If you haven’t got around to spring cleaning yet, this might be for you: Cleaning Out Clutter DVD – Steve Andreas Last December I did two live client demonstrations at the Milton Erickson Foundation Brief Therapy Conference. Before the videotaping began, I asked for a volunteer from the audience without asking them what they wanted [...]

When someone says emphatically, “Never again!” or “That’s it!” or “I’ve had it!” (usually accompanied by some kind of definitive slicing hand gesture) it indicates that they have reached a threshold, and are ready to take action to make a change in their lives. However, they may reach this threshold, take action, and then continue [...]

A friend of mine who has Lyme disease wrote me recently, saying: “So good to hear from you. I’ve thought of calling to ask if you have any special ideas or resources for dealing with the Lyme beast.” I answered her as follows (edited): A. Notice the image in your mind as you think of [...]

Frank Farrelly’s Provocative Therapy is one of the major approaches that influenced Bandler and Grinder in the early development of NLP. Nick Kemp has modeled what Frank does, and then added some hypnosis and NLP to it to develop what he calls Provocative Change Works™, a unique method for assisting people in making the changes [...]

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 [...]