Introduction by Steve Andreas
Below is a verbatim excerpt from Danie Beaulieu’s “Living Metaphor” video (recorded at the 2010 Advanced Mastery Training in Boulder Colorado.)
Danie is a master at utilizing simple props for profound effect. Here she tells how she used a bag of smelly chicken bones to gain rapport with a young boy who [...]

I’m finding Andy Austin’s new method to be a fascinating way of working with people at a fundamental unconscious level, without knowing any content other than the metaphor itself. For instance, I taught my rudimentary understanding of this method at the Milton Erickson Brief Therapy conference in December.
One of my demonstration subjects found herself up [...]

“The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.”
—motto used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (”Seabees”)
during World War II
George Dantzig describes an event when he was a graduate student in his first year of PhD study in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley:
“I arrived late one day at [...]

An example of the impact of nonverbal (tonal) qualities of a message.
Recently I sent a note to some colleagues mentioning that I had noticed that some people—more often women—ended a sentence or a phrase with an upward inflection that usually indicates a question. I asked if anyone had an understanding of this, since I didn’t [...]

“You’ve got to ac-cen-tuate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
Latch on to the affirmative,
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between.”
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1944)
From time to time we need to sort through an accumulation of things in order to make space for what we want to keep. However, many people have great difficulty doing this. Would you like to [...]