What is Neuroscience and Emotional Intelligence?

 

The latest thinking and research proves that emotions are created and, contrary to the work of Daniel Goleman, are not just seated in the amygdala part of the brain. It also argues that events do not ‘trigger’ emotions such as road rage or anger at a work situation. Rather, that a set of behaviours are learned and the brain is continually predicting how to respond based on those concepts or patterns of behaviour we have learned. It feels like they are triggered but your brain is just putting together learned behaviour. So, if emotions are not triggered that gives us a greater level of personal responsibility for our emotional state.

What is fascinating is that 90% of the information flow from the brain is going outward. If your brain merely reacted to the light waves that hit your retina via your thalamus, then it would take many neurons to carry that visual information to the visual cortex. Instead, 90% of all connections coming into the visual cortex carry predictions from neurons in other parts of the cortex. Only a small part is made of visual input.

So, your brain is continually predicting what you a reading. In fact, right now, you are guessing at the next word that is going to come out of my nose. If the brain did not use predictions your head would have to be much larger. Hurray for predictions!

To understand how you can use this life changing information, for those who already hold an ABNLP recognised NLP Practitioner qualification, come along to one of our Master Practitioner Programs.

Lessons from a Master Practitioner

 

What is the very worst thing you could experience?

Most of us face challenges and upset on a frequent basis. Our emotions are impacted by events and people, life can be stressful sometimes. In my book I tell the reader that it is the myth of ‘outside in’ thinking that your feelings come from the outside world, when in fact they come from our thoughts and our physiology. Pretty powerful stuff to take in on an intellectual level never mind apply it yourself!

Recently I have been reading a classic by Victor Frankl. ‘Man’s Search for Meaning.’ He describes his experiences at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp. They were used as slave labour in construction and from time to time were rewarded with coupons which could be exchanged for cigarettes, which in turn could be exchanged for soup or scraps of bread which were “a respite for starvation.” When an inmate was seen smoking, they knew he had given up.

So how did Frankl survive?

Imagine being offloaded from a train, the weaker inmates directed by a wave of the arm, unbeknown to them toward the gas chambers whilst the ones who look fit enough to work are stripped of everything they have: possessions, clothing and dignity, their heads and bodies completely shaved. When everything you have is taken away what do you have left?

Victor started to think about his wife and have conversations with her in his head, he did not know if she was still alive but that did not matter. “I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment in the contemplation of his beloved.” He learned, along with other inmates, to appreciate his luck when he was not put in the charge of a foreman who beat them and feeling joy at being sent to Dachau (no oven) rather than another death camp.

What he learned was that, “Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.”

So how can we apply the same learning? By accepting that a negative emotion is coming from a thought, even if we are not consciously aware of it. Indeed, it could be the way we are thinking about something. We have a negativity bias which hugely magnifies threats to protect our ‘inner cave person.’ Once you realise it is your natural bias you can put it into perspective by thinking about all the good things that are going on in your life, immersing yourself into happy memories or appreciating all the good things you have.

The Certified NLP Practitioner Program

Our NLP and ILM training programmes have been designed to give you the ability to take ownership of and dominate your professional and personal goals and objectives. We give you the tools to achieve the thing’s in life that matters most to you. This course is taught in combination with the Certified NLP Coach and the Certified Time Line Therapy Practitioner programmes.

This will give you the ability to form new ideas, thinking patterns and behaviours as well as a wide range of skills and methodology you can use with others. It will also help you overcome past self-limiting unconscious behaviours that have held you back and prevented you from achieving your goals.

This programme is focused on business however, the applications of the material learned will impact and transform all areas of your life. We have a huge range of people from different backgrounds that benefit from our courses. This includes; consultants, athletes, coaches, teachers, business owners and holistic professionals. Everyone that attends will develop in their own way gaining valuable skill and tools as well as a world renown qualification.

Our service is friendly and flexible and we have monthly payment plans available for customers paying for the course personally.

 

What is included in the 7 Day Intensive Practitioner course?

The 7-day course is the development of Tad James, a practitioner of NLP for 30+ years. Using NLP techniques he designed it to enhance understanding. The course is delivered in three main parts.

Once your place is secured on the course you will receive your study pack containing materials that include 18 CDs (Narrated by our own Steve Kay and Sheila Patel) and a comprehensive manual and a coaching book. This is the first phase where you will listen to the CDs and complete some of the exercises in the manual.

Phase 2 of the learning process, includes a precourse test. This enables you to understand how much knowledge you have prior to attending the 7-day programme and ensures everyone has a good idea of what to expect when the course begins.

The programme is very hands-on and practical in nature. Techniques will be demonstrated to you by one of our qualified and experienced NLP Practitioners and then you will practice will a fellow student until you feel confident and comfortable before moving onto the next technique. This also means that you will work with different people and gain many different “Reference Points” for issues that you overcome during your time on the course.

On completion, you will gain full qualifications as a Certified Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, a Certified NLP Coach, and a Certified Time Line Therapy Practitioner. This programme meets more than just the standard minimum pass for practitioners. The insights and skills you will acquire will enable you to think and behave in ways that allow you to reach new heights in your career whatever your background.

 

The Programme Content

 

The Business Benefits of Coaching and NLP

So, why learn to coach? Because it has endless applications in a world where getting better results, improving customer service and improving profitability are all essential for individuals and organisations to become successful in very competitive markets.

Coaching promotes individuals to take responsibility for themselves, others and co-operate so they can reach shared organisational goals.

Why NLP Coaching?

Because NLP Coaching incorporates advanced coaching skills and additional NLP tools so that you have a greater understanding of the language used by other and the ability to build rapport and influence people. This will build great confidence in yourself and inspire trust in those around you. Seeing the techniques first hand will also mean it is easier to apply them to your own life for increased progress and success.

Who Is It For?

The applications are endless and include; HR Directors, Learning and Development/OD Managers, Sales Managers, Leaders, Coaches, Consultants, Teachers, and Trainers who want to be innovative in their approach and deliver results.

 

Programme Content

The course is 7 days in total and includes CDs, Workbook support, and a pre-course qualification test.

Day One – We ease into the course providing you with the opportunity to get to know the trainers and all attendants in a relaxed setting. We recap a sample of the material from the pre-course manual, CDs and workbook answering questions, discussing the ideas and feedback from putting the techniques learned in to practice.

Day Two – You learn and uncover how the mind filters our reality and forms meaning from our experiences. Essentially, our experiences are not raw data.

Day Three – The language we use to speak to ourselves (Self Talk) and to others shapes our reality. We learn how to use questions correctly to discover the trainees model of the world. You will learn how to translate from the answers if your trainees has a victim mentality or if they take full responsibility for themselves and situation.

You will learn how to use abstract levels of language and details to build rapport and better enable you to put your case forward. You will learn to use the Milton model to build rapport, reduce resistance and ease negotiations.

Day Four Coaching Practice – This is the day that sets us apart from the rest of NLP Training Providers! We study the business case for coaching and you will learn THE GROW Model. We then look at Performance Coaching and Personal Coaching Models for increasing an individual’s effectiveness. You will review coaching plans and the importance of tasking and goal setting. We also uncover internal drivers, what they are and how they drive the individual (this is from the master practitioner level). You will then have the opportunity to have a one on one coaching session with another delegate to help them to set a plan to achieve their goals. Additionally, there are more opportunities to practice coaching built into the programme.

Day Five – You will learn how to employ linguistic coaching techniques to destroy negative emotions and limiting beliefs. We begin with techniques such as Resource Anchoring and collapsed anchors before moving onto Time Line Therapy™. There is the further available option of an additional coaching session if this is requested.

Day Six – You will learn how to teach the Time Line Therapy™ to your trainee with simplistic approaches ensuring that they are set up for the best possible outcome using additional techniques at the practitioner level. This includes removing inn conflicts via Parts integration and the fast phobia model.

Day Seven – During day seven we study chain anchors, revisit eye patterns, predicate phrases, and words and show you how to reveal a person’s unconscious thought process for decision making.

There is a thinking pattern associated with the way we decide to make a purchase and this can be ‘fed back’ so as to close a sale or sell a product. We will also delve into the 5 step sales process. To the day we end by individual goal setting.

 

The ILM 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring

This course is a perfect fit for leaders of a senior level and executive coaches to further progress their coaching and leadership success levels and to support the implementation of strategies at a senior level.

If you desire to work with people that hold senior positions you can now run this qualification alongside our NLP Practitioner Certification and NLP Coach. You will have the skills and ability to support them in achieving business goals and objectives and when required utilise techniques from the practitioner training course to better enable them to build momentum and move forward with enthusiasm and confidence.

20 hours of coaching is a requirement of the ILM 7 and evidence needs to be submitted. This is a great opportunity to network and builds your senior contacts as you complete your coaching. This is a great advantage because you will continue to put the skills you have learned into practice solidifying the skill set and building on your education.

Additional reading and tutorials on strategic leadership to support your overall understanding of the course materials and assignments will be provided. As a requirement, you must then complete three written assignments; coaching within a strategic business environment and a diary of senior-level coaching and a reflective review. More information is provided regarding these matters on enquiry.

NB This course and qualification can also be attained by delegates of our NLP Master Practitioner Programme.

 

 

 

 

What is NLP Coaching and Hypnotherapy?

Would you like to advance your NLP skill set to become more effective in your execution than ever before? The NLP Master Coaching and Hypnotherapy programme incorporates a wide range of techniques, exercises and advanced language patterns enabling you to build on the foundation of skills and knowledge you have previously developed during your NLP Practitioner Training.

In this course, you will master the art of communication in a way that allows you to address and influence people of all backgrounds and seniority purely through conversation.

During the course, you will work on your own professional and personal goals and you will have the opportunity to spend an entire day with a partner working on their breakthroughs using the methodology learned during the course.

Additionally, the programme includes; Time Line Therapy™, Hypnosis and NLP Coaching at Master Practitioner Levels. The training course is intentionally designed to be divided into a 5 day and a 7-day block with around 4 weeks separation in between. This allows delegates to implement and practice the techniques learned in the first 5 days in their professional and personal lives before continuing and refining in the final stage of the programme.

 

NLP Master Coaching and Hypnotherapy – Course Content

In this course, you will learn how to apply language in a highly effective manner in coaching and business settings. We teach and develop your understanding of the Milton and Meta Models to an advanced level which will enable you to penetrate and alleviate limiting beliefs and unhelpful and unempowered mind states enabling the people you work with to feel driven, more effective and filled with self-belief.

 

Included in the Programme

 

Quantum Linguistics

Learn how to induce powerful positive changes in other people using multidimensional language patterns.

Advanced Presuppositions of Language

This enables better communication patterns and clever questioning skills to better enable some to change their thinking.

Utilising Model Operators Linguistically

Be able to identify attitudes based on Model Operators then elegantly use them to lead someone from Can’t to Can.

Myers Briggs and Complex Meta Programmes

Learning more about the meta programmes is useful to determine personality types in interviews and in group activities so that individuals understand and appreciate core differences in strengths, weaknesses, and perspectives. The proper implementation of the Meta Programmes is essential for NLP Coaching, management positions, and forming an effective team.

Learn how to direct someone’s energy and focus so that they can become achievers in all areas of life by aligning them in all areas of their life. If someone does not know their values they will lack the energy and basic motivations to do well in any of their endeavours whether professional or personal.

Values Level Thinking

Learn what peoples perspectives are based on what they hold of value. Understanding Values Level Thinking will perfectly place you a position for working in one on ones and within groups and companies to enable a thriving work environment. You will learn how to utilise the Values Inventory and how to determine where an individual may be getting “stuck” due to a poor thinking strategy or conflict. This approach will help you reveal how they can alter their thinking so they can have, be and do whatever they would like to do. This is also a very important area of organisational change leading people through to values level seven is essential as it is closely linked with the organisational paradigms and provides an added layer of confidence.

Values Hierarchy and Changing Values

Learn sleight of mouth patterns and the art of re-framing any problems or issues by identifying how a person’s Values Hierarchy works at a deeper level. You will learn how to use the Values Hierarchy not only to align an individual to their goals and objectives but organisations too.

Prime Concerns

Enable your coachee to transform the way they process thoughts and remove boundaries and limiting beliefs and values. This is an extremely effective and powerful technique that reveals the true meaning of words and the language that is used by an individual. Every communication represents a deeper underlying emotion or issue that is missing at a deeper level.

Meta Model III

A quick acting technique that can resolve issues in minutes using a linguistic process.

Modelling

NLP is based on modelling others to create a blueprint for their success. If you are an entrepreneur or business owner you can model successful competitors and start to produce similar results!

Breakthrough Session

Put all the skills you have learned into practice in one 8 hour long breakthrough session with another attendant of the course. You will each have the opportunity to spend 8 hours aligning yourself with your goals!

Master NLP Coach

Understand how to Coach people as they transcend the different Values Levels. Learn strategies for motivation and how and where they should be used within your coaching.

Master Time Line Therapy

Work on an unconscious level and reverse the effects of negative experiences. Learn the incredibly powerful Drop Down technique and regression.

Master Hypnosis

Hypnosis uses the implementation of trance techniques we can induce changes in peoples lives through the power of positive suggestion. Although hypnosis may seem like a fringe technique it is used commonly in all sectors as part of staff well-being programmes. Light trances are used and feel no different than the stages leading up to sleep.

 

Learn content that includes: –

 

• Eriksonian Inductions
• David Elman Inductions
• Estabrooks Inductions
• Convincers
• Double Induction
• Pendulum Induction
• Other Ideomotor Signals & Rapid Induction Techniques

 

 

Learn deepening strategies such as fractionation whilst using metaphor based stories combined with trance techniques.

This programme is fully licensed and all graduates can apply to become a member of the board of the American Board Of Hypnotherapy.

 

The ILM 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring

On completion of this course, you will achieve an entirely new level of credibility to your Master Practitioner qualification. It is a highly recognised and renowned award that will create opportunities for a large number of organisations and companies, increasing the number of opportunities to gain sponsors for your programmes and training events.

This course is designed to significantly improve your leadership skills including delegation and team building skills. Training at an executive level will lend specific support and strategic initiatives when required.

A minimum of 20 hours coaching is required to complete the ILM 7 programme with applicable evidence. This is a process that you will begin whilst you are still on the course and something you can continue to build on afterwards by networking with professionals that would benefit from coaching. This is a great first step to growing your business as you will meet your very first potential customers with the possibility of forming relationships that lead to ongoing work or referrals in the future.

This course will provide you with a wide variety of additional tools and techniques that will enable you to give your coachee more confidence and self-certainty so that they can achieve more in a shorter space of time.

There is a support pack, which includes 10 CDs on NLP and Coaching at Master Practitioner level and an insight into business strategy and leadership. There will be textbooks on coaching included together with recommended wider reading.

 

That’s right, you are unique.

(based on Cats don’t bark by Shane Hipps)

Of all the billions of people born in the world before you, not one of them was like you and no one will ever be born in the future the same as you. This means that comparing yourself to someone else is pretty pointless and, dare I say it, self-limiting. There will always be a better footballer, dancer, gymnast or mathematician than you, unless your name is Cristiano Ronaldo and apparently he is pretty average at dancing and maths! The problem is, kids make comparisons about themselves with more academic or sporty classmates and before you know it, at around the age of seven, they have the seeds of a limiting belief planted within themselves and we hear them using phrases like, “I can’t do that.”

According to Tom Rath in his book, ‘Strengths Based Leadership’, if we identify a young person’s strengths between the ages of 15 and 23 they become more confident, enjoy what they are doing and are happier. What is also fascinating is that where organisations focus on employees’ strengths, engagement is 73%. Where they don’t focus on strengths, it is only 9%. It is therefore vital to build on what your employees are good at and enjoy doing. And the killer question to ask your management colleagues is, “What is your focus at appraisal time?”

For many adults who are doing their best to pay a mortgage, bring up kids, scrape together enough for a holiday but may feel a bit of self-doubt or need for security, it is about recognising that you are absolutely unique and can do pretty much anything if you have a strong enough desire. Feelings of inadequacy are just constructs from your early years and no longer need to apply.

Last Friday afternoon on our NLP Master practitioner course 10 people set about conquering their self-doubt by breaking a board with just their hand, positive belief and energy, which is very symbolic.

ILM Level 5 Award in Leadership and Management

5 days – £950 plus VAT per person

 

Due to popular demand and to enable access to many individuals, we have decided to run this programme also an open course. This programme can also be run within your organisation for a cohort of your employees.

Objectives
* To enable delegates to lead, coach and manage their teams and have a positive impact on those around them.
* Give them a set of behaviours to increase employee engagement
* Research and Implement a business improvement project which will give your organisation a return on investment of ten times the cost of their place on this programme.

Who is this aimed at?
This programme is aimed at the middle level leader but is appropriate for people at director level in smaller organisations. All levels of leadership development require some fundamentals: situational leadership, leadership behaviours, personal effectiveness, emotional intelligence and communication. This programme builds on those with tips and tools you can implement straight away.

Workshops and Dates
11th January 2019: Leading with a smile!
25th January 2019: How to be a better you
8th February 2019: Leading Change
22nd February 2019: How to be a brilliant coach
8th March 2019: Brilliant Leadership

Qualification
The ILM 5 Award in Leadership and Management is recognised throughout all business and public sectors in the UK. There are two assignments: The first is an evaluation of your leadership; and the second is a business improvement project which will generate a return on investment. We expect a minimum of £10 000 per delegate.

Venue
The programme will be held at Our Nottingham venue at the Old Vicarage in Castle Donington near East Midlands Airport.

 

To book, please contact Lorna on
lorna@qualityculture.co.uk or call 01332 856 396

How to Become a Great Leader

 

DON’T BE A NORM

In order to be a great leader or coach, you have to be an awe-inspiring version of yourself. That way you can be a role model for others and get the most satisfaction from your vocation or career. I say vocation, as being a great leader is much more than doing a job. It provides a purpose, or as Simon Sinek describes it, a why.

Recently, I was at my Uncle Kevin’s funeral. The Priest told the congregation about how Kevin did his job as a bricklayer with pride and recounted the tale of how, in one bad winter, Kevin lit a stove near the building materials to keep them dry. Worried that the fire would burn out, Kevin got out of bed at midnight and drove back to the site to rekindle the stove, in fact, he did this every night for a week!

Whatever your job, doing that little bit more and having a purpose will differentiate you from the norm.

NEGATIVITY BIAS

You probably don’t realise this, but your ancestors were probably a bunch of negative b******ds. You have evolved from tribes who were conditioned to focus on danger and threats. We have what is known as a negativity bias, which means that we focus more on the negative than the positive. This was essential for survival and the hard-wiring in the amygdala part of our brain would amplify threats over other events.

This cave person thinking still kicks in today, causing the production of cortisol which floods through our system to give us the energy to fight or flight. But when the stock market drops 20 points we don’t need to run fast or start a fight, so we become stressed. Our brain waves go from an alpha state to a beta frequency, and too much beta activity causes anxiety, stress and a lack of perspective. When this happens focus on the many good things you have going on in your life.