Ipswich NLP Group Welcome and thanks for your interest in the Ipswich NLP Group. This page is hosted by Mark Spall, Executive Coach and Leadership Trainer. When you have found out about the Ipswich NLP Group why not take a look at my website by clicking here. If you are new to NLP, here is a quick definition:
The Ipswich NLP Group is a monthly meeting held by Steve Marsden and Mark Spall. The aim of the group is to increase the knowledge of NLP in the Suffolk area to help people discover how NLP can be of personal and business benefit. The cost is just £5 per meeting. Payable on the night, at the door. What are the benefits? For more than 30 years expert thinking has been modelled and incorporated into the NLP model. It now consists of a comprehensive set of beliefs and thinking strategies that enable the learner to achieve more in life and business with greater ease. NLP has applications in business and personal lives. Many refer to it as a user manual for the brain and indeed you will be amazed how subtle changes in thinking can have remarkable positive effects on your results. When and Where We meet every 2nd Thursday of the Month between 7pm and 9pm. The venue is The Main Hall, Co-op Education Centre, 11 Fore Street, Ipswich, IP4 1JW. The front entrance is on Fore Street, opposite the building that used to be Martin & Newby’s. There’s a large car park at the rear: drive up Waterworks Street and turn left at the sign “Education Centre”, 50m before the Eagle Street/Rope Walk traffic lights. The rear entrance is in the car park next to the small garden. The Main Hall is downstairs. Click here for a map. About Mark and Steve and the People that Attend. Steve is an NLP Master Practitioner and uses NLP to enable him, his family, his friends and his colleagues to achieve desired outcomes. He established Ipswich NLP group with several other NLP practitioners in 2001. Mark is an NLP Master Practitioner and earns a living as a Coach and Trainer, specialising in Leadership. NLP is a core part of his coaching and training work. Whether you are experienced with NLP or just curious about what it is you are more than welcome to attend. Sign-up to our mailing list and we will keep you posted on up and coming sessions. Here are some examples of near term and past sessions : Thu 11th January 2007 - RELATIONSHIPS Unless you're marooned on a desert island, life is all about relationships. Relationships with family, friends, colleagues, customers, suppliers ….. the list goes on and on. To get 2007 off to a brilliant start, Steve Roche, who is among other things an NLP coach and master practitioner, will be giving us an entertaining, hands-on session that focuses on the way we relate to ourselves and others. It will make you think about your personal power, confidence, and charisma. It will engage your values, congruence, sensory acuity and many other aspects of NLP. This will be a lively and interactive evening, featuring games and demonstrations, during which you will discover that you already have far more skill in this area than you realised. So come and learn in the best possible way - by having fun. Thu 14th September 2006 - HYPNOSIS FOR PAIN RELIEF Hypnosis is an important area of NLP. In fact a major part of Bandler & Grinder’s early work in laying the foundations of NLP involved modelling the language used by the legendary hypnotherapist Milton Erickson. And like other NLP techniques that were first applied therapeutically, Ericksonian hypnosis was soon being used outside the consulting room by coaches, trainers and communicators. At this month’s session, Jason Newland, a local hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, will give us an insight into this fascinating topic. Jason will describe his work with pain relief and anxiety and will give us an opportunity to try some of the techniques he uses. You can read about Jason’s work on his website at http://www.freepainrelief.co.uk These links give some background to Erickson and his work: http://nlpuniversitypress.com/html/E29.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Erickson http://nlpuniversitypress.com/html2/Mi-My08.html Weds 9th August 2006 - “Using our Bodies for a Change!” Body language communicates something, regardless of whether we wish to communicate or not; in my view, living systems cannot not communicate. We convey meaning all the time through how we position our bodies, move our hands, the facial expressions that we make and in how we project our voice, through rhythm, tone and volume. In fact it is said that the actual words that we use make up only 7% of our communication – the remaining 93% is inferred from how we use our bodies and voice. And I’ve discovered that not only does this non-verbal communication influence those around us, it can also have a profound effect on our own feelings, state of mind and thinking. So, this session we will be looking into both how we can use body language to influence others AND how we can use it to influence your own state of mind. Weds 12th July 2006 - An NLP 'pick ’n mix' NLP trainers tends to focus on specific techniques and frequently use imaginary scenarios to enable their students to practice and learn. This approach is widely used in education and can be very effective. We often use the same method in NLP practice sessions – deciding beforehand what techniques we want to practice and what play-acting would facilitate this. But of course everyday life isn’t like this at all. If we’re to get real benefits from NLP we need to be able to adapt what we know to unexpected situations. In fact, one of the biggest challenges in NLP is how to shift from knowing to doing - how to get the learning into the muscle. So, just for a change, this month’s session will be a la carte, pick ’n mix, a tasty buffet of practical ideas that you can get your hands on and test drive there and then. We’ll start by looking at the kind of situations that recur in our professional and personal lives, patterns of events that don’t give us the outcomes we want. Then we’ll talk about what we might do differently to sabotage these patterns so that we can steer events in our chosen direction. Finally we’ll try these ideas out, see how they work and get a feeling for what best suits our personal preferences. Some of you will dive in with suggestions, whether you’ve got NLP experience or not. Some of you will learn how others identify and apply NLP approaches in real-world situations. Everyone will be able to seize this opportunity to get to grips with practical ideas that will continue delivering value long after the evening ends. Weds 14th June 2006 - THE SWITCHES, DIALS AND LEVERS OF THE MIND! (or NLP META PROGRAMS to those that care about complicated sounding terminology.) If there were a series of switches, levers and dials for the mind that you could tweak in order to change the way that you did something it could be a powerful tool couldn’t it? For example if you found yourself avoiding that boring but ever pressing tax return and could just turn up the personal motivation dial a touch to get it done as easily as you can eat your favourite meal it would really benefit you wouldn’t it? Whether you are the tax mans dream or nightmare you will really enjoy learning about NLP Meta Programs and discovering how you can use them to improve your personal performance. For those that are hungry for the details, Meta Programs can be considered as automated scripts that do their duty largely outside of our day-to-day awareness (a little like the parts of us that deal with our heartbeat and our breathing). These scripts diligently work away at filtering our experiences and guiding and directing our thinking. Whilst Meta Programs are subtle activities within our minds they have a very powerful influence on our behaviour. Most Meta Programs operate on a sliding scale, a little like each of the slide controls on a HI-FI graphic equaliser or a music mixing desk. Whilst we all run Meta Programs, the level on the sliding scale that we operate them on varies greatly from person to person, resulting in significant differences in behaviour from person to person. More on “Meta Programs” can be found at Robert Dilts’ online NLP Encyclopaedia at http://nlpuniversitypress.com/html2/MdMe26.html. Weds 10th May 2006 - Anchoring Resources For those of you new to NLP (and others who've forgotten!), an “anchor” is a sensory “trigger” for an internal state change. We're so good at setting anchors that we do it all the time without even being aware of it. Think back to when you saw this email in your inbox. How did your state change? If it changed noticeably then these emails are an anchor for that state change (hopefully a good change!). NLP provides ways to choose resourceful states that we can then “anchor” so that we can access them at will. For instance we might want to anchor a state of “calm confidence” for job interviews. Since anchoring mostly happens outside our awareness we can inadvertently anchor unresourceful states. For instance: “every time I'm called to speak my mind goes blank”. NLP provides elegant ways to modify this process so that a resourceful state results instead. This will be another practical hands-on practice session that will enable you to enjoy learning new capabilities for your personal and professional life. ou can read about anchoring in Robert Dilts' online NLP Encyclopaedia at http://nlpuniversitypress.com/index.html . Note that when I just looked at it there seems to be a bug that prevents you from seeing more than 2 pages when you select “anchoring” – to see the rest you need to go the next entry (“Anchor Point Productions”) and work backwards. Weds 12th April 2006 - Aye Aye, Eye Accessing Cues! NLP founders John Grinder and Richard Bandler discovered that our eye movements indicate the type of thought process that we are using when we communicate. Specifically, our eyes do a dance indicating how we are drawing upon one or more created or recalled Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic internal experiences. The NLP 'Eye Accessing Cues' model is a useful tool for improving communication with others and for gaining greater insight into our own personal thinking strategies. More on “Eye Accessing Cues ” can be found at Robert Dilts' online NLP Encyclopaedia at http://nlpuniversitypress.com/html/E42.html. In this session we will experience eye accessing cues and try on some simple thinking strategies used by people that exhibit 'expert' behaviour. Weds 8th March 2006 - Magical Submodalities Submodalities are the building blocks – the “molecular structure” - of subjective experience. And just as scientists can manipulate molecules to create the materials we need, we can manipulate submodalities to create the internal states we want. But we don't just use submodalities to represent the content of subjective experience; we also use them to process that information. One of the most exciting discoveries in NLP is that we can use submodalities to identify the mental strategies we employ to do whatever we do. So if we identify a mental strategy that's associated with a behaviour we want to change, we can adjust the strategy and change the behaviour to one we want. Even more exciting is the discovery that if someone can do something excellently, we can identify their mental strategy and learn it ourselves, or teach it to others, so they can excel too. More on “Submodalities” can be found at Robert Dilts' online NLP Encyclopaedia at http://nlpuniversitypress.com/html3/StSy37.html . Weds 8th Feb 2006 - Fun with Logical Levels “It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not” Fancy joining an online community of over 1,100 people with an interest in NLP? I've found NLP Connections to be a really useful resource. Find out more here. Want to know more about NLP? Try out these links. The NLP Encyclopedia by NLP Master, Robert Dilts. Hungry for more? Why not join us at the next session? Ready to find out about Mark Spall? Click here. |
