How to Tell a Story by Mark Twain.

November 14, 2010
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There can’t be many English speakers in the world who haven’t heard of Mark Twain. A great storyteller in print, he also knew how to tell a story. He understood that you can perform the same story in different ways to great effect. So when one of the greatest American storytellers writes about storytelling. That’s [...]

Have You Heard of Clean Language Yet?

November 11, 2010
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As some of you know already, I’m a big fan of “Clean Language”. Developed from the therapeutic work of David Grove the Clean Language questions are a great way of drawing out the metaphorical landscape around a clients core issue. I use clean language creatively. Instead of focusing on a problem I use the questions [...]

The Key to The Hypnotic Storytelling Mindset

July 30, 2009

Nathan Thomas begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting interviews Robin Manuell about Hypnotic Storytelling

Walt Disney’s Strategy for Creativity

July 19, 2009

Here we take a look at Walt Disney’s Strategy for Creativity and how you can use that to improve your own creative process.

How does the unconscious mind go about connecting metaphors to real life?

June 26, 2009

How does the unconscious mind go about connecting metaphors to real life, and how can we enhance control this process? In a nutshell- “transderivational search” For those of you who aren’t familiar with the NLP lingo transderivational search is the process by which the unconscious mind connects ongoing reality with our past experience. So if [...]

How do I make stories a natural part of my communication?

June 25, 2009

How do I make stories a natural part of my communication, without spending an inordinate amount of time learning/preparing/practicing? Stories are already a natural part of your communication. If you reflect on the conversations you have every day then you’ll realise just how much time we spend telling stories, whether we’re telling our family what [...]

How do I avoid the pattern of repeating that which worked before?

May 29, 2009

I’m a therapist but fallen into a lull, a wilderness accompanied by a crisis of confidence. I often used to work telling stories about stories about… Can I tell you a story? You know sometimes when you’re a bit lost and you don’t know quite how you’re going to get out of the rut you’ve [...]

Is there a formula that gives structure to whatever change you are trying to produce in a client?

May 29, 2009

How many formulaes would you like? Now I feel like making something a bit different this evening. Lasagne. So I’m going to look at a few recipes. I’ll do a search on line, I’ll have a look through my cook books. Lots of recipes and they will have a lot of ingredients in common because [...]

What are the “hypnotic words” to use in a story?

May 22, 2009

Well the simple answer to this is ALL OF THEM! Stories provide the ideal framework in which to use hypnotic language and embedded commands. They engage the conscious mind and involve the unconscious mind in understanding and interpreting. Stories are themselves hypnotic when they draw the listener into a state of focused attention where they [...]

I struggle with visualisation, can you help?

May 20, 2009

“I am a leftbrain thinker, who really stuggles to visualise. I have tried a few training programmes and always tend to hit that brick wall when I reach the point they say “remember how it was”, or” imagine a time”. Would the Hypnotic Storytelling prgramme get me beyond this?” Hi, The hypnotic storytelling programme can [...]

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