This is so powerful yet simple you may not initially
Fully appreciate the significance of this question.

This is a distinction and equally a ‘Meta Model’
Question that was created by one of my good
Friends and original NLP trainers. This is from
Mike Treasure, who is one of the currently unsung yet
Oceanically deep NLP developers and practitioners.

When Bandler and Grinder first began teaching
What is know as the first NLP model, The Meta Model
The story goes they taught it without any explicit
Use of rapport ( Rapport is said to have come from
The third NLP Model ) and the results were very interesting.

Friends and families fell out with each other. People got
Punched and kicked. Small kittens were scorned and it is
Said that some cried and created work for therapists.
Relationships were rocked to their foundations. Not just
Because of a lack of rapport but as well a lack of understanding
The purpose behind the Meta Model interventions …

The Meta Model of Bandler and Grinder is a linguistic tool
Kit. It is designed to uncover Deep Structure and at the
Same time force a re-evaluation of ‘unhelpful’ and ’stuck’
States or thought process. It is an amazing tool, when
It is used well. It can also be a rapport killing problem creator.

I invite you to check your own experience of being
Meta Modelled by people. When applied without
Skill or purpose or rapport The Meta Model can
Become a very sharp scalpel making incisions and
Cuts where not are required, invited or needed.

The Meta Model and honest rapport not to
Mention compassion go hand in hand. But Please
Note I say compassion not empathy. No need to
Feel other peoples pain in order for you to help!

Now, having set the scene here is Mike Treasures
Excellent and Secret in the sense of only known
To a very few, Meta Model Question. Ask this of
Yourself BEFORE you go wielding the Meta scalpel.

“Can I say the same is true about me?”

This is a wonderful way to help people stop making
Unrefined incisions, Uncaring cuts and being a Slasher.

Asking yourself this before hand will really help you
With Rapport, Compassion and the Intention behind
Your Meta Modelling : Meta Meddling : Metal Mudding

Try this self reflexive Secret Meta Model Question and
Improve your 2nd and 3rd Position’s ( META ) too …

During 2012 as well as lots of practice and application of hypnotherapy skills, I am also going to be using the trance Cafe to offer some excellent and additional complementary skill sets for personal and professional wellbeing. Integrating additional skill sets is something I consider vitally important for continued professional development ( CPD ) and personal growth.

My good friend and college Tony MacDonald will be sharing his considerable skills in TuiNa Chinese massage for healing and well being.  Tony is an internationally recognised Master Practitioner in TuiNa and has recently returned from India where he has added some very interesting new skills into his healing and well being work.  Tony has decades of practising healing from his well known and respected background  as a top martial arts instructor in the North East.

TuiNa is a massage technique that works on the muscles and ‘energy meridians’ that will be familiar concepts for those of us familiar with Chi Kung,  Acupuncture and emotional freedom technique ( EFT ). This two hour session in Newcastle will give you hands, very practical ways to help your friends and family not just top up their well being ( one of the benefits of massage ) but be able to help with muscular aches and pains.

Our evening together will be packed full of practice of Chi Kung breathing exercises and well structured TuiNa massage techniques which are going to be interlaced with healing hypnotherapist language.

Facilitators : Tony MacDonald & Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Centre, Gosforth.

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

Lots of language patterns, utilisation and paying attention to what is available.

This audio is all about listening and doing and most importantly how to practice to absorb this skill into an unconscious competence.

The Trance Cafe is back in January 2012 with a focus on well-being as well as hypnosis language and practice.

So please click here to download your complementary 30 minute hypnosis audio from Nigel Hetherington as a learning device for hypnosis language patterns.

See you January 2012!

Many hypnotists and therapists are not comfortable with eliciting trance phenomena with their clients in case it doesn’t work. Learning to more carefully calibrate your clients or the people you are hypnotizing will let you know more confidently what kind of trance phenomena you can go for. Trance phenomena like stuck hands, immobile feet, name amnesia or positive and negative hallucinations are all on the cards this month.

Now whether you choose to use these skills for entertainment or for therapy work is up to you. The evening is going to be a fun exploration of rapid hypnosis leading into trance phenomena. With Nigel Hetherington and my colleague John Penman, who is a stage magician and hypnotist.

The evening will consist of lots of rapid induction demonstrations and even more practice for you. Come along and learn how to rapidly induce trance and see how many hypnotic phenomena you can experience in one evening.

Facilitators : Nigel Hetherington & John Penman

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Centre, Gosforth.

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

Martin’s web site opens with the very apt “Warning – My Way Of Working Is Not Everyone’s Cup Of  Tea” and this is a very apt introduction setting the frame for Martin’s way of working with clients.

Martin says that honesty is the best policy. He also says that laughter is the best medicine. Martin puts both of these together: “I’m a plain-speaking Yorkshireman who believes clients need an outsider’s honest view of what’s going wrong in their lives in order to help them put it right, and who de-clutters their minds via their funny bone to help them do it”. Like Oscar Wilde said, “If you want to tell someone the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they’ll kill you.”

Although still guided by the tenets of NLP Martin doesn’t do typical NLP and his methods are now more CBT (Clowning aBout Therapy). As someone who stands out from the crowd, Martin’s style is unlike most practitioners. Known for being daft and saying silly things, he builds rapport by making (most) people laugh and in doing so creates the trust that’s needed to help people to have a better life than they imagine is possible for them. In fact, his greatest enjoyment is watching a client’s attitude change from ultra serious and worried about their future to realising things aren’t that bad and they can cope with whatever life throws at them.

Martin is blessed with a truly warped mind (his clients say he is crazier than they are) and that is why Martin sees things from a very different perspective, which he then reflect back using humour – sometimes droll and dry and sometimes slapstick (how many therapists do you know behave like a silverback gorilla or sing to their clients?).

Get up close an personal with the creator of SilverBack Coaching ( TM ) [ Martin looks like a Silver Back Gorilla ] and bring your problems and worries along for a full on and experiential adventure of the mind and body that may well lead you to some gut wrenching laughter and a very different view of that old problem.

Facilitator : Martin D Thornton

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 15 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Centre, Gosforth.

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

Riots, Wars, Unemployment, Shops Closing, Rising Inflation, Petrol & Fuel Increases … and it can all way too easily feel like a very worrying time to be alive.

Have you ever wondered how some people can seemingly be unaffected by a less than positive world and somehow continue to remain upbeat. In other words, how is it they don’t seem to worry or succumb to their own fears and anxieties?

We usually can’t always do a great deal about external events in the world but … We can do a huge amount about how we respond and think in response to the outside world. We can also do a great deal of really simple practices that bring us to Inner Peace and from this place we can be more fully in our world.

How will it be if you can have some really robust tools that are both easy to learn and highly practical to help you gain a better state of mind and rediscover your inner peace.

Well there really are a great deal of ways this kind of state of mind can be achieved. Come along to this Trance Cafe to experience a powerful synthesis of NLP, Hypnotherapy and Eastern meditative practices that you can use in your life and share with your clients. Tuesday 13th September, Newcastle with Nigel Hetherington.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 15 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at St Oswalds, Regent Centre, Gosforth.

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

There may be times in our lives when we could really use some more strength, awareness, joy or some trait that we don’t seem to have enough of.

In the first process of this month’s NLP Café you will learn the Trait Square, a simple way of accessing more of the qualities you need.

You can adopt more confidence, enthusiasm, determination – whatever quality you would like to have more of in your everyday experience.

In the second section using Time Lines you will have a chance to test drive this new trait into the future, a thorough mental rehearsal, so that it will be available to you whenever you need it.

You don’t need much experience of NLP to attend this workshop, all you need is an idea of what attitudes and aptitudes you would like to have more of and a willingness to join in.

The NLP Café is on Wednesday 20th July at 7pm in St Oswald’s Hospice, Teaching Centre, Gosforth.

Phone Andy on 0754 700 9116 or email andy@practicalwellbeing.co.uk for more information.

The NLP Café meeting costs just £10 and includes refreshments.

Book Online Here.

Anxiety or worrying about a negative future that hasn’t happened is literally caused by the way we think and of course what we think about. Very often this kind of thinking is cyclic and includes Bernie’s dreaded ‘what if …’ pattern.  There are many techniques and processes that can help to shift thinking patterns. These include threshold interventions, submodality interventions, meditation, humour and irrelevance, percussion, Humour Worx, NLP Eye Integration, compulsion blow-out, hypnosis and behavioural change to name but a few.

Most of these wont actually change the external world too much but they can change our internal world such that the emotional drain can be greatly reduced which then tends to free up more of our energy to act in the world. With more energy we can be acting more positively to move towards the kind of futures we do want.

Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 15 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at St Oswalds, Regent Centre, Gosforth. Third Wednesday of the month.

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

Way too many change consultants can’t get out of their own way, in terms of making a real
Step or going out of their own comfort zone to enable their clients to do the same. What
Can we do to get to grips with getting out of our own way and facilitate real change experience?

There is a real need and requirement to be able to create a context for generative change which is
Enabling and at the same time, truly an honest and very creative place. When we hold a perspective of
Being seriously creative, we can see a clear path to genuinely enabling changes …

Performing arts and drama facilitation expert, Ruth Hindmarsh will facilitate a fun and
Safe space to really be the change consultant you know are, with fun and real purpose.

Within a sequence of exercises, Ruth and myself will integrate play, fun and creativity into tools
And process’s you can easily merge into your professional practice and your life to make your
Sessions and interactions much more creative as well as bringing a smile and sense of something more
Deeply connecting into our work, play time and life as a whole.

Facilitators : Ruth Hindmarsh & Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 15 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at St Oswalds, Regent Centre, Gosforth. Third Wednesday of the month.

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!