Episodes
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
NLP Practitioner Basics:Just Enough Stress
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
This is the 3rd episode in our series on the skills taught in the NLP Practitioner Course. In this episode, learn what it takes to manage stress so that it works for you. The first episode is fundamental to understanding everything that comes after, so make sure you learn about state and mind/body thinking before learning how to use those concepts to manage stress more effectively.
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
NLP Practitioner Basics: The State You're In
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
Saturday Jul 10, 2021
NLP Canada Training offers an 8 day NLP certification by Zoom. Are you curious? The first step is understanding how the human system produces your experience using mind and brain and body. The next step is changing elements in your experience to change the way you think, feel or act. And the final step is lots of practice! Learn about State in this introduction to Day 1 of the training.
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
The Pandemic Story Gap
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Which side of the story gap are you living? Some people are banded together fighting big odds and terrible conditions. They are the front line, the essential workers who continue to go to work every day. On the other side of the story gap are the people who are home, often alone. On this side of the gap, there are fewer well-known stories. Where will you find the stories that help you move through this time?
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
3 Tips for Growing Stronger in Difficult Times
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Here are 3 tips from my new book: Resilience: Grow Stronger in a Time of Crisis, available in paperback or ebook from Amazon or Chapters/Indigo: 1) Walk 2) Connect with your memories of people you respect for particular strengths and 3) use experiences of work and play as a template to shape the future you want.
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
One Grain of Rice: Mathematics and Emotion
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
This podcast features a version of a very old story, loosely based on the retelling by Hugh William McKibbon called The Token Gift. It uses this story of exponential growth as a way to think about our feelings about the math we hear as experts explain the probabilities of various outcomes. In a time when math is at the heart of a global crisis, it's important to recognize our emotional reaction to the math so that we can use both math and our emotions better.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
5 Minutes to Begin to Want Something Again
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
For many people, this time of year is especially hard because so many other people seem to be clear about what they want. From the kids giving their Christmas lists to Santa Claus to the ambitious co-worker with plans for 2018, other people seem to know what you want. But maybe you don't know. Maybe you don't feel great about yourself or your options, and the more other people make plans, the more it all seems impossible for you.
You're not alone. It's hard to commit to wanting something when you've hit a roadblock or been knocked down once too often or simply become so comfortably stuck that you can't imagine moving. In these 5 minutes, consider some very small steps that might help you shape a goal, however small, that you can commit to so that you begin to move again.
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Your leadership is solid when you are self aware and grounded
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
Sunday Jul 16, 2017
One of the issues that sits just outside NLP is leadership: NLP is concerned with managing one's one state and performance and influencing others, but it is not specifically concerned with questons about what makes a good leader or how to be a leader while figuring out your own state or strategy.
In this ten minute podcast, we start with a simple (not easy) idea: when you focus on the part of you that knows what you want and is aware of your resourcefulness, then the other parts of you tend to move into the background. In the same way, when you show yourself to be strong, centred, and purposeful, other people will rally around you. You might not think of yourself as a leader, but managing your own state and intention will often cause people to follow you.
This gives you a chance to align yourself with leaders who are both effective and ethical. While others try to look effective and ethical, you can simply be aware that you are already these things. That frees up mental energy for generating solutions to tough problems.
Thursday May 19, 2016
Thursday May 19, 2016
This week's episode is 6 1/2 minutes of clear, useful steps that will allow you to coach yourself out of a focus on a problem that has you stuck or frustrated. When all you can see is something you don't want (something you'd like to lose or stop), take a walk or sit down with a journal and work through these five steps. The result will be a new perspective on the problem and fresh energy for getting where you want to go instead.