by Damian Hamill
09:16 - 8th May 2012
I have recently worked with a couple of coaching clients who have shared the same presenting issue. The problem in question is presentation anxiety and a common aspect of the underlying structure is that nervousness has to be concealed. I want to talk about this interesting assumption a...
by Damian Hamill
00:00 - 30th April 2012
I recently read an article which reported a call by Professor David Lewis of Middlesex University, one of the UK’s leading employment law experts, for companies to actively reward and protect whistle-blowers within their organisation. Read on to find out how we at Watt Works can contribute to this...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 1st March 2012
I have just been sent a newspaper clipping about the final removal of the Occupy movement protesters from outside St Paul’s Cathedral by someone who read a blog I wrote on the subject last October. He seemed to think that the content of my blog had been prophetic...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 15th February 2012
Years ago I read a book by one of the major developers of Solution-focused Therapy, Bill O’Hanlon. Bill referred to a fantasy novel, The Wizard of Earthsea, as a wonderful metaphor for personal change, growth, healing and relating to aspects of ourselves. I have recommended the book to...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 6th February 2012
I remember many years ago listening to a recording of a lecture by the spiritual teacher Ram Dass. Ram Dass told of how his guru would respond when someone came to him and told him he had a problem - "You do not have a problem - you have need...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 27th January 2012
For the last 24 hours or so I have been suffering from a really dreadful bug. Fever, hacking cough – all the usual stuff. As a result my mood has been vile. Let me tell you a little bit about how that relates to a concept from NLP.
by Paul Russell
10:30 - 23rd January 2012
Over the last few days I have been watching the Pakistan v England test match in Dubai. England, the current number 1 ranked team in the world, were comprehensively beaten by 10 wickets inside 3 days! Let me give you some insights from the perspective of an experienced sport...
by Damian Hamill
17:21 - 17th January 2012
The other day I presented to the Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations (SCiO) Group at Manchester Business School on the exotically named subject ‘Aligning Intra-personal Systems with Organisational Systems via NLP’. Without going into too much detail of the presentation let me look at one of the analogies I used...
by Damian Hamill
11:45 - 6th January 2012
Someone is stuck on a problem. They’ve thought about it endlessly to no avail. Someone suggests that they “sleep on it” and, lo-and-behold, the following morning the solution is staring them in the face. We’ve probably all had experiences like this and wondered if the emergence of a...
by Damian Hamill
10:30 - 5th January 2012
Today I read a post from an intelligent, accomplished and resourceful person lamenting the fact that if she wanted to get another two hours work done a day she would not be able to continue getting out of bed at 7:30am. Let’s set aside the fact that half past...