It’s well worth taking some time to… ponder the idea that we consist not just of one single ‘I’ but of a large number of ‘I’s that constantly compete for attention. For example, the reader may well now be in Reading-these-words-I but also feeling the urge to get into Wondering-what-the-first sentence-means-for-them-I while being dominated by […]
I woke this morning (15th April 2022) to the sound of all the chaffinches in the world exchanging pleasantries across the dyke, over the fields and through the forest, and it occurred to me that a model I’ve used to inform my own life would work very well as a way of thinking about Jefferies, […]
Music is a pump for inflating the soul: hypertrophic souls turned into huge balloons rise to the ceiling of the concert hall and jostle each other in unbelievable congestion… (Milan Kundera: Immortality) ✺ In Plaguetime I greatly miss playing the recorders with CoMA Firewire in Colchester; I have composed some music in the mean time […]
‘We’re all in this together’ is a meaningless slogan invented by the Boss Class to make us think that we’re all suffering the hardship they impose on us to the same extent as they do – whether as a result of Austerity (a political ruse), getting out of the EU (an absurdity forced on half […]
Pat Mason: The enduring and free nature of what is communicated on these pages is something that appeals to me. This open interaction has drawn me back in over the years; I prefer it as my place for expressing what I think from time to time. I value that there are others here who seem […]
Being an entirely personal account of a weekend spent on a course run by Robert & Deborah Dilts and in the company of splendid people… Everything is relative. Motorbiked 170 miles in pouring rain & poor visibility… I was so wet & cold when I got to the posh hotel in Cheltenham on Thursday on […]
Preamble When I first came across NLP in 1992, I remember being constantly intrigued by the question I kept asking my self, “Why does this all seem so familiar?” Whilst being transfixed by Robert Dilts’ magical dictum, Some questions are so good that it’s a shame to think that one has to give them an […]
NLP provides a box of eclectic tricks the application of which is infinitely variable depending on what you find and in accordance with ecological guidelines. Once a set of procedures has got into the muscle, as Robert Dilts says, the really skilled facilitator is always alert to possibilities and athletic enough to vary things according […]
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