By Jack Carroll
My intention in this article is to provoke thought and discussion surrounding addiction. Amy Winehouse is the example I give in the text, her death may not have been directly due alcohol or drugs and there may have been another cause that was related or separate to her addiction that led to her death. I am a big fan of her work and wish to use this example as a way for others to have these thought processes that will lead to a wholesale change that saves lives and turns a drug/alcohol addict into a former drug and alcohol addict.
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Where it all begins
By David Hamilton
The relaxed atmosphere of UKAI was a great setting for the first ever NLP Sushi evening. On the second floor of the modern restaurant was where the event started. As people came through and registered they had a chance to get a drink and chat at the bar with Michael and the team. It was great to see so many new people, making this their first experience with the NLP Academy. No ties, no seminar chairs or power points. Just a relaxed restaurant with comfy sofas and good company.
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An article on being a highly effective presenter
By Michael Carroll
This is a topical subject for me, because, in just over a week’s time, people from all over the world will converge in Brighton on the South Coast of England for the NLP Academy’s annual NLP Trainers Training. I relish the fact that I will be sharing some of the most useful presentation tools available anywhere to our new trainers, and another generation of trainers will be out there burning a trail as they engage their audiences with confidence, whilst teaching NLP skills. It may seem obvious to you and I, that to be an excellent trainer of NLP you have to engage your audience. However, I know of trainers with top reputations who sit on a stool reading their training notes from a manual all day. They even do their demo’s from a manual. This lecture style is not engaging for an audience and certainly would not make the grade at the NLP Academy Trainers Training. This article is about sharing some key tips for how you can fully engage the people you present to, be confident in presentations and project your own style onto the audience so you are remembered for all the right reasons.
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Breaking the dualism present in who knows more the trainer or the change agent?
By Michael Carroll
Those who attend my courses will be familiar with my saying ‘I have the best job in the world’. I love to train public NLP courses, I love to coach people and be part of their development, I love teaching in different countries and cultures, I love working in house with companies, I love to develop new material; I guess I just like a lot of variety and am fortunate enough to have found my passion. The different activities above are outputs of NLP skill and knowledge. So whilst on the surface delivering an NLP sales course for hardened business people may seem quite different than doing one to one work with an agoraphobic, at the deeper level the same patterning is being utilised, it’s just being outputted differently. It’s a bit like the differences in conversation style you might adopt with a close friend compared with how you speak with your boss. You will express yourself differently in these two situations, however you are drawing upon the intuitions present in your natural language that operate at a deeper level. You could use the metaphor of surface and deep structure to make the distinction of the NLP outputs (surface structure) and knowledge and skill (deep structure). In this article, I will be talking about my experience of these two levels of NLP
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By Stephen Gilligan
Beat the drum and let the poets speak.
This is the day of purification for those who
Are already mature and initiated into what love is.
No need to wait until we die!
There’s more to want here than money
And being famous and bites of roasted meat.
Rumi
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The ultimate mistake
By Michael Carroll
A common notion in the field of personal development is to celebrate your success. This is perfectly fine as long as your successes in life do not become your downfall. You may ask, how can success be a downfall? The answer is simple, if you consciously or unconsciously set your success gauge at a level far lower than you are capable of, you create a ceiling for yourself and your early success can be your peak, and you will peak way too soon in the trajectory of your development. Success is best celebrated as part of a bigger picture rather than the big picture.
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