Personal Development All-in-One E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies is a complete guide to a range of techniques you can use to master your thoughts and achieve your goals. Discover the basic principles of each approach and receive sensible, practical and effective expert advice on how each one can help you challenge negative beliefs and change your attitudes. Whether you wish to conquer an anxiety, communicate better with others or simply think more positively, here you will find proven and popular methods that you can use to make major changes - improving your personal power and creating the life you want. Techniques covered: * Cognitive Behavioural Therapy * Neuro-linguistic Programming * Life Coaching * Building Self-confidence

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Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

by Rhena Branch, Kate Burton, Jeni Mumford, Brinley Platts, Romilla Ready and Rob Willson

Edited by Gillian Burn

Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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About the Authors

Gillian Burn has over 25 years of experience in health and wellbeing. Her background covers nursing, midwifery and health visiting, including experience working with the Flying Doctor Service in the Australian outback.

Gillian has an MSc in Exercise and Health and is a qualified master practitioner in Neuro-linguistic Programming, time line therapy®, and in creating healthy environments. She is a licensed instructor for Mind Mapping® techniques and speed reading with Tony Buzan and a licensed instructor in Body Control Pilates® with the Body Control Pilates Academy.

Gillian is the Director of Health Circles Ltd (www.healthcircles.co.uk) providing training programmes, consultancy and coaching for individuals and companies to improve health and quality of life. Her workshops address lifestyle factors to improve energy and performance including exercise, nutrition, stress and time management, communication, designing effective workspace and creating peak energy.

Gillian aims to practise what she preaches! As well as rowing she enjoys walking, yoga, and pilates, alongside bringing up her 2 young children.

Rhena Branch, MSc, Dip CBT, is an accredited CBT therapist and holds a post-graduate clinical supervision qualification. Rhena runs a private practice with offices in North and Central London. She also teaches and supervises on the MSc course in CBT/REBT at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Rhena treats general psychiatric disorders and has a special interest in eating disorders. Rhena is the co-author of CBT For Dummies (2nd edition) and CBT Journal For Dummies.

Kate Burton (www.kateburton.co.uk) is an international NLP master coach, author and workshop leader who challenges individuals and organisations to create lives that are sustainable and fun. Her business career began in corporate advertising and marketing with Hewlett-Packard. Now she works with leaders and managers across industries and cultures to work at their best. She loves to deliver custom-built coaching programmes that support people to boost their communication skills, motivation, self-awareness and confidence. She believes that people all have unique talents, abilities and core values: the skill is about honouring them to the full. In addition to co-authoring NLP For Dummies, the NLP Workbook For Dummies and Confidence For Dummies, she is the author of Live Life. Love Work published by Capstone, an imprint of Wiley. Her latest addition to the Dummies personal development books is Coaching with NLP For Dummies.

Jeni Mumford was a coach and facilitator who applied whole life coaching techniques to her work with people and within businesses. Before her own life-changing decision to become a coach, Jeni benefited from a 16-year career with the Hays group, spanning recruitment, sales operations, project management, and people development, where she was lucky enough to embark on a new challenging job role every 18 months or so. It was this experience of discovering that the grass is green wherever you are – if you take proper care of the lawn – that gave Jeni the conviction and motivation to build her purpose around inspiring people to attract and enjoy their own dream life and work. Sadly, Jeni passed away in 2011.

Brinley Platts is a leading executive coach, researcher and consultant to FTSE 100 companies. He is one of the UK’s leading authorities on CIO and IT executive careers and works with international companies on the integration of senior executive life and career goals. He is a behavioural scientist by training, and his passion is to enable large organisations to become places where ordinary decent people can grow and express their talents freely to the benefit of all stakeholders. He is a co-founder of the Bring YourSELF To Work campaign, which aims to release the pent-up talent and passion of today’s global workforce to create the better world we all desire and want our children to inherit.

Romilla Ready is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming, and is the director of Ready Solutions, which was founded in 1996. She runs professionally developed workshops across a range of areas and has trained clients in the UK and overseas, using her cross-cultural skills to build rapport between different nationalities. Romilla has been interviewed on local radio and has had articles on stress management and applications of NLP published in the press.

Rob Willson, BSc, MSc, Dip SBHS, currently divides the majority of his work time between private practice and conducting research on Body Dysmorphic Disorder at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. Previously he spent twelve years working at the Priory Hospital, North London where he was a therapist and therapy services manager. He also trained numerous CBT therapists over a seven-year period at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. Rob’s main clinical interests are anxiety and obsessional problems, and disseminating CBT principles through self-help. He has made several TV appearances including in the BBC documentary ‘Too Ugly for Love’.

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Introduction

Welcome to Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, your launch pad to understanding the basics of the key techniques and therapies available for personal development.

As a human (we’re assuming you’re not a cat if you’re reading this book), at some stage in your life you’re likely to experience some sort of emotional problem that you’d like to surmount and you’re interested in arming yourself with the techniques to help you tackle those problems. Perhaps you’re tired or fed-up with the way some things are for you now and want to find interesting and useful information to enhance your life. If so, this book is a great starting point.