Your Home Is a Metaphor – a presentation at the 2024 online NLP conference

Robert Stetson Shaw once observed, “You don’t perceive something until the right metaphor allows you to see it.” This concept holds true in the practice of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), where we frequently employ language models and metaphors.

As powerful tools, metaphors possess the capacity to incite healing and change. Albert Einstein further underlines the potency of symbolic language, asserting, “Symbols hold the power to influence us not merely on an intellectual level, but on behavioural and emotional planes as well.”

In this presentation, we will delve into the art of refining your language models and harnessing metaphors and symbols, drawing upon familiar examples from our daily environments – our homes.

As Eleanor Sandry remarked, “We anthropomorphise everything.” Humans are innately predisposed to infuse intent, emotions and identities into a wide array of entities, from dolphins and houses to seemingly trivial objects like Microsoft’s paperclips or LEGO blocks. We bestow everyday objects with profound meanings.

In this session, we will guide you through a journey of decoding your home using the lenses of metaphor and language. This exploration will not only augment your mastery of NLP but also enable a greater understanding of how your environment, one of the logical levels in NLP, can be optimised to yield desired outcomes.

This insightful presentation promises to be an enjoyable and illuminating experience, transforming the way you perceive your home and, indeed, yourself.

Learning outcomes…
Participants of this workshop can expect the following learning outcomes:

1. Enhanced Understanding of Metaphors: Gain a deeper understanding of the role and power of metaphors in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and their capacity to drive change and healing.
2. Symbolic Influence: Learn about the influential potential of symbols on intellectual, behavioural, and emotional levels.
3. Mastery of Language Models: Develop the skills to refine and effectively use language models, incorporating metaphors and symbols in their practice.
4. Insight into Anthropomorphism and Semiotics: Obtain a nuanced understanding of anthropomorphism and how humans inherently assign human traits, emotions, and intent to non-human entities.
5. NLP Decoding Skills: Learn how to decode personal environments through the lenses of metaphor and language, leading to a greater understanding of their surroundings.
6. Application of Concepts to NLP: Understand how to integrate these concepts into their NLP practice, thereby enriching their skillset and enhancing their mastery.
7. Environment Optimisation Techniques: Gain knowledge of how to optimize and prime their personal environments (such as their homes) to better align with their goals and desired outcomes.
8. By the end of this workshop, participants will not only view their homes in a new light, but they will also have a transformed perception of themselves.

Watch Jan below: Top Tip before attending Jan’s session – Think about how you can make your home work for you…

About Jan…
Jan Cisek, MSc, FSSA is a spiritual health mentor, spiritual companion, and meditation instructor with over 40 years of experience in spirituality and wellness. Jan has a diploma in Practical Spirituality & Wellness, the first UK, Ofqual accredited vocational diploma course in this evidence-based discipline. Jan is also an environmental psychologist (MSc) specialising in creating sacred spaces for working and living. He’s doing his PhD research on feng shui

Book here https://www.nlpconference.com/jan-cisek

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8 Feng Shui Conference London UK 17-18 May 2014 (Sat-Sun)

There is a very exciting feng shui conference Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 May 2014 in London UK with a host of amazing presentations on a variety of feng shui subjects (feng shui for bedrooms, feng shui metaphors, feng shui for doors, timeless feng shui principles, etc).

I’m looking forward to all the presentations. I’ve given presentations at previous Feng Shui Society conferences and you can watch my presentations on the feng shui video page. There is so much to learn at the conference and you can meet a lot of feng shui consultants who are very happy to answer all your feng shui questions.

The first speaker, Alidad, interior designer (London, UK) is going to talk about how to create timeless homes based on timeless feng shui principles of balance, harmony, proportions as well as comfort and functionality. To give you a taste of this watch the talk he gave at the V&A in 2013 about his book The Timeless Home.

Watch Ting-Foon Chik talking about 2014 and what it means to all the Chinese animals. Foon’s going to talk at the feng shui conference about four pillars’ astrological charts and how you can make the most of your future luck.

Jodi Brunner (Australia) will be talking at the feng shui conference about feng shui form school and architecture in China. Watch this short clip on feng shui of Chinatown in Melbourne. 

BOOK NOW for the Feng Shui Society conference 17-18 May 2014 in London UK.

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Feng shui kitchen – checklist (from the feng shui talk for Oliver’s Whole Food Store in Kew, West London, UK)
1. The positioning of the kitchen (not facing the front door, no toilet next to it, ideally in the south/east part of the house)
2. Lighting (spotlights, no fluorescent strip lighting)
3. Space (tables, worktops)
4. Stove (gas with many burners, electric, microwave oven) position (power), vent
5. Water. Get a water filter – ideally, you should have a whole house water filter (you absorb more chlorine from showering than from drinking water because of water droplets). Please check if it’s possible to install it your home.
http://itdoesthejob.com/water/filtration/ Mention my name (Jan Cisek) and you’ll get 15% off the price.
6. Stove vs sink (fire quarrels with water)
7. Cycle of cooking (fridge > sink > pots > stove)
8. Fridge/larder (full), fridge – notice board
9. Colours (warm, pastel, yellows, green, off white, avoid blue)
10. Flowers (money plant, lemon balm)
11. Herbs (spices)
12. Hub/heart of your home
13. Juicer (life force)
14. Bless the food (especially if it’s not organic)
15. Tools in good order (knives /ceramic/ should be sharp, no aluminium pots, use glass or stainless steel)
16. Avoid sharp corners
17. No broken/chipped cups, etc
18. Prismatic/ rainbow crystal/ maker
19. Check for geopathic stress (GS) and electromagnetic radiation / Install Helios3 neutraliser (helios3.com)
20. Salt

How to select the countertop
• Start with understanding how space will be used
• Don’t choose the style of a countertop in isolation
• Choose the right material for you (natural stone, marble, soapstone, porcelain, sintered stone, granite, stainless steel, wood, etc)
• Plan the details and a sealer

Kitchen as a status symbol
Kitchens have become the ultimate status symbols with not one kitchen but two and two of everything (two ovens, two dishwashers, four wine coolers, etc). Add a fridge with remote controlled shelve, teppanyaki hotplaes, boiling water taps and of course the right people to run your kitchen. Celebrities (Professor Green, David Cameron, Tinie Tempah) splash out on super-kitchens (£200,000 and upwards) and the demand is growing. “The kitchen has become the greatest domestic class-signifier.” said Design Musuem director Deyan Sudjic.

Jan Cisek is London’s top feng shui expert and trainer. He’s been instrumental in making feng shui popular in the UK through his TV programs and by co-founding the Feng Shui Society. His clients include multinational corporations and celebrities.

Feng Shui Your Kitchen – handout

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