Two Stories You Could Use For Training Sessions

vrajeev
Here are two stories you could use for your training sessions or presentations of suitable contexts:

1.Turtles



A turtle family went on a picnic. The turtles, being naturally slow

about things, took seven years to prepare for their outings. Finally

the turtle family left home looking for a suitable place.

During the second year of their journey they found it. For about six

months, they cleaned up the area, unpacked the picnic basket and

completed the arrangements. Then they discovered they had forgotten the

salt. A picnic without salt would be a disaster, they all agreed. After

a lengthy discussion, the youngest turtle was chosen to retrieve the

salt from home. Although he was the fastest of the slow moving

turtles, the little turtle whined, cried, and wobbled in his shell. He

agreed to go on one condition: that no one would eat until he

returned.

The family consented and the little turtle left.

Three years passed and the little turtle had not returned. Five

years...six years...then in the seventh year of his absence, the oldest

turtle could no longer contain his hunger. He announced that he was

going to eat and began to unwrap a sandwich.

At that point the little turtle suddenly popped out from behind a tree

shouting, SEE I knew you wouldn't wait. Now I am not going to go get

the salt.

About the story

Some of us waste our time waiting for people to live up to our

expectations. We are so concerned about what others are doing that we

don't do anything ourselves.

2.Frogs

A farmer came into town and asked the owner of a restaurant if he could

use a million frog legs. The restaurant owner was shocked and asked the

man where he could get so many frog legs!

The farmer replied, There is a pond near my house that is full of

frogs-millions of them. They croak all during the night and are about

to drive me crazy!

So the restaurant and the farmer made an agreement that the farmer

would deliver frogs to the restaurant five hundred at a time for the

next several weeks.

The first week, the farmer returned to the restaurant looking rather

sheepish, with two scrawny little frogs. The restaurant owner said,

Well...where are all the frogs?

The farmer said, I was mistaken. There were only these two frogs in the

pond. But they sure were making a lot of noise!

About the story

Next time you hear somebody criticizing or making fun of you,

remember it's probably just a couple of noisy frogs. Also-remember that problems

always seem bigger in the dark. Have you ever laid in your bed at night

worrying about things which seem almost overwhelming-like a million

frogs croaking?

Chances are pretty good that when the morning comes, and you take a

closer look, you'll wonder what all the fuss was about.

cheers!

Rajeev.V
Basixinc
Pranam,
Stories are good and the most important tool in NLP and they can be used at any point of time to any one.
and from NLP point of view...
1)as mentioned it can also be used to
a)build trust
b)when delegating a job pick the right person
c)Intergrity - the young turtle has not trusted and what the older turtle were doing i.e training,nurturing.
2)STORY OF FROGS
a)in NLP terms take every thing as a feed back.
Even after taking a closer look how many of them are buildng movies running stories.
NLP the technology first helps to work personaly and make use of the resources available and then it is easier work on external environment.
Shihan Dr.C.J.Jeyachander.
amrutabokil
Hi Ganesh,
thanks for such informative posting,can u plesae send it to me? as i could not download it.being a clinical psychologist i can use it with my patients too.
Thanks with regards,
Amruta
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