is episode 5 in our series on the core skills we teach in our NLP Practitioner program. As we enter the second half of the program, we focus on the states and outcomes that set you up for communication success.
This is the 4th episode in our series on the skills being taught in the NLP Practitioner Course. This episode builds on the first 3 days to understand how to set your direction so that you move strongly. Goals are important, but they are the seasoning, not the main ingredient. Your life is not a list: it's a territory you can map so you know how to get there from here.
This is the 3rd episode in our series on the skills taught in the NLP Practitioner Course. In this episode, learn what it takes to manage stress so that it works for you. The first episode is fundamental to understanding everything that comes after, so make sure you learn about state and mind/body thinking before learning how to use those concepts to manage stress more effectively.
In the second day of the NLP practitioner course, we practice refining our perception of the influence of the people we carry in our heads and the influence of people we interact with. It's hard to trust yourself until you understand the role the social self plays in directing our choices, changing our states, and enabling us to learn from one another.
NLP Canada Training offers an 8 day NLP certification by Zoom. Are you curious? The first step is understanding how the human system produces your experience using mind and brain and body. The next step is changing elements in your experience to change the way you think, feel or act. And the final step is lots of practice! Learn about State in this introduction to Day 1 of the training.
One of the basic principles in NLP is this: the meaning of communication is the feedback it gets. This means that to be clear, you have to know what feedback you want. Here are three ideas to tweak your communication so you're more likely to get that feedback. For more #freeNLP visit www.nlpcanada.com.
Take just a few moments to get grounded in what is real and possible. Become focused on your intention to be present and connect. You'll be amazed how much easier it becomes to be sane and even optimistic in a troubling time.
According to researchers at Stanford, Zoom fatigue is real. But does that mean it's inevitable? Linda Ferguson offers an NLP (neurolinguistic programming) perspective on using your senses to engage in video chats and meetings. Linda references this TED talk on doodling and Adam Grant's recent podcast episode with Malcolm Gladwell.
Warning: this episode contains tips that might make you love connecting, even on Zoom.
Which side of the story gap are you living? Some people are banded together fighting big odds and terrible conditions. They are the front line, the essential workers who continue to go to work every day. On the other side of the story gap are the people who are home, often alone. On this side of the gap, there are fewer well-known stories. Where will you find the stories that help you move through this time?