Personal Growth or Client Work

A Strategy for Responding to Criticism

by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.     One of the fundamental presuppositions of NLP is that “There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.” That’s a nice thought, and it points in a very useful direction. However, for a majority of people it’s just a cute sentence that doesn’t automatically change their experience or …

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Escaping the “Black Hole” of Judgement

by Steve Andreas ©2004  “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — Shakespeare (Hamlet)  Introduction           In English, there are two basic meanings for the word “judgement.” One meaning is clear thinking–to be able to perceive a situation, gather information, assess it, and come to a conclusion or decision, as in …

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How Clients ‘Do’ Their Problems

By Steve Andreas NLP can help you do the ‘briefest’ therapy  Published in: Psychotherapy Networker, November/December, 2007, pp. 63-67 Recently I watched a public demonstration at a large psychotherapy conference conducted by a celebrated therapist with a female clinician in her forties. The therapist connected quickly with full attention, warmth, humor, understanding, and many other …

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Changing the “Not Self”

by Steve Andreas ©2002 This is chapter 11 of Steve’s book: Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be. An earlier version was published in Anchor Point, Vov. 16, No. 7, July, pp. 4-13        When people speak of a “negative self-concept,” what they usually mean is that someone has a self-concept that is negatively-valued.  …

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Building a New Quality of Self-concept*

by Steve Andreas ©2002 Excerpt from the book, Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be          We have been exploring the impact and the interaction of both process and content variables in making a quality of your self-concept durable and responsive to feedback. We have also explored the importance of integrating counterexamples, and …

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