The term Polya Patterns are thrown around in NLP and often associated to the Sleight of Mouth Patterns and talked about as “yes sets” but what are they really and who was Polya? George Polya was a mathematician (much the same as Alfred Korzybski, the developer of General Semantics) at Princeton who was curious about [...] Read more »
the closing of my coaching practice
It is with a twinge of sadness that, after 11 years of running a one to one coaching and therapy practice, I have made the tough decision to close the doors and no longer accept clients for the foreseeble future. I have so much more going on that I cannot maintain an effective and helpful [...] Read more »
a worrying trend
I can’t help feel twinge of sadness. You see, I have noticed a disappointing trend. NLP has become worryingly mainstream… NLP grew out of the counterculture and the exploding scene of consciousness explorers of the 60’s and 70’s, people like Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Noam Chomsky and Buckminster Fuller (to name a few), the [...] Read more »
