 August 2010
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News from NLP Canada Training
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Greetings!
We are entering the second half of summer, the half where we hold onto each day a little jealously, knowing that the evenings are a little shorter and a little cooler. We find our thoughts wandering ahead to the fall, and then we pull them back again. Canadian summers are too short to miss by thinking too far ahead. There's a sense of urgency in our patio-sitting and beach days.
We do not want to heighten a sense that resources are limited, but we have to announce that we have closed registration on the August summer intensive. If you are from outside Toronto and this would be your only chance to train with us before July 2011, you could call Carole and explain why you need us to make room for just one more. Otherwise, we will be asking you to think about our fall dates.
After the intensive ends, we will be taking some time away to prepare for a very busy fall. Carole will respond to phone messages and we will all check email, but the office will be closed more than it is open in August. With some regret, we are postponing a day we had hoped to offer our NLP pracs on August 30. Know that exciting things are in the works, and we will fit it in later this fall.
Enjoy the news. Enjoy the summer. Mark your calendars for courses and the HOPE symposium. We'll see you soon,
Linda
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 The HOPE Symposium 2010: POSSIBILITY
Watch for updates to the HOPE symposium website in late August (sneak peaks starting later this week), and mark your calendars for October 16 and 17, 2010. Our theme this year is POSSIBILITY. Many of our favourite speakers are returning and we will also be including wonderful new voices.
As you are probably aware, the symposium features NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners certified by NLP Canada Training. It's your best chance to hear how people are using NLP and hypnosis in their lives and work. This year, we will be featuring four panels of speakers addressing the theme of possibility as it applies in Leadership, Wellness, Vision and a soon-to-be-announced theme featuring the moderators from the first three panels.
Watch for announcements on speakers and our venue. Mark your calendar now. October is a busy month and this is an event you want to attend (with friends!).
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 DISC Profiles and NLP
There are many different models of personality. One that is fairly well-known in business is the DISC profile. It describes the way people prefer to interact in a particular environment, usually their workplace. Many people are familiar with the way the acronym defines four basic types: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. What most people do not realize is that the system is based on answering just two questions:
Is your environment favourable or unfavourable?
Do you prefer to do things yourself or to get things done?
People who feel safe in their environments are sociable: they get things done by persuading others (influence) or they take direction and get the work done (steadiness). People who recognize danger in their environments are more direct: as leaders, they are directive (dominant) or if they prefer to perform their own work, they take personal accountability for it (conscientious). You can think of these types as representing the four kinds of people necessary in most organizations:
People to lead (dominant)
People to sell or manage (influence)
Operations people to do the work (steadiness)
Professionals for accountability & innovation (conscientiousness)
DISC allows you to identify any discrepancies between your natural preferences and the role in which you find yourself (or to identify such discrepancies in others). It does not tell you what to do about them. NLP does not identify differences between an organizational role and personal strengths, but it does give you a toolkit for managing such differences. A discrepancy between your preferences and your role is a choice point: you can reframe how you think about your role or your environment or you can discover alternative resources within you that will allow you to use your genuine preferences to best advantage.
You don't have to be limited by your type. You can use it as a leverage point to create new momentum. NLP shows you how to do that.
Learn more at our FREE evening program: TYPES: Relating to Difference in Personality. Wednesday, September 1, 7:30pm to 9:30pm. Please call 416-928-2394 to register.
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How to Take a Break
You probably imagine that it is easy to take a break: just stop working for awhile and the break will happen. That's only partly true.  When you think about it, there have been times you have taken a few minutes off and it has been the beginning of a long period of bouncing unhappily between the task and other things. There have been times when you thought that just one coffee or just one sweet would give you the burst of energy you needed to get back on track (does that usually work out for you?). There have been times you refused to take a break because you sensed you would never get back to what you were doing. Here are three tips for taking (or giving) a break that really works for you: 1) Get moving. Changing your physiology creates space for new thoughts and feelings. Even if it's just a walk down the hall, moving helps. 2) Tell yourself what you want. Say, I will close my eyes for ten minutes so that I can come back to my task, relaxed and refreshed. Often we are so attracted to the idea of the break that we forget to want to come back to our task. 3) Interrupt your thoughts. There's no point in taking a break without clearing your mind so make sure you give yourself something new to occupy your attention and stretch your imagination. Everyone deserves a break now and then. When you take your next one, enjoy it fully and return to your task feeling more focused and more efficient.
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 Healing, hypnosis and NLP
We once had someone attend an introduction to hypnosis evening only to tell us he was very disappointed. He believed that "anyone who is any good at this stuff" could make people levitate. We don't do levitation.
We do work with people who are interested in healing and when we do, we tread very lightly. It's important to keep in mind that if NLP and hypnosis led to miraculous cures, Milton Erickson would have been the first in line. He would not have had to spend hours each day in self-hypnosis for pain management if hypnosis was a cure-all.
That being said, Erickson believed that everyone had what they needed to live satisfying lives and he proved it by managing pain and illness while leading an extraordinary life. By all accounts, his joy in living was immense and exuberant. That is a kind of miracle.
There is healing in NLP and hypnosis, even if that healing is not the same as a cure. Becoming more familiar with the parts of you that function automatically and beginning to appreciate how much of your life is already right are large steps towards feeling better. For some people with some ailments, this is all the healing that is required. For other people, becoming more aware that parts of themselves are already engaged and satisfied changes the way they live. There can be healing even where a problem cannot be cured.
Don't come to NLP or hypnosis so that you can be healed: we do not heal anybody. Come so that you can learn how to live in a way that satisfies you better. We can help you explore your beliefs and behaviours in useful ways, and give you the tools for making better choices. You might choose to use some of those tools to heal broken relationships with parts of yourself or with other people. You might even make changes in the way you perceive your physiology.
We do not do healing. But our clients sometimes use what we teach to bring healing into their lives.
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Coming up in September and October
SEPTEMBER 2010
9/1/2010 Wednesday - Types: Relating to Difference in Personality, 7PM to 10PM
9/18/2010 Saturday: Introduction to NLP for Change, Clarity & Communication, 10am to 5PM
9/19/2010 Sunday - Practitioner Previews, 10AM - 5PM
Chris Keeler & Linda Ferguson: Paradox: Personality & the Meta Model
John Steuernol: Hypnosis with Thought Field Therapy and Consciousness Theory
OCTOBER 2010
10/6/2010 -Wednesday - Patterns of Personal Change, 7PM to 10PM
10/2-3/2010 CANLP Annual Conference in Montreal
10/16-17/2010 Saturday/Sunday - The 2010 Hope Symposium: POSSIBILITY (Location TBA)
10/23-24/2010 Saturday/Sunday - NLP Practitioner Certification Training, Weekend 1 of 3, 9AM - 6PM
10/30-31/2010 Saturday/Sunday - Coaching with the Enneagram, 9AM to 5PM
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