Sleight of Mouth is about the magic of words and language. Language is one of the key representational systems from which we build our mental models of the world, and has a tremendous influence upon how we perceive and respond to the world around us.As Sigmund Freud pointed out, “Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing.” The right words at the right time can be uplifting, changing the course of someone’s life for the better; opening up new vistas and p...

BELIEFS are the foundation of everyone's personal outcomes.This second edition of Beliefs: Pathways to Health & Well-Being includes new and updated material and offers leading edge technologies that rapidly and effectively identify and remodel limiting beliefs.It teaches you powerful processes for change and demonstrates how to identify and change beliefs using scripts from personal change work undertaken with individuals in workshops. These processes include reimprinting, conflict integra...

Thomas Edison said that the process of invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. The implication of this statement is that most creative activity is in fact an incremental process that has a structure and requires organization and constant effort to maintain. In many ways, however, creativity has remained elusive—a seemingly mysterious gift that you either have or you don't have—rather than a set of skills that can be transferred and managed systematically and explicitly.

According to neuroscience, mindsets can be thought of as "lenses or frames of mind that orient individuals to particular sets of associations and expectations" which, in turn, shape our thinking, feelings, and behavior. Mindsets can be likened to the inner software apps that we are using to address a particular circumstance or accomplish a particular goal. They are what ultimately determine our degree of success at whatever we are attempting to achieve. Therefore, our awareness related to ...

Generative Coaching Volume IThe Journey of Creative and Sustainable ChangeThere are times in the life of every individual, every marriage, every family, every culture and every business, where what has been done in the past will not help you to successfully go forward into the future. In these situations you have to do something completely new that has not been done before.To be generative means to create something...

In Intentional Fellowship, Robert Dilts and Ian McDermott invite you into the living practice that has shaped their thirty years of creative partnership - a way of being with others that is personally fulfilling, spiritually uplifting, and commercially successful.Internationally recognized innovators, the authors draw from decades of experience guiding entrepreneurs, teams, and organizations around the world. They reveal how "intentional f...

Coaching is the process of helping people and teams to perform at the peak of their abilities. It involves drawing out people’s strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to function more effectively as members of a team.Historically, coaching has been focused toward achieving improvement with respect to a specific behavioral performance. This involves promoting the development of that pers...

NLP II: The Next Generation is about significant new developments in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.Founded on the “study of the structure of subjective experience,” NLP has developed some very powerful tools and skills for communication and change in a diverse assortment of professional areas including: coaching, counseling, psychotherapy, education, health, law, business, sales, and parenting. NLP processes and procedures address an impressive range of topics ...

A book by Robert Dilts and Robert McDonald, Tools of the Spirit (1997) encompasses their approach to integrating basic NLP skills and tools with higher levels of experience.In the words of Gregory Bateson, Spirit is “the pattern which connects” all things together as a kind of “larger Mind” of which we as individuals are a subsystem.Manifestations of the Spirit, in the form of wisdom, vision, mission and healing, are the results of acknowledging and bringi...

It has been said that human history is nothing more than a record of the deeds and ideas of great men and women. Ever since people began to turn their attention inward to examine their own thought processes, one of the hopes and promises of psychological inquiry has been to map out the key features of the mind that will allow our own thoughts to soar with the giants of history.Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) provides a new set of tools that can allow us to take major steps towar...

We live in a challenging and ever changing world. As the rate of change accelerates, it brings with it increasing instability, uncertainty and risk. Creating a successful and sustainable venture under such conditions requires a high degree of conscious leadership, innovation and resilience. Robust and durable leaders, teams and ventures are those that are “fit for the future”; i.e., able to ride the inevitable waves of change and to navigate the path of dangers and opportunities that comes...

Albert Einstein is not only acknowledged around the world as a genius but has practically become the symbol for genius in this century. His ideas encompassed our spiritual and social worlds as well as scientific and physical reality. He introduced a whole new paradigm of thinking that has affected many different areas of our lives. His discoveries in the field of theoretical physics made the “atomic age” possible and his humanitarianism has served as an example for the entire scientific co...