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Hypnosis Language Pivot Words – Nigel Hetherington

One of the hypnotic language patterns I
Have a particular fondness for are called
Pivot words or equally pattern interrupts.

Pattern interrupts with the purpose of leading
Someone, anyone, yourself to somewhere more
Useful to create new neural networks, possibly
By confusion or derailing a train of Thought you
Did and when you looked you hadn’t.

Confused … Yet … I hope So you can begin
To learn a pattern in an other than conscious
Way to go, its easy is it not?

But before I share a story I want to share
The patterns of the Words are a natural
Part of language and how we express A
Feeling can change at the drop of a hat
Or the drop of An expected sentence structure
Is known to you at an unconscious level.

Right now you ARE learning by example
So don’t try to figure it out just yet!

A spoken or written sentence during and
As you hear it, is being processed in what
You tacitly know … To make sense … Is to
Follow a semi predictable pattern that
You map onto … Experience … is what really
Makes the difference. Don’t trust me yet!

Walking down a road or a pathway you may
See a flower or A tree grows from a seed and
Evolves all of it’s Life is a collection of experiences
That can form … Our Impressions … are experiences that
Are imbibed by the nervous system and to
A large part create our know subjective reality.

OK, enough already … 🙂

Here’s the pattern …

[ Sentence … ] ending in a (a)NOUN(s) / OBJECT …

Example…

People often sit down at TABLES.

… (a)NOUN(s) beginning a [ sentence ]

TABLES are places where meals are served.

PIVOT the sentence ‘MEANING’ on the (a)NOUN(s)
This IS LIKE changing tracks half way through and
The expectation ( unconscious ) is lead to somewhere
Else other than expected … this creates a SPACE

Like this … PIVOT

People often sit down at … TABLES … are places where meals are served.

Think about it … After you have read the sentence
Out aloud to Yourself you can now understand
Something in … A different way … to learn is
All about experiencing something novel, new
Weird, unexpected. Remember the brain LIKES
Unexpected, weird, different and is likely to
Remember it all the more this way.

You can then use this SPACE to offer very helpful
And well meaning suggestions again and again …

So Why Do Wasps Eat Wood?

You have already learned this pattern at
More than one level. Trust me on this one!

Use it and make it part of how you
Communicate with intention to Yourself,
Anyone, Someone.

The story, as you remember … I will save
For another … Time …to go practice this
Powerful pattern of … Hypnotic Language
Patterns … can be learned more better by
Writing them down, saying them out loud
And On The Inside … exploring ways you
Can incorporate these in every day …

Conversational Hypnosis Skills … You
Are developing … … …

NLP Newcastle Training : Workshops and Personal Development

It is almost February and straight and to the point I have
Some training courses from me and some from my associates
That I am inviting you to consider as part of your personal
And Professional ongoing development and evolution.
There are a great deal of excellent courses, practice groups
And workshops here in the North East and London.

NLP Practitioner Training – March – April 2012 :12 Days – £595
This course designed for those of us who really can’t make the time
Commitment to eighteen days training over six months. This is specifically
For those of us who want the different option.
Days: Tuesday-Wednesday
Dates: March 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28, April 17-18, 24-25
Venue: Newcastle upon Tyne.

The SoulSpace Place – Monthly Practice Group
This is the creation of One of my best friends and one of
My Coaches Paula McCormac and myself. A practice group
Exploring spirituality and creating space to connect with
Your soul.
We are meeting every third Tuesday of the month.
From 6.30-8.30. £10

Past Life Regression Hypnosis – March 17-18 : £70
A two day experience of PLR with myself and my good
Friend Gordon Smith. This is both to experience PLR yourself
AND by able to facilitate the experience for others.
Exceptionally popular topic that is facilitated in a very
Safe space where you will both experience and learn how
To do PLR yourself.
Venue: Jesmond Dene Conference Center.

Oriental Massage with Chi-Kung Day – March 3rd : £40
This is facilitated a little by me ( language ) and mostly by
My very good friend Tony McDonald. This is a hands on day
Where you will both practice and get massaged ALL
DAY LONG.
Leave with skills you can immediately apply and feeling
Very very relaxed. This massage day is like chicken soup
For the soul.
Venue : Newcastle, Heaton.

Humour In Therapy & Coaching : April 21-22 – £199
My good friend and colleague Phil Jeremiah is back in Newcastle
To facilitate his most excellent 2 day workshop in the strategic use
Of Humour In Therapy and Coaching. This is NOT for everyone.
All participants receive a complete DVD of this workshop worth £99.
Venue : Jesmond Dene Conference Centre, Newcastle.

Advanced Therapist Training – Feb – June : 10 Days – £595
This extremely practical and experiential training requires you already have an
NLP Master Practitioner, Hypnotherapy certificate or you are already working as a Change Professional. and will build on your skills.
Currently just 2 places available.
Venue : Jesmond Dene Conference Centre, Newcastle.

Courses, Workshops & Training of Interest – Associates

NLP Practitioner Training London Canary Wharf 4th-10Feb : £600
Training in the prestigious Hilton Hotel in Canary
Wharf. With Paul Cosens, Arthur Partridge and me,
Nigel Hetherington. Exceptional value!

Solution Focused Practice – John Wheeler
5 days training @ £500. From April – December
NCFE approved training.

UNIT1: The historical origins of Solution Focused Practice

UNIT2: The assumptions within Solution Focused Practice

UNIT3: Working with what works

UNIT4: Focusing on the future

UNIT5: Using Solution Focused Tools to promote self-efficacy

Change Camp – Andy Hunt : March 24th : £10
A one day, many presenter workshop where some
Of the top and rising stars of psychological change.
A great day out and opportunity to meet like minds and
Explore lots of different perspectives of change from
The world of Newbies and professional change artists.

BTNE Study Day – John Wheeler : May 4th : £10
An exceptional day that has been running for over
A decade. A gathering of exceptional material delivered
In workshops throughout the day. I am presenting
“Your Very Sexy Brain and Neurology To Frame Positive
Client Centred Change”

Products from Communicating Excellence

Hypnosis Language Structure Mastery Cards : £25 ( click )
ReDiscovering Your Inner Peace – 90 min mp3 audio : £10 ( click )
Exploration of spirituality and meditative practice.
NLP Anchoring DVD – £12.23
A comprehensive DVD demonstrating the 1-2-3 of
The anchoring process from setting up and preframing
To testing your work.

NLP Master Practitioner Newcastle : Nigel Hetherington

Newcastle upon Tyne NLP Master Practitioner training. Beginning September 2nd 2011. 18 days experiential training with Nigel Hetherington. Exceptional value at £695.

An NLP Practitioner training that will guarantee your learning is powerful, fun and engaging. The Communicating Excellence NLP Master Practitioner training in North East England, Newcastle will deeply enhance all of your NLP skills.

So, once you have  completed your NLP Practitioner training and when you want to deepen your knowledge and application of NLP, an NLP Master Practitioner training is most likely exactly how you will want to continue your journey..

Some of the skills you will be learning and developing further are:

  • Real NLP Modelling
  • NLP Analytical modelling
  • Communicate and act with real congruence
  • Increase your calibration skills
  • Content Imposition and when to use it
  • Develop powerful and enabling language patterns
  • Clean Languaging and Clean Therapy ™
  • Thinking and acting in terms of process
  • The Metaphorical nature of language and its use
  • Use your own submodalities of success to get more of what you want
  • Realistically set outcomes and motivate yourself to achievement
  • Enhance your conscious unconscious relationship


You will engage in a modelling project and will be expected to demonstrate the new skills you have modelled.

This NLP Master Practitioner with Nigel Hetherington, Andy Hunt and Harry Knox will be fun, high energy and engaging so your learning is deep and guaranteed to enhance your NLP skills. This is probably the very best value NLP Master Practitioner training in the UK this year.

This training is for those of us who already hold an NLP Practitioner certification and want to move up and deeper into the application and knowledge of NLP.

Book your place now. Click on the button.





See you in September!

When You Are Learning At You Best

I recently had the excellent experience of a days off road rally driving Adventure with one of my bestest mates in the world. This all took place in Yorkshire on a WWII airfield. All in a rear wheel souped up purpose built car.

So all I wanted was to experience driving. To do it. Here is what happened.

One of the driving tutors did an introductory speech, before we were allowed Into the cars. This consisted of an energetic build up, which was very good and Then they went into ‘how’ a rear wheel drive car works and how we ( the participants – all 11 of us ) should drive the car.

I switched off ( you surprised? ) just after 10 minutes of explanations of what Was coming and how to do it – explanations of experience. I was literally Chomping at the bit, ready to get into the car and just do it. I want the physical Experience without all of the explanations. See for me, I much prefer doing Something and then maybe talking about it; After the experience …

Luck would have it, I had the same tutor as a driving instructor. After lap one They had me pull up and then went into an explanation of what I should do on The next lap. I know they meant well but their explanations where not helping Me build up my experiential knowledge of driving the car. So I told them that What they were saying wasn’t helping me learn to drive.

They responded that they had never been told that before and immediately Went into more ‘helpful’ hints and tips. At that point I simply said “Shut up … And help me”. I told them that their help while driving was extremely useful ( it was ) but all this ‘if you had done’, ‘what you should do at corner ‘x’ was to Me really unwanted at my present level of experience.

They said they would work with me and went into a story that they had helped A man with severe brain damage successfully drive the car by just offering tips While driving. I said that was a good idea; Still not sure about the brain damage But hey …

Well, when the competition started; Yes there was a competition, set up Between male and female drivers ( ??? ). With the real assistance of my tutor I Did come second place overall. Now, I was never for one heart beat interested In a competition on that day, I am guessing that comes much later when I have The skills to race! Vroooom vrooommm!

So here is my point. When we are learning a new skill, by choice or by Nececcity, there is nothing wrong and everything right with demanding an Experiential learning. When we were little, much younger, we learned to speak and walk ( things we are naturally excellent at ) by experience and not via verbal Description. This is my much preferred and valued learning style.

What is yours?

How are you learning at your best?

Spirituality in Coaching & Therapy : Session 2 : March 23rd : 7-9

“When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

When we come direct from heart space we create an energetic connection that surpasses the concept of empathy or our multi-sensory capacity. In doing so we create the neutral vacuum that two souls can share to explore, discover, test, challenge and shift. For us, this is our recipe for lasting and generative change.

Paula and Nigel ran a café in February with thirty change workers from our region. Within minutes a space or vacuum had been created and a sense of calm descended. A place of peace and an open invitation to a gate for learning was present. Trust was not in consciousness as exploration overwhelmed any sense of anything else egoful.

In this place the concepts of reflection and projection were explored, safely and deeply. In the co-created space, the learnings shared, revealed reflections to be obviously seen, felt and heard. Projections as a consequence were so apparent and evidenced by the triads within which each individual worked. In one group three women who did not know one another before and without consciousness had sat next to one another apparently ‘just because’ shared the same shoes and suit, all shared the same organisation in terms of one had been employed by it, another currently employed by it and the third attending an interview the following day for it. Further they all shared the same fears and depth within those fears, they all shared a desire to learn NLP and two learned that a couple of weeks later they would share the same learning space on a course they had both booked completely independently.

Feedback came pouring in over-night from co-creators who in sharing the same continued to process for enlightenment. Emails have poured in subsequently and we could share many quotes with you but perhaps this one sums it up:

“For me, it’s all about leaving rational thought processes behind & allowing myself to connect fully to my inner self & to simply experience what is happening as it happens without thought or judgement.”

In our continuing journey into the theme of creating heart space whenever or wherever we go, the passage of time and process of reflection by you and us, has now revealed the next steps to be taken.

And boy has it revealed such phenomenal learnings have come to us to share with you in a way that cannot not open you to the greater source that exists within. And when in touch and aligned with your greater source, heart-space emanates in ways that the conscious could not conjure or create by itself. In turn this provides the neutral vacuum that two souls (or more as we’ve experienced) can share to explore, discover, test, challenge and shift. Again in continuous discovery, this is still our recipe for lasting and generative change.

So in this second café Paula and Nigel will facilitate your exploration of the deeper sense of self in a very different and dynamic way to anything that you may have experienced before. If there is language to explain what will happen we would say this experience will take you beyond the idea of ‘personal development’ and into the realms of ‘self awakening’.

You will have the opportunity to co-create between us a space where learning is shared and multiplied by just the essence of your being.

So please come join us for the journey of a lifetime knowing that once entered life will never be the same again.

Newcastle NLP and Hypnosis Cafe

Wednesday 23rd March 7-9pm :

Gosforth Library Newcastle NE3 3HD : £10 Including Biscuits.

Book online now.





Newcastle NLP Training

NLP Training in Newcastle upon Tyne with Communicating Excellence.

Both the January and February 2011 NLP Practitioner Training courses are now fully booked. These 18 day experiential training courses with Newcastle based NLP Trainer and Clinical Hypnotherapist Nigel Hetherington are recognised and approved training with both The Professional Guild of NLP and The Society of NLP.

NLP Practitioner training is for you when you want to learn powerful, effective and ethical ways to influence both yourself and others. If you want to learn how to learn and if you want to change your life for the better. You can’t learn, motivate or influence people with ineffective communication skills.

You need to discover a way to learn how to communicate effectively that works for you. You need to be able to have the power to change your situation and that’s what this training is about.

If you would like to read a short document with valuable information on how to choose your NLP Training provider, please click here.

The Next NLP Master Practitioner Course will commence in September 2011.

Spirituality in Coaching and Therapy

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

Spirituality In Coaching and Therapy – Newcastle NLP and Hypnosis Cafe Monday 7th February 7-9pm : Gosforth Library Newcastle NE3 3HD : £10 Including Biscuits. Book online below.

When we come direct from heart space we create an energetic connection that surpasses the concept of empathy or our multi-sensory capacity. In doing so we create the neutral void that two souls can share to explore, discover, test, challenge and shift. For us, this is our recipe for lasting and generative change.

So in this café Paula and Nigel will facilitate your unpacking of the deeper and more connecting ways in which yours and our therapeutic alliances work. How they are formed, how they grow and the effect and impact they have on our and the world.

We will open and share our thoughts and processes of how to develop co-created alliances by exploring the concepts of projections and reflections prior to, during and after a dynamic interaction. We will also consider projection and reflection in terms of attracting clients into your life for mutual healing and purposeful learnings.

Every person we meet has something to teach us, and every person has something to say that only they can say. We both believe we attract the clients that will help and be beneficial to our ongoing development. This may also include ‘healing’ your past. viz a vie we meet together to co-create something that is more than mutually beneficial …

From this place we’ll look at working from heart space that dynamically co-creates a change process as being fundamental in effective change and evolution work. We will show you how this offers a place that goes way beyond our understanding of rapport. Indeed it transcends the thoughts that if we shared some common value, belief, outcomes, goals and even purpose we can go anywhere in the relationship.

Newcastle NLP and Hypnosis Cafe

Monday 7th February 7-9pm :

Gosforth Library Newcastle NE3 3HD : £10 Including Biscuits.

Book online now.





NLP Collapsing Anchors Physically Newcastle NLP Practitioner and Clinical Hypnotherapy Training

One of the methodologies in NLP is moving from problem states or feelings into ones of freedom and ease.

Some people will regard this process as chaining anchors others may regard this as collapsing anchors. It can be regarded as both. More importantly it is really all about shunting anchors or states. That is to go from one state to another. This is accomplished by shifting physiology and some Thought Provoking Dialogue.

This is one way to make yourself feel better and let go of the past … while preserving as much as possible of the learnings … so you ideally don’t get into the same kind of mire again. It is also a way through repetition to train your body to shift at the first signs ( often unconscious ) of the problem state to a resource state.

Advanced Therapist Training | February – June 2011 | 10 Days £495

Front Line Skills – an advanced clinical hypnotherapy skills course

The Clean Therapy Model

February 5-6, March 5-6, April 2-3, May 7-8, June 11-12 – £495

 

 

An advanced course for practising hypnotherapist’s, therapists, counsellors and people helpers who want the solid skills that can not only really benefit your clients but give you an experiential and procedural edge over other therapists and an even greater range of flexible meta skills you can employ in your everyday practice as well as your life. Next course begins February 2011 Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Clean Therapy ™ Model has four corner stones that deliver a tremendous range of freedom and options in choosing a client centred way to treat your clients, helping get them get unstuck and moving in the right direction. Firmly grounded in a four quadrant system of Metaphor, SubModality, Linguistic and Physicalised interventions you will have a greater depth of experience and tools to help more people faster. The fifth axis of The Clean Therapy™ Model is the amalgamation that is born from the four foundations when applied systematically and with purpose. This is backed up with a practice of existential psychological / spiritual to neurological methods of what works and why. This is a model of not just what does work but what can work to create and sponsor generative change for your clients.

All graduates will receive a certification in The Clean Therapy ™ model and Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapy.

Experience or qualification requirements for participants

Practising therapists, hypnotherapists, NLP Master Practitioners or therapy / change work professionals.

Duration and Frequency

This course will be run over five months at one weekend per month. Allowing for proper integration of new skills.

Delivery

Direct experiential learning and demonstration, practical application with case studies and clinical supervision.

Modules

  • Rapport and Micro Muscle Modelling
  • Framing
  • Unconscious communication
  • Therapist State
  • NVC and analogue marking
  • Calibrating skills and provocative questioning
  • Congruence and Act as If
  • Presuppositional Linguistic Skills
  • NLP Sub-modality Interventions
  • Metaphor and State Elicitation
  • Nested, Embedded and Open Metaphor
  • Amalgamating trance learning with conscious understanding
  • Tasking
  • Structuring therapy

Beginning February 2011 Newcastle – course cost £495

February 5-6, March 5-6, April 2-3, May 7-8, June 11-12

Modules and Topics

Rapport and Micro Muscle Modelling

You already know how to use physical ( 2nd position rapport ). Learn how to correctly and safely apply micro muscle modelling to get more information at the non-verbal level from your clients. Know your level of rapport.

Framing

Understand the real importance of setting frames to direct you therapy sessions for your clients and your own benefit. Frames set up conscious and unconscious vectors of attention while focusing unconscious resources.

Unconscious Communication

Discover and enhance your own unconscious relationship. Learn how to set filters to direct your own resources and harness the true power of your unconscious – intention. Learn ‘N’ step reframing to set your own goals and outcomes as well as how to monitor the results.

Therapist State

You and only you are responsible for you own state. Neuro-Contra lateral, flow-state games and exercises along with self anchoring to ensure you are in the right state to operate as a hypnotherapist. Bring your own amazing resources on-line.

NVC and Analogue marking

Learn how to communicate to your clients unconscious using NVC, learn how to mark and anchor the responses you require from your clients unconscious ecologically. Learn how to notice all your clients unconscious communication and elicit the best therapeutic responses from you client.

Calibrating skills and provocative questioning

Calibrating is the bread and butter of a effective therapists skills. Learn how to increase your calibrating skills and capability with drills and exercises. Calibrate your clients unconscious responses to tailor your therapy to them real time. Learn how and when to use provocative questioning to create unconscious responses you can utilise and calibrate.

Congruence and Act as if

To engender the right atmosphere for client change you need to walk your talk and be perceived as a congruent therapist. You achieve this by matching you confidence to your skills and becoming an even more congruent practitioner of hypnotherapy. With self manipulation and anchoring with structured exercises you can get you posture, voice and countenance working for you. Learn how to use your body and voice with a real conviction tempered with your developing skills.

Presuppositional Linguistic Skills

Using language with more purpose to support and presuppose the changes your clients want and need whilst opening honest options and validation of all aspects of a current situation. Deliver multiple levels of communications during conversation and trance with stacking meta-isomorphisms and meta-polymorphisms and overlapping repetition to ensure your invitations to change options are really considered.

NLP Sub-modality Interventions

The way we internally represent our experiences, beliefs and expectations for things we love, like and are good at can be directly mapped and transformed from the problem areas of life and experience. A congruent internal shift can bring about acceptance and skilful handling of problems situations and states.

Therapeutic Metaphor

Learn how to create spontaneous metaphor that key’s into aspects of your clients situation evolving into a feast of learning for their unconscious mind to digest and fuel beneficial change that is coupled with conscious realisations and updates that support healthy and meaningful activities which support generative change.

Nested and Embedded Metaphor

Deliver multiple descriptions of changing metaphorical content wrapped inside a triplet of paralleling concepts. Used to induce deep trance and deploy learning and opportunity for change across multiple parallels – leaving maximum choice to your clients unconscious to pick the changes and learning that are right for them – maximise your effectiveness by using your body and voice with tangible congruence.

Amalgamating trance learning with conscious understanding

Recapping on the session and using the meta model along with post hypnotic suggestion to bring about holistic realisations and change in the post hypnotic or waking state.

Tasking

A therapeutic process wherein your client through some ‘task’ is exposed to an experience that creates a counter example to the limiting belief ( cause effect / complex equivalent / filter ) that is the cause for your therapeutic process – outside of conscious awareness; that is hidden in the task.

Structuring Therapy

Creating a meta process or model where you apply you new skill set in such a way that you continue to develop as a brilliant practitioner and your clients are treated as quickly as is ecologically practical.

Use the paypal button to reserve your place with a £150 non-returnable deposit.

Thought Provoking Dialogue Workshops Newcastle 2011

Thought Provoking Dialogue is a humorous, often irrelevant and completely client centred way of working. This approach is not for everyone yet a 20 minute ‘bubble’ session has the gentle power to help shift clients from problem states to resource states and create lasting and powerful change. In the ‘bubble’ anything and everything is possible …

Humour can help to break old patterns and establish new ones

So many research papers and books tell us of the positive effects of laughter. Apparently 20 minutes of laughter is equivalent to 20 minutes of physical activity, likened to an inner form of jogging. It may well act as a buffer against day to day stressful perceptions. However, laughter is not easy to come by in our mixed up fear driven world. Consequently Thought Provoking Dialogue sets out to challenge our sometimes negative mind-sets and self-limiting beliefs.

Research shows that laughter can help to boost the immune system

These workshops are all about therapeutic uses of humour and a Thought Provoking approach to real change. An absolute must for therapists, coaches, trainers and all people helpers! Phil Jeremiah was one of Frank Farrelly’s ( Provocative Therapy ) earliest and brightest students.

March 12-13 2011 : TPD Workshop : £125

April 9-10 2011 : TPD Advanced Workshop : £125

Book both courses save £50 and get both workshops for £200

Workshop Options

“Creativity and humour are closely linked

Phil has been providing training in the UK and Europe for over 20 years to a wide range of professionals and organisations and has worked in the field of personal development for even longer. He was a qualified Senior Mental Health Social Worker, approved under the Mental Health Act 1983. Phil has extensive training and a wealth of experience in the fields of adult psychiatry, psychotherapy, counselling, hypnosis, brief therapy, NLP, EFT, EMDR, Life coaching and clinical risk assessment in mental health.