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Italian NLP

Glossario di PNL

Glossario
di PNL

Molte
persone mi fanno domande sui termini usati in
PNL.
Questi vi possono aiutare.

Io
cercherò di descrivere le parole, ma per favore inviatemi commenti e
nuove parole come desiderate.

ciclo

Performativa
Perduta

Iniziare
una storia o una metafora, senza finirla iniziarne un’altra,
tornando poi a finire o concludere le storie o metafore.

La
persona o la cosa che fa l’azione è omessa. Vedi
Meta
Modello

Operatore
Modale di Possibilità

Parole
in linguistica che cambiano il modo in cui i processi possono
essere fatti, puoi, non puoi etc.

Pacing
(andare allo stesso passo)

Entrare
in rapporto con qualcuno e mantenere quel rapporto nel tempo.
Usato con il condurre.

Postulati
di conversazione

Il
porre una domanda in modo tale da farla diventare un comando.

Acutezza
sensoriale

Essere
molto consapevoli delle informazioni sensoriali di ogni
esperienza.

Ambiguità

Parole
o stati che possono essere interpretati in più di un modo.

Ambiguità
di punteggiatura

Unire
o fondere insieme senza punteggiatura due frasi non correlate come
se lo fossero.

Ambiguità
fonetiche

Due
parole che hanno la stessa pronuncia, ma significati differenti.
Riso/riso. Sole/sole.

Analogico

Una
variabile che può cambiare su un continuum, come dall’alto al
basso. Vedi
Digitale.
– acceso o spento.

Ancorare

Uno
stato o un processo che può essere catturato con una parola, una
vista, una sensazione, quando viene innescata la quale, fa sì che
quello stato o processo venga richiamato alla mente.

Associato

Vedere,
sentire, provare sensazioni come se uno facesse queste cose
dall’interno. Facendo realmente l’azione.

Auditivo

L’azione
del sentire o parlare.

Ben-Formato

Un
risultato o un’idea che è raggiungibile, controllabile ed
ecologico.

Bisogno
secondario

Quando
una funzione è derivata da un’altra azione, strategia o
processo che può essere problematico, una fobia etc.

Calibrazione

Notare
ed essere abili a riprodurre gli stati di un’altra persona.

Cancellazione

Quella
parte di un’esperienza che è stata omessa, rimossa dal processo
conscio.

Capacità

Una
strategia di successo per svolgere un compito.

Chunking

Prendere
un’idea o concetto, portarla dal particolare al generale a un
livello logico più alto per essere meno specifici, portarla dal
generale al particolare a un livello logico più basso per essere
più specifici.

Cinestesico

Il
senso del provare, internamente o esternamente, sensazioni,
emozioni.

Citazioni

Dire
qualcosa come se l’abbia detta qualcun’altro.

Come
dormire

La
convinzione delle persone che l’ipnosi sia dormire non è vera,
essa è uno stato come dormire, dove il soggetto è totalmente
cosciente dell’ambiente circostante.

Comportamento

Qualunque
comportamento che viene assunto, fisicamente o mentalmente.

Condurre

Le
azioni o i processi che le altre persone seguono.

Congruenza

Lo
stato di una persona che è in relazione, pensare e fare insieme,
per un risultato comune.

Consapevole

Lo
stato mentale nel quale siamo consapevoli del momento presente.

Convinzioni

Il
modo in cui una persona comprende il mondo dalla sua visione
generalizzata.

Cornice

Il
modo in cui percepiamo o capiamo qualcosa.

Criterio

Quello
che è importante in una certa situazione o processo.

Cross-over

(Mirroring)

Armonizzare il
movimento fisico della propria persona con il movimento di
un’altra persona.

Deduzione

Usare
domande e osservazioni, possibilmente con il Meta Modello, per
raccogliere informazioni sul comportamento.

Descrizione
sensoriale

L’usare
la descrizione sensoriale per descrivere un’esperienza.

Descrizioni
Multiple

Descrivere
un processo o un’esperienza da differenti posizioni o punti di
vista.

Digitale

Due
stati, quali possono essere vero o falso, sì o no, con nessuna
variabilità. Vedi
Analogico.

Dissociato

Vedere,
sentire, provare sensazioni come se uno guardasse se stesso fare,
non nell’esperienza. Vedi Associato.

Distorsioni

Una
non accurata rappresentazione di un’esperienza come
un’esperienza interna.

Downtime

L’andare
dentro i propri pensieri o sensazioni, in uno stato di
rilassamento o in uno stato ipnotico.

Ecologia

Avere
riguardo delle abitudini, convinzioni, valori, ambiente,
territorio circostante.

Entrare in
rapport

Agire
la postura, le azioni o il linguaggio di un’altra persona per
ottenere rapporto.

Epistemologia

Conoscere
in che modo noi sappiamo come sappiamo.

Equivalenza
complessa

Due
stati che non hanno attinenza l’uno con l’altro, ma sono uniti
insieme come se lo fossero.


Feedback
(nutrimento di ritorno)

Prima
Posizione

Stiamo
comunicando quello che volevamo comunicare?

Parte
delle Posizioni Percettive. Il vedere o essere se stessi.

Filtri
percettivi

Le
convinzioni, le idee, le esperienze individuali che creano il
proprio modello del mondo.

Fisiologico

Il
corpo fisico di una persona.

Generalizzazione

Unire
tutte le esperienze di natura simile in una specifica esperienza.

Gustativo

Il
senso del gusto V.A.K.O.G.

Identità

Il
modo in cui una persona vede se stessa, la propria immagine.

Incongruenza

Non
in accordo con, avere un conflitto con, spesso visto o espresso in
un comportamento.

Inconscio

Tutto
quello che non è nella mente conscia in un preciso momento.

Indici
referenziali non
specificati

Nomi
che non hanno alcun riferimento a chi appartengono o a cosa si
riferiscono.

Installare

Il
facilitare l’acquisizione di un nuovo stato o comportamento.

Intenzione

Il
risultato desiderato di un’azione.

interruzione
di schema

Mettere
in atto un processo o un’azione abituale di un individuo, poi
interromperlo, guidando l’individuo in un’altra direzione o
processo.

Ipnosi

Uno
stato, per esempio di rilassamento.

Linea
del tempo (
Timeline)

Come
le esperienze del passato, del presente, del futuro sono
posizionate nello spazio quando ci pensiamo.

Linguistica

Linguaggio,
il modo in cui il linguaggio è costruito.

Livelli
Neurologici

Differenti
livelli logici di esperienza, che coinvolgono: ambiente,
comportamento, capacità, convinzioni, identità e spirito.

Livello
Logico

Livelli
di informazioni, livelli più bassi sono pezzi di informazione
contenuta in un livello più alto di informazione.

Mappa
del Mondo

La
comprensione o la rappresentazione che una persona fa del mondo
attraverso la propria esperienza.

Meta

Più
di, più grande di, al di là di.

Meta
Mode
llo

Diagramma
del M
eta
Modello

Usare
il linguaggio per recuperare la struttura profonda di una
convinzione, esperienza o comprensione. L’opposto del Milton
Model.

Un
diagramma che mostra i modelli del linguaggio del
Meta
Modello

con collegamenti per le spiegazioni.

Meta
progra
mmi

Abitudini
con le quali filtriamo le informazioni delle esperienze per
ottenere informazioni o comprensioni.

Meta-cognizione

Essere
capace di spiegare la conoscenza alle altre persone.

Metafora

Raccontare
una storia con un significato nascosto, avendo una situazione
confrontabile come la situazione reale.

Milton
Model

Usare
modelli di linguaggio vaghi, cosicché la mente inconscia deve
accedere alle risorse individuali per ottenere la comprensione.
Derivato dal lavoro di Milton Erickson. L’opposto del Meta
Modello.

Modalità

I
Sistemi rappresentazionali V.A.K.O.G.

Modellare

L’azione
o il processo di scoprire il modo in cui un processo funziona
nella sequenza in cui accade.

Modello

Parola
usata per descrivere il modo in cui un processo è fatto, con
V.A.K.O.G.

Movimenti
di Accesso

Mentre
una persona pensa o processa informazioni, dà informazioni con il
respiro, i gesti, i movimenti degli occhi.

Movimenti
Oculari di Accesso

Il
movimento degli occhi che indica il processare le informazioni,
visivo, auditivo, sia interno sia esterno, cinestesico e auditivo
digitale.

Neuro

Il
modo in cui gli esseri umani processano le informazioni nel
cervello.

Nominalizzazione

Trasformare
un verbo in un nome. Amare diventa amore.

Nuovo
Codice PNL

“Nuova”
PNL: descrizioni e idee da John Grinder et al.

Olfattivo

Il
senso dell’olfatto. V.A.K.O.G.

Operatore
Modale di Necessità

Parole
in linguistica per cambiare le regole o il modo in cui noi
processiamo le informazioni, dovresti potresti, vorrai etc.

Parti

Le
azioni o le intenzioni inconsce che ci guidano.

PNL

Programmazione
Neuro-Linguistica. Il modo in cui le persone raggiungono
l’eccellenza e il modo in cui strutturano quell’esperienza.

Ponte
sul futuro

Provare
mentalmente qualche evento o avvenimento futuro con un risultato
positivo.

Posizioni
percettive

Come
noi comprendiamo il mondo dalla nostra posizione (1^ posizione),
da quella di un’altra persona (2^ posizione), da quella di un
osservatore esterno (3^ posizione), da una 4^ che può essere
aggiunta, per esempio quella di un Marziano.

Predicati

Le
parole basate sui sensi che indicano l’uso dei sistemi
rappresentazionali. V.A.K.O.G.

Presupposizioni

Affermazioni
o idee che sono ritenute ovvie per dare senso a una comunicazione.

Processo
degli Occhi Chiusi

Usato
per descrivere il processo dell’andare in trance o ipnosi.

Quantificatori
u
niversali

Usati
nel Meta Modello, ciò che in termini linguistici unisce ‘ciascuna
cosa’ in una parola, ‘tutti’, ‘nessuno’.

Rapport

Stabilire
e mantenere fiducia e comprensione tra le persone.

Rappresentazione

Come
le informazioni basate sui sensi V.A.K.O.G. sono immagazzinate
nella mente.

Rappresentazioni
interne

In
che modo le informazioni vengono immagazzinate nella mente,
Visivamente, Auditivamente, Cinestesicamente, i sapori e gli
odori.

Reincorniciamento
del contenuto

Il
prendere uno stato e dargli un significato diverso.

Reincorniciamento
del contesto

Il
prendere uno stato e usarlo in un altro contesto o situazione.

Re-incorniciare

Cambiare
un’idea, una convinzione o una cornice di riferimento, emettendo
un’altra affermazione che dà alla convinzione originale un
nuovo significato.

Ricerca
T
ransderivazionale

Il
processo di accedere alle esperienze e alle rappresentazioni per
dare un senso all’esperienza presente.

Risorse

Ogni
esperienza, apprendimento, stato, strategia che può essere usata
per raggiungere un risultato.

Rispecchiamento

(Mirroring)

Rispecchiare i
movimenti fisici di un’altra persona agendo precisamente i suoi
stessi movimenti.

Risultato

Uno
specifico risultato su base sensoriale di un evento futuro che è
ben-formato.

Rompere il
rapport

Rompere
il rapporto agendo modelli differenti, troncare il modello.

Seconda
Posizione

Una
parte delle posizioni percettive, che è quella di vedere le cose
dal punto di vista di un’altra persona.

Sinestesia

Il
collegare un senso ad un altro senso automaticamente.

Sistema
guida

Il
sistema rappresentazionale per caricare le informazioni dentro la
mente conscia.

Sistema
preferenziale

Il
sistema rappresentazionale maggiormente usato per processare
informazioni o esperienze.

Sistema
rappresentazionale

I
sistemi sensoriali V.A.K.O.G. (Visivo, Auditivo, Cinestesico,
Olfattivo, Gustativo) immagazzinati nella mente.

Sovrapposizione

Il
funzionare o comunicare con un senso o sistema rappresentazionale
che dà l’accesso in un altro. Il vedere nell’udire.

Stato

Lo
stato d’animo in cui una persona è in un dato momento, che è
l’insieme dei processi fisici e psicologici in quel momento.

Stato
Risorsa

Lo
stato in cui sia lo stato fisico sia quello psicologico sono molto
buoni per raggiungere buoni risultati.

Storico

Tornare
indietro, rivedere, richiamare alla mente, usando la stessa
tonalità, parole, azioni.

Strategia

Come
una persona raggiunge un risultato, il processo dei pensieri e dei
comportamenti, definito da V.A.K.O.G.

Struttura
Profonda

Quella
parte della comunicazione che è stata omessa, lasciando solo la
struttura superficiale.

Struttura
Superficiale

La
comunicazione che noi facciamo, cancellando o tralasciando
informazioni dalla struttura profonda.

Submodalità

I
Sistemi rappresentazionali V.A.K.O.G. suddivisi in parti più
piccole, l’udire – pesante, leggero, lontano, vicino.

T.O.T.E.

Test,
Operazione, Test, Uscita (Exit). Un modello di una strategia.

Terza
posizione

Parte
delle posizioni percettive, quella del vedere le cose dalla
posizione di un osservatore.

Tradurre

Il
processo di riformulare le parole da un sistema rappresentazionale
di predicati a un altro.

Trance

Lo
stato alterato di ipnosi.

Tuple
(4-Tuple)

Il
veloce metodo manuale di prendere nota delle strategie o delle
esperienze usando le quattro primarie modalità o sistemi
rappresentazionali, V.A.K.

Uptime

Quando
l’attenzione o lo stato sono consapevoli di ogni cosa.

Valori

Quelle
convinzioni che sono importanti.

Varietà
indispensabile

Saper
essere flessibile così da avere scelta di comportamento e
pensiero.

Verbi
non
specificati


Predicati

Il
processo non è descritto con un avverbio, come se fosse stato
tolto. Lui ha corso. Come ha corso, velocemente o lentamente?

Visivo

Il
senso della vista.

Visualizzazione

L’atto
di immaginare di vedere cose nella mente, con il terzo occhio
.

INDICE

Ringraziamento speciale a Chiara Pozzoll per questa traduzione.
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Culture Eating Out Travels

Lunchtime for some

One of the benefits of all the travel I do and the countries I visit is to be able when time permits different places of interest. Taking my camera with me, helps me share and tell a story of my experiences.

On my visit to Malaysia, I was able to visit the Botanical Gardens on the Island of Penang, which was hosting a flower festival, a chance to see more of the tropical plants in a compact area. Certainly not on the scale of the UK’s Hampton Court Flower Show, it did have many companies selling their plants, and lovely plants and flowers they were.
But lunch soon called, but with little choice of eating establishments in the Botanic Gardens, I had to make do with some fried rice, and coconut juice straight from the coconut fruit.
Then I noticed I was not the only one having lunch, the monkeys were having theirs too.
Visitors walking through the gardens eating a sandwich, drinking some water from a bottle, would marvel at the packs of monkeys so close, playing on the grass, sitting in the trees or on top of lamp posts, but they would be in for a surprise, the monkeys have learned that where there are humans there will be food for the taking, and take they do. The monkeys run up to the unsuspecting visitor, who may have the food in a plastic bag, and grab the bag and food and run off into trees, leaving the shocked visitor shouting after them and to go hungry.
The monkeys have learned how to take the tops off bottles to get at the contents, how to remove the tops of litter bins to recover unwanted food.
Wild monkeys searching for lunch in the Botanic Gardens, Penang, Malaysia  Wild monkeys searching for lunch in the Botanic Gardens, Penang, Malaysia
Wild monkeys searching for lunch in the Botanic Gardens, Penang, Malaysia
The monkeys may be small and cute, but to have one running after you to get at your food is quite and experience.
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Culture Eating Out English Sayings

I don’t believe it – continued

It must be my age. I’m 95, and I am using the phrase “I don’t believe it” more and more.

As I go through my fantastically rich life, visiting so many countries, experiencing so many cultures, beliefs and foods, that little voice in my head is often heard to shout “I don’t believe it“, how could they drive like that on the wrong side of the road? (I am British, and we drive on the correct side). How can they believe this or that to be true, and how could they eat that stuff? (See my blog Horseshoe Crab).
I was brought-up in a British society, with its’ beliefs and customs, and they are deep seated, down in my unconscious, directing me through my daily tour of life. These customs and beliefs become our standards which we live by, the rules which we use which say what is right and wrong, and they are so deep in my psyche, that after arriving back in London’s Heathrow Airport from a trip abroad, and I stand at the bus stop to catch the X26 bus back home, non native British people arrive after me and stand at the front of the queue, getting on the bus before me.
Have these people no sense of what a queue is for?
First to arrive has the right to be first on the bus.
Why don’t they form an orderly queue?
Where are their manners?
I just don’t believe these people. They have no remorse. They don’t say sorry or excuse me. They are in their own little cocooned world where everything is for the taking, for them and only them.
I am driving in a foreign country, and I see someone wanting to cross the road, so I slow down and indicate them to cross, and do I get a thank you? No.
Where are their manners?
Other drivers do anything they can to get that one car infront. They push they shove, they cut others up, they sit up the exhaust pipe trying to push the other person or intimidate them.
Where is their sense of community?
Eating abroad brings its’ problems for me. Certain food tastes are so abhorrent (horrible) to me they make me physically ill. Seeing a whole fish with its’ white eyes staring at me and its’ mouth wide open turns my stomach.
Whole fish looking at me in a Malaysian restaurant
Whole fish looking at me in a Malaysian restaurant (top right)
How can people eat such food? And, rice with everything, where’s my potatoes?
The older I get, the more entrenched I get my old beliefs, and that little voice in my head says, “I don’t believe it“.
There is a fantastic British comedy series shown on the BBC called One Foot in the Grave, which ran between 1990 and 2000.
The series looks at the life and exploits of Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) as he faces life after an early retirement and he tries to battle against modern life.
Victor tries to keep himself busy but he is beset with misfortunes and misunderstandings, his next-door neighbour is always finding him in compromising situations leading him to think that Victor is insane. Victor’s wife, Margret (Annette Crosbie) is the long suffering part of the partnership, never giving up on Victor.
Victor’s catch phrase in the series is “I don’t believe it“, and as I mature with every year and encounter new situations, I am getting more like Victor Meldrew day by day.
I just don’t believe how I can be so stupid, must be my age.
Watch a small video of One Foot in the Grave (click)
Other English sayings.
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Uncategorized

I don’t believe it

I find great joy and happiness in having a shower, it is relaxing, it is refreshing, especially with the heat and humidity here in Malaysia.

I also find that being relaxed, allowing the shower water wash away the unwanted feelings and thoughts I may have built-up during the day, I have time to reflect and allow my mind to wonder, a time for new ideas.
This morning, after waking in a hot and humid bedroom, I eagerly sought my first shower of the day, and standing there, the lukewarm water washing down from the top of my head to the tips of my toes, for some reason my mind went into thoughts about the rubbish we throw away. How my brother-in-law saves tin and aluminium cans to be recycled, and how as I have purchased breakfast cereal, lightbulbs, glue, screws, etc, how all these purchases had been wrapped in cardboard packaging, and how I had carefully folded down the boxes into flat pieces, and placed them into a plastic bag, just incase the garbage collectors recycle.
I then realised how much rubbish we accumulate just in packaging, and I had an internal voice shouting at me, “I don’t believe it“. We waste so much.
On finishing my shower, and drying myself off in a nice fluffy bath towel, my eyes caught the now empty toothpaste tube and the new boxed tube waiting to be unpacked. My thoughts went on to imagine the box packaging flat adding to the pile of other unwanted cardboard. I thought, “why do they use packaging?”, obviously for looks, presentation and also stacking on the shelves and distribution from the factory and the shops.
I opened the box and that internal voice again went off, “I don’t believe it“, the tube of toothpaste was very much smaller than the box indicated, I had not been given the amount of toothpaste in the tube as I thought I had purchased.
Looking at the tube, it was far shorter than the box. Not only was the tube much shorter than the box, but if you take into consideration the flip cap and the closer at the base of the tube, then the actual toothpaste only takes-up 2/3 of the outer box packaging.
Then if you look at the shape of the tube which tapers off at the base, there is a lot of space empty in the outer box.
Sensodyne toothpaste tube much smaller than the packaging
In a previous career, a position where I helped set-up and run a computer ordering system for a cosmetic company, Fashions by Opus, I got that inner “I don’t believe it” voice when I saw in the warehouse the packaging for the cleansing cream, the eye and lip makeup tubs and jars, realising just how little product the consumer was actually getting compared to the packaging indicated. Within the outer plastic/glass tub or jar was placed an inner sleeve which tapered inwards towards the base.
Looking on the dressing table there were many jars which were large, but on examination, the inner contained much smaller quantities product than the packaging indicated.
Olay jars too big containing only a small amount of product
I don’t believe it” how we humans are being taken in by oversized packaging, packaging which is just waste.
See other examples of not enough product to the packaging, click.
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Culture Presentations Rotary Club KOT

Adult Achievement Awards, Kingston upon Thames 2011

Sometimes it is good to stand back and look at other people and what they have achieved.

On a nice Tuesday evening in May 2011, I was able to attend the Royal Borough of Kingston’s Adult Achievement Award ceremony held in the Guildhall Kingston.
Organised by Peter Gray of the Rotary Club of Kingston upon Thames, in conjunction with Kingston Borough Adult Education Service and Kingston College, the Deputy Mayor Councillor Geoff Austin and the Mayoress Mrs Sheila Austin along with Rotary Club President Peter Bassett honoured twenty people who had achieved so much whilst learning.
I felt very humbled as I listened to stories of how others had overcome issues, problems and hurdles to better themselves, their family and others.
All those who attended thoroughly enjoyed the evening, meeting and talking to the students from the education centres of Kingston. The superb setting of the Guildhall of Kingston and the presence and talk by the Deputy Mayor made us most welcome.
This little video shows these people receiving their certificates.
Congratulations.
click to see video
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Culture NLP Travels

Course cancelled

Here I am sitting in Malaysia, preparing for my next course, The Society of NLP Master Practitioner, to be held in Istanbul starting 14th May 2011, flights arranged, plans made.

Then I get an email, the organisers have cancelled the course.
Oh Poo Poo.
I had been asked by other people to work with them, to give other course in other countries, I had been asked to meet with people, I had made arrangements to attend meetings, all based on the course happening in Istanbul. Now, all my arrangements are in disarray.
What can I do?
Nothing, but get on with my life, and try and stop the hacker/s that have violated my Skype accounts, using my credits to call Nigeria and the USA, and thank you Skype who do nothing about it. To stop the hacker/s getting into my other accounts. And Apple say that their computers do not get viruses and trojans?
Oh Poo Poo, I have to put a smile on my face, at least I woke-up this morning for the Muslim early morning call for prayers, (just after 5am) with the loudspeaker pointing to my bedroom from about a mile away, but it is so loud, it is as if the person is standing over my bed, and he is still going on at 6:20am preaching to those believers who are still asleep, at least I am awake and alive, even if I cannot understand the Malay language he is rabbiting on in.
At least I am alive, to go and try and change my flights, contact people to make other arrangements due to the cancelled course.
Anyone want an out of work trainer or presenter? 
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Mind Maps

The table is turned, Oh Poo Poo

As a Thinkbuzan Master Trainer for iMindMaps and hand drawn Mind Maps, I will show examples of Mind Maps from differing sources to my participants.

One such example, (not produced with the computer software iMindMaps, and not following the Tony Buzan rules of Mind Maps), is reproduced below from the book Mind Maps for Medicine, by P. McDermott and D.N. Clarke.
Diarrhoeal Disease Mind Map 
I often give this as an example of how a whole medical course and general medicine can be contained in an A4 sized book of about 140 pages. This one page is the only one I understand, I joke, because it is on Diarrheoal Diceases, and being that I am continually travelling I may have to refer to it.
Last Friday was the time.
Early Friday morning I awoke with aching limbs, a rumbling stomach, and I knew things were not good for me.
Sure enough. I suffered. I needed the Mind Map. I could not leave my hotel bathroom for a while. I became cold. I became weak. I became tired. I spent all afternoon Friday and evening in bed.
Friday night, Saturday morning, I continued, even being sick, but there was nothing to bring-up.
But, we had an appointment Saturday mid morning to see the Senior Doctor at Medical Park, Antalya, who I had demonstrated pain control with hypnosis with, with an idea to discuss my work. 
I could not let my colleagues down. Anyway there was nothing left inside me, and I was completely sterile of germs and bugs, having had a really good shower.
When sitting infront of him, the usual social talk started, and my colleagues, talking in Turkish, told him how ill I had been.
The table was turned, the meeting became about me, no matter how much I tried to steer the meeting back to the original agenda, the others were having non of it.
So, I ended up being treated for my diarrhoea, which had stopped anyway.
So this was my big Oh Poo Poo day. At least I new the subject well in more ways than one. 

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Books PhotoReading

PhotoReading in Antalya, April 2011

It is always a joy to finish a course, organized by BIZ in Antalya, especially PhotoReading, when the participants have absorbed six books over the short weekend, plus had learnt so many other aspects of reading, and had given a talk on the four related books that brought in with them for ten minutes, as if they were an expert.

It is amazing to listen to them talk about the four books’ subject matter with such authority, especially when they knew nothing about the subject prior to starting the weekend PhotoReading course.
In one group, we had a school teacher that acted like an examiner, firing questions to each of the participants as they gave their presentations, only to be answered in a coherent way. The trouble was that when it was her turn to give a presentation, the other participants fired equally difficult questions to her, but with laughter and with good humour even her questioners were answered.
I take great satisfaction in helping participants through the course, which often gives rise to self doubts as to ability, to old beliefs that there is only one way to read, and that is word by word.
When the end of the course comes, often participants do not want to leave the venue, having had such an eye opening experience. But eventually they do, leaving me alone in my hotel room, to begin to relax, reflect on the course, and prepare for the next days work.
I love my work.
Phillip Holt in Antalya with PhotoReading Participants,
Antalya, PhotoReading Participants, April 2011
 
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Presentations Thoughts Travels

How good is a trainer, presenter, coach?

I was talking to a person, and they told me about a ship that had called into the harbour to deliver some cargo.

Once the cargo had been unloaded, the captain gave orders to set sail for the next port, but the engineer told the captain he could not start the engines.
When the captain asked how long it would take to make the repairs, the engineer said he was working on it.
Many hours later the engines still would not start, and the captain was desperate to leave the harbour as he was loosing money moored to to harbour wall, and he heard that there was a highly specialist engineer visiting the area, so the captain asked him to look at the ships’ engines.
The specialist took his little work bag down into the engine room, and listened to the engines as the tried to start, and he went into little bag and took out a little hammer.
With his little hammer, he tapped a pipe, tried the engines, and they started immediately.
The captain was so happy, and he asked the specialist for his invoice.
When the captain saw the invoice he was most angry, for it was for $10,001.
This was too much for tapping a pipe.
When the captain challenged the specialist as to why so much, the specialist replied.
For tapping the pipe I charged you $1, for knowing where to tap the pipe it is $10,000.
I was recently asked to visit a company who wanted me to give their management team some training. When told my fee the manager said it was too much, and asked for another person to do the course who had attended one of my courses, but was a trainer in their own right. 
The manager offered the second person half of what I had asked for, but the second person refused their offer as being too little.
A third person was asked, and was offered an even smaller fee, which they accepted.
We have a saying in English,
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
So what is the price of a specialist, an expert, a good trainer, an experienced trainer, presenter or coach?
In his books, especially his book Outliers,  Malcolm Gladwell,  explains what makes people great, what made Bill Gates who and what he is, what made the Beatles such a great group? 
His answer is that they worked in their field of expertise, their specialism, that they studied for over 10,000 hours. This analysis was also substantiated by Michael Syed in his book Bounce, where he looks at what makes champions. They have to put in the hours of practice, the 10,000 hours.
I have been delivering training in my fields of excellence since the mid 1990’s, in many countries, cultures and languages, and also before that whilst working for computer manufacturers, so I have put in over my 10,000 hours, unlike many trainers who have just earned their training certificate.
So, I still have my little hammer if someone out there would like use it.
                         
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Exercises Memory PhotoReading

How clever is the human brain?

On a recent PhotoReading course in China, I came to the section of teaching the “soft-eyed” vision look using what I call Phillip’s Sausage.

A participant said they could not see Phillip’s Sausage, and I tried every trick I knew to help them, getting a rare “Yes“, but then a “No it is not there” answer.
Both of us was getting frustrated, but keeping calm, not stressed, I searched for an answer.
The participant happened to say to me, “I am seeing you with my left eye” and then, “I am seeing you with my right eye“.
What?” How can someone at one time see with one eye and then the other, without closing an eyelid?
Then playing with my own Sausage, I noticed that the eyes where not quite aligned, they were not pointing in the same direction when looking at me. I then remembered a great British comedian Marty Feldman. (1934-1982)
Marty Feldman had a very funny eye movement that he used to his advantage as part of his comic routine.
Marty Feldman
Now, my participant was nothing as bad as the above picture, but it got me wondering, if one eye is looking at me and sending the image to the visual cortex, what is happening to the image being seen by the other eye, as that too is being received by the brain, the visual cortex?
Was the brain being selective as to which information was being processed from which eye?
The answer had to be yes. That is why I was being told that I was being seen firstly by the left eye and then by the right eye.
This attribute or condition is called Strabismus. Sometime known as lazy-eye or crossed eyes.
If the eyes cross inwards towards the nose it is known as Esotropia, and if the eyes point outwards as the picture of Marty Feldman above that is called Exotropia.
The condition is caused by the muscles of the eyes not working together, and the weaker eye’s image is often completely dismissed by the brain, a condition known as Amblyopia.
It is a common problem, and teated at an early age can be corrected, at a later age it could need surgery to correct the muscles, so often we see children with patches over the good eye, which makes the muscles of the weaker eye stronger having to work harder.
I now realised the issue as to why the participant could not see Phillip’s Sausage, and was able to put the person at ease, and enable me to relax, as Phillip’s Sausage is not deterrent to prevent you learning and being a success at PhotoReading.
Now I am impressed by the power of the human brain, and to be honest jealous of the person’s ability to control which eye they can see from.