“To Life …” This morning I was inexplicably brought back to a memory of sitting on a small bench overlooking the bridge that crossed the pond at the Blue Dell Farm in Pemberton, NJ during a break, while at an NLP training with Roye Fraser. I’d gone there to study NLP with him, and discovered he was weaving a magical score with something he called “The Generative Imprint” using NLP to deliver and train in this model of transformational change he’d been developing for about a decade at that time. This was an unusual way to teach NLP, not by a series of exercises to teach either concepts or techniques, like representational systems or swish patterns, but in what he called “wholeform” (something I’d come to appreciate more as I delved into the work of the quantum physicist David Bohm). We’d all sit in the “Hypnotorium” Roye’s name for the room we worked in with him, that was a converted mechanics garage on the property he owned there in Pemberton. Roye would begin Continue Reading
Thinking Small
“I bury the bone so deep that the dogs have to scratch for it.”* I admit it, I’ve always had a hard time thinking small. Some folks are great at it though. They use small words and a just a few of them to express magnificent and expansive ideas. Not me. I tend to be wordy. My sentences run on … and, sometimes on. And, if there’s not a big word to express what I’m thinking and trying to say, I just make one up on the fly. I’m like that. I think that “free speech” means what it says, and I should be free to speak even that which hasn’t existed before I spake it. In fact that’s the heart of the matter. As fish swim in water, we, i.e.: humans, homo sapiens sapiens, swim in language. Words. And, more words. Life is filled with wordiness for humans. All that so far is okay. It’s okay to think small. It’s okay to be wordy. It’s okay that humans swim in language. It’s the “belief” thing that gets us every time though. The idea that the words we read, and the words we hear, and Continue Reading
The Skeleton Key To Transformational Performance
Why We Focus On Neurocognitive Developmental Training As The Basis Of Instigating Transformational Change And Peformance Breakthrough At each stage of human existence the adult is off on his quest to his Holy Grail, the way of life he sees by which to live.- Clare W. Graves Because people get stuck when the worldview they are using doesn't accommodate the outcomes they intend ... they need a way to get out of their "stuck state." Neurocognitive Developmental Training provides the skeleton key that unlocks the mystery of success. This is the essential and most rewarding reason "WHY" it makes sense to get Neurocognitive Developmental Training (NDT) ... but, once you dive down the rabbit hole you'll find so much more that will be valuable to you too. Neurocognitive Developmental Training is all about building "(Human) Adaptive Intelligence" - i.e.: the ability to adapt your thinking to the situations and contexts you encounter and are engaged in at any given Continue Reading
Claiming Your Right To Be … Become The Buddha
Taking A (Semantic) Stand ... What Would It Take To Get You To Put A Stake In The Ground, And Claim That Space As Your Own?” One version of the story about the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi Tree seeking the complete unfolding of consciousness tells of his last challenge by the gods before his enlightenment. Just prior to realizing his final enlightenment the gods, represented by the demon Mara had him send his most beautiful daughters, sometimes thought of as “Lust” and “Desire,” to seduce the future Buddha, but he was unmoved by them, so they departed. Then Mara sent his monstrous army into the fray, and again Siddhartha Gautama, the future Buddha, sat unmoving and untouched. They launched their weapons, arrows and spears darkened the sky they flew in such profusion, but as they reached the future Buddha they fell around him having turned inflight into a shower of flowers. Finally Mara himself stood against the future Buddha, and he proclaimed his right to the seat Continue Reading
