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A little while ago, a top bloke I know mentioned that training facilitation is more about leading people through a series of states; In short, excellent facilitation is about states. I couldn’t agree more with him even if I didn’t want too. He is absolutely right.

As a training facilitator, one of the core and prime skills ( in addition to knowing your stuff and walking your talk ) is to be able to create states in yourself and of course other people.

In his extremely well presented and excellent book ‘The LITTLE BOOK of BIG STUFF ABOUT the BRAIN‘ by Andrew Curran a particularly relevant paragraph is this

“… some 30 or 40 years ago a very smart chap called Donald Hebb argued you learn things because your nerve cells join together in a way that makes them fire together. He said that ‘Nerve cells that fire together wire together’. What is also know is that this wiring together of nerve cells is predominantly under the control of your emotional system - the more emotion in a situation the more likely it is you will learn from it…“

This can be taken to mean

boring, dull uncharismatic, unemotional presenters who simply can’t be bothered, their messages will likely not be remembered very well and soon forgot.

The obverse is if you are lively, shiney, emotional, provocative and love what you do, dynamic - your messages, learning points and applications are much more likely to be remembered and acted upon and made use of in much bigger contexts.

nigel hetherington

Communicating Excellence
Excellence in NLP ( Diplomacy ) and Clinical Hypnotherapy

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An NLP night out with a full helping of comedy - coor blimey guv where do I sign up ….

Dont start to laugh yet, Dont start to think about the possibilities of a great group evening out yet, Dont even block out the 18th or the 19th of June from you diarys and calendars - WHY NOT? - BECAUSE - you dont know what it is yet…

Mr Paul J. Richardson will be performing amongst others as part of the Divine Theatre Company’s forthcoming comedy evenings on the following dates at the following venues

Wed 18th June - Magnesia Bank, North Shields

Thurs 19th June - Bridge Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne

Its a bargain at just £6.00

so be there at 7.30 for an 8.00 start ….

email richardsonpauljames@yahoo.com

So if you want to go ahead and book some tickets now sent Paul an email and book some tickets for a guaranteed great night out!

nigel hetherington

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I use many contralateral exercises in therapeutic practice and of course they get tremendous results.  Grinders 1980 ‘new code’ games are essentially brain gym games, they work BUT there seems to be no ’scientific’ proof that they work or do not work.

An interesting and somewhat damming appraisal of Brain Gym from a BBC report

click here to watch a BBC news video on Brain Gym

the video article ends with “until the claims made by ‘brain gym’ can be verified it has no place in our schools.“

Unlike phylosophy, religion and the scientifically tested forms of exercise like yoga … did you see all those people doing something together - fringe benefits

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On our Newcastle NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses we explore the enabling Operating beliefs of NLP.

click for - a free PDF download NLP Operating Beliefs

There is absolutely no requirement to believe these bold statements, just act as if they are true and notice what opportunities open up both to you and for you.

as someone particularly wise once said to me

“who is doing the operating and who is doing the believing?“

questioningly yours
nigel hetherington

Communicating Excellence
Excellence in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Clinical Hypnotherapy

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A team from the University of Hull have shown research that Anti Depressants like Prosac and Seroxat, sometimes known as Selective Seratonin ReUptake Inhibitors are as effective as Placebos in the majority of cases of depression.

There is a large body of evidence on placebos and their effects. Perhaps placebos work on ‘beliefs’ changing things, possibilities at deep neurological levels, changing limiting beliefs, who knows for sure. The thing is, this effect is well known.

St.Johns wort has been used as a remedy for depression, and whether this is because of the chemical composition of the herb or the placebo effect it seems to work, just like Prozac.

Here are some of the differences between a natural placebo like a Sugar Pill and drugs like SSRI’s.

• 100% natural
• 100% safe
• Practically no cost
• not pushed by drugs companies
• not owned by drugs companies

So how can two parties have such conflicting ‘evidence’. Is it possible that they both could be correct. Well yes it is. It all depends not only on rigid, strict scientific rigor, it also depends on what you set out to prove, in other words what filters are in place and what biases are already in the system ( beliefs and values ). A further exploration into the beliefs and values and overriding motivations will surely lead to a deeper understanding of the validity of both parties claims.

“But the makers of Prozac and Seroxat, two of the commonest anti-depressants, said they disagreed with the findings.“

BBC News web site

Something as I understand Frank Zapper reminded his son Moon Unit is to consider “Who is paying them to say that?“

I recall my days at Newcastle University and my associations with some excellent people, commonly known as The Medics. The Medics were plied with sweeteners and incentives ( would we say gifts now? ) from various Drugs Companies. Why? Not from the goodness of the hearts, but one suspects to create relationships that may last through the Medics careers. And having knowledge of how, now, today, Drugs companies host events to push their trade to GP’s, Practice Nurses and other medical staff, now I wouldn’t call this legalised Drug Pushing because its not legalised Drug Pushing though its seems a very questionable practice to me.

My own personal experiences, friends, family, associates have and do still confirm a shocking frivolity in GP’s prescribing anti-depressants for all manner of symptoms and ailments. As an experiment go to your GP and complain of being down, being depressed and find out what happens.

Think about it, drugs treat symptoms, wouldn’t it be better to work directly with cause where possible. Juggling comes to mind.

To read the article click here to go to the BBC web site

nigel hetherington

Communicating Excellence
Excellence in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Clinical Hypnotherapy

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