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"Wow! I have just returned from co-training with Andy Austin in the Advanced Mastery Training sponsored by Tools For Transforming. I would have gladly given up my training days to Andy so that I could have learned even more (and I can’t recall saying something like that before—ever.) "Attending Metaphors of Movement was enlightening and I think you have Click here for Sample Questions Page - PDF File
In this workshop, Andrew T. Austin, inspired by the work of Charles Faulkner, demonstrates how to overcome stuck states and create effective movement towards your personal goals. "Not enough people pay attention to their mode of transport," Austin explains, "in trying to move forward in life, people need to know in which direction they are heading and how far they need to go in order to reach their goal. The way they transport themselves towards that goal is vitally important and of course it is their body that is their transport." Clients often arrive in therapy complaining of a lack of movement in their lives, both metaphorically and literally. Common expressions of how the person feels that reflects this lack of movement include:
There are many expressions that reflect a lack of movement in a person's life. In addition to this, many people lack direction:
Instead of paying attention to these metaphors of movement and direction, all too often in therapy there is an excessive attention paid to the kinesthetic system and the emotions. As a result we often find a person who finds themselves unable to move forward until they have the right feeling in place. It is often noticed that many martial arts and systems of physical movement are highly philosophical in nature, an example that is well known to many people is from Aikido, where an opponents movement is not blocked, but instead is redirected. In this Metaphors of Movement workshop, Austin demonstrates the relationship between the way a person moves their body and the way a person moves through their mind and through their life.
This workshop also details the type of path on which a person moves. Life is often describe as a journey and we walk different paths. This can reflects the type of terrain, or environment, with which the person interacts. Common expressions of a person's terrain include:
The mode of transport is important too, and is something that is so often overlooked. for example in order to feel like we are getting somewhere in life, we may need to:
But sometimes we may feel as though we are moving too slowly or that we are not the driver of this transport, but rather are a passenger:
Metaphors of Movement "After attending a workshop with Andy I put into practice within a week my new found skills - WOW! - amazing and rapid results. I believed I listened to my clients, I now knew that I didn't hear their movement, or lack of it!! Within 2 hours a client who had spent thousands of pounds seeking a cure from others found the right way forward, and could engage their gear. Previously everything was going wrong (and the movement metaphors were going left) and when things went the right way she found movement. We had walls that could be seen over, but couldn't be got over; scared of falling on their bum....... and literally a numb bum, that triggered instant movement, and a desire to move forward through engaging their gears. This is an opportunity for NLP practitioners, coaches and therapists to discover some of the patterns of success occurring in a professionally designed clinical practice. This training moves beyond the popular training style of, “Edutainment” and into the attitudes of a professional change worker. Bringing with him a clinical background in neurology and neurosciences, Andrew T. Austin will be covering many of the practical aspects of change work so often overlooked by NLP practitioners and trainers, therapists and change workers in the personal development field.
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