How NLP Training Helps Your Firm: Soft Skills With Teeth Most business owners focus on "hard skills" because they are easy to measure. But high-impact soft skills training can affect whether a company scales or fails. In my experience, the most expensive business...
Recursive Change Architecture: Why "Stacking" NLP Techniques Leads to Permanent Change Most people approach personal change like a home repair: they find a single tool, apply it to a single problem, and hope the fix holds. If they have a limiting belief, they run a...
The Strategic Value of Confusion: Why Mild Uncertainty is Your Brain’s Greatest Gift (originally written ~2010 on altfeld[dot]com; rewritten and published here in 2026.) In the world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), most people are obsessed with "positive"...
NLP and Stuttering: How State Control and Rhythm Can Transform Your Speech (originally published April 2011 on altfeld [dot] com. Fully rewritten and updated for modern times!) Quick Takeaways for Speakers & Coaches: NLP is a Strategy, Not a Cure:...
NLP Time Distortion: How Our Internal Clocks Impact Decisions & Influence Quick Takeaways for Coaches & Communicators: Time Distortion is Universal: Human perception of time is highly inaccurate and easily manipulated by internal and external cues....
The Hidden Power of Tonality: How to Develop an Irresistible Voice For nearly three decades, I’ve been known in the Neuro Linguistic Programming community, and well beyond it, as an expert on vocal development. My first voice audio program, Finding Your Irresistible...
Stop Making it Weird: How to Explain NLP to Friends and Family (Originally published on altfeld.com 20+ years ago. Fully rewritten for 2026, here!) We’ve all been there. You come back from a training, or you’re mid-way through a deep-dive into submodalities... and...
How Best to Learn NLP: The Architecture of Mastery Originally published on April 26, 1998, at my old website altfeld (dot) com, and rewritten 2/14/2026 here. If you ask ten different Master Trainers how to learn Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), you’ll likely get...
The "Go Corporate" Refrain If I had a nickel for every time someone told me, "Jonathan, you should go after [Big Corporation X]! They pay so much money for training that is lightyears behind what you do," I could retire to a private island. It plays like a broken...
NLP Strategies & Elicitation: The Evolution into Strategy Pipelines Editor’s Note: Some of the ideas in this post were originally published 2/12/1998 in an online Chat Transcript, on altfeld.com. It has been refreshed, rewritten, and republished here on January...
NLP and the Hero’s Journey: Living a Life of Mythic Proportions Editor’s Note: This article was originally published two decades ago on altfeld.com. It has been refreshed, rewritten, and republished here on January 31, 2026. There is a moment most of us...
How to Be More Efficient With NLP — Without Getting Stuck Chasing “Efficiency” "Efficiency" is one of those words that sounds like a practical goal… and often behaves like a mental trap. In NLP terms, efficiency is a "nominalization" — which is a process... frozen...