Altered States: The Use and Abuses of NLP

Saturday 13^th July 2.00pm  
Moordown Community Centre, Coronation Avenue, Moordown Bournemouth BH9 1TW

Featuring Management Development Trainer Harvey Taylor

NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) techniques are a favourite of many business trainers and also regularly feature in personal development programmes. Its practitioners claim they can alter our neurological processes and improve the way we think, feel and behave, but skeptics say their claims are exaggerated and lack supporting evidence.

In this highly interactive presentation, NLP speaker, trainer and hypnotherapist Harvey Taylor will share his own views on the reality of the claims made for NLP, and he’ll also demonstrate the techniques, including showing us ‘how to generate states of confidence, happiness and many others’.

Join us for an entertaining afternoon as we attempt to uncover the facts and fiction of NLP

Free entry (donations appreciated).     Everyone welcome!

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When I was in my 20s & 30s I read several Steven Covey self help books and listened to his cassettes. I found them useful and inspiring both for my business activities and in my relations with family and friends.

Have Dorset Humanists found any good self-help material that they have found useful over the years? Please leave a comment if you have.

Recent Dorset Humanist Dave E is now searching for secular self-development material. He says (the links are all mine): "Finding supernatural free self-improvement literature is proving more of a challenge than I'd expected. Whilst some are overtly religious such as Covey's "7 habits" almost all seem to give God, or a higher cosmic power, at least a mention. There's a fair amount of borderline stuff but whenever I think I've found an example totally free of divine, or cosmic, influence references, the author blows it by stating something like "and as sure as God made those little green apples.....", or "as the scriptures state....". Even eminent psychologist, Martin Seligman, pioneer of "positive psychology", author of "Learned Optimism" and a lifelong non-believer has apparently gone a bit mystic towards the end of his more recent book, "Authentic Happiness".

Dave E says further "I've just finished reading Andy Gilbert's, "Go M.A.D - The art of making a difference" and I'm relatively sure that I've not seen a direct mention of any mythological entities, or cosmic forces (unless I've subconsciously filtered them) and he provides a fairly mechanical treatment of most of the principles.

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