A practice is “any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of human activity are realised in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence […] with the result that human powers to achieve excellence are systematically extended.” – MacIntyre, After Virtue, 1981… Read More

In my life as a student we have to contribute to a private class-only blog about documentary films, including ones we have seen and our own documentary film proposals. As there is another girl in my class who is doing a treatment on suicide, she posted her thoughts about the way our memories are unreliable,… Read More

If you and I were going to go sailing out on the ocean, you’d say to me “Katie, where are we going?” And I would say, “Well, I don’t really know. Not only do I not have any idea where we are going, but I have disconnected the rudder and we are just going to… Read More

Any time you set a goal, that goal needs to be what NLP calls well-formed. ♦ The first condition is that the goal needs to be stated in positive terms. ♦ The goal needs to be initiated by you and maintained by you — is it something that begins with you, can be maintained by you and completed by you?… Read More

State vs Goal Sometimes people set goals that include a state — “when I accomplish x I will be happy”. The issue of happiness from an NLP point of view is that it is a state. Since it is a state, we can have it immediately. All you have to do is remember a time… Read More

How do we make sure that our internal representation produces the kind of state, the kind of physiology and the kind of behaviour that we want? How can we be sure that everything is working together? 1. Have a clear outcome. Have an idea of what it is you want to accomplish. Know where you… Read More

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a respectable body of knowledge that has a background in a number of intellectual disciplines. NLP draws on general semantics, linguistics, hypnosis, gestalt therapy and takes into account ecology and family therapy. It is a study of what works — how do you produce results and what kind of results… Read More

 I figure if I post a blog entry then I will hit the 50,000 mark. Probably a complete waste of your time and mine, but I’m all for being the centre of attention. I guess I should reward you for coming to this page (and if you’re reading this in email or RSS you… Read More

It’s official – my certificates just came in the mail. I am now a board certified NLP Practitioner Coach and Hypnotherapist.

In 1957 Carl Jung wrote in the The Undiscovered Self that nothing is as strange as man who from the ground-plan of his unconscious mind has the ability to think conscious minded. This dissociation between the conscious and unconscious mind is responsible for psychic disturbances and difficulties that arise in one’s life. All problems are… Read More