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Born in Łódź, Poland during the communist regime at the time with his father imprisoned for organising a strike against the government, one might argue this was when Damian's pursuit of personal freedom started. After emigrating to Sweden, freedom was now attained on one level whilst the pursuit still continued on the inner levels of the mind.
At an adult age, losing both job and interest in IT as the dot-com bubble burst, he started a career as a salesman and entrepreneur. Watching his collegues within the field, questions started coming up such as what differentiates the average salesman from the top of the game. And even more importantly, how it is possible to be top of the game one day and the other day not be able to make one single closure.
Having been introduced to the field of NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, by the likes of James Allen and Anders Haglund, a chain of events set out a new main focus in Damian's life. Eventually his studies of what drives human behavior and his pursuit of personal freedom led him to study and train with the co-founders of NLP, Dr John Grinder and Dr Richard Bandler.
The knowledge he accumulated during the years combined with his own unique sense of humour and a background in sales and persuasion, has quickly made him highly effective and successful within the field of personal development. Having achieved personal freedom himself, he now seeks to help others achieve their own definition of freedom.
Amongst his achievements, he's got burned-out businessmen back on track again, helped devoted smokers quit smoking within an hour, cured life-long phobias in half that time and shown people how to walk their own path onto personal freedom and achievement.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
NLP was created in the 70's by a student, Richard Bandler, and a professor in linguistics, Dr John Grinder. The core of NLP is considered to be modeling, the art and skill of duplicating the language structure and behavioral patterns of someone who is excellent in a certain activity. Grinder and Bandler started out by modelling three therapeutical wizards at the time. Dr Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy, Dr Virginia Satir, a family systems therapist and Dr Milton H Erickson, the founder of Ericksonian hypnosis. All of them to this day considered by many to be avantgardistic geniuses.
NLP is the practice of coding how people organize their thinking, feeling, language and behavior to produce the results they do. Meaning that if one person gets the same results time after time, another person can be systematically taught how to achieve the very same result. The methods that sprung from modelling the above-mentioned geniuses are today very powerful in helping people change their inner mental maps and thus have new and better experiences in life.
Neuro: Our thoughts, behavior and cognitive processes are a result of how we filter and perceive the information that comes to us through our senses. Our mental map of the world consists of images, sounds, sensations, smells and tastes that are a result of the neurological filtering. Linguistic: The information received above is defined and formed by assigning language, words, to it. Language is one of the most powerful tools we use as humans to affect the neurological filtering of others. Programming: The result of the processes that happen on the inside is what becomes the coding of how we organize our thinking, feeling, language and subsequently our behavior.
The New Code NLP
The New Code is a set of patterns developed in the mid 80s by Dr John Grinder, Judith DeLozier and Carmen Bostic St. Clair. Dr John Grinder saw NLP-trained people who were able to weave spells of magic in for their clients’ and yet these people who had access to powerful patterning of change were failing miserably in applying NLP in their own lives. Thus he re-coded NLP to correct what he deemed to be flaws in the classic code patterning. One of the key aspects of New Code change formats is the verification and selection of behavioural changes by calibrating with the unconscious mind using explicit signals.
Design Human Engineering (DHE)
For years Dr Richard Bandler studied how geniuses used their minds to accomplish what they did and was able to successfully replicate the results they produced. One day he noticed that all of the geniuses he knew got out of bed in the morning because they had to urinate. He decided that wasn't good enough.
DHE takes for granted the opportunity to design internal strategies and states that are both dynamic and compelling. It starts from the premise that what is already available to an individual is nowhere near what that person is capable of. DHE looks at the limitations of only what humans produce and then artificially creates things which have never been used, as thought processes.
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