Workshop at ITBHU, G11 – 24 Jan 2009 (10:30 am to 1:30 pm)

(with Jagat Rathore, NLP Master Practioner, Executive Coach)

Following text has been written by Jagat

1. ‘Possibility Search’ – Attitude and beliefs

If there is one single factor that can be said to set human beings apart from animals, it must be the power of cognitive choice! As rational, thinking beings, we humans have the power to CHOOSE what we want and how we live.

Children, more than any adult, are a living embodiment of this attitude. Constantly exploring, constantly questioning, constantly learning and constantly changing ….

Until the day they finally decide to stop changing and ‘grow up’ – they decide to start to ‘act like adults’. That’s the precise moment at which they stop growing and CHOOSE to start dying.

The cruelest irony of all is that they don’t even know that they have chosen, leave alone the fact that they can make a different choice.

And as time goes by, they sink deeper into the morass of what scientists have chosen to call: Learned Helplessness.

2. Learned Helplessness

Is it indeed possible that helplessness can be a learned phenomenon? Surely being helpless is an external event that ‘happens’ to us!

Or is it?

And if indeed helplessness can be learned, can it also be un-learned? Is it at all possible that we human beings, blessed rational creatures with the power of cognitive choice can actually learn to exercise that choice and change our lives.

And indeed, the lives of those around us?

Is this just a load of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo – or does the mysterious domain of quantum physics hold a lesson which in its sheer simplicity becomes virtually impossible for the most intelligent mind to accept?

What is matter? Never mind!

What is mind? No matter!

Please click here to read the coverage in ITBHU Chronicle Jan 2009