Archive for 'Communication'

The Psychology of Space, Body Language and Great Communication — New Discoveries in Non Verbal Communications

What if you were to discover that there was something incredibly useful for creating connections and achieving greater understanding with people— something you were not aware of before? Would you take the time to learn more about it? There is something. It’s called Psycho Geography. No, not that kind of psycho! This isn’t a travel article about the places where you can find tailor-made straight-jackets!

Exploring the Psycho-Spiritual Motifs of the Family Mind

by Tim Hallbom and Kris Hallbom
Twenty NLP practitioners met in Vail, Colorado with the intention of exploring the psycho-spiritual motifs that exist in the consciousness of people and the systems in which they live. Using ideas inspired by family systems innovators Bert Hellinger and Virginia Satir, Chaos Theory, Systemic Thinking and Morphogenetic Fields; the group [...]

How Managers Can Use Coaching Skills

by Tim Hallbom & Ashley Warrenton Smith
We interviewed a sampling of 30 successful managers who ranged from entrepreneurial companies to Fortune 50 and from Chair & CEOs to front line managers. We asked them to identify the challenges they faced in obtaining high performance from direct reports; how they currently coach direct reports to [...]

Coaching at the Identity Level

by Robert Dilts and Deborah Bacon
The human race is clearly in a challenging period. Problems such as terrorism and global warming show that we have been becoming increasingly disconnected from ourselves, others and the world around us. We have gone to such a collective state of disconnection that it has caused a crisis that is [...]

Coaching Sponsorship

by Robert Dilts
Before Coaching Change at deep levels of being and thinking, such as values and identity are promoted by “sponsorship.” With respect to identity and values, “sponsorship” involves awakening and safeguarding potential within others. It involves the commitment to the promotion of something that is already within a person but isn’t being manifested to [...]

Nonverbal (Contextual) Implication

by Steve Andreas
In a previous article, I described verbal implication as follows: a statement is made that is the opposite of the desired outcome. This statement is made about a different context, which is one part of a categorical “either/or” that divides space, time or events into two categories. The result is that the listener [...]

Verbal Implication

by Steve Andreas
Introduction
Implication is one of the most common ways that we unconsciously make meaning out of events in everyday life. A speaker’s statement implies something that the listener infers. Implication was used extensively and deliberately by Erickson, as shown in the following examples (some paraphrased) with the implication in parentheses:
“You don’t want to discuss [...]

Win-Win

by Dr. Richard Bolstad and Margot Hamblett
An ordinary family situation: You as a parent want to have your evening meal together with the kids at 6pm. That happens to be the time the children’s favourite TV programmes are on, so they complain. Who will win?
A common workplace challenge: You like to have relaxing music playing [...]

Transforming Conflict

by Dr. Richard Bolstad and Margot Hamblett
If Only People Knew How To Keep In Rapport With Me
We believe that one of the gaps within the NLP model is that in a field which has so many insights to offer about conflict resolution, there is not yet an agreed on methodology able to be used to [...]