Life by Design Programmes

Practical tools to change how you feel — not just talk about it.

• ✓Anchoring to interrupt unwanted states
• ✓The NLP reframing process
• ✓A technique for reducing the intensity of a difficult memory
• ✓Tools for everyday anxiety and stress
• ✓A personal toolkit you can use immediately

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.

How top performers get out of their own way — and how you can too.

• ✓Mental rehearsal techniques
• ✓Anchoring a peak, focused state
• ✓Modelling excellence
• ✓Managing pressure and performance anxiety
• ✓Building your own pre-performance routine

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.

The communication patterns behind connection — and the ones that quietly sabotage it.

• ✓Building fast, genuine rapport
• ✓Understanding representational systems
• ✓Identifying what someone truly values
• ✓Reframing recurring relationship patterns
• ✓Clearer communication tools

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.

Confidence isn't a personality trait. It's a state — and states can be built.

• ✓Anchoring a confident state on demand
• ✓Shifting the beliefs undermining you
• ✓"Away from" vs "towards" motivation
• ✓Submodality work on fear and doubt
• ✓A daily self-talk shift

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.

Most goals fail before they start. This is how NLP sets them up to actually happen.

• ✓The "well-formed outcome" framework
• ✓Future-pacing your goal
• ✓Resolving conflicts between goals and values
• ✓A timeline technique for staying on track
• ✓One goal, fully mapped, by day's end

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.

NLP tools to melt stress before it takes hold.

• ✓Recognising your personal stress triggers and early warning signs
• ✓Anchoring a calm, grounded state on demand
• ✓The NLP swish pattern for interrupting stress spirals
• ✓Breathing and physiological state-change techniques
• ✓A daily stress-reset routine you can use immediately

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.

Practical NLP techniques to dissolve anxious thinking patterns.

• ✓Understanding the structure of anxious thinking, not just its content
• ✓A fast technique for reducing the intensity of anxious reactions
• ✓Reframing "what if" anxious thinking
• ✓Timeline techniques for future-focused anxiety
• ✓A personal toolkit for managing anxiety day to day

Small groups — personal attention. Trained by Michael Connolly & Mary Dowling.