Caitlin and Sarah have completed the Race of Life on 11th May 2008 in memory of Sarah's mum. You can still sponsor them by giving a donation to Cancer Research UK.
"There has been a lot of attention lately on the power of story-telling and metaphors in business, but using them is also an interesting approach to dealing with personal challenges"
Jurgeen Wollfe Aug 2006
"Metaphor is a way of gaining insights that get behind the assumptions that are so often made about anything and anyone including whether or not they are racist, lazy, or easily offended. In fact one of the suggested tenants on communicating with those with disabilities is to not assume anything - including 'being easily offended'."
knowing yourself, being able to manage yourself in different situations, observing others and being able to work out, quickly, how to behave with them and having the flexibility to change if what you’re doing isn’t working.
The facilitators use NLP and Clean Language at work in a broad range of fields; police training, education, management training, local government, bodywork and coaching. These skills are therefore beneficially for many different people in different occupations.
For all people who want to work more effectively with themselves and others while learning new techniques that enable them to work without imposing their own solutions on the process.
For educationalists who want to learn about teaching at their best and working with students to help them discover how they can learn at their best.
For people in business who want to improve productivity of themselves, colleagues, teams and projects and to create the conditions so that more of their staff can be at their best more of the time.
For therapists who want to develop their practise and bring a clean approach to therapy work.
For anyone who wants to qualify at practitioner and master practitioner level in Neuro Linguistic Programming with Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling.
We’ve tailored each module to cover particular work applications however all modules promote the following skills:
Great listening, observation and memory skills
Listen and look for the invisible elements of communication which are affected by the background and thinking style of another individual – learn not to assume
Detect your own patterns and patterns in others – make conscious choices about how to communicate more effectively with people
Uncover the hidden structure behind skills you’re already good at and use these structures to fast-track new learning
Use simple skills to build rapport with people independent of language
How to maintain your sense of self, particularly in difficult situations
To deal more effectively with people different from you in all areas of your life
Develop elegant communication techniques to connect with a diverse group
Understand clearly what constitutes ‘walking the talk’ in terms of diversity
Understand the full breadth of diversity within the group and practice all of the skills from the course together before taking them out into the wider world
Think about your goals and purposes in life and live and work in ways that are more closely aligned with them
Develop coaching skills and how to give and get clear feedback even on sensitive areas