Category: Self-development

Om
What 'mindfulness' is, what it isn’t, and how Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling can support people to access, cultivate and sustain it.
Mo
How do some of our opinions remain constant while others change without us noticing, and sometimes it is such a shock that we are left temporarily disorientated?
No
How to cleanly facilitate people to self-restrain – when they have the desire to act in a way they would rather not?
2T
From a systemic perspective both parties in a relationship (often unwittingly) perpetuate recurring patterns. What needs to happen to initiate and maintain a new behaviour?
Ak
Metaphor is a prime vehicle for the acquisition of knowledge, tacit or otherwise. But how do we ‘acquire’ or ‘take on’ or ‘incorporate’ metaphors that are not our own?
Rp
A model of effective reflective practice including both physical and perceptual contexts.
JL
A review of Fogg's 15 ways behaviour can change and the three components needed for a behaviour to happen
JL
How we use a person’s language to model the way they self-deceive.
In
Nine functions of inhibition, how it affects learning and the body, and 12 activities exploring the value and problems of inhibition.
sN
Part 1 reviews theories about how we make (or take) decisions. Part 2 is a practical process for how to 'nudge' ourselves to beneficial behaviours.
JL
A 'thought experiment' to appreciate more or to be more grateful for someone or something in your life.
Ac
How to act from what you know to be true when you don't know how to, or you’re frightened of the consequences
Re
Applying Gottman's research plus five exercises.
Pf
What and how we like: Distinguishing between different kinds of perceived preferences.
Tr
Guidance on what you can do once you acknowledge you have been self-deceiving
Dd
How we cling to misleading beliefs when deep down we know them to be untrue
aM
How to make use of your symbolic resources
Wr
Using metaphor drawings and Clean language with writing for personal development.