Robert Stephenson

Actor, Coach, Tutor and Workshop Leader.

Facilitating Learning and Self Development through Creativity and Coaching.

Relationship Coach. Developing communication skills through Coaching, NLP and Body language.

Working with Young People and those that support them to create empowered, confident and positive individuals.

robert@unclassifiedarts.com
robert_stephenson@me.com

Sometimes I feel I get a lot done waiting for something else, with my shoes and coat on, with the car running. I don’t have a set routine. I can work for hours at a time, but I get a lot of stuff done in these weird starts and stops, which makes it a little bit harder to track. I have so many backs of envelopes with notes written on them in my pockets or stuffed into the side door of a car. I also use my Blackberry to write myself notes. Last night, I wrote myself an e-mail that said, “Tough girls with dark pink skin, England air, etc.” Now it’s sort of coming back to me, but when I woke up and read it, I was like, “What? What did I drink?” Lots happens in these little spaces between work and eating and sleeping. Sheila said she had this image of me standing up—you know how you stand up and eat when you’re really hungry? Well I stand up and work. It’s not a Hemingway thing, it’s more like I have to get this done, because the elevator is coming up. Some thing happens then. And that’s when I work.

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Paris Review – Leanne Shapton, Thessaly La Force

Gold. Feeds my fetish for workflows. I’ve always been a productivity geek, but particularly over the past year or so, bearing in mind the way that looking after my mother has had an impact on my regular (obsessive/immersive) work patterns, I’ve been really keen to explore the way that other people get things done. There’s a blog project in here (that I’ve alluded to a fair few times before (most recently…) that probably won’t come to light until after I get the larger bulk of my Olympic activity out of the way— my Olympic projects are, in their own respective ways, wreaking havoc with my workflow…

More gold from the same article:

“You know the experience of being late for a train? And you know how aware you are of one minute—just one single minute? That was my entire teenage life. It must be an athlete thing, not just a swimming thing, because training has everything to do with time and repetition. It’s probably a musical thing, too. Your body knows time, your body knows time better than your head.”

Yes.

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New Blog

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please come take a look, take care.

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Space to Create or Creative Space

As a creative practitioner I enjoy change, in fact I crave it. When I do something the same for a long period of time I find it challenging. The down side to this, if there is such a thing as a down side, is that I never stick at things for very long…And when you are working towards something that takes time to get up and running, well you can just imagine the challenges that come with that.

Now I begin to wonder how I can put all this together in a way that leaves space for change, yet at the same time allows the world to know and understand what I do, and along came an idea. Space…Space is what I create, space for change, space for relaxations, space to create, space to develop…

With the new skills I am learning, namely the Hypnotherapy, I am now able to create a space for deep relaxation, enable you to see things from a different point of view, create new feelings and insights. Mix this with the NLP and Coaching, and from that relaxed frame you are able to move forward.

Thinking out loud!

So there I was having a conversation with a friend, all about this coaching, NLP and hypnotherapy stuff that I do. And they were asking, “Well how does it help, isn’t it just pretending to be happy when you’re not?” To this I answered, it’s not about pretending anything, yeah you might “act as if” in order to begin to understand how a way of behaving feels. But at the heart of what I do is understanding self, understanding wants, needs, desires, dreams, fears. The more we understand ourselves and the places our idea of self comes from, the more we are able to challenge those thoughts/feelings/ideas and also create new ones. 

Let’s say you find public specking challenging, as an NLP practitioner, hypnotherapist, coach, it’s my job to enable you to explore what it is about this that you find challenging. It could be that years ago when you spoke in public someone laughed at you or thought you weren’t very good and you have held this experience, and built it up in your mind. So now when you enter those situations all you can think about is that time it went not so good for you, perhaps you relive that time. By understanding this, by getting you to explore this one time, we can then begin to look at all the other times you speak to groups of people and are ok with it, in fact we might even find times when you enjoy talking to groups of people. Taking those times, the successful experiences and bringing them to mind, we can begin to change your understand of not being good at public speaking, we can uncover your fears and see them for what they are, put them on the table and explore the truth behind them. One of the important keys is practice, the more we do something the better we get at it, therefore we can build a bank of positive experiences that we can call upon when we are in a challenging situation.

One of the ways to stay motivated is to think of the bigger picture, hold onto those reasons why we made our new years resolution in the first place. Being part of a group that have the same goal can help too, as support and encouragement. Also a coach is a great way to help you keep to your new years resolutions, they might do some future pacing or visualisation with you, even create a vision board with you that you can place in a prominent part of your home, to help remind and keep you on track.

What’s in your head?

  • NLP and Hypnotherapy
  • Youth Coaching
  • Theatre and Education
  • Improvisation
  • Storytelling 
  • Olympics Unplugged 
  • Life

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NLP and Hypnotherapy practice clients

Dear Friends and Colleagues

As you may already know, I am currently studying NLP and Hypnotherapy. 
NLP is said to be a set of tools that enable you to analyse and change the way you process information, which in turn changes how you think, feel and act. NLP is often used within coaching to help you re-think the challenges you may face in the pursuit of your goals. NLP also teaches how to communicate more effectively with yourself and others.
Hypnotherapy or Hypnosis is the process that allows a person to enter an altered state, and in this altered state the conscious mind is less dominant, allow you to focus on your thoughts, feelings and internal sensations without the chatter and questioning of our conscious mind. This can create deep relaxation, and allow you to move away from thoughts, feelings and sensations that are uncomfortable or troubling you.
With this in mind I’m looking for practice clients. The areas that I am currently working on are: Using NLP to explore an issue and create a well formed outcome And Using Hypnotherapy to create relaxed states.
If you are interested in being a practice client, then please let me know so that we can organise our diaries and book in your session.
Wishing you a great day today and everyday.

Anyone got any of these books sitting on their shelf that they would like to lend me :-) Frogs into princes, trance-­‐formation, the structure of Magic Vol 1 or Patterns of the hypnotic techniques of M.Erikson vol 1 by Bandler – Grinder.