Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude is a great way to remember to count our blessings every day of the year and is a testimony to the life changing power of doing so.

I’m very excited to be a part of this book! Gratitude is so critical to well-being, motivation, happiness, and discovering the full meanings in life. This book will encourage you to remind yourself about what you are grateful for every day.

My entry is about Precious Moments and the life embracing choice to notice and appreciate the precious moments in daily life.

This book is full of inspirational stories and appreciation, not only for the things and people we sometimes take for granted, but for challenging circumstances and often less than desirable events.

Expressing appreciation for the good things in our lives, though sometimes overlooked, is fairly easy. But imagine expressing your gratitude for things such as not fitting in, Muscular Dystrophy, bankruptcy, or the loss of a job or a loved one. That’s when the practice of gratitude really starts to take on a life changing power!

Net proceeds from all books in The Gratitude Book Project® series are proudly donated to the following charities:

• Feeding America
• Women for Women International
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.)

These books make great holiday gifts for friends and family and the book is a wonderful way to remember to count our daily blessings. I hope you will join me in supporting these organizations and in keeping gratitude in motion throughout the year.

Pick up your copies at Amazon, “The Gratitude Book Project: Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude.”

Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree: 61 Stories of Creative & Compassionate Ways out of Conflict by Mark Andreas!

Rosemary’s story from the book was featured on Steve Andreas’ Blog.

About the story he said:

This is a passionate and moving story of courage and the influence of language. It’s a great example of entering another person’s world through mirroring — and much more — in an extremely dangerous situation.

We think you’ll enjoy this story, from Rosemary Lake-Liotta, sharing her experience working as an EMT in tough neighborhoods.

Her response was the opposite of the classic instructions in such situations. You are usually told to respond to conflict with placating words like “let’s all calm down and discuss this rationally.” I think you can easily imagine how that would have worked here.

You can read Words Save Lives here. Steve Andreas posted it on his blog.

The book is full of valuable stories! You can read more about the book at this website, SweetFruitBook.com.

You can also purchase it on Amazon.

Rosemary added the following comment to clarify a few points about her story:

You can read Words Save Lives here. Steve Andreas posted it on his blog.

The book is full of valuable stories! You can read more about the book at this website, SweetFruitBook.com.

You can also purchase it on Amazon.

All the proceeds from the sale of the book are being donated to the NLP Research and Recognition Project.

Frank Bourke and myself authored the chapter in the book on the NLP Research and Recognition Project.

The book is already been released in the UK, and will be out shortly in the USA. Amazon.com in the UK has the following description of the book:

This long awaited book brings together some of the most recent innovations and applications of the traditional NLP model. Each chapter describes a new model or application and contains step by step instructions or a case study on how and when to apply it. For NLP Practitioners it provides an outstanding collection of new tools and ideas to take their practice forward. Contributors include: Shelle Rose Charvet -LAB Profile: Decoding Language and Behaviour to Improve Communication; Ian McDermott -NLP Coaching: How to Develop a Coaching Mindset; L Michael Hall -Meta States: Modelling Self-Reflexive Consciousness; John McWhirter -Behavioural Remodelling: Advancing NLP s Linguistic Model; Charles Faulkner -Modeling Market Wizards: Revealing the Methods of Outstanding Traders and Investors; Nick Kemp -Provocative Change Works: Improvisation and Humour in Therapy and Coaching; Bob Bodenhamer -What Triggers Stuttering?: A Model for Achieving Fluency; Robert Dilts -Success Factor Modelling: The Secrets of Entrepreneurial Leadership; Martin Roberts -The Well Formed Problem: A New Model for Managing Change in Business. The book also includes chapters on some of the most innovative IT projects and communities where developments and advances continue to be made, including the Clean Language community and the NLP Research and Recognition Project. More than anything, this book represents a collaboration of some of the best innovators in the field of NLP to push the boundaries of the traditional NLP model and create some solutions for the problems created by the increasingly troubled world in which we live.

The full contents can also be viewed on Amazon.com in the UK.

The book can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com in the USA; the USA release is scheduled for December 20th.

Take control of your life – and your success – and raise it to the next level with this three-day intensive workshop. You will learn about your patterns of thought and the power of meaning-making to improve your performance and increase your opportunities for success. This training is built around hands-on tools that will help you access deeper focus, design effective thought strategies, and leverage both to enhance and support better living – in both your professional and personal life.

Transformative Self-Leadership is about accessing your personal genius and bringing out your best!

See full description here: Tranformative Self-Leadership

The conference was held in Grand Junction, Colorado (the home of L. Michael Hall, an originator of Neuro-Semantics) July 1 through July 3, 2011. Representatives from 14 countries attended: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Hong Kong-China, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Seventeen presenters delivered 20 workshops on the themes of Business, Coaching, and Personal Development along with 3 keynote presentations.

Dr. Hall commented that “…the passion and energy at the Conference was incredible! It was exciting. It often felt like a burning fire of passion and care for what we have and what it can do in the world…” I agree wholeheartedly Michael! The conference was lively, inspirational, and practical. The collective wisdom, optimism, and hope expressed by the presenters and participants was amazing. This gathering of diverse people, a global community, with the common mission of promoting excellence and self-actualization to change the world for the better – one person at a time – was something to behold!

My contribution was a workshop entitled “How to Make Meta-States Stick.” Meta-States in Neuro-Semantics are the frames we create, the meanings we create, about ourselves, our possibilities and potentials. Our frames limit us or they can unleash us toward growth and transformation. While it can be relatively easy to visit useful frames, the challenge is making them home, making them stick, for lasting change.

I presented a framework for understanding what makes changes become integrated into who we are for lasting and robust change.

The audience offered a lot from their own extensive experiences helping people sustain positive frames to improve their lives. This all made for a lively, stimulating, and thought provoking 75 minutes! As I had hoped, participants left with new ideas, practical strategies, and inspiration regarding how to make changes that last – and how to assist others to achieve their goals.

For me a successful workshop is one where I have the opportunity to teach and share useful ideas AND where I learn from the knowledge and creativity of the participants! This workshop met both criteria.

Indeed the whole conference was characterized by learning, sharing, and exploring possibilities.

The next International Neuro-Semantics conference will be help in Malaysia is 2013. To learn more about Neuro-Semantics you can visit http://www.neurosemantics.com ; and look for more articles here, coming soon.

We also just finished a new Introductory video which we think you will enjoy. If you are new here it will also give some information about us, our values, and our mission.

Find out more about this DVD by FOLLOWING THIS LINK.

Enrichment Meditations are a synergy of majestic nature photography, music, and words crafted to inspire reflection, discovery, and the freedom to feel your highest potentials. I invite you to experience them with an open heart.

Enjoy fully the themes visited here. Notice how it is drinking in abundance and appreciation. See what resonates as you align with nature’s energy. Touch the seeds of transformation and watch them grow! Relax and unwind while simultaneously energizing mind and spirit.

Enjoy!

Rich

Find out more about this DVD-CLICK HERE!.

What we find great about the IASH conference is how it brings together so many of the thought leaders in NLP. It also reflected the diversity of ways NLP is being applied today. We left with a sense of enthusiasm about all the possibilities that NLP holds towards growth and further development in the future. Recordings of all conference presentations, individually or as a set, are available here.

Rosemary and I presented on 4 Vital Practices to Achieving Abundance In Your Life. We were gratified that this was an interesting topic to so many people. Having the opportunity to present this material as a three hour workshop gave us an opportunity to facilitate several exercises on the practices of reflection, appreciation, and creativity. We were very pleased with the response and we had a wonderful time! We also had the opportunity to have it videotaped so we plan to have some clips of the program available soon.

Another aspect of being at IASH was doing a lot of work related to the NLP Research and Recognition Project with Frank Bourke (NLPRandR). Frank and I presented to the entire conference about the project and its progress also introduced the fundraising drive that has begun to support the NLP R&R efforts. Both Frank Bourke and I were interviewed by Nick Kemp and those interviews have been posted on YouTube. We also talked with NLP medics, who are a group of physicians in Japan who utilize NLP in their practice. Frank talked with them about ways to evaluate some of what they are doing in the spirit of creating research regarding NLP. I also interviewed them about how they utilize NLP in their medical practices. That interview will be posted on YouTube soon.

Thus, the IASH conference was a very busy time for us in many ways. We are looking forward to next IASH conference in 2012!