Exploring Neurolinguistics, Generative Sensemaking and Personal Sovereignty in an increasingly complex world! <br/><br/><a href="https://jamestripp.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">jamestripp.substack.com</a>
Agents of Everything with James Tripp
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Exploring Neurolinguistics, Generative Sensemaking and Personal Sovereignty in an increasingly complex world! <br/><br/><a href="https://jamestripp.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">jamestripp.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
May 6, 2026
Trance-Planting and Growing Change with Bill O'Hanlon
<p><strong>🎙️Episode 37: Bill O’Hanlon on Erickson, Strategic Changework, Creativity, Trance, and the Garden of Change 🎧</strong></p><p>In this episode of Agents of Everything, I’m welcoming Bill O’Hanlon back to AoE for a second conversation - and this one goes deep!</p><p>Bill is one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Milton H. Erickson’s work, and over the years he’s become known not only for his contributions to brief therapy, strategic changework, and hypnosis, but also for his songwriting, creativity, and deeply human way of thinking about transformation.</p><p>One of the reasons I wanted Bill back on the podcast was because there was something we never really got into the first time around: the famous “gardener story.”</p><p>Before Bill became a major figure in the world of changework, he was a young psychology student who became fascinated by the strange and brilliant work of Milton Erickson. That fascination eventually led him to Erickson’s house… where he literally became Erickson’s gardener while trying to figure out what this legendary psychiatrist was actually doing.</p><p>And honestly, I think this conversation captures something important about Erickson that often gets missed.</p><p>A lot of people encounter Ericksonian work as technique. They encounter language patterns, hypnotic structures, strategic interventions, therapeutic tricks. But underneath all of that there’s something much deeper going on: a radically different way of understanding human beings, learning, adaptation, creativity, and change itself.</p><p>Bill articulates that beautifully here.</p><p>We talk about the difference between suggestion and evocation. About why changework is often more like gardening than reprogramming. About the role of creativity in therapy. About trance, learning, unconscious processes, desperation, flexibility, and what happens when people try to solve new life situations with outdated patterns.</p><p>There’s also a fascinating thread running through the whole conversation around creativity itself - not just therapeutic creativity, but songwriting, writing, improvisation, and how structure and flow have to work together if anything meaningful is going to emerge.</p><p>And towards the end of the episode, Bill shares and performs a song he wrote for Erickson called Trance Plants, which honestly brings the whole conversation together in a really beautiful way.</p><p>Whether you’re interested in hypnosis, psychotherapy, changework, creativity, or simply the question of how human beings evolve and adapt through life, I think there’s a lot in this conversation for you.</p><p>⌚️ Timestamps</p><p><strong>00:00:00</strong> - Welcome and Guest Intro</p><p><strong>00:01:18</strong> - Subscribe and Support</p><p><strong>00:01:55</strong> - Episode Roadmap</p><p><strong>00:02:40</strong> - Caribbean Lifestyle Chat</p><p><strong>00:04:37</strong> - Intention, Luck and Change</p><p><strong>00:05:16</strong> - Who Was Erickson?</p><p><strong>00:06:29</strong> - First Meeting at Gallery</p><p><strong>00:13:23</strong> - Uncommon Therapy</p><p><strong>00:15:57 </strong>- Letter and Gardener Apprenticeship</p><p><strong>00:21:33 - </strong>Lessons from the Garden</p><p><strong>00:24:15 - </strong>NLP Gilligan and Influences</p><p><strong>00:27:56</strong> - Erickson Trickster Mystery</p><p><strong>00:33:07 - </strong>Strategic vs Hypnotic Work</p><p><strong>00:35:52</strong> - Old School Hypnosis Roots</p><p><strong>00:37:16 -</strong> Simple Suggestions Big Results</p><p><strong>00:38:04</strong> - Erickson Evocation Revolution</p><p><strong>00:42:08</strong> - Learning Frame Not Healing</p><p><strong>00:44:49</strong> - Life Transitions And Flexibility</p><p><strong>00:48:05</strong> - Adaptedness Versus Adaptiveness</p><p><strong>00:50:47</strong> - Gift Of Desperation</p><p><strong>00:55:41</strong> - Writing Output And Strategies</p><p><strong>00:58:58</strong> - Structure Meets Creative Flow</p><p><strong>01:05:12</strong> - Creativity Versus Protocols</p><p><strong>01:09:34</strong> - Teaching Ericksonian Principles</p><p><strong>01:11:38</strong> - Patterns in Music and Therapy</p><p><strong>01:12:54</strong> - Songwriting Books and Principles</p><p><strong>01:16:04</strong> - Chasing Emotion in Songs</p><p><strong>01:17:33</strong> - Balancing Intuition and Structure</p><p><strong>01:19:19</strong> - Gilligan’s Trance Camp and Performance Selves</p><p><strong>01:21:22</strong> - Modeling Creative Tasking</p><p><strong>01:25:17</strong> - Writing First Fiction Novel</p><p><strong>01:28:41</strong> - Improv Mindset</p><p><strong>01:30:34</strong> - Tapping the Creative Unconscious</p><p><strong>01:34:09</strong> - Four Doorways into Trance</p><p><strong>01:38:16</strong> - Trusting the Unconscious in Life</p><p><strong>01:39:35</strong> - Trance Plants Song Tribute</p><p><strong>01:42:01</strong> - Gardening Metaphor and Farewell</p><p>🔍 Themes</p><p>Changework as Gardening</p><p>One of the strongest threads running through this conversation is the idea that real changework isn’t mechanical.</p><p>It’s ecological.</p><p>You can’t force growth. You can’t simply “install” a new behaviour and expect life to organise itself around it. You have to work with conditions, timing, context, resources, and the living intelligence already present within the person.</p><p>Evocation Rather Than Imposition</p><p>Bill describes Erickson’s great revolution as a movement away from simple suggestion and toward evocation: drawing forth abilities, learnings, capacities, and patterns that already exist within the individual.</p><p>That distinction matters deeply.</p><p>Creativity Requires Both Structure and Freedom</p><p>We also get into the relationship between creativity and structure — in therapy, in writing, in music, and in life generally.</p><p>Too much structure becomes rigid.</p><p>Too much openness dissolves into vagueness.</p><p>The art seems to live somewhere in the dance between the two.</p><p>⁉️About Bill O’Hanlon</p><p>Bill O’Hanlon is a psychotherapist, author, speaker, songwriter, and one of the major figures in the evolution of solution-oriented and Ericksonian changework. A former student of Milton Erickson, Bill has authored more than 40 books and spent decades exploring the relationship between change, creativity, language, learning, and human possibility.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jamestripp.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">jamestripp.substack.com</a>
March 4, 2026
AoE #36 - Emergent Design with Bobby Rebholz
<p>🎙️<strong>Episode 36: Emergent Creativity with Bobby Rebholz </strong>🎧</p><p>In this one, I’m in conversation with <strong>Bobby Rebholz</strong> - senior concept artist, creature designer, and the mind behind the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/@DrawSessions">Draw Sessions</a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/@DrawSessions"> </a>YouTube channel. I found Bobby’s work while I was doing a 100-day drawing challenge and, honestly, it landed at exactly the right moment. His “draw-along” sessions have this wonderfully <strong>emergent</strong> quality: you start with loose, imperfect scribbles, and then you discover what wants to appear inside them.</p><p>That idea - <strong>creation as discovery rather than control</strong> - is at the heart of our conversation.</p><p>We start with creature design, but quickly open out into bigger territory: how people actually get good at anything, what “creativity” really is, the difference between loving the idea of being an artist versus loving the act of making art, and why building skill is less about shortcuts and more about staying in the game long enough to let your nervous system catch up to your intentions.</p><p>We also get into the AI question (inevitably): what it can and can’t replace, why “soul” and “human touch” still matter, and how over-reliance on tools can quietly atrophy the very capacities we’re trying to develop.</p><p>Along the way we explore:</p><p>* <strong>Embracing the scribble</strong> (and why the thumbnail stage is “impossible to mess up”)</p><p>* Why most people try to “get through” learning instead of actually <strong>getting into</strong> it</p><p>* The hidden role of <strong>reference gathering</strong> (filling the creative database)</p><p>* Creativity as <strong>making connections</strong> — between shapes, ideas, and lived experience</p><p>* The freedom that comes from <strong>erasing the need to look good</strong></p><p>* The Steve Jobs line: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward…” — and how that applies to portfolios, careers, and the creative process itself</p><p>Whether you’re into drawing or not, there’s a lot here about how to live and create in a world you can’t control.</p><p>If you want to check out Bobby’s work, his YouTube channel is <strong>Draw Sessions</strong> — and I genuinely recommend drawing along with him. It’s one of the most liberating creative practices I’ve stumbled into in a long time.</p><p>If you’re new to Agents of Everything: please rate, subscribe, and share this episode with anyone who might get something from it. And if you want to support the show in the way that gives me the clearest “this is worth doing” signal, come over and subscribe to the Substack (it’s free, and there’s a comment section where you can ask questions).Also, if you do and would like to deepen your engagement with all things Alchemy and Agency, please consider joining the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jamestripp.online/offers/dcFRkZjL/checkout"><strong>Agents of Everything Nexus</strong></a> - a Live monthly open frame mentoring call plus ongoing license to ask me anything plus access to the nexus resource library (over 270 sessions on creating yourself as a creator of a life that you love).🔍 <strong>Timestamps</strong>:</p><p>00:00 Welcome and guest intro</p><p>00:23 Discovering Draw Sessions</p><p>03:37 Embracing the scribble</p><p>04:29 Letting go of control</p><p>09:57 Obsession and practice</p><p>12:36 Liking art vs idea</p><p>15:31 Mileage and industry reality</p><p>16:21 AI and the human touch</p><p>21:17 AI slop and lost skills</p><p>27:02 Photo bashing vs AI</p><p>31:52 Schooling vs self taught</p><p>36:37 What makes creativity</p><p>38:40 Repertoire and connections</p><p>46:49 Aphantasia debate teaser</p><p>47:19 Think About an Apple</p><p>48:59 Aphantasia and Art Skill</p><p>51:32 Rotate the Remote Test</p><p>52:29 100 Day Drawing Gains</p><p>55:54 Seeing Shapes in 3D</p><p>57:39 Scribbles to Machines</p><p>01:01:51 Just Do It Mindset</p><p>01:05:36 Connect the Dots Backward</p><p>01:10:48 Utilize the Happy Accidents</p><p>01:14:17 No Such Thing as Bad Thumbnails</p><p>01:19:34 Keep the Record Redraw Better</p><p>01:21:52 Ballpoint Pen No Eraser</p><p>01:24:43 Erase the Need to Look Good</p><p>01:26:52 Wrap Up and Draw Sessions Plug</p><p></p><p><strong>Alright — let’s dive in.</strong></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jamestripp.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">jamestripp.substack.com</a>
January 1, 2026
AoE #35 - New Year’s Revolutions
<p><strong>Episode 35 — New Year’s Revolutions</strong></p><p>It’s January 1st, 2026, and this episode exists thanks to a beautifully accidental malapropism.</p><p>One of my daughter’s friends declared at a New Year’s party: “My New Year’s revolution is…” - when he meant “resolution.” He was promptly mocked for this by his friends. But I loved it! Because, unlike a resolution, a revolution isn’t a vow to try. A revolution is an actual turning. A change of orientation. A shift in trajectory.</p><p>So this episode isn’t really about resolutions at all. It’s about revolution and renewal.</p><p>I never used to align with the whole New Year's resolution thisg simply because, you can always make a change at any point. “Now” is always the doorway. However, I've come to change my vibe on this somewhat. There’s something distinctive about this time of year - a collective, archetypal current that people can ride, should they choose to. Not as grindstone self-improvement. Not as forced discipline masquerading as virtue. More as a seasonal invitation: to release what’s stale, reclaim what matters, and let something new come through.</p><p>In this episode I explore:</p><p>Why “renewal” is a more useful frame than “resolution” (and why revolutions are… unpredictable)</p><p>The difference between deliberate change and deeper pattern-level shifts</p><p>What it means to “profit by investing in loss” — and why letting go is often the real beginning</p><p>Some personal renewals I’m making as we move from 2025 into 2026:</p><p>stepping back from my monthly London work with Rock to Recovery to reclaim space for family and creative life</p><p>closing the Agents of Everything Nexus archive (and why that kind of pruning matters)</p><p>bringing more energy back to Agents of Everything</p><p>and leaning into a wider portfolio header I’m calling <strong>Alchemy and Agency</strong></p><p>Along the way we wander into Jung, archetypal forces, the limits of constructivist metaphors, why I prefer “agency” over “free will,” and why the most powerful performance art is not fake at all — it’s curated authenticity that can genuinely transform people.</p><p>There’s also an unexpected thread here about returning to what lit you up when you were younger — not nostalgically, but with everything you’ve learned since. For me that includes a 100-day drawing challenge, and a renewed relationship with creativity, performance, and the kind of inner life that you could call “soul” if you’re using that word poetically rather than scientifically.</p><p>If you’re feeling the “new year energy,” consider this an invitation: not to clamp down harder, but to renew intelligently. To let go cleanly. To choose what’s next.</p><p>Happy New Year. Here’s to whatever we’re about to create.TIMESTAMPS00:00 Introduction and New Year's Revolutions</p><p>02:17 The Concept of Renewal</p><p>06:24 Personal and Professional Renewals</p><p>10:21 Rock to Recovery and Its Impact</p><p>17:01 Future Plans and Alchemy & Agency</p><p>23:07 Personal Alchemy and Influence</p><p>23:39 Substack and Neurolinguistics</p><p>27:05 Reconnecting with Drawing</p><p>29:34 The Concept of Soul and Resonance</p><p>34:22 The Power of Performance</p><p>44:10 Upcoming Changes and Final Thoughts</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://jamestripp.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">jamestripp.substack.com</a>
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