Recently I was exasperated by someone who didn’t keep what I thought was an agreement between us. But “Exasperation” doesn’t fully express the intensity of the confusion and disorientation I felt when that happened, so I decided to explore it using Andy Austin’s Metaphors of Movement process. Connirae and I have been having a great [...]

We thought about it for years, living in the lowlands along the creek, where the water table is close to the surface. We thought of adding fish, and maybe ice skating in the winter if we dug it large enough.
One year a backhoe was in the neighborhood, so we dug a small test hole. It [...]

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 [...]

A Few Favorite Quotations About Living
It is a busy time of year for most of us, and for many it can be a curious mixture of good times and more stressful ones. I offer you a few of my favorite quotations to guide you and sustain you through the holiday season:
“Be yourself; everyone else is [...]

This movie includes a segment on NLP with Arielle Essex, an NLP Master Practitioner, and what she did after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. The NLP principles involved are pretty old and basic, but I think they are nicely presented, and should generate some interest in NLP. [I suspect that some of the rest [...]