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NLP Time Line east west culture differences — Sheila Browning — Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hi, Sue - we met a LOOONG time ago (1989???) when you ran a workshop for us. I remember it especially since it was the day before my mother died, so a very strong emotional marker, and I found the workshop learnings so useful at that time.

I’ve worked abroad quite a lot but always in Western European or North American cultures.

I seem to remember during my NLP practitioners’ training a discussion on the difference between East and West in how they are IN time i.e. past, present and future spread out in a semi circle in front of you (west) as opposed to being in a North/South top to bottom timeline with the past behind you and the future in front.

Can’t find this in my current NLP books so two questions -

1. Any refernces to this in yur books or on the web?

2. How does it ’gel’ with the work you’re doing in Istanbul etc?

Best regards Sheila Browning

 
 
Sue's Answer

Dear Sheila thank you for getting in touch after such a time... I am trying to remember where we did the workshop.. Can you prompt me some more... And re the timelines well I find that there are so many variations with every individual now no matter what the country and to be honest I have resisted generalisations of late... but I have recently worked in India too and am just reflecting back on what I noticed there... I think I will have to do some more systems observations when I am back there. There are some books on cultural differences but I am not sure that I have seen anything directly related to this. I will investigate and get back to you..

Warm regards, Sue