Category: Improve Quality of Life

JoelMonty-com Services Video on YouTube

Check-out JoelMonty.com’s Services video on YouTube!  This video gives a brief insight at some of the coaching services Joel Montgomery makes available through JoelMonty.com.  See the pages of this website for more detail.

Focused Change Services

Focused change services are available for teams, groups, and organizations–including schools, churches, hospitals, and nursing homes as well as large and small businesses.

Learning and Change navigation and coaching services are provided. A change navigation map will be created and progress toward the focused change can be measured against the map. The map provides a step-by-step guide for achieving your goals.

Special Summer Promotion in 2014–Clients in the West Suburbs of Chicago can take advantage of preferred rates during the summer season.

Services are available over the Internet as well.

Next “Take Charge of Your Moods” Workshop and Webinar

The next Take Charge of Your Moods workshop and webinar dates, times, and locations have not yet been set.

Visit the Take Charge of Your Moods page for more information.

Learning and Change Marketplace

While meeting and greeting people at the Integrative Learning and Healing Center.org booth (#52, showcasing JoelMonty.com services) last Sunday, September 29th, at the Fox Valley Holistic Health Celebration, I had time to reflect on insights about the Learning and Change marketplace.

For many people, change is not welcome. While it is good to say that people want change (to lose weight, build confidence, exercise, eat healthy foods, improve financial situations, etc.), many people have a vested interest in leaving things the way they are. The “desired” change is like “winning the lottery.” (All at once for just the cost of a ticket.)

Real learning and change usually requires work. As a Learning and Change Navigator and Coach, I know about the work involved. I help my clients work through the learning and change process, step by step.

None of the people who stopped by my booth at the Holistic Health Celebration was ready to explore learning and change with me that day. I’m offering a workshop, “Take Charge of Your Moods” on Sunday, October 6, 2013, from 2 to 4 PM at Soup to Nuts, 716 W State St, Geneva, IL. So far no one has registered for the workshop, even when offered at a special rate connected to the Holistic Health Celebration ($30). (Visit https://JoelMonty.com/take-charge-of-your-moods/ to register.)

My friend, Rich Erschik, frequently spoke with me about this challenge. His business was “Leads to Sales” (though now he is a “Leads to Sales” Consultant and Trainer). Many of the sales people and other executives at companies he worked with did not want to learn and change when he showed them better ways to convert leads from trade shows to actual client sales. The risk of learning and change appeared to be greater than the discomfort of living with the “status quo.”

In my more than 40 years as a Learning and Change Navigator and Coach, many of the individuals at my client companies were not ready for the learning and change the company had contracted with me to bring about. These employees often wanted change at a lower level than that projected by the parent company.

In some instances, the parent company wanted a major change that violated the corporate DNA (the essential core of the business that was the hallmark of its success). When a change is in conflict with the corporate DNA, if the change takes place, the entire company is threatened. If it doesn’t take place, the advocates for the change could get in real hot water with the parent company.

In today’s economic times in the USA–even more so when Congress cannot approve a budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year–learning and change is needed at unprecedented levels and organizations, groups, and individuals who need to change to adapt and to survive and to be more successful are reluctant to risk the change or to invest in support for the change even when they know it’s needed.

I need to expand my personal learning and change market place. When you read this, refer it to a friend. I need to do more online workshops (webinars) so that people don’t need to visit me in Geneva to get the benefits from working with me to help them learn to change more successfully.

What do you want to learn to change? Let’s see if I can assist you.

There is no such thing as small change. All change is important to someone.

Take Charge of Your Moods Workshop Well Received

The first offering of the 90-minute “Take Charge of Your Moods:  From Chaos to Calm in Just Seconds” workshop was well received by participants at the Living Well Cancer Resource Center in Geneva, IL (http://www.livingwellcrc.org) on Thursday, August 29, 2013.

The workshop ran for 86 minutes, with four minutes for completion of the feedback form.  Here is some of the feedback:

Workshop Feedback

What did you find to be the most valuable learning from the workshop?

  • (Take Charge of Mood anchor)-#2 (anger), #3 (neutral), #4 (calm & resource)–Great seminar, very resourceful–can us it–anyone, anywhere, everywhere, perfect 🙂
  • Using touch to anchor–back of hand (#4), 3 fingers together (#1)
  • My Anchor map
  • Anchor point exercise
  • The anchor chain–#2, #3, #4 (Take Charge of Mood Anchor)
  • To go to a peaceful, comfortable place
  • Moving from a negative emotion to positive calm by using anchors
  • You are (I am) in charge of your (my) “moods”
  • How to transform from angry mood to neutral to calm (Take Charge of Mood anchor)–Hope it works.
  • Really liked the Circle of Excellence (#1)–Glad you switched 🙂 (It replaced another anchor in this workshop)
  • Practical ways to change from anger to calm
  • 1-2-3 change moods (Take Charge of Moods anchor)
  • The anchor process seems very powerful
  • Assigning physical body parts w/ our anchors–it’s an easy way to remember our moods in everyday life.
  • “Anchors” are a helpful concept for me.

General feedback on the workshop:

  • Thank you–really powerful.  It can be used in so many places and in so many ways to help so many.
  • I feel calmer at the end of the workshop than when I walked in.
  • I really liked the breathing and how to gain calm through the (My) Anchor map.
  • Helpful, generous with information–(navigator’s) calm demeanor
  • A lot of material was provided in a short period of time.  It was very helpful for me because you used anger as the example.
  • This was an excellent workshop.  The navigator was very knowledgeable.
  • New information!  I’ll have to practice in order to integrate it.
  • He (navigator) was very understandable and it was very worth while.
  • I liked the practical experiences.
  • I enjoyed the partner stuff (exercises in creating anchors).
  • It was a good workshop.  I do think it would be fun to learn more techniques in the future. (More workshops are planned, covering different techniques)

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New Workshop–Take Charge of Your Moods

JoelMonty.com is proud to announce a new workshop: Take Charge of Your Moods: From Chaos to Calm in Just Seconds.

This two-hour workshop involves hands-on learning of key techniques that can help you manage your moods–immediately and for the long-term.

Ideal for teachers, caregivers, parents, and professionals the concepts and techniques offered allow participants to improve their quality of life–and the quality of the lives of those they love and care for.

This workshop will be available in webinar format (on-line workshops) as well as having a review video for participants completing the program.

Down all workshop materials from this website. Check-out the Take Charge of Your Moods page.

Tell your friends.  The next workshop will be held in connection with the Holistic Health Celebration taking place in Geneva on Sunday, September 29, 2013.  (See the post for the celebration.)
Check-out the Take Charge of Your Moods page for details and to register.

The first workshop was held at the Living Well Cancer Resource Center in Geneva, Illinois, on Thursday, August 29, 2013.   See this post for workshop feedback.

You can schedule a workshop at your school or organization. Contact Joel Montgomery at 1-630-338-1405 or send him an email for details.

Can NLP and Hypnosis Improve Quality of Life for Seniors?

For the purpose of this post–and soon to be article, I’m dividing seniors into two groups, “senior seniors” (including my 97-year-old Mom) and “junior seniors” (including me, 65+)

Can NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and hypnosis improve quality of life for “Senior Seniors” (my 97-year old Mom, specifically)?  When should we start?

Mom had a fall at age 89 which seemed to start (or accelerate) her loss of short-term memory.  A CAT scan done after the fall showed that her brain was slowing down in its processing.  The neurologist who read that CAT scan has long-since retired.  Mom, at age 97 now, is still going strong for someone her age.

She has short-term memory problems and sometimes can’t find the word she’s looking for.  She can forget what she was thinking or talking about and, while she’s hard of hearing, it’s her processing speed that makes it difficult for her to follow conversations or watch a movie or the news.  “Everything goes too fast.”

She asked me the other day if there was something I could do to help her get into a better mood when she’s “out of sorts.”. In NLP-speak she wants to be in a “more resourceful state.”. With both NLP and hypnosis there are many things to do to help people get into and maintain more resourceful states.  I hesitate to use either NLP or hypnosis with her.  First, because she’s my Mom, and second, because NLP and hypnosis seem to have expectations about how brains function and Mom’s brain, as a “senior senior” may no longer function that way.

That brings up some other interesting possibilities.  Brain research indicates that the brain can create multiple pathways to achieve the same results.  Nerves can sometimes repair themselves after injury.  Stroke victims can often regain the powers of speech and movement as their brains create new pathways to control those voluntary actions.

Could redundant NLP anchors and/or networks of anchors and/or redundant networks of anchors created prior to the memory loss be effective?  Could they be reinforced by hypnosis?  “Use it or lose it probably applies here.”.

Perhaps I should start with myself.  I’m already sixty-five and, while I have no memory loss yet, it would probably be a very good idea to create networks of redundant NLP anchors now and to reinforce their use with hypnosis. If and when things change for me, I would already have things in place that could really improve my quality of life and the quality of life for my family, friends, and caregivers.

I also need to create a graphic I can store in multiple places with a map identifying anchor locations and reminding me of any activating key words I may associate with each anchor.

(About the author: Joel R. Montgomery, EdD  is certified as a NLP Master Practitioner and is completing certification as a Hypnotherapist.  He has been working as a learning and change navigator and coach around the world for more than 40 years and has earned two masters degrees and a doctorate degree in education.)