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Why Medical Professionals Need To Be Grounded
Working within healthcare especially within the National Health Service (NHS) can be both fantastically rewarding and also amazingly frustrating with stress levels higher than most careers, leading to argument and burnout. NLP offers insight and practical solutions to interpersonal difficulties, staff problems and our interactions with patients.
Healthcare professionals tend to spend more time focusing on others, neglecting their own needs. In order to be effective, it is necessary to be able to address your own needs before you are in a position to truly help others. NLP offers a series of effective communication and leadership tools. However, as the old cliche goes, “you can’t lead someone up a mountain without climbing the mountain yourself!”
Improving the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients
A Different Approach To Healthcare
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is primarily about communication skills and understanding how individuals process information. NLP is about the attitudes that lead to success and modelling successful performance. These attitudes have been developed into a series of tools and techniques which anyone can use to improve their performance in a particular context. NLP is very useful in the medical profession both in direct interaction between healthcare professionals and their patients as well as within the healthcare organisation. It is particularly relevant to individuals who are leading change, coaching performance and undergoing career changes.
NLP provides an insight and understanding into how we think, and has a variety of tools to help positively change that thinking process. In healthcare, we are not only involved personally in a complex organisation with our own busy lives, but we get involved in other people’s lives often when they are very vulnerable. A helpful word or a nudge in the right direction at the right time can often do as much as a medical or surgical intervention.
Mark Peters
Meet Mark Peters
Mark Peters is a Master Practitioner in NLP, Hypnotherapist, CBT Therapist, life coach and rehabilitation trainer. Mark’s extensive background in business, the martial arts and therapy has gelled together to allow him to provide an holistic therapeutic service.
Mark’s first experience of NLP was in the field of Change Management and it soon became obvious to Mark that ALL developmental work is in fact change management, even if named otherwise. Mark explains how doing something different requires a development of process and therefore a change of thinking and doing. NLP studies the structure of how humans think and experience the world. From this we can create the opportunity for change. The map is not the territory is an excellent example. Your map (or how you see/do something) is not the same as another person’s map of any given thing. Understanding this removes barriers for effective communication which allows individuals and organisations to develop exponentially.
The Interview
Tune in to this segment of The NLP View Radio Show, as host, Donna Blinston is joined by Mark Peters to discuss how he uses NLP to help medical professionals. January 5th, 2013 at 2pm EDT/12pmPST/7pm GMT. Stay Tuned!