Enrichment ACT Blog-Purpose
The purpose of our blog is to discuss topics having to do with personal growth, change, and achieving excellence and actualization. NLP, Neuro-Semantics, and hypnosis, are our passions; because people can be so much more if they use the best tools to better themselves! We will highlight aspects of the evolving art and science in these areas and offer food for thought and to encourage your transformations. We will also sometimes let you know what we are doing. It is our conviction that this is good stuff and we want people to know it! Our more community oriented blog is CHANGE PATHS BLOG. We invite you also explore the articles posted there.
We are passionate about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Neuro-Semantics (NS), and Hypnosis as effective tools to help people grow, change, and actualize potential. We have seen these methods work time and time again. In our view all people would benefit from the skills offered by Neuro-Semantics and NLP. Further anyone who works with people or in the role of helping people would benefit from knowledge of the NLP, NS, & Hypnosis. These disciplines have broad applicability to facilitate changes in cognition, emotion and behavior. Growth involves designing our meanings so they serve us well. We also have concerns about the grand claims and promises of magical solutions that sometimes characterize the public face of these disciplines (particularly hypnosis and NLP). In our view the fluff often obscures the useful core beneath, a more productive place to direct attention.
I (Dr. Liotta) have been a student of hypnosis and NLP since 1983, though certainly not exclusively. I also have experience in cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, humanistic/existential therapies, and psychological assessment. Neuro-Semantics is a more recent passion. Neuro-Semantics developed out of NLP and the human potential movement. It focuses, in part, on the meanings we make. The meanings we make define our lives and our potential. Almost everything I have learned about psychology and systems is enriched and expanded by what Neuro-Semantics and NLP offer, as a way of understanding how human beings in systems operate; these systems are intrapsychic (inside our mind-body), interpersonal (between people), and between the aspects of of the world with which we interact. My style is to pick things apart, try to understand them more fully, and consider connections. The fields of Neuro-Semantics, NLP and hypnosis have provided some of the most useful tools and conceptual sets to understand how people work and how they change. There is no single path to the places varyingly described as wellness, effectiveness, behavioral health, personal growth, self-improvement, symptom relief, self-actualization, or inner peace; to name a few. But Neuro-Semantics, NLP, and hypnosis offer tools and perspectives that are immensely useful toward these destinations .
We hope you will find something useful here. We’ll also link you to interesting content and resources that catch our attention and comment where it feels appropriate. This blog is intended as another voice among the many serving the greater purpose of helping people live more fulfilling and productive lives.
