FACING UNCERTAINTY

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ “In my opinion … As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” Albert Einstein […]

FROM THE PAST INTO THE PRESENT

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ FROM THE PAST INTO THE PRESENT The past posts have focused on the subject of getting over the past. While this is not the theme, purpose, or essence of NLP, it is one […]

GETTING OVER YOUR PAST – TIME CODES

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ The Concepts of Time To get over the past, you need to understand about the concept that we call “time”-what it is, what it is not, what you are actually referring to when […]

Embrace The Fluidity Of "Personality"

EMBRACE THE FLUIDITY OF “PERSONALITY” ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ If the question came up once, it came up several times, this year. The question? Something about “personality.” “Is that the way some people just are?” “What about […]

Super-Charge Your Ego-Strength

SUPER-CHARGE YOUR EGO-STRENGTH ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer, ACMC ~ What we call ego-strength is the strength that a person has in his or her sense of self to look reality in the face without blinking. It is the […]

WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER AN EMOTION

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ As a coach, and especially as a Meta-Coach, you frequently (like just about every time) encounter strong emotions in your clients. It’s inevitable. They are humans! The only exception is if you are […]

BEYOND PRO/CON DECISION MAKING

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ In Meta-Coaching we use the Axes of Change as our first and primary model for enabling people to make intelligent, robust, and ecological decisions. Specifically, we use the second axis, The Decision Axis which is based […]

THE THREE MAGIC WORDS OF RESILIENCE

By Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall There are three magic words that conveys the inner spirit of resilience. I stumbled onto them in reading Martin Seligman’s work on Learned Helplessness and then on Learned Optimism. In his books he tells the story of moving from […]

PSEUDO-DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Pseudo-Decisions There are decisions and then there are things which pass for “decisions” yet which are not real decisions. They are pseudo-decisions. They often and usually seem like a decision in some respects, but actually they […]

LUCKY DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ In some decisions you are lucky- very lucky. To discover this think about a decision that you made which turned out really great. In fact, repeat this several times reflecting on different decisions that you made […]

PAUSING TO DECIDE

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ I started out the day intent on counting the total number of decisions that I tyically make within the time frame of one day. My first decision occurred when I sensed morning light coming into the […]

limiting belief

Childhood Perception Part 1 – Limiting Beliefs Written by Shawn Dwyer at The Coaching Centre Limiting beliefs involve the specific cognitive style of processing information. When unconscious parts form or limiting beliefs originate, they result from the brain operating in certain ways. These parts, or […]

What is resilience?

The Art and Science for Effectively Mastering Adversity We need resilience because we live in a world where things can and do go wrong, where things knock us down, where expectations are violated, where the rules of the game can completely change, where hurtful things […]

Name Calling Shuts Down Healthy Thinking

Primitive Thinking that Shuts Thinking Down All politicians all do it. At least, I can’t think of a single politician who doesn’t do it. Yet in name-calling, they are actually practicing a very primitive form of thinking. Rather it is one that is appropriate for […]

The Self-Actualizing Genius State

The Self-Actualizing Genius State ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ What does a person actually do or experience when he or she self-actualizes? Maslow identified eight things that we could add to our list of prerequisites for the “genius” state. In fact, […]

Transforming Depression

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ When it comes to the complex meta-state called “depression,” given that we create it as noted in the past three posts, we can now ask two very different questions. First, “How does a person create depression?” […]

What does self-actualization mean?

What does self-actualization mean? Written by Shawn Dwyer When a person is fully functioning in life, at their best and capable to maintain the human drives, they are said to be fulfilling their needs, self-actualizing. Human potential includes the higher needs which are in fact […]

Where are training courses in orange?

Where are training courses in Orange NSW? High quality training results and the best trainers are located at The Coaching Centre Australia, both National and International accredited communication training centre. Situated in the Orange CBD, The Coaching Centre is located at 212 Anson St Plaza, […]

Power Conversations

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Like sex, money, and religion- power is both highly desired and greatly feared and even more, difficult to talk about. Yet we must. Power is everywhere in life, ever-present, and inescapable. But how can we have […]

Unpacking The Depth Of Coaching Conversations

~Written by Michael Hall~ Unpacking The Depth And Finding The Critical Things In A Coaching Conversation If you start from the idea that hidden inside of your client’s statement are much deeper references, then you will more likely to slow the coaching conversation down and […]

The Conversation That You Can't Have

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Lots of conversations are easy and breezy, we chat away, gossiping a little here and there and seldom do we even remember much of what was said. Such are light and shallow conversations. Then there are […]

Challenge in 5 Dimensions

~Written by Dr.L.Michael Hall~ As a Professional you can know that we frame the coaching skills in terms of two seemingly contradictory values- compassion and challenge. You also know that an ideal coach, an expert coach, is a person who has developed the skill of […]

Unrecognised Persuasion Techniques

~ Written by Dr.L Michael Hall ~ If there is a constant in the field of persuasion, it is searching for the latest persuasion technique. Having read dozens and dozens of books on persuasion in research and preparation for the book I wrote, Inside-Out Persuasion, […]

NLP: WHAT IS NLP REALLY ?

NLP: WHAT IS NLP REALLY ? ~By Dr.L.Michael Hall~ As you consider in the Matrix movie, Morpheus asked Neo when they first met, “Do you want to know what it is?” Neo answered with a question, “What is the Matrix?” The question here is, “What […]

The Power Matrix

THE POWER MATRIX And the Foundation of all Your Skills How much are you in charge of you? Do you have the power to take charge of your innate powers and of your choices as you move through life? Human beings need power-the power to […]

Persistence

COACHING PERSISTENCE Persistence is crucial for life, here is how. At the heart of coaching is setting goals in an intelligent way. It is about goals that call upon you and I to step up and begin to unleash our highest potentials. And one of […]