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Bouncing balls and organic systems

12:00 pm • Categories: Creative Business, Creative Metaphor, Creative Thinking • by

If you were to observe a proficient footballer doing ‘keep ups’ (juggling the ball with his/her feet and keeping it from making contact with the ground) you may suggest that they have good ‘ball control’ or that they are ‘controlling the ball’ well. Obviously they are not ‘controlling the ball’. They can’t make it stop [...]

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Metaphoric communication is not just for the big messages

12:00 pm • Categories: Creative Business, Creative Metaphor • by

I once worked with a friend and, at the outset of projects it became obvious that we had very different ways of thinking. At the creative stage I was enthusiastic, optimistic, interested in possibility and unencumbered by commercial reality. He was grounded and immediately looked for pitfalls or anything that was unrealistic. I later valued [...]

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Will Power and Self Control

12:07 pm • Categories: Creative Metaphor, Creative Thinking • by

When I train people to be agents of change (so that they can increase flexibility and choice in their clients, helping them to break habits and evoke their creative processes) I ask my students to completely ignore the conscious dialogue other that picking up on metaphors and the individual words that carry extra emphasis or [...]

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Metaphor is everything!

8:10 pm • Categories: Creative Metaphor • by

Or should that be – everything is Metaphor??? This week one of my clients sent me a link to a very satisfying BBC radio programme about using metaphor for healing and I responded with the story below. Having written it I thought it was worth blogging… A couple of years ago on the celebrity dancing [...]

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Provocative Hypnosis – Jørgen Rasmussen

9:25 pm • Categories: Creative Metaphor • by

I recently met a dude called Jørgen and discovered that he, like me, has recently written a book about NLP that is endorsed by John Grinder. We exchanged email addresses and agreed to exchange books. Jørgen’s book arrived this weekend and I have been unable to put it down. I thought I had no behavioural boundaries under [...]

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Back to normal

8:50 pm • Categories: Creative Metaphor • by

A coupe of months ago, whilst putting my 2½ year old son to bed we went through our usual ritual… he asks questions; and more questions, and I tell him some stories. On this particular evening the conversation went something like this: Joe: Tell me about daddy when he was a little boy Me: Well, [...]

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