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Joseph O’Connor

Gotta get goals (part II)

by Joanna on May 10, 2007

Coaching, writes Joseph O’Connor, "links the world of dreaming with the world of reality". Coaching is about finding the space, the freedom to dream.  Expanding your map of the world.  But it’s also about taking action.  It’s only by acting that you move, that things change, that you grow, and learn.  This has been bubbling [...]

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What do we mean by rapport?

by Joanna on May 1, 2007

Rapport is fundamental to all coaching and NLP.  The thesaurus definition of rapport is: a relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people a feeling of sympathetic understanding sympathetic compatibility I’d highlight a few important words from that definition: Relation… between people. It’s not something one person ‘does’ to another.  It exists between [...]

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What is NLP? The 18th Camel

by Joanna on March 5, 2007

There are many definitions of NLP.  None of them capture it perfectly.  I think NLP must be a bit like a jelly that is hard to pin down (but good to eat….and you’ll know it when you see it!).  It is based on a set of presuppositions which are the central principles of NLP.  They [...]

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What’s a metaphor?

by Joanna on February 27, 2007

Metaphors make comparisons.  They compare one thing with another – often something quite unlike it in a literal sense – in order to illuminate.  You might remember metaphors as examples of figures of speech when you were learning about literature.  But they are not just something that perform a function in literature.  We use them [...]

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Representational systems: re-presenting the world

by Joanna on February 24, 2007

One of the definitions of NLP “is the study of the structure of our subjective experience”.  That includes the way that we represent (or re-present) our experiences of the world. You will be familiar with the idea that we pay attention to the outside world through our five senses: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting These [...]

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