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<title>Make Yourself Ramblings</title><link>http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/index.html</link><description>Ramblings</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>info@trinitisalons.co.uk</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 Triniti Limited</dc:rights><dc:date>2009-10-09T19:27:12+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:56:41 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>Technology Integration 2</title><dc:creator>info@trinitisalons.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Stuff</category><dc:date>2009-10-09T19:27:12+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/4cf40ce9c8682dcac5e08538767f734f-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/4cf40ce9c8682dcac5e08538767f734f-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Since deciding to start sharing the stuff I'm doing life has been very interesting.   Opportunities have arisen, on a daily basis, to challenge some of the processes and techniques and I have been learning fab things every day.


The other thing I've noticed is that every 'opportunity' has a significant payload: it tends to solve a problem and teach me the solution; it introduces a principle most of the time that can be used in a much wider context in the one that it is applied in; it starts a chain reaction of changes as the principle gets applied in other contexts.


A good example of this was the recent feedback from a wise person that some of the processes and techniques were a bit flabby.   When I looked in more detail, it was indeed the case and a load of process was cut out without impacting on the quality of outcome.   In this instance it introduced a couple of principles:


	&bull;	the process one uses to deliver something is the product of the person who designed it and the context it was designed in;


	&bull;	There may be proof checks in there that are useful when you are learning but can be dropped when you have confidence;


	&bull;	There may be techniques in there that make the techniques safe within the delivery context or are specific to the context. if you change the context these need to change. 


In this case I was dealing with a process that separated the emotion of a memory from the memory itself.   Because the delivery mechanism for the process was to the unconscious with the conscious 'watching' there was an element of disassociation in the process so the client wouldn't be at risk of accessing strong negative emotions.   Because the current methods I use do not involve the conscious, the disassociative techniques could be removed and the process simplified.


As a result I've reviewed the current courses and it looks like by applying these principles i can get the complete course done in 4 days instead of 6, which is of benefit to everyone.


The other important thought that has come out from some interesting conversations is that the courses offer one specific use of a set of principles that have a much wider application that is only limited by our imaginations.


I'm looking forward to sharing this stuff with people :)


Mike
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Technology Integration 1</title><dc:creator>info@trinitisalons.co.uk</dc:creator><category>Stuff</category><dc:date>2009-09-21T13:00:22+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/75f36f5417cfeadb6fbbd7f000fb0c6c-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/75f36f5417cfeadb6fbbd7f000fb0c6c-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The network and communications team look down on the server team; the server team look down on the service desk/desktop team and the service desk/desktop team feel unloved.


The value to me was always in the integration of the three disciplines as this made the systems work well and the better the three teams worked together, the better the integration and of course the end service.


What was also obvious that the value was about depth of technical knowledge, where I saw the value in the breadth of knowledge that the desktop engineer needed and the customer interface aspect that is vital in a service desk.   So for me the three teams offered equal value to the &lsquo;system&rsquo; and those of highest value would look beyond their team and the system.


I have used the same principles in my personal development and as I have attended more courses and learnt more interesting things, the &lsquo;what if&rsquo; part of my brain has been weebling away, noticing how stuff can fit together to get a better outcome.   Your skills evolve into a toolkit that can be applied appropriately and after a while you stop doing NLP or SRT and start doing &lsquo;stuff&rsquo;, which is difficult to market.


For example a challenge of changing behaviours in NLP for me was about understanding whether the behaviour satisfied another need and how one sorted that out.   When I happened upon SRT that gave me a tool to clear a load of 'stuff' that drove behaviours so the two sat well together.   TPM came along and gave me some really powerful tools to work with the unconscious that NLP lacked, but the transport mechanism to use those tools needed a huge amount of skill and flexibility, especially when using them on oneself. 

...The most important thing that has come out of this is an absolute certainty about what I&rsquo;m here to do and a passion to do it.


For a long time I thought my purpose was to work with people to help them make positive changes in their lives and this is where the Make Yourself concept came from.   What I realised recently thanks to some insights and people, is that the one to one work is in itself a means to an end.   The true purpose has always been to teach &lsquo;stuff&rsquo; to others so that they can work with people.


...Initially I&rsquo;ve tried them out on myself, then on willing friends and accomplices and the results have been very positive.   I&rsquo;ll be honest and say they haven&rsquo;t been perfect, but each time it was because the application of the technology wasn&rsquo;t complete. 

...The result is a personal coaching offering called remote clearing and the first of a number of courses that will teach the tools, processes and techniques to others.   There is still a lot of work to do but the remote clearing &lsquo;stuff&rsquo; is getting good results with everyone I&rsquo;ve used it on and the first course to share this with people is in November :)
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Reputation of NLP - Updated</title><dc:creator>info@trinitisalons.co.uk</dc:creator><category>NLP</category><dc:date>2009-05-18T17:50:56+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/6b4d4ce76bff893a8ae3599e8693c1b9-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/6b4d4ce76bff893a8ae3599e8693c1b9-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As a result people doubt that NLP can help and don&rsquo;t give it a go or a chance.   NLP is a powerful technology when coupled with a skilled practitioner who has a focus on helping the client and the flexibility to work with the client rather than on them. 

...	&bull;	Trust - the use of NLP to coerce people to buy things they don't really want is one nail in the coffin.   The other is the raft of ever shorter training courses promising NLP mastery in 3 easy lessons 'where we download it all to you in trance......'. 

...	&bull;	my first practitioner took 6 months and I learnt some stuff and used it for a month, then reviewed it and learnt more stuff. 

...	&bull;	my second practitioner was an eye opener and allowed me to observe the use of NLP in the delivery of the training.   The chance to watch how other people learnt NLP without having to worry about the content was fantastic and I learnt as much again;


...I have always said that the main learning for me was how important the things I learnt on practitioner were.   I only realised the other week (thanks Sean :)) that the course moved me away from technique and procedures and into skills. 

...	&bull;	since then I have been using NLP on a daily basis and have noticed the skills becoming unconscious - I just tend to do stuff and notice afterwards why I did it.


Now it may be that I&rsquo;m a slow learner and it may be that I find NLP very hard to learn and implement, but I do worry if someone with a few days of being tranced on a course starts taking money from clients.


So if you have no background in NLP and are not sure about it, what should you do ? 

...	&bull;	I have seen some profound changes happen with NLP and have helped individuals make those changes, so I would really encourage you to give it a go.   I believe that the combination of NLP, a great practitioner and some other stuff can help you make changes that you may not think are possible;


	&bull;	Meet your coach before you decide to have a session with them and find out about them, their techniques and what they are about.   You will get a feel for them and be able to see whether you want to work with them. 


Thanks to Sean for helping me crystalise some of these thoughts and I hope it encourages you to try out NLP as it is a great technology for change. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Does NLP Exist ? - Updated</title><dc:creator>info@trinitisalons.co.uk</dc:creator><category>NLP</category><dc:date>2009-05-17T22:17:19+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/98868ab04552c0a13b0abb40d7c707eb-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.make-yourself.co.uk/Technologies/ramblings/files/98868ab04552c0a13b0abb40d7c707eb-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If you consider NLP to be modelling, it could follow that all NLP models are NLP.   Taking this to a logical if infinite conclusion - if you model everything, everything is NLP :o So conversely you could argue that as NLP is a set of models and the models are not NLP, then there is no NLP....


You can then reverse it again and say that the skills one uses to model are NLP and as you potentially use all the skills that NLP has modelled to model you get back to everything being NLP :)


The real argument around NLP not existing is that all the tools and techniques have come from somewhere else, so nothing in NLP is new.   That makes NLP a labelled container into which all this good stuff has been put.


In a very recent discussion I had, based on the first version of this rambling, the opinion was that NLP is more about skills.   Rather than it being about using techniques well, it is about having the skills, capabilities and flexibility to create new techniques, on the fly, to facilitate the required outcome. 


I&rsquo;m pretty much happy with that description as it certainly matches my experience of NLP.   When I started training, my use of it was certainly technique driven.   This was ok and you got changes with some of the people some of the time.   When I did my master practitioner we focussed more on skills and the techniques became guidelines; you went with what worked for your partner.   Training was always a difficult environment as we would use the skill or technique being learned whether it was right for the issue being worked on or not, whereas in real life you would use what was appropriate.


So now I can confidently say that I will go into a session with only one thing planned, to focus on the client and trust myself to use my skills and knowledge to help them facilitate the change they want.   It can be a little scary sometimes, but it certainly gets results :)


Mike]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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