I was rather looking forward to tonight’s session, I’d been told it was on the “ The Cloud” technique and being a bit of a dreamer I thought lying around staring at clouds could be quite pleasant.
But no, Alan had decided to introduce this apparently simple technique as not only a great technique in its own right, but also as a fun way to review submodalities, metaphor and presuppositions in language.
(Alan did attribute the Cloud to its developer – but I’ve currently forgotten the guy’s name – so apologies to the nameless one – I will add his details as soon as I get them)
Anyway, back to the evening after a brief review or introduction to submodalites and metaphor we soon got to the meat of the evening “The Cloud” – which turned out to be a very simple technique which really helped open up people’s thinking to new choices in their lives.
Judging by the laughter in the room and the feedback afterwards we had all kinds of clouds appearing and disappearing in the room as people let go of old ways and practiced designing and building new resources for themselves.
Were the clouds real? Who can tell?
But real or not it they certainly worked and it’s really easy to do too 
Next time (31st March) we’re going to be looking at NLP approaches to working with difficult people – not that you know any of those of course
…and no it doesn’t involve lying down staring at clouds. 
Bye for now,
Anth.
