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Latest Episodes

The 5 Factor Model & Hexaco: Audio Podcast
April 29, 2021

This Big Five assessment measures your scores on five major dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (sometimes abbreviated OCEAN). Check out your scores on each of the five dimensions and lea...

Take My Advice – Audio Podcast
April 01, 2021

Advice can be pretty cheap a lot of the time but now and again some really good, life-altering advice comes along. If you are the giver of good advice, it’s important to offer it in a way that allows the recipient an opportunity to take it onboard or n...

How Hope Helps Depression
February 24, 2021

In this podcast we explore whether there are core principles that help to increase a person's feelings of hopefulness and how cognitive behaviour strategies such as NLP can help us to develop more hop

I think You’ve Got a Problem: How to Raise a Mental Health Illness or Concern
January 21, 2021

Around 25% of people will suffer from some kind of mental health problem in their life. That means there is a strong likelihood that we will all come into contact with someone who is experiencing a problem at some point in time.

Dealing with Annoying People: The People Building Audio Podcast
December 24, 2020

Here are my tips on dealing with annoying people. This is a new show format with a longer podcast  - just like the good old days! Right now, it’s easier than ever to get annoyed and frustrated. Covid is certainly testing our limits and our sensitivity...

Stop Taking on Other’s Responsibilities – The Not NLP Podcast Episode 37
November 18, 2020

If you are feeling overwhelmed with the amount responsibilities you have on your plate at the moment then this is the podcast for you.  First, we take a dive into why having responsibilities can be a good thing for helping you to, in essence,

Turn Down Stress and Anxiety – The Not NLP Podcast Episode 36
October 15, 2020

Reducing stress and anxiety in yourself and others can be a simple thing to do when you are aware of and make adjustments to the type of language you use. At times, giving lots of detail helps us to avoid generalising and for communication with others...

Talking Seriously About Humour – The Not NLP Podcast Episode 35
September 23, 2020

Is there a place for humour in therapy or any workplace for that matter? And if so, when is it appropriate? Is laughter always the best medicine? In this podcast, we explore the right ways to tickle someone’s funny bones and when it might be inappropr...

You Have Everything You Need – The Not NLP Audio Podcast Episode 34
August 27, 2020

In NLP we have convent beliefs or ways of thinking about the world called ‘presuppositions’. One of these presuppositions is ‘You already have everything you need to succeed and to achieve your desired outcomes’. -

What is Your Purpose? – The Not NLP Podcast Episode 33
July 17, 2020

In NLP there is a technique we use for categorising the levels of specificity of our language that we use, called chunking. A question for chunking up ( the process of becoming more abstract in subject matter) is “For what purpose?”