NLP 6th Week 5th November

Counted 11 tonight so we got back two from last week.
Started with 'how are we doings?' I think its obvious how we are doing. But is it?
Being in STATE means all the while checking things out. Anyway started with a trance state being intrdoced to see if we could down a few levels, like on an escalator to reach our inner self. Felt a bit weird, but hey I did Reiki so it should be esay. Sounds of Fireworks outside all around slightly distracting. Process is 'trancing in' and 'trancing out' using ambiguous language to challenge the conscious mind. Demoed a technique with Paxman versus a Milton Poet exchange to show the difference in approach.
Next we have an exercise using a vignette of a 50's lady working last 8 years of her life to get a pension for retirement with no enjoyment from work at all. How to make her aware of changing the situation? We picked a reflective approach whereby the person has a dream of finishing work but having the news of a disabling condition blighting her life. The awareness that eights years could mean she has a poor quality of life is a springboard to challenging her attitude with work by investigating retiring earlier, being more involved with organising parties and not focusing on work in the same way.
Also looked at how stories or metaphors are used to challenge behaviour. I reflected I used this a lot with my palliative patients and those affected by cancer to sideway chunk meaning in a dialogue. How we use language at work was talked about like 'its a battle' 'fight for your corner' and to alter this dynamic with a more calmer sideways chunking metaphor like gardening 'growing well' 'nurturing the situation'. I reflected I did this in coaching with the words like 'inside this bubble' 'protecting' and 'shelter'. Tried to change the meta lanaguage in the office when confronted with a generalisations rule like 'all students live in a messy room' I said 'what no exceptions to that?' I also noticed that I was keeping an eye on how the 'eye' movements changed in a dialogue situation to visually see the person was VISUAL and not me thinking it was so!!! Later I was to use metaphor sideways chunking with students having diffoculty understanding statistics. I used the layered cake and car engine approach to describe elements of stats and how the big picture (Cake, car) is really made up of sub units. So in stats I said son't sweat the small detail go for the general pattern (get the right spanner to fit the part!).