Generative Communication skill is a concept I’ve been mulling over for a while now. It follows on from the previous post in a way, in that we can understand the communication environment we live in as being “toxic” when it is saturated with messages intended to shape our beliefs, values and actions, messages generated by [...]
Posted by Trance-formation on 09.13.2011 at 8:42 am// Tagged: Personal Development , communication skills, Ecology, NLP, Personal Development
I’ve been reminded of a story… not one of my own, but one that crops up again and again in NLP circles. A nice little story about a ship that had called into harbour to deliver some cargo. Once the cargo had been unloaded, the captain gave orders to set sail, but the engines wouldn’t [...]
Posted by Trance-formation on 09.03.2011 at 12:13 pm// Tagged: Metaphorical Tales , Attention, Ecology, Metaphor, Story
There is always much focus of interest among people interested in NLP and hypnosis in this idea of “conversational hypnosis”, sometimes referred of as “covert hypnosis”. Partly based in the model that all communication is hypnosis, and partly a structured communication model in its own right, it effectively consists of ways of restructuring the subject’s [...]
Posted by Trance-formation on 05.03.2010 at 10:21 am// Tagged: Hypnosis , Belief Change, Creativity, Ecology, NLP, Personal Development