What is the NLP Cafe?
The NLP Cafe is the monthly NLP Practice group run by IntegrityNLP in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is an opportunity for newcomers to NLP and old hands to come together to practice their NLP skills. The cafe usually meets at 7pm on the third Wednesday of the month in St Oswald's Hospice Teaching Centre, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.
At each session an NLP based process or technique will be explained and demonstrated then the participants have a chance to practice the process and improve their skills. The sessions are usually open to all-comers, even if you have had no formal experience of NLP. We aim to make the sessions as straightforward and useful as possible. They last from 7pm to 9pm with a short tea break midway through the session.
Each session costs just £10
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You've Been Framed! - September 15th 2010
Does this ever happen to you?
You have a problem, you feel someone is to blame. You go round and round in circles with it. You can't seem to get out of that way of thinking.
Someone else has a problem and they have bring it to you. They tell you about it and go on and on about it to you. You can't seem to get them out of that way of thinking.
You've been framed!
Frames are the way we organise our experience to give it meaning. The frame includes and excludes different parts of experience. What we pay attention to will affect the way we understand and act on what we know.
Try this as and experiment. Complete each of the following sentences, paying careful attention to how you feel when you think about the issue from these different points of view.
In popular culture there are two very common frames - the problem frame and the blame frame. Many parts of the media thrive on the problem and blame frame. What is wrong with society, the housing market, economy, our health ... and who is to blame? Our parents, immigrants, drug companies, our boss, spouse ...
In politics also the frame game is being played. For example: the goverment's troubles are the result of the last governments legacy (blame frame). It's not just in politics and the media, we, our friends, family, colleagues are all using frames to frame their experience. From an NLP Perspective some of these are less than helpful ways of organising our attention as the focus on what we don't want, the past, other people and our (imagined) limits.
What if?
What if you had a way to spot the frame you or someone else is in and swap it for a more helpful frame? Instead of looking at things through the problem frame, seeing what's wrong in all it's awful detail, you could look through a different set of windows, seeing what's possible.
What if you had a simple step by step way of helping yourself and others into a more useful frame of mind?
Learn How To Change The Frame with 'Frame Jitsu'
All you need is a pen, some index cards, and a session of Frame Jitsu for beginners.
At the NLP Cafe on Wednesday 15th September at 7pm we will supply the pen, cards, some Frame Jitsu and tea and biscuits! All for just £10.
Image courtesy of EditorB
You have a problem, you feel someone is to blame. You go round and round in circles with it. You can't seem to get out of that way of thinking.
Someone else has a problem and they have bring it to you. They tell you about it and go on and on about it to you. You can't seem to get them out of that way of thinking.
You've been framed!
Frames are the way we organise our experience to give it meaning. The frame includes and excludes different parts of experience. What we pay attention to will affect the way we understand and act on what we know.
Try this as and experiment. Complete each of the following sentences, paying careful attention to how you feel when you think about the issue from these different points of view.
- The problems with where I live are ...
- The good things about where I live are ...
In popular culture there are two very common frames - the problem frame and the blame frame. Many parts of the media thrive on the problem and blame frame. What is wrong with society, the housing market, economy, our health ... and who is to blame? Our parents, immigrants, drug companies, our boss, spouse ...
In politics also the frame game is being played. For example: the goverment's troubles are the result of the last governments legacy (blame frame). It's not just in politics and the media, we, our friends, family, colleagues are all using frames to frame their experience. From an NLP Perspective some of these are less than helpful ways of organising our attention as the focus on what we don't want, the past, other people and our (imagined) limits.
What if?
What if you had a way to spot the frame you or someone else is in and swap it for a more helpful frame? Instead of looking at things through the problem frame, seeing what's wrong in all it's awful detail, you could look through a different set of windows, seeing what's possible.
What if you had a simple step by step way of helping yourself and others into a more useful frame of mind?
Learn How To Change The Frame with 'Frame Jitsu'
All you need is a pen, some index cards, and a session of Frame Jitsu for beginners.
At the NLP Cafe on Wednesday 15th September at 7pm we will supply the pen, cards, some Frame Jitsu and tea and biscuits! All for just £10.
Image courtesy of EditorB