NLP

Become un-fixed for creativity!

by Damian Hamill 10:52 - 14th May 2012

What can a candle, a box of drawing pins and a box of matches tell us about creativity? This was the question posed and answered by psychologist, Karl Duncker in the 1940s. Before we go further please have a look at the photograph below showing the afore-mentioned three things.

What’s in a name? A lot more than you might think.

by Damian Hamill 10:15 - 20th March 2012

I recently read an article on the effect of fore-names that is fascinating, alarming or encouraging - depending on your perspective. It has stimulated me to look again at the influence that simple words can have beyond what many of us may ever have imagined.

Occupied no more – no goals set means no goals reached!

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...

Powerful Presenting for Career Success

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 9th February 2012

One of the factors that typified the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, was his laid back presentation style. He would stand up in front of the world and introduce a revolutionary product as if he was showing it to a group of intimate friends and associates. Yet there are other...

Ram Dass, Lobsters and Solution-focused Coaching

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...

NLP and State Management in Conflict Resolution

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.

Rabbis, Hitchens and Systems – NLP and Beliefs!

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...

How real is ‘real’? Elephants, blind men and the alchemy of language!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 4th January 2012

In my last blog I looked at how ambiguous stimuli, such as Rorschach ink-blots, take on meaning solely due to the fact that the perceiver projects an interpretation onto them. Once such an interpretation or set of perceptual ‘filters’ is proffered by one person it can often shape the...

Eskimos, Santa Claus and the construction of reality.

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 2nd January 2012

There is an urban myth that Eskimos have a multitude of words for ‘snow’. In truth this is more the case with the European Sami people but you know what I am referring to. Equally, in The Structure of Magic, John Grinder and Richard Bandler refer to the...

A Three Step Process for New Year Resolutions

by Damian Hamill 12:35 - 30th December 2011

So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.

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