Trance Cafe

The sun is rising and its time to be exploring with a NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Day again. Saturday 27th November to come and play and explore NLP and Hypnotherapy in Newcastle upon Tyne.

We are going to practice together many aspects of Jonathan Haidt’s ‘moral’ landscapes in such that we all share morals and express them in different ways. We will be exploring ideas from Drew Westen and Frank Luntz who are top communicators in their respective fields and we are going to play, explore and create.

Hope this looks more than canny to you. Book now using the button below.

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As potentially depressing as it may be data from the ONS reveals that January and March are the most popular months to die in the UK. We all know that the final reward of life is the natural transitioning into the unknown. Grieving is our natural process or in some sense our ritual in accepting loss and moving forward.

This February the Newcastle NLP & Hypnotherapy Practice Group is exploring some ideas that can help and assist us in both accepting loss, honoring our feelings, emotions and thoughts and after an appropriate time to move forward with gratitude.

The exploration is about loss in general. This can be the loss of a loved human, pet, idea or possession to extend the concept.

One of the concepts for exploration is including the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett on how emotions are made. This is really new information ( 2017 ) and offers the perspective the our emotions are constructed as predictors of our immediate environment and past experience.

Also on the menu is some utilization of Jungs ideas of rational and irrational functions and perhaps a portion of western philosophy. Culminating in a desert of a co-created process to enjoy together.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday February 7th

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

ONLINE BOOKING ONLY!

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

After the exhausting corporate sponsored spending holiday of Black Friday you might be wondering what on Earth you would like to not be spending your money on in 2018. Those BF bargain sellers can hike their price up at least 28 days before they can then be reduced to temp the gullible buyer into buying something you may not need or even want.

Even after some great material bargain, it is pretty sure that the joys of a new gadget will fade and whatever need or felt requirement that urged you into buying will come back again.

This is the last Trance Cafe until Feb 2018 and it’s a great opportunity to be focusing in a very general way as to what non-material goals and outcomes you would really like to realise in 2018.

Many people fall into the trap of planning and organising the micro details of a project and lose sight of the bigger picture. If you consider simply walking to the local shop, each step will take you away from the intended goal by a little. If you concentrate on each step and get bogged down in noticing you are a little off course with each step you lose sight of the intended destination.

This is often the same with therapeutic interventions when goals, specifics and detailed action plans are suggested to be a great idea. This can remind you of the purpose of a map. Good enough to navigate by but with excess detail the map becomes the territory and obviates the usefulness of any such map.

So this practice group will be about high level goals and their intended intentions. Also there will be a hypnotic way of future orienting and the possibility of experiencing my Spiral Dynamics Inspired future pacing.

One of my goals in 2018 is sharing and teaching more NLP and Hypnotherapy to benefit our local community so with this in mind – this Trance Cafe – Newcastle Hypnotherapy and NLP practice group is free to attend. Attendees are invited to give a donation to St Oswalds Hospice – where the Newcastle NLP practice group has been running for nearly 10 years.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday December 6th

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

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As you start to read this post what else are you consciously aware of? I wonder if you noticed you eyes move left to right in the little saccades that they do? Perhaps you are or you aren’t thinking about that now? If you weren’t do you know what were you thinking of as you continue to read? How is your attention shifting?

OK, this months Trance Cafe. March 1st, is an exploration and understanding of some of the aspects of hypnotic language. The ideas is to build up, through practice an understanding of how to use hypnotic language to focus attention and then utilise these aspects to assist people ( your clients ) into altered states of awareness.

Being in an altered state of awareness can open up and access unconscious resources, feel good and develop your own technique.

Specifically we will be exploring the esoterically named ( by Erickson and Rossi ) Ideo-Dynamic suggestions that along with some pretty cool question styles can guide people to awareness of movement, sensations, thoughts and emotions.

We will also be building up a simple set of steps that when combined with conscious – unconscious splitting, as an induction, can provide an easy to use way to assist your client ( and give you direct feedback ) into trance.

In principle how to create a dynamic space where insights, resources and new perspectives can grow and evolve.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday March 1st

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

ONLINE BOOKING ONLY!

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

Throughout life we have been learning and massing a huge amount of habits. A habit is something we can do in a certain situation with practically no conscious thought. We learn habits through repetition over time.

In change work the concept of ‘parts’ is often used to describe a specific aspect of our personality. These aspects can be emotional, behavioral or thoughts which can be considered as aspects of who we are, aspects of our personality.

This cafe we will be exploring a variety of ways of working with parts to enhance or change behaviors.

“It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.” – Alfred North Whithead

I don’t think we actually fully unlearn any of the habits we amass over our life time. What seems to happen is an old habit is overlaid by a new and more functionally appropriate one. By exploring the sequence of steps of a habit we will intend to firstly make this conscious, to make the habit ‘hot’ and move forward to explore several ways in which we can utilise ( or try to ) the end payoff.

Some ways of working can include:

• Voice Dialogue
• Ideo-Motoric Movement
• Gestalt Tactics
• Time Distortion

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday February 1st

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

ONLINE BOOKING ONLY!

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

How many times have you or I, decided to set some goal or other yet … managed to screw it up? You are not alone!

The topic of this Decembers practice is both setting and maintaining the necessary motivation to reach and exceed goals. This is no small achievement. In truth this is at the center, the very heart of success in personal and professional development.

Being the traditional season of upcoming new year resolution, new beginnings and transition; doesn’t it make some sense to be able to set honest, meaningful and attainable goals?

Attaining some goal, any goal, really does take effort. Moving towards a genuine, and key here, attainable goal will  feel rewarding as you take action, bit by bit, in nice, bite size steps. So the idea here is utilising our natural appetitive and consummatory systems. That is basically wanting and liking.

We will begin with identifying a goal and then building motivations around it. Following on from this we will design and plan easy steps in both the achievement and surpassing it. Specifically we will make our goals irresistible, habitual and surprisingly easy.

The time to be planning and implementing new year goals is now. I am setting mine now, will you join me? This is the last Trance Cafe before February 2017 – hope to see you this December.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday December 7th

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

ONLINE BOOKING ONLY!

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

In this process I am borrowing on the Buddhist and Taoist idea of a middle road and this means balance. Balance in our thoughts and feelings and with our actions. This process can be very useful when planning a honest and realistic outcome or when facing challenging or difficult times such as when in the process of stopping some problem behaviour. Equally useful and very relevant to moving on from an unforgiving past. We are changing thresholds.

The terms threshold is very simple to understand. Threshold means at some predetermined state ( a value or position ) something happens or doesn’t happen. It’s easy to understand this in terms of the heating system in your home. Usually some temperature is set, say 14 degrees, where the heating comes on if the temperature is below the set point, here 14 degrees and switches off above 14 degrees. So in this instance sustaining a certain temperature.

Another example, staying with temperature, is when water temperature reaches 0 degrees ice begins to form. 100 degrees and water evaporates. These are state changes caused by temperature, cold and hot.

Thresholding processes are found in NLP specifically in this instance the two that are ‘designed’ to either make something so pleasurable  or horrible that through association it ‘blows out’ its appeal or revulsion. Another one makes something so awful that it becomes awful for ever. Neurologically these two approaches are working with the pleasure ( to burn out ) and pain ( to burn in ) neural circuitry.

Open-ended and general we will use hypnotherapy to guide our clients in resetting thresholds to re-experience thoughts, feelings and actions then using the power of ‘maybe’ form a more honest integration as a middle, more balanced path, which can help heal and ease the past or modulate and centre our futures.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday February 4th

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

 

Conversational Hypnosis

When I watch and see someone demonstrate a highly developed skill it can look like an effortless display. The exemplars words and ‘techniques’ flow, they respond to what is happening and they are not simply regurgitating some script or procedure. Though at one point it is highly likely they were doing just that.

And we all know the kind of effortless display I am writing about and your are considering at this time, quite certainly at one time, required a great deal of effort, lots of practice and sweat to appear as the polished skill we can witness.

The topic for November is Conversational Hypnosis. Hypnosis as a feedback loop, Hypnosis as a way of leading and utilising experience.

This is based in a rather old, yet excellent, Stephen Brooks series of audio CD’s on hypnosis and something from Igor Ledochowski where the content is in essence very much the same though with some really useful process oriented structures to make for a conscious structure kind of learning.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at
St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

As Autumn, a season of wonderful change, comes to visit once more I want to explore one of the methods or meta-change models the Lankton’s ‘modelled’ from Erickson.

With a surprisingly simple six step format, this month we will practice both the structure and the content. Inside of this there will be language patterns and themes to fill the content details of each contextual step.

Knowing and having a variety of meta structures to use in any change work ( not limited to NLP or Hypnotherapy ) is greatly valuable in change work.

This month we will explore a specific meta-structure by practising a variety of language patterns within the meta-structure. The idea being we can all learn without knowing exactly what is being learned and reflecting this way after practice ensure the meta-pattern has been internalised with a future orientated direction.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at
St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

This July at the Trance Cafe, Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy practice group is going to be super! My good friend and colleague Holly Kobayashi will be facilitating an evenings exploration in Clean Space.

As always at the Trance Cafe this will be a practical evening where you will get real experience and take home the process for personal and professional use with your clients.

Clean Space is the late David Grove’s work which follows on from Clean Language. This is an exceptionally useful process, something I have really benefited from on several occasions. The idea and the process is deceptively simple and often can provide the crucial experience ( and it is an experience ) to shape beneficial change.

Holly is an exceptional agent of change. In her work she is consistently helping people to move out of what may seem like really intractable problems with her application in her therapeutic clinical work. What is particularly relevant here is you will get the latest developments and insights from Holly who is right at the front line of working with very challenging cases.

You can find out more about Yogini Holly, her therapies and Yoga classes at her web page The Mind Spa.

Facilitator : Holly Kobayashi

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment. The Newcastle Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at
St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!