How to Overcome One of Your Greatest Obstacles to Success
With the energy and enthusiasm of a teenager, Caroline finished her last push up and stood to cheers and applause from the crowd.She smiled humbly and took a well-deserved bow.Shortly to follow was her husband, whose daily routine included 400 sits ups and 200 push ups among a handful of other exercises that would test even the most fit of individuals.
After his brief demonstration of youthful strength, Fred and his wife walked over to the talk show host to share their success story.Simply Amazing'I wasn't always in shape,' Fred began. 'There was quite a stretch of time when I could barely see my toes, let alone touch them.''I remember that,' his wife laughed. 'I wasn't any better. I was facing some serious health risks and needed to make some major life changes.'This loving couple worked out every single day smiling through hundreds of push ups and sit ups along with running several miles around their neighborhood.
Nothing that special for someone in their twenties or thirties. Not even that amazing for someone in their forties or fifties.But when you're 89 or 93 years old, that's simply amazing.'I started working toward my goal when I was 65,' said Fred. 'I only wish I had started sooner.'His wife agreed. 'You're never too old to start doing what you want to do, but you lose precious time while you wait to begin.'Absolute wisdom from the lips of an 89 year-old woman whose heart, mind, and body belonged to a much younger girl.
The Exciting Truth About Your DreamsTiming is a central issue when it comes to happiness. While many put their desires off until there is little time left to achieve them, others feel their time has already passed.They are trapped by the misconception that goals and dreams are achieved right out of the gates or not at all.
They feel locked into a life that is far from what they had planned on creating, with the remainder of their days ripe with regret.Bob Newhart, considered to be one of the greatest comics of our time, spent years as an accountant. An accountant! Imagine where he would be today had he felt locked into a life that he wasn't meant to live.Ray Kroc is another prime example of an individual following his heart at a later time in life. Until the age of 52, Kroc spent his time selling shake mixers to restaurants around the country. Then he made that life- altering trip to California for a meeting with the McDonald brothers.
At an age when most people feel their best days are behind them he created a restaurant empire that stretched around the globe.For every Bob Newhart or Ray Kroc who took a chance at a better life there are ten thousand who let their goals and dreams pass them by. The question is, which type of person or you?Bob Newhart and Ray Kroc knew what they wanted. They had a clear goal which made it possible for them to achieve great success.
The problem is, most people don't know what they want.If you're interested in learning a series of insightful exercises to help you uncover your goals and dreams, visit the address below:http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211382
You Have Two ChoicesWe all have goals or ideas of what we'd like to do with our lives, but we all don't achieve them. Many believe the right time passed us by many years ago. This common myth is behind millions of unfulfilled dreams and ambitions.What can you do to break free from its grip? What is the secret that helped Caroline, Fred, Bob, and Ray move past the idea that the 'right time' had passed?
The power of now. It doesn't matter how young or old you may be, you have right now to begin moving toward your goal. There is only one right time and one wrong time: now and later.Now. Right this instant. That's the only time you know you have for sure. Make the most of it and do the things you were meant to do.
Erase the myth that you're too old and go for it.While this idea may be enough to get you started down the path toward your goals and dreams, there is a chance you'll need another piece of vital information.To make sure you have what it takes to get what you want, learning the six keys of motivation and success is critical. Every single success throughout time was made possible by six simple phases that you can begin as soon as today.
To learn the keys and begin living a happier, more successful life, visit the address below:http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211383
Remember Caroline's words: You're never too old to start doing what you want to do, but you lose precious time while you wait to begin.
My Best,Jason M. Gracia
Thursday 24 May 2007
NLP and trouble shooting
News You Can Use...
Trouble getting up in the morning?
A bit obsessed with the snooze button? It's time to mix up the routine! Try a few of the tips below and you'll be out the door in no time at all.
1. Put your alarm clock across the room. Having to get up to turn off your alarm can often be just enough activity to get things moving in the right direction.
2. Purchase a clock with a self-recorded wake-up message. If a loud buzzing in your ear doesn't make for a great beginning to your day, have you spouse, kids, or friends record their own wake-up message to start things off on the right foot.
3. Leave the curtains open. Not only will the natural sunlight shining through your blinds serve as motivation to get out there and enjoy the day, it's also good for you. A startling alarm can disrupt your system, making for a frazzled morning. Instead, let the sun wake you up in peace.============================================In Closing...
'You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.'--Adam Marshall
remember...getting motivated is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
Until next time...
Jason M. GraciaFounder, Motivation123™http://www.motivation123.com
Trouble getting up in the morning?
A bit obsessed with the snooze button? It's time to mix up the routine! Try a few of the tips below and you'll be out the door in no time at all.
1. Put your alarm clock across the room. Having to get up to turn off your alarm can often be just enough activity to get things moving in the right direction.
2. Purchase a clock with a self-recorded wake-up message. If a loud buzzing in your ear doesn't make for a great beginning to your day, have you spouse, kids, or friends record their own wake-up message to start things off on the right foot.
3. Leave the curtains open. Not only will the natural sunlight shining through your blinds serve as motivation to get out there and enjoy the day, it's also good for you. A startling alarm can disrupt your system, making for a frazzled morning. Instead, let the sun wake you up in peace.============================================In Closing...
'You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.'--Adam Marshall
remember...getting motivated is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
Until next time...
Jason M. GraciaFounder, Motivation123™http://www.motivation123.com
NLP and Change
Avoiding the Fatal Pitfall of Personal Change:
Imagine trying to swim the length of a pool with a fifty-pound weight strapped to your ankle.Or walking across a tightrope while a crowd below pelts you with sticks and rocks.Impossible!Regardless of how much you wanted to succeed, you would be dragged down to the bottom of the pool or knocked off the rope in no time at all.
Believe it or not, the very same thing may be happening to your goals. And if nothing is done to save them, you'll be dragged away from all of the things you want for good.Where Does the Problem Come From?We all have an incredibly powerful need to belong and be accepted. We want to feel loved and wanted by the people in our lives.
Can you remember a time when your need to be loved wasn't being met? When you felt unimportant, disconnected, and alone?It's an extremely difficult emotion to deal with as we all know too well. And this is the cause of the problem. Our need to be connected and loved is so intense that we will sabotage our own success in order to maintain our precious connections.
Here is an example. Imagine your goal is to exercise and get in shape. You're not extremely overweight or in any danger, you simply want to take better care of yourself.It's a great goal and something you're really committed to achieving.And then it happens...'That sounds foolish.''Why would you waste your time doing that?''Who are you kidding? You know you can't actually stick to it.'These are the weights that pull you down, the rocks that knock you off course.Your friends and family, with the best of intentions, try to pull you away from your goals.Why Would They Do That?Because of their need to stay connected with you.
If you change and improve yourself, you'll be stepping into a new life and leave your friends behind. At least that's what they think. This is a frightening thought, and it drives the people in your life to keep you from changing.Improving yourself also forces your close friends to examine their own shortcomings. If everyone aims low, no one can notice.
But if one person steps up and aims high, everyone else has proof that they are settling for less.And what do you do in response to these situations?As we've already discussed, you have a deeply rooted need to stay connected with the people around you. Feeling that improving yourself will disconnect you from your friends and family, you'll slowly let go of what could have been a great change in your life.'Maybe they're right, it was a silly idea.
I don't know what I was thinking anyway.'Say goodbye to your goal...Even if you are strong enough to stick with your objective, a constant barrage of criticism and doubt will make success impossible. Change is difficult enough. Being surrounded by naysayers adds too many obstacles to the equation.This brings us to one important principle of motivation, one that you can't ignore if you want to improve your life.
Do you struggle with a lack of confidence? If so, you could be your own worst enemy, constantly talking yourself out of success.
To discover a proven method to triggering a self confidence more powerful than ever before, visit the address below: http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211382
Garcia
Imagine trying to swim the length of a pool with a fifty-pound weight strapped to your ankle.Or walking across a tightrope while a crowd below pelts you with sticks and rocks.Impossible!Regardless of how much you wanted to succeed, you would be dragged down to the bottom of the pool or knocked off the rope in no time at all.
Believe it or not, the very same thing may be happening to your goals. And if nothing is done to save them, you'll be dragged away from all of the things you want for good.Where Does the Problem Come From?We all have an incredibly powerful need to belong and be accepted. We want to feel loved and wanted by the people in our lives.
Can you remember a time when your need to be loved wasn't being met? When you felt unimportant, disconnected, and alone?It's an extremely difficult emotion to deal with as we all know too well. And this is the cause of the problem. Our need to be connected and loved is so intense that we will sabotage our own success in order to maintain our precious connections.
Here is an example. Imagine your goal is to exercise and get in shape. You're not extremely overweight or in any danger, you simply want to take better care of yourself.It's a great goal and something you're really committed to achieving.And then it happens...'That sounds foolish.''Why would you waste your time doing that?''Who are you kidding? You know you can't actually stick to it.'These are the weights that pull you down, the rocks that knock you off course.Your friends and family, with the best of intentions, try to pull you away from your goals.Why Would They Do That?Because of their need to stay connected with you.
If you change and improve yourself, you'll be stepping into a new life and leave your friends behind. At least that's what they think. This is a frightening thought, and it drives the people in your life to keep you from changing.Improving yourself also forces your close friends to examine their own shortcomings. If everyone aims low, no one can notice.
But if one person steps up and aims high, everyone else has proof that they are settling for less.And what do you do in response to these situations?As we've already discussed, you have a deeply rooted need to stay connected with the people around you. Feeling that improving yourself will disconnect you from your friends and family, you'll slowly let go of what could have been a great change in your life.'Maybe they're right, it was a silly idea.
I don't know what I was thinking anyway.'Say goodbye to your goal...Even if you are strong enough to stick with your objective, a constant barrage of criticism and doubt will make success impossible. Change is difficult enough. Being surrounded by naysayers adds too many obstacles to the equation.This brings us to one important principle of motivation, one that you can't ignore if you want to improve your life.
Do you struggle with a lack of confidence? If so, you could be your own worst enemy, constantly talking yourself out of success.
To discover a proven method to triggering a self confidence more powerful than ever before, visit the address below: http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211382
Garcia
NLP and Success
The Five-Person Principle
In life, you become your environment.It's only a matter of time before the desires and choices of your peers become yours - and chances are good that it has already happened.Here's a little exercise you can do to really let this idea sink in. Add up the annual salaries of your five closest friends, divide by five, and see how your salary compares.
Do this with health, relationships, happiness, etc.You'll find that nine times out of ten you fall right in the middle. This is the power of your environment.Having higher standards than your peers is an uphill battle. You need to be inspired every day to create and stick with your goals, not told why they are pointless wishes that will never materialize.
I know that you want more in life, that's why you are a member of this newsletter. To ensure your success, surround yourself with people who also want more in life.Join organizations whose members share your goals and dreams. Make contact with people around your town and around the world who will inspire you to never settle.It all comes down to this: If you become your environment, make sure yours is one worth mirroring.
What Do I Do Next?
If you have the courage to control your environment and ensure that it inspires you instead of hold you back, you're not finished yet. With that courage comes the amazing opportunity of designing your life by choice and not by chance or circumstance.Take in mind your ideal life. Think about what you would be doing, how you would carry yourself, how you would feel about yourself.
Run the images in your mind and imagine that you have already achieved your goals.If this picture is to become a reality, you have to do more than think your way to change. That's almost always an impossible task. You are fighting against years of habits and patterns which will not simply go away.
Our motivation handbook, The Motivated Mind, can show you how to overcome these obstacles and set yourself up for success.You've probably already tried to think your way to change and you know how it turned out. Finally, there is a way to forever overcome this barrier and get what you really want.How long will you wait to make it all happen? My guess is, not another minute.
Today is the day you take the first step. Visit the link below and let's get started on creating a better life!http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211383Always remember, nine times out of ten you become who you spend time with most. Therefore you must examine these relationships, considering whether they are adding to your life or holding you back.With this information in hand, you'll know best how to proceed and how to give yourself the greatest chances of success.
My Best,Jason M. GraciaFounder,
Motivation123™
In life, you become your environment.It's only a matter of time before the desires and choices of your peers become yours - and chances are good that it has already happened.Here's a little exercise you can do to really let this idea sink in. Add up the annual salaries of your five closest friends, divide by five, and see how your salary compares.
Do this with health, relationships, happiness, etc.You'll find that nine times out of ten you fall right in the middle. This is the power of your environment.Having higher standards than your peers is an uphill battle. You need to be inspired every day to create and stick with your goals, not told why they are pointless wishes that will never materialize.
I know that you want more in life, that's why you are a member of this newsletter. To ensure your success, surround yourself with people who also want more in life.Join organizations whose members share your goals and dreams. Make contact with people around your town and around the world who will inspire you to never settle.It all comes down to this: If you become your environment, make sure yours is one worth mirroring.
What Do I Do Next?
If you have the courage to control your environment and ensure that it inspires you instead of hold you back, you're not finished yet. With that courage comes the amazing opportunity of designing your life by choice and not by chance or circumstance.Take in mind your ideal life. Think about what you would be doing, how you would carry yourself, how you would feel about yourself.
Run the images in your mind and imagine that you have already achieved your goals.If this picture is to become a reality, you have to do more than think your way to change. That's almost always an impossible task. You are fighting against years of habits and patterns which will not simply go away.
Our motivation handbook, The Motivated Mind, can show you how to overcome these obstacles and set yourself up for success.You've probably already tried to think your way to change and you know how it turned out. Finally, there is a way to forever overcome this barrier and get what you really want.How long will you wait to make it all happen? My guess is, not another minute.
Today is the day you take the first step. Visit the link below and let's get started on creating a better life!http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211383Always remember, nine times out of ten you become who you spend time with most. Therefore you must examine these relationships, considering whether they are adding to your life or holding you back.With this information in hand, you'll know best how to proceed and how to give yourself the greatest chances of success.
My Best,Jason M. GraciaFounder,
Motivation123™
NLP and Stress
Get Relief Now! 7 Fast-Acting Stress Busters:
If you've been around for a few years, you know how hard it can be to even think about improving your life with a world of stress surrounding you.When you're in a state of tension or stress, problems seem overwhelming, your ability to focus vanishes, and getting motivated is out of the question. Fortunately, there is a solution.By putting just a handful of simple tips and tricks to work, you can free yourself from the web of stress and return to a state of mind that is ready to take on any challenge!
1. Get It In Writing One of the most common causes of stress is trying to keep a hundred and one tasks in mind simultaneously. Not only does this keep your mind racing at all hours, it also makes it more likely that an item or two may fall through the cracks - a stress-causing situation.To overcome this obstacle, get your thoughts out of your head and write them down on paper. Once they're in ink, you'll no longer be forced to be a walking filing cabinet and you'll be assured that nothing will be overlooked.
2. Break It Down Taking on any task or project all at once is enough to make even the most calm individuals stressed out of their minds. It is far too easy to become overwhelmed by tackling a problem from all angles in a single glance. Instead, break things down into bite-sized chunks.If you have to clean the house, don't think about cleaning the 'entire' house. Break the task down into rooms or areas and think of nothing else until you complete that chunk of space. Need to help improve your children's grades? Don't tackle their entire education at once. Focus on the next test for the next class.All change is a result of small steps taken in the same general direction - super small steps. Keep this in mind the next time you come up against a potentially stressful problem or challenge.
3. Get Enough Rest Nothing makes matters worse than a lack of rest. It may be common to cut down on the number of sleeping hours you get each night with so much to do and so little time in which to do it, but the outcome is always the same.Instead of getting more accomplished, you're ineffective and irritable, not to mention twice as likely to become stressed out.When the time for bed rolls around, stop what you're doing and get the sleep you need. You can then return to the task the next day with renewed energy and stress-free focus.= = = = =Once you free yourself from stress, you'll be ready to make the most of your time, energy, and life - but how do you get motivated to actually make something happen?The answer? Our simple, six-step system to controlling your drive and motivation. In a matter of minutes, you can learn how to instantly get motivated to do the things you've always wanted to do - and have that feeling last a lifetime. To learn more, visit:http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211382= = = = =
4. Think Here and Now You can only do one thing at a time. No matter how big your to-do list may be, you can't do a thing about items ten, eleven, or twelve until one through nine are taken care of. And you can't do a thing about item two until the first step it accomplished.This is fantastic, stress-releasing news. There is no need to worry your mind with what you have to do next because you can't do anything about it. You can only do something about the here and now, the one thing in front of you.The rest of your tasks and responsibilities will get their chance for action, but until that time comes, focus only on the one thing in front of you.
5. Delegate. While some initially get a sense of strength from taking everything on their own shoulders, the pride they began with is soon replaced with stress and frustration.You don't have to do it all by yourself. Too much to do at home? Get your kids or spouse to lend a hand. Projects at work piling up? Ask a colleague to pitch in. With a team behind you, you'll accomplish more and experience the energy-draining stress less.
6. Laugh! Laughter is not only the best medicine, it's also the best stress reliever. When things get to be too much, head to a guaranteed outlet of humor and fun.Call a friend who always has a great story to share, spend a few minutes at a joke-of-the day Web site, or simply make yourself laugh out loud. When the stress is replaced with laughter, you can return to the task at hand in a brand new state of mind.
7. Give Your Brain a Break For many people, the problems at the office follow them right out the door and into their homes. The cell phone is still screaming and the deadlines to come are still in mind and creating an ever-building tension.Nothing good can come of bringing your work problems home with you, so it's time to make a new rule for yourself. The moment you leave work, leave work.
Tell yourself that you'll get to it all tomorrow, but the night is time for your mind to take a little break from the daily grind.With these simple tips put to use, you can break free from the stress of daily living and re-ignite the motivation you need to enjoy your life!
My Best,Jason M. GraciaFounder,
Motivation123™
If you've been around for a few years, you know how hard it can be to even think about improving your life with a world of stress surrounding you.When you're in a state of tension or stress, problems seem overwhelming, your ability to focus vanishes, and getting motivated is out of the question. Fortunately, there is a solution.By putting just a handful of simple tips and tricks to work, you can free yourself from the web of stress and return to a state of mind that is ready to take on any challenge!
1. Get It In Writing One of the most common causes of stress is trying to keep a hundred and one tasks in mind simultaneously. Not only does this keep your mind racing at all hours, it also makes it more likely that an item or two may fall through the cracks - a stress-causing situation.To overcome this obstacle, get your thoughts out of your head and write them down on paper. Once they're in ink, you'll no longer be forced to be a walking filing cabinet and you'll be assured that nothing will be overlooked.
2. Break It Down Taking on any task or project all at once is enough to make even the most calm individuals stressed out of their minds. It is far too easy to become overwhelmed by tackling a problem from all angles in a single glance. Instead, break things down into bite-sized chunks.If you have to clean the house, don't think about cleaning the 'entire' house. Break the task down into rooms or areas and think of nothing else until you complete that chunk of space. Need to help improve your children's grades? Don't tackle their entire education at once. Focus on the next test for the next class.All change is a result of small steps taken in the same general direction - super small steps. Keep this in mind the next time you come up against a potentially stressful problem or challenge.
3. Get Enough Rest Nothing makes matters worse than a lack of rest. It may be common to cut down on the number of sleeping hours you get each night with so much to do and so little time in which to do it, but the outcome is always the same.Instead of getting more accomplished, you're ineffective and irritable, not to mention twice as likely to become stressed out.When the time for bed rolls around, stop what you're doing and get the sleep you need. You can then return to the task the next day with renewed energy and stress-free focus.= = = = =Once you free yourself from stress, you'll be ready to make the most of your time, energy, and life - but how do you get motivated to actually make something happen?The answer? Our simple, six-step system to controlling your drive and motivation. In a matter of minutes, you can learn how to instantly get motivated to do the things you've always wanted to do - and have that feeling last a lifetime. To learn more, visit:http://www.motivation123.com/cmd.php?ad=211382= = = = =
4. Think Here and Now You can only do one thing at a time. No matter how big your to-do list may be, you can't do a thing about items ten, eleven, or twelve until one through nine are taken care of. And you can't do a thing about item two until the first step it accomplished.This is fantastic, stress-releasing news. There is no need to worry your mind with what you have to do next because you can't do anything about it. You can only do something about the here and now, the one thing in front of you.The rest of your tasks and responsibilities will get their chance for action, but until that time comes, focus only on the one thing in front of you.
5. Delegate. While some initially get a sense of strength from taking everything on their own shoulders, the pride they began with is soon replaced with stress and frustration.You don't have to do it all by yourself. Too much to do at home? Get your kids or spouse to lend a hand. Projects at work piling up? Ask a colleague to pitch in. With a team behind you, you'll accomplish more and experience the energy-draining stress less.
6. Laugh! Laughter is not only the best medicine, it's also the best stress reliever. When things get to be too much, head to a guaranteed outlet of humor and fun.Call a friend who always has a great story to share, spend a few minutes at a joke-of-the day Web site, or simply make yourself laugh out loud. When the stress is replaced with laughter, you can return to the task at hand in a brand new state of mind.
7. Give Your Brain a Break For many people, the problems at the office follow them right out the door and into their homes. The cell phone is still screaming and the deadlines to come are still in mind and creating an ever-building tension.Nothing good can come of bringing your work problems home with you, so it's time to make a new rule for yourself. The moment you leave work, leave work.
Tell yourself that you'll get to it all tomorrow, but the night is time for your mind to take a little break from the daily grind.With these simple tips put to use, you can break free from the stress of daily living and re-ignite the motivation you need to enjoy your life!
My Best,Jason M. GraciaFounder,
Motivation123™
NLP and Belief
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YOU CAN IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN
Don't be afraid of what life has to offer you. When you believe that life is worth living, your belief will help create the fact.
The barrier between you and success is not something that exists in the real world. It's simply composed of doubts about your ability.Your only limits to your realization of tomorrow will be your doubts of today.
Success is a state of mind. If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as being successful.
What you believe yourself to be, you are.
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YOU CAN IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN
Don't be afraid of what life has to offer you. When you believe that life is worth living, your belief will help create the fact.
The barrier between you and success is not something that exists in the real world. It's simply composed of doubts about your ability.Your only limits to your realization of tomorrow will be your doubts of today.
Success is a state of mind. If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as being successful.
What you believe yourself to be, you are.
Tuesday 22 May 2007
History of NLP
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History of NLPNeuro-linguistic programming (NLP) was developed jointly by Richard Bandler and John Grinder under the tutelage of Gregory Bateson (a renowned anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist), at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during the 1960s and 1970s.
Originally a study into how excellent psychotherapists were achieving results they did, it rapidly grew into a field and methodology of its own, based around the skill of modeling as used to identify the key aspects of others behaviors and approaches that led them to be capable of outstanding results in their fields.
With the 1980s, the two fell out, and amidst acrimony, and trademark lawsuits by Bandler[5], NLP tended to be developed in a fragmented and haphazard manner by many individuals, some ethically, and some opportunistically, often under multiple confusing brand names.
During the 1990s, tentative attempts were made to put NLP on a more formal, regulated footing, in countries such as the UK, and around 2001, the law suits finally became settled, and a variety of individuals and representative groups in the field resumed moves to put the field on a more professional footing.
Contents [hide]
1 Context and early influences
2 Development of NLP
2.1 Initial studies
2.2 Early models developed into the core of NLP
2.3 Splintered
2.4 Rethinking NLP: "New Code" approach
2.5 NLP buzz
2.6 21st century
3 See also
3.1 Developers
4 References
Context and early influences
One of the earliest influences on NLP were General Semantics (Alfred Korzybski) as a new perspective for looking at the world which included a kind of mental hygiene . This was a departure from the Aristotelian concepts of modern science and objective reality, and it influenced notions of programming the mind. Korzybski General semantics influenced several schools of thought, leading to a viable human potential industry and associations with emerging New Age thinking. By the late 1960s, self-help organizations such as EST, Dianetics, and Scientology had become financially successful. The Esalen human potential seminars in California began to attract a wide range of thinkers and lay-people, such as the gestalt therapist Fritz Perls, as well as Gregory Bateson, Virginia Satir, and Milton H. Erickson.[citation needed]
A second important part of the context was, that the founders developed a philosophy of "doing" rather than "theorizing". This may have been due to the strong counterculture (anti-establishment) mood at the time. As part of this, whilst there was respect for the scientific method (hypothesize, test, question), there was less regard for the concerns and approval of mainstream science in doing so. Likewise there was little thought of control or standards, or of setting guidelines; the field was left open for those interested to explore whatever its principles led them to, and wherever their personal interest took them. In general, during much of NLP's history, developers have preferred to generate ideas, test their value in practice, and leave rigorous scientific verification to other parties or until later.
A final set of influences were that old notions of behaviorism and determinism which had long held sway, were rapidly becoming disfavored, and issues such as the subjective character of experience were becoming more accepted as part of a postmodern outlook, bringing with it such questions as the subject-object problem, recognition of cognitive biases, and the questioning of the entirety of the philosophy of perception and the nature of reality. Bateson, an anthropologist himself, strongly supported cultural relativism (the view that meaning could only be found in a context – not to be confused with moral relativism), which is now considered fundamental in anthropology.
Such approaches undoubtedly influenced the development of the early studies, by inclining Grinder and Bandler to study the effectiveness of their subjects from an anthropological (observational) basis, seeking to understand what their behavior signified, rather than a psychoanalytic approach of how they fitted into a theory.
Development of NLP
[edit] Initial studies
In the early 1970s, Richard Bandler was invited by Bob Spitzer, owner of Science and Behavior Books, to attend training by Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir, and was later hired by Spritzer to assist, transcribe and edit recordings of Perls for a book. At the time, Bandler was a student at University of California, Santa Cruz, and had began running Gestalt therapy workshops to refine his skills. While at UCSC, Bandler invited assistant professor of linguistics Dr. John Grinder to observe his Gestalt workshops, to help build an explicit model of how Bandler (and Perls) did Gestalt therapy. Grinder used his knowledge of transformational grammar, and starting with Perls and moving to leading family systems therapist Virginia Satir, the two collaborated to produce several works based on these exceptional psychotherapists of the time.
The resulting linguistic model analysed how therapeutic recognition and use of language patterns could on its own be used to influence change. First published in The Structure of Magic Volume I (1975), the models were expanded in The Structure of Magic Volume II (1976), and Changing With Families (co-authored with Satir herself in 1976), and eventually became known as the meta model (meta meaning "beyond"), the first core model within what ultimately became an entire field.
[edit] Early models developed into the core of NLP
The early work, especially the meta model, captured the attention of anthropologist, Gregory Bateson who became a major influence on the early intellectual foundations of the field, including Logical levels, logical types, double bind theory, cybernetic epistemology and cultural relativism (the axiomatic anthropological concept that meaning only exists within a context).
Bateson introduced the co-founders to Milton Erickson, at that time in his 70's, and recognized as the founder of clinical hypnotherapy and a near-legendary[1] therapeutic genius in his own right. Bateson was lecturing at University of California, Santa Cruz, and was attached to the newly formed Kresge College where Grinder was also lecturing in linguistics. Bandler and Grinder met with Erickson on a regular basis, and modeled his approach and his work over eighteen months. In 1975-1976 they published a first volume set of patterns, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975), followed in 1977 by Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume II, which together form the basis of the so-called Milton model, a means to use deliberately imprecise language to enable a person to work at an unconscious or somatic level rather than a cognitive level, to resolve clinical issues more effectively.[2].
These early studies and models of patterns used by recognized genuises, such as the meta-model and Milton model, formed the basis of workshops and seminars. Under the subject title of "Neuro-linguistic programming", they became increasingly popular, firstly with psychotherapists, then business managers, sales professionals, and new age people.
As popularity for NLP increased, a development group formed around the co-founders including Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Judith DeLozier, Stephen Gilligan, Robert Dilts, and David Gordon (author of Therapeutic Metaphors, 1978) and made significant contributions to NLP. A collection of Grinder and Bandler's seminars were transcribed by Steve Andreas and published in 1979, Frogs into Princes.
Splintered
In 1980 Bandler's collaboration with Grinder abruptly ended and also Leslie Cameron-Bandler filed for divorce. Bandler, Grinder and their group of associates parted ways. A number of agreements were reached as to legal settlement between Bandler and Grinder, as regarded NLP and their partnership. Shortly after (1983), Bandler's company Not Ltd declared bankruptcy.
Ongoing legal threats ensued throughout the 1980s and 1990s surrounding trademarks, intellectual property and copyright, causing some of Bandler and Grinder's books to go out of print for a while ('Structure I & II', and 'Patterns I & II' – considered the foundations of the field – were later republished).
In July of 1996 after many years of legal controversy, Bandler filed a lawsuit against Grinder and again in January 1997 against both Grinder and numerous prominent members of the NLP community including, Carmen Bostic-St. Clair, Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas. In his suit, Bandler claimed (retrospective) sole ownership of NLP, and the sole right to use the term under trademark, as well as trademark infringement, conspiratorial tortious interference and breach of settlement agreement and permanent injunction by Grinder. [6] [7] In addition, Bandler claimed "damages against each such defendant in an amount to be proven at trial, but in no event less than [US]$10,000,000.00" per individual. The list of defendants included 200 "Does", i.e. empty names to be specified later. [8]
On February 2000 the US Superior Court found against Bandler stating that "Bandler has misrepresented to the public, through his licensing agreement and promotional materials, that he is the exclusive owner of all intellectual property rights associated with NLP, and maintains the exclusive authority to determine membership in and certification in the Society of NLP." [9]
Contemporaneous with Bandler's suits in the US Superior Court, Tony Clarkson (a UK practitioner) asked the UK High Court to revoke Bandler's UK registered trademark "NLP", in order to clarify legally whether this was a generic term rather than intellectual property. The UK High Court found in favor of Clarkson, and that NLP was a generic term, later declaring Bandler bankrupt in the UK for failure to pay the sum of the ruling. Archive.org 11 July 2000
Rethinking NLP: "New Code" approach
Main article: New Code of NLP
John Grinder began collaborating with Judith DeLozier; between between 1982-1987 they began developing the New Code of NLP, they were heavily influenced by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, and a desired to create an aesthetic and ethical framework for the use of NLP patterns. Their recode was presented in a series of seminars, titled Turtles All the Way Down; Prerequisites to Personal Genius, transcripts were published in book by the same name. In the 1980s, Grinder ceased providing public seminars, to pursue cultural change in organisations. During this time he held few public seminars, while he continued to refine the New Code of NLP with his new partner, Carmen Bostic St Clair. They published recommendations to the NLP community to become a legitimate field of study, in their work, Whispering in the Wind (2001).
Other members of the original development group, formed their own associations and modifications of the original work and took NLP is different directions.
Richard Bandler together with Todd Epstein developed much of the theory and practice associated with 'submodalities',[3] that is, "the particular perceptual qualities that may be registered by each of the five primary sensory modalities".[3] Post-1980 much of Bandler's work revolved around the NLP concept of submodalities.[3] Bandler independently developed Design Human Engineering and authored Magic in Action, Using Your Brain for a Change, Time for a Change and Persuasion Engineering (written with John LaValle). (As of 2006, Bandler continues to lecture, consult and produce media on NLP)
NLP buzz
A disquieting direction became obvious in the 1990s when, partly due to the legally-driven fragmentation of NLP practice, and partly due to lack of a defining and regulating structure to oversee the rapidly growing field, it seemed for a time that NLP could be (and was) promoted as the "latest thing", a panacea, or universal miracle solution. Dubious models and practices burgeoned, in parallel with bona fide. For a number of these new practices, profit, marketability or New Age appeal proved a stronger motive than realism or ethics.
Training too became fragmented. A plethora of trainers, some renowned, some New Age and charismatic, and some focussed upon niches, emerged, each with their own competing ideas of what training and standards were needed to become a "practitioner". As a result, today there is a range of in duration, quality and credibility of different practitioner training programmes.
In this respect, Platt (2001) comments critically[4] that NLP needs to temper its claims, and accept it has limits on its effectiveness:
"Does that make NLP bogus? No, it does not. But the research and the findings of the investigators certainly make it clear that NLP cannot help all people in all situations, which is frequently what is claimed and what practioners assert... The immoderate claims that are made for NLP might be viewed a little more critically when viewed against this background."
Likewise the Irish National Center for Guidance in Education's Guidance Counsellor's Handbook (current as of 2005) includes the following caveat about excessive claims made by some trainers:
"Unfortunately, NLP has a history of so-called NLP Practitioners overstating the level of their competence, and of their training.[5]
21st century
By the end of 2000 some sort of rapprochement between Bandler and Grinder was achieved when the parties entered a release wherein they inter alia agreed that "they are the co-creators and co-founders of the technology of Neuro-linguistic Programming. Drs. Grinder and Bandler recognize the efforts and contributions of each other in the creation and initial development of NLP." In the same document, "Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard Bandler mutually agree to refrain from disparaging each other's efforts, in any fashion, concerning their respective involvement in the field of NeuroLinguistic Programming." ("Release" reproduced as Appendix A of Whispering in the Wind by Grinder and Bostic St Clair (2001)).
In addition, national regulatory and certification bodies have begun to be founded, notably in the UK, with credentials or standing within psychological and psychotherapy association bodies.
Trademark and IP claims settled, it is a possibility that a more regular platform for the future development of NLP as an ongoing field of endeavour may come into being.[6]
See also
List of NLP topics
Empiricism
Epistemology
Communication
Hypnosis
Humanistic psychology
Linguistics
Philosophy of perception
Developers
Richard Bandler and John Grinder (co-founders)
Robert Dilts
Leslie Cameron-Bandler
Judith DeLozier
Stephen Gilligan
David Gordon
Scottwhite
References
^ A large number of books of true legends and anecdotes of Erickson have been written.
^ John Grinder & Carmen Bostic St. Clair, (2001) Whispering in the Wind. C&J Enterprises.
^ a b c See [1] [2] and [3]
^ Platt, 2001, NLP - No Longer Plausible?
^ Guidance Counsellor's handbook, section 1.4.5: http://www.ncge.ie/resources_handbooks_guidance.htm section 1.4.5 [4] (DOC)
^ (See Appendix of Whispering in the Wind.)
History of NLPNeuro-linguistic programming (NLP) was developed jointly by Richard Bandler and John Grinder under the tutelage of Gregory Bateson (a renowned anthropologist, social scientist, linguist and cyberneticist), at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during the 1960s and 1970s.
Originally a study into how excellent psychotherapists were achieving results they did, it rapidly grew into a field and methodology of its own, based around the skill of modeling as used to identify the key aspects of others behaviors and approaches that led them to be capable of outstanding results in their fields.
With the 1980s, the two fell out, and amidst acrimony, and trademark lawsuits by Bandler[5], NLP tended to be developed in a fragmented and haphazard manner by many individuals, some ethically, and some opportunistically, often under multiple confusing brand names.
During the 1990s, tentative attempts were made to put NLP on a more formal, regulated footing, in countries such as the UK, and around 2001, the law suits finally became settled, and a variety of individuals and representative groups in the field resumed moves to put the field on a more professional footing.
Contents [hide]
1 Context and early influences
2 Development of NLP
2.1 Initial studies
2.2 Early models developed into the core of NLP
2.3 Splintered
2.4 Rethinking NLP: "New Code" approach
2.5 NLP buzz
2.6 21st century
3 See also
3.1 Developers
4 References
Context and early influences
One of the earliest influences on NLP were General Semantics (Alfred Korzybski) as a new perspective for looking at the world which included a kind of mental hygiene . This was a departure from the Aristotelian concepts of modern science and objective reality, and it influenced notions of programming the mind. Korzybski General semantics influenced several schools of thought, leading to a viable human potential industry and associations with emerging New Age thinking. By the late 1960s, self-help organizations such as EST, Dianetics, and Scientology had become financially successful. The Esalen human potential seminars in California began to attract a wide range of thinkers and lay-people, such as the gestalt therapist Fritz Perls, as well as Gregory Bateson, Virginia Satir, and Milton H. Erickson.[citation needed]
A second important part of the context was, that the founders developed a philosophy of "doing" rather than "theorizing". This may have been due to the strong counterculture (anti-establishment) mood at the time. As part of this, whilst there was respect for the scientific method (hypothesize, test, question), there was less regard for the concerns and approval of mainstream science in doing so. Likewise there was little thought of control or standards, or of setting guidelines; the field was left open for those interested to explore whatever its principles led them to, and wherever their personal interest took them. In general, during much of NLP's history, developers have preferred to generate ideas, test their value in practice, and leave rigorous scientific verification to other parties or until later.
A final set of influences were that old notions of behaviorism and determinism which had long held sway, were rapidly becoming disfavored, and issues such as the subjective character of experience were becoming more accepted as part of a postmodern outlook, bringing with it such questions as the subject-object problem, recognition of cognitive biases, and the questioning of the entirety of the philosophy of perception and the nature of reality. Bateson, an anthropologist himself, strongly supported cultural relativism (the view that meaning could only be found in a context – not to be confused with moral relativism), which is now considered fundamental in anthropology.
Such approaches undoubtedly influenced the development of the early studies, by inclining Grinder and Bandler to study the effectiveness of their subjects from an anthropological (observational) basis, seeking to understand what their behavior signified, rather than a psychoanalytic approach of how they fitted into a theory.
Development of NLP
[edit] Initial studies
In the early 1970s, Richard Bandler was invited by Bob Spitzer, owner of Science and Behavior Books, to attend training by Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir, and was later hired by Spritzer to assist, transcribe and edit recordings of Perls for a book. At the time, Bandler was a student at University of California, Santa Cruz, and had began running Gestalt therapy workshops to refine his skills. While at UCSC, Bandler invited assistant professor of linguistics Dr. John Grinder to observe his Gestalt workshops, to help build an explicit model of how Bandler (and Perls) did Gestalt therapy. Grinder used his knowledge of transformational grammar, and starting with Perls and moving to leading family systems therapist Virginia Satir, the two collaborated to produce several works based on these exceptional psychotherapists of the time.
The resulting linguistic model analysed how therapeutic recognition and use of language patterns could on its own be used to influence change. First published in The Structure of Magic Volume I (1975), the models were expanded in The Structure of Magic Volume II (1976), and Changing With Families (co-authored with Satir herself in 1976), and eventually became known as the meta model (meta meaning "beyond"), the first core model within what ultimately became an entire field.
[edit] Early models developed into the core of NLP
The early work, especially the meta model, captured the attention of anthropologist, Gregory Bateson who became a major influence on the early intellectual foundations of the field, including Logical levels, logical types, double bind theory, cybernetic epistemology and cultural relativism (the axiomatic anthropological concept that meaning only exists within a context).
Bateson introduced the co-founders to Milton Erickson, at that time in his 70's, and recognized as the founder of clinical hypnotherapy and a near-legendary[1] therapeutic genius in his own right. Bateson was lecturing at University of California, Santa Cruz, and was attached to the newly formed Kresge College where Grinder was also lecturing in linguistics. Bandler and Grinder met with Erickson on a regular basis, and modeled his approach and his work over eighteen months. In 1975-1976 they published a first volume set of patterns, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975), followed in 1977 by Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume II, which together form the basis of the so-called Milton model, a means to use deliberately imprecise language to enable a person to work at an unconscious or somatic level rather than a cognitive level, to resolve clinical issues more effectively.[2].
These early studies and models of patterns used by recognized genuises, such as the meta-model and Milton model, formed the basis of workshops and seminars. Under the subject title of "Neuro-linguistic programming", they became increasingly popular, firstly with psychotherapists, then business managers, sales professionals, and new age people.
As popularity for NLP increased, a development group formed around the co-founders including Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Judith DeLozier, Stephen Gilligan, Robert Dilts, and David Gordon (author of Therapeutic Metaphors, 1978) and made significant contributions to NLP. A collection of Grinder and Bandler's seminars were transcribed by Steve Andreas and published in 1979, Frogs into Princes.
Splintered
In 1980 Bandler's collaboration with Grinder abruptly ended and also Leslie Cameron-Bandler filed for divorce. Bandler, Grinder and their group of associates parted ways. A number of agreements were reached as to legal settlement between Bandler and Grinder, as regarded NLP and their partnership. Shortly after (1983), Bandler's company Not Ltd declared bankruptcy.
Ongoing legal threats ensued throughout the 1980s and 1990s surrounding trademarks, intellectual property and copyright, causing some of Bandler and Grinder's books to go out of print for a while ('Structure I & II', and 'Patterns I & II' – considered the foundations of the field – were later republished).
In July of 1996 after many years of legal controversy, Bandler filed a lawsuit against Grinder and again in January 1997 against both Grinder and numerous prominent members of the NLP community including, Carmen Bostic-St. Clair, Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas. In his suit, Bandler claimed (retrospective) sole ownership of NLP, and the sole right to use the term under trademark, as well as trademark infringement, conspiratorial tortious interference and breach of settlement agreement and permanent injunction by Grinder. [6] [7] In addition, Bandler claimed "damages against each such defendant in an amount to be proven at trial, but in no event less than [US]$10,000,000.00" per individual. The list of defendants included 200 "Does", i.e. empty names to be specified later. [8]
On February 2000 the US Superior Court found against Bandler stating that "Bandler has misrepresented to the public, through his licensing agreement and promotional materials, that he is the exclusive owner of all intellectual property rights associated with NLP, and maintains the exclusive authority to determine membership in and certification in the Society of NLP." [9]
Contemporaneous with Bandler's suits in the US Superior Court, Tony Clarkson (a UK practitioner) asked the UK High Court to revoke Bandler's UK registered trademark "NLP", in order to clarify legally whether this was a generic term rather than intellectual property. The UK High Court found in favor of Clarkson, and that NLP was a generic term, later declaring Bandler bankrupt in the UK for failure to pay the sum of the ruling. Archive.org 11 July 2000
Rethinking NLP: "New Code" approach
Main article: New Code of NLP
John Grinder began collaborating with Judith DeLozier; between between 1982-1987 they began developing the New Code of NLP, they were heavily influenced by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, and a desired to create an aesthetic and ethical framework for the use of NLP patterns. Their recode was presented in a series of seminars, titled Turtles All the Way Down; Prerequisites to Personal Genius, transcripts were published in book by the same name. In the 1980s, Grinder ceased providing public seminars, to pursue cultural change in organisations. During this time he held few public seminars, while he continued to refine the New Code of NLP with his new partner, Carmen Bostic St Clair. They published recommendations to the NLP community to become a legitimate field of study, in their work, Whispering in the Wind (2001).
Other members of the original development group, formed their own associations and modifications of the original work and took NLP is different directions.
Richard Bandler together with Todd Epstein developed much of the theory and practice associated with 'submodalities',[3] that is, "the particular perceptual qualities that may be registered by each of the five primary sensory modalities".[3] Post-1980 much of Bandler's work revolved around the NLP concept of submodalities.[3] Bandler independently developed Design Human Engineering and authored Magic in Action, Using Your Brain for a Change, Time for a Change and Persuasion Engineering (written with John LaValle). (As of 2006, Bandler continues to lecture, consult and produce media on NLP)
NLP buzz
A disquieting direction became obvious in the 1990s when, partly due to the legally-driven fragmentation of NLP practice, and partly due to lack of a defining and regulating structure to oversee the rapidly growing field, it seemed for a time that NLP could be (and was) promoted as the "latest thing", a panacea, or universal miracle solution. Dubious models and practices burgeoned, in parallel with bona fide. For a number of these new practices, profit, marketability or New Age appeal proved a stronger motive than realism or ethics.
Training too became fragmented. A plethora of trainers, some renowned, some New Age and charismatic, and some focussed upon niches, emerged, each with their own competing ideas of what training and standards were needed to become a "practitioner". As a result, today there is a range of in duration, quality and credibility of different practitioner training programmes.
In this respect, Platt (2001) comments critically[4] that NLP needs to temper its claims, and accept it has limits on its effectiveness:
"Does that make NLP bogus? No, it does not. But the research and the findings of the investigators certainly make it clear that NLP cannot help all people in all situations, which is frequently what is claimed and what practioners assert... The immoderate claims that are made for NLP might be viewed a little more critically when viewed against this background."
Likewise the Irish National Center for Guidance in Education's Guidance Counsellor's Handbook (current as of 2005) includes the following caveat about excessive claims made by some trainers:
"Unfortunately, NLP has a history of so-called NLP Practitioners overstating the level of their competence, and of their training.[5]
21st century
By the end of 2000 some sort of rapprochement between Bandler and Grinder was achieved when the parties entered a release wherein they inter alia agreed that "they are the co-creators and co-founders of the technology of Neuro-linguistic Programming. Drs. Grinder and Bandler recognize the efforts and contributions of each other in the creation and initial development of NLP." In the same document, "Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard Bandler mutually agree to refrain from disparaging each other's efforts, in any fashion, concerning their respective involvement in the field of NeuroLinguistic Programming." ("Release" reproduced as Appendix A of Whispering in the Wind by Grinder and Bostic St Clair (2001)).
In addition, national regulatory and certification bodies have begun to be founded, notably in the UK, with credentials or standing within psychological and psychotherapy association bodies.
Trademark and IP claims settled, it is a possibility that a more regular platform for the future development of NLP as an ongoing field of endeavour may come into being.[6]
See also
List of NLP topics
Empiricism
Epistemology
Communication
Hypnosis
Humanistic psychology
Linguistics
Philosophy of perception
Developers
Richard Bandler and John Grinder (co-founders)
Robert Dilts
Leslie Cameron-Bandler
Judith DeLozier
Stephen Gilligan
David Gordon
Scottwhite
References
^ A large number of books of true legends and anecdotes of Erickson have been written.
^ John Grinder & Carmen Bostic St. Clair, (2001) Whispering in the Wind. C&J Enterprises.
^ a b c See [1] [2] and [3]
^ Platt, 2001, NLP - No Longer Plausible?
^ Guidance Counsellor's handbook, section 1.4.5: http://www.ncge.ie/resources_handbooks_guidance.htm section 1.4.5 [4] (DOC)
^ (See Appendix of Whispering in the Wind.)
What is NLP?
What is NLP?
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a personal development system developed in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, in association with Gregory Bateson. It uses a toolbox of strategies, axioms and beliefs about human communication, perception and subjective experience.
NLP's core idea is that an individual's thoughts, gestures and words interact to create one's perception of the world. By changing one's outlook, a person can improve his attitudes and actions. These observations can be changed by applying a variety of techniques.
NLP teaches that a person can develop successful habits by amplifying helpful behaviors and diminishing negative ones. Positive change can come when one carefully reproduces the behaviors and beliefs of successful people (called 'modeling'). It also states that all human beings have all the resources necessary for success within themselves.
Bandler and Grinder credited three successful therapists — Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson — as NLP's major inspirations. They 'modeled' the therapists and developed special "patterns" for general communication, rapport-building and self-improvement. NLP author Robert Dilts calls the system "the study of the structure of subjective experience".[1]
NLP is controversial, particularly for use in therapy and after more than three decades of existence, remains scientifically unvalidated.[2]
It has also been criticized for lacking a defining and regulating body to impose standards and a professional ethical code.[3] Even so, NLP remains popular as an approach to self-help, personal influence and business communication. [4][5]It is also used as an adjunct by therapists in other therapeutic disciplines.
One of a series of articles on
Neuro-linguistic programming
(NLP)
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Main articles
NLP · Principles · Topics · History
NLP and science · Therapy · Bibliography · Methods of NLP
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Concepts and methods
Modeling · Meta model · Milton model
Perceptual positions · Rapport
Representation systems
Reframing · Submodalities
Positive intention · Meta program · Neurological levels
Anchoring · Well-formed outcome
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Notable Practitioners
Richard Bandler·John Grinder
Connirae Andreas·Steve Andreas
Judith DeLozier·Robert Dilts·
Stephen Gilligan·David Gordon
Ross Jeffries·Paul McKenna
Genie Laborde ·Frank Pucelik
Tony Robbins·Charles Faulkner
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Principal influences
Fritz Perls · Gestalt therapy
Milton Erickson · Hypnotherapy
Virginia Satir · Family therapy
Transformational linguistics
Gregory Bateson · Paul Watzlawick
Epistemology · Double Bind
Alfred Korzybski · Map-territory
Frank Farrelly · Provocative therapy
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1 General description
2 Concepts and methods
2.1 Modeling
2.2 Meta model
2.3 Milton model
2.4 Representational systems
2.5 Aphorisms/presuppositions
2.6 Techniques
3 NLP in the professions
4 History and development
4.1 1970s: Founding and early development
4.2 1980s: New developments and scientific assessment
4.3 1990s: Controversy, division, and marketing
4.4 2000s: Legal settlement and government regulation
5 Reception
5.1 Psychological research and reviews
5.1.1 Sharpley's review of preferred representational systems
5.1.2 Other reviews of evidence
5.1.3 Wider critiques from psychologists
5.2 Commercialization, manipulation and persuasion
5.3 Popular culture and media
6 Classifying NLP
6.1 Associations with science
6.2 Humanistic Psychology
6.3 Technology
7 Notes and references
8 Further reading
8.1 Associations
8.2 Research
8.3 Skeptics
9 See also
[edit] General description
NLP was influenced by hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and the human potential movement; its basic ideas developed around 1973. Bandler and Grinder originally focused on modeling the communication, body language and thoughts of successful people. Although its theoretical principles have not been supported by scientific research,[6][7] some of its techniques were inspired by existing therapeutic techniques[6].
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a personal development system developed in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, in association with Gregory Bateson. It uses a toolbox of strategies, axioms and beliefs about human communication, perception and subjective experience.
NLP's core idea is that an individual's thoughts, gestures and words interact to create one's perception of the world. By changing one's outlook, a person can improve his attitudes and actions. These observations can be changed by applying a variety of techniques.
NLP teaches that a person can develop successful habits by amplifying helpful behaviors and diminishing negative ones. Positive change can come when one carefully reproduces the behaviors and beliefs of successful people (called 'modeling'). It also states that all human beings have all the resources necessary for success within themselves.
Bandler and Grinder credited three successful therapists — Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson — as NLP's major inspirations. They 'modeled' the therapists and developed special "patterns" for general communication, rapport-building and self-improvement. NLP author Robert Dilts calls the system "the study of the structure of subjective experience".[1]
NLP is controversial, particularly for use in therapy and after more than three decades of existence, remains scientifically unvalidated.[2]
It has also been criticized for lacking a defining and regulating body to impose standards and a professional ethical code.[3] Even so, NLP remains popular as an approach to self-help, personal influence and business communication. [4][5]It is also used as an adjunct by therapists in other therapeutic disciplines.
One of a series of articles on
Neuro-linguistic programming
(NLP)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Main articles
NLP · Principles · Topics · History
NLP and science · Therapy · Bibliography · Methods of NLP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Concepts and methods
Modeling · Meta model · Milton model
Perceptual positions · Rapport
Representation systems
Reframing · Submodalities
Positive intention · Meta program · Neurological levels
Anchoring · Well-formed outcome
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notable Practitioners
Richard Bandler·John Grinder
Connirae Andreas·Steve Andreas
Judith DeLozier·Robert Dilts·
Stephen Gilligan·David Gordon
Ross Jeffries·Paul McKenna
Genie Laborde ·Frank Pucelik
Tony Robbins·Charles Faulkner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Principal influences
Fritz Perls · Gestalt therapy
Milton Erickson · Hypnotherapy
Virginia Satir · Family therapy
Transformational linguistics
Gregory Bateson · Paul Watzlawick
Epistemology · Double Bind
Alfred Korzybski · Map-territory
Frank Farrelly · Provocative therapy
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1 General description
2 Concepts and methods
2.1 Modeling
2.2 Meta model
2.3 Milton model
2.4 Representational systems
2.5 Aphorisms/presuppositions
2.6 Techniques
3 NLP in the professions
4 History and development
4.1 1970s: Founding and early development
4.2 1980s: New developments and scientific assessment
4.3 1990s: Controversy, division, and marketing
4.4 2000s: Legal settlement and government regulation
5 Reception
5.1 Psychological research and reviews
5.1.1 Sharpley's review of preferred representational systems
5.1.2 Other reviews of evidence
5.1.3 Wider critiques from psychologists
5.2 Commercialization, manipulation and persuasion
5.3 Popular culture and media
6 Classifying NLP
6.1 Associations with science
6.2 Humanistic Psychology
6.3 Technology
7 Notes and references
8 Further reading
8.1 Associations
8.2 Research
8.3 Skeptics
9 See also
[edit] General description
NLP was influenced by hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and the human potential movement; its basic ideas developed around 1973. Bandler and Grinder originally focused on modeling the communication, body language and thoughts of successful people. Although its theoretical principles have not been supported by scientific research,[6][7] some of its techniques were inspired by existing therapeutic techniques[6].
Sunday 20 May 2007
NLP and law of attraction
NLP and law of attraction
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
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www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
NLP is about attracting good things and feelings and removing bad things and bad feelings.
Reza
10 Tips to Clean Up Your Vibration
by Jeannette Maw
Cleaning up your vibration is essential to successful manifesting. Many rely on techniques like journaling and visualization to get what they want, overlooking the importance of an aligned vibration. Once your vibe is straight, your manifested desires arrive with speed and ease.
So how to clean up your vibration? It’s simple: Feel Good! But because that’s easier said than done, here are ten tips to straighten out your vibe:
Filter your thoughts – deliberately entertain thoughts that feel good. Although it may be impossible to eliminate all negative thoughts, you can give them less air time. Practice consistently holding thoughts that lighten your heart and lift your soul.
Do what you like – do things you enjoy, and don’t do things you don’t enjoy! Look at your current to-do list. What aren’t you looking forward to? Cross those off and delegate or hire those items out (or decide they don’t need to be done after all). Add three things to your list you love to do.
Enjoy your food - fill your body with food that feels good, regardless whether someone says it’s good for you or not. They don’t know. Your body knows. Listen to it.
Indulge – many of us were taught not to splurge or spoil ourselves. The truth is you deserve to be treated well by yourself and others. Set the example by spoiling yourself regularly. Listen for what your heart wants and indulge it!
Love your people – you know those people who leave you feeling drained? Stop seeing them. Seek out people who are fun to be around. Your vibration takes a toll each time you listen to someone’s tirade, and is lifted when you share fun stories and laughter. Give your vibe the people it likes.
Hang out with animals – spend time with a four-legged friend. If you don’t already have an animal companion, visit a neighbor’s, set up a bird feeder, or volunteer for a rescue group. Animals are natural balancers of energy!
Spend time in nature – spending time in nature is very cleansing to your energy. Take a walk in the park; sit on the porch to feel the breeze; lie on the grass to watch the clouds. Even raking leaves or shoveling snow can be good for the soul!
Filter your media – filtering the vibrations you allow in is one of the best ways to clean up your vibe. Feed your soul books that turn you on; stop reading what doesn’t feel good (tabloids, trade journals, daily newspapers). If there’s news you really need, someone will tell you. If there’s a tv show you truly enjoy, tune in and then turn it off. Listen to music you enjoy; avoid unpleasant sounds.
Metta practice – regularly experiencing love and appreciation will get your vibe squeaky clean in no time. Whether you call it metta practice (loving kindness), random acts of kindness or something else, practice sending out love and appreciation to everything around you.
Declutter – cleaning up the energy of your immediate environment will dramatically improve your vibration. Practice simplicity. Let go of things you don’t need or want; be selective about what you let in; organize the spaces that need attention (basements and closets included).
Don’t feel overwhelmed; start with the two tips that get your attention. As you clean up your vibe, you may experience minor side effects while your body adjusts to the new chemicals you’re flowing. That’s ok, it passes and becomes more natural to maintain a high vibration. All of which brings you that much closer to dreams come true!
Jeannette Maw is an Attraction Coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching who teaches clients the three secrets to getting what they want, once and for all.
I hope you enjoyed this article Paul. If you haven't done so already, check out Jeannette's website. Just click the link above. I'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks when I'll have another issue of Magnetic News ready.
Attract a wonderful life,
Barb
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
NLP is about attracting good things and feelings and removing bad things and bad feelings.
Reza
10 Tips to Clean Up Your Vibration
by Jeannette Maw
Cleaning up your vibration is essential to successful manifesting. Many rely on techniques like journaling and visualization to get what they want, overlooking the importance of an aligned vibration. Once your vibe is straight, your manifested desires arrive with speed and ease.
So how to clean up your vibration? It’s simple: Feel Good! But because that’s easier said than done, here are ten tips to straighten out your vibe:
Filter your thoughts – deliberately entertain thoughts that feel good. Although it may be impossible to eliminate all negative thoughts, you can give them less air time. Practice consistently holding thoughts that lighten your heart and lift your soul.
Do what you like – do things you enjoy, and don’t do things you don’t enjoy! Look at your current to-do list. What aren’t you looking forward to? Cross those off and delegate or hire those items out (or decide they don’t need to be done after all). Add three things to your list you love to do.
Enjoy your food - fill your body with food that feels good, regardless whether someone says it’s good for you or not. They don’t know. Your body knows. Listen to it.
Indulge – many of us were taught not to splurge or spoil ourselves. The truth is you deserve to be treated well by yourself and others. Set the example by spoiling yourself regularly. Listen for what your heart wants and indulge it!
Love your people – you know those people who leave you feeling drained? Stop seeing them. Seek out people who are fun to be around. Your vibration takes a toll each time you listen to someone’s tirade, and is lifted when you share fun stories and laughter. Give your vibe the people it likes.
Hang out with animals – spend time with a four-legged friend. If you don’t already have an animal companion, visit a neighbor’s, set up a bird feeder, or volunteer for a rescue group. Animals are natural balancers of energy!
Spend time in nature – spending time in nature is very cleansing to your energy. Take a walk in the park; sit on the porch to feel the breeze; lie on the grass to watch the clouds. Even raking leaves or shoveling snow can be good for the soul!
Filter your media – filtering the vibrations you allow in is one of the best ways to clean up your vibe. Feed your soul books that turn you on; stop reading what doesn’t feel good (tabloids, trade journals, daily newspapers). If there’s news you really need, someone will tell you. If there’s a tv show you truly enjoy, tune in and then turn it off. Listen to music you enjoy; avoid unpleasant sounds.
Metta practice – regularly experiencing love and appreciation will get your vibe squeaky clean in no time. Whether you call it metta practice (loving kindness), random acts of kindness or something else, practice sending out love and appreciation to everything around you.
Declutter – cleaning up the energy of your immediate environment will dramatically improve your vibration. Practice simplicity. Let go of things you don’t need or want; be selective about what you let in; organize the spaces that need attention (basements and closets included).
Don’t feel overwhelmed; start with the two tips that get your attention. As you clean up your vibe, you may experience minor side effects while your body adjusts to the new chemicals you’re flowing. That’s ok, it passes and becomes more natural to maintain a high vibration. All of which brings you that much closer to dreams come true!
Jeannette Maw is an Attraction Coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching who teaches clients the three secrets to getting what they want, once and for all.
I hope you enjoyed this article Paul. If you haven't done so already, check out Jeannette's website. Just click the link above. I'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks when I'll have another issue of Magnetic News ready.
Attract a wonderful life,
Barb
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
NLP and Children
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
How to Coach children and teenagers?* 3 High Quality CDs on Giving Children Purpose and Focus
* 3 CDs By Reza Borr,* Plus the BOOK OF MOTIVATIONAL Stories
Reza Borr is a leading authority on self-development and a master trainer of NLP and
Has co-presented NLP courses with Dr Richard Bandler, the creator of NLP.
Reza Borr is also the author of:
1. Manual of Coaching for Peak Performance: A – Z of Coaching
2. Manual Of Success: Practical Strategies For Achieving Excellence
3. Motivational Stories That Can Change Your Life
4. The Book of 14 Training Manuals on 14 Subjects
5. A New Vision For the Islamic World: Transformational Strategies forChanging Cultures and Values of Nations
6. 135 coaching solutions on self-development, personal development, coaching, team building, leadership, stress management, family relationships, parenting, the principles of highly effective people, motivation, anxiety,mind control, mind management, and many other subjects.
About this package:
Your children are your responsibilities.
Your children become what you make them or what you don't make them. Your children will become what you have programmed them to become consciously or unconsciously.
Your children are your most important investment in yourself to be extended in future. Your children are you; but they hardly become what you are and what you intend for them to become.
It is not important what are your intentions for your children. It is important what you plan and what you do for your children so that your intentions turn into reality. There is no doubt that you have great intentions for your children but you have never attended a course or read a book about how to bring up your children and turn your intentions into working skills.
People attend courses on almost everything except parenting and raising children and coaching teenagers. Everybody thinks that they know how to raise good children. If that was the case, why our children do not become what we want them to become.
Nobody wants his children to become criminals, outlaws or low achievers but nobody cares to learn how to coach and train their children to become successful instead of becoming criminals and low achievers who struggle to make a living.
It is a puzzle to know why the people we love most do not get the kind of training and coaching that they deserve. We invest in everything except in investing in ourselves to learn the skills of raising good and capable children.
The CDs are designed to give you some important skills in coaching and raising children in a healthy and constructive way.
· These CDs coach you to coach your children.
· These CDs coach you to give you children a meaningful purpose in life.
· These CDs coach you to give feedback to your children in a friendly and way.
· These CDs coach you to assess the work of your children positively.
· These CDs coach you to make your children more receptive to advice.
· These CDs can give you the opportunity to learn the skills of those parents who have raised great children.
· These CDs show you how to establish friendly relationships with your children.
· These CDs are made to make you capable of making the future of your children bright and beautiful.
· These CDs are also your tools for correcting the past relationships with children into the kind of relationships that you desire to have.
· These CDs will help you to create the future of your children now.
Think of your children for a moment. Imagine how they will be in future. Think of the impact you have made on them. Think of the responses and reactions they have given to you.
Most of successful people do not succeed in raising successful children. What has happened to the children of Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Margaret Thatcher?
Nobody knows about them. But just imagine if the children of these people were as much successful as they themselves?
Raising successful children requires special skills. I have coached many parents who have decided to raise successful and brilliant children.
If you wish things to become easier, they would not.You have to learn more skills.
If you wish your clients were easier, they would not. You have to learn better strategies.
If you wish success was easier, it would not. You have to learn the secrets.
Note to Customers: If you are buying these CDs and are not based in the UK, you pay £19, which will then be automatically changed into your currency. Delivery time: 3 to 10 working days. Our servers are extremely secure. Our site is highly listed on "safe shopping networks."
* Only £19
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
How to Coach children and teenagers?* 3 High Quality CDs on Giving Children Purpose and Focus
* 3 CDs By Reza Borr,* Plus the BOOK OF MOTIVATIONAL Stories
Reza Borr is a leading authority on self-development and a master trainer of NLP and
Has co-presented NLP courses with Dr Richard Bandler, the creator of NLP.
Reza Borr is also the author of:
1. Manual of Coaching for Peak Performance: A – Z of Coaching
2. Manual Of Success: Practical Strategies For Achieving Excellence
3. Motivational Stories That Can Change Your Life
4. The Book of 14 Training Manuals on 14 Subjects
5. A New Vision For the Islamic World: Transformational Strategies forChanging Cultures and Values of Nations
6. 135 coaching solutions on self-development, personal development, coaching, team building, leadership, stress management, family relationships, parenting, the principles of highly effective people, motivation, anxiety,mind control, mind management, and many other subjects.
About this package:
Your children are your responsibilities.
Your children become what you make them or what you don't make them. Your children will become what you have programmed them to become consciously or unconsciously.
Your children are your most important investment in yourself to be extended in future. Your children are you; but they hardly become what you are and what you intend for them to become.
It is not important what are your intentions for your children. It is important what you plan and what you do for your children so that your intentions turn into reality. There is no doubt that you have great intentions for your children but you have never attended a course or read a book about how to bring up your children and turn your intentions into working skills.
People attend courses on almost everything except parenting and raising children and coaching teenagers. Everybody thinks that they know how to raise good children. If that was the case, why our children do not become what we want them to become.
Nobody wants his children to become criminals, outlaws or low achievers but nobody cares to learn how to coach and train their children to become successful instead of becoming criminals and low achievers who struggle to make a living.
It is a puzzle to know why the people we love most do not get the kind of training and coaching that they deserve. We invest in everything except in investing in ourselves to learn the skills of raising good and capable children.
The CDs are designed to give you some important skills in coaching and raising children in a healthy and constructive way.
· These CDs coach you to coach your children.
· These CDs coach you to give you children a meaningful purpose in life.
· These CDs coach you to give feedback to your children in a friendly and way.
· These CDs coach you to assess the work of your children positively.
· These CDs coach you to make your children more receptive to advice.
· These CDs can give you the opportunity to learn the skills of those parents who have raised great children.
· These CDs show you how to establish friendly relationships with your children.
· These CDs are made to make you capable of making the future of your children bright and beautiful.
· These CDs are also your tools for correcting the past relationships with children into the kind of relationships that you desire to have.
· These CDs will help you to create the future of your children now.
Think of your children for a moment. Imagine how they will be in future. Think of the impact you have made on them. Think of the responses and reactions they have given to you.
Most of successful people do not succeed in raising successful children. What has happened to the children of Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Margaret Thatcher?
Nobody knows about them. But just imagine if the children of these people were as much successful as they themselves?
Raising successful children requires special skills. I have coached many parents who have decided to raise successful and brilliant children.
If you wish things to become easier, they would not.You have to learn more skills.
If you wish your clients were easier, they would not. You have to learn better strategies.
If you wish success was easier, it would not. You have to learn the secrets.
Note to Customers: If you are buying these CDs and are not based in the UK, you pay £19, which will then be automatically changed into your currency. Delivery time: 3 to 10 working days. Our servers are extremely secure. Our site is highly listed on "safe shopping networks."
* Only £19
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
NLP, NLP New code
By Chris Collingwood NLP Trainer Assessor
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
NLP is a new field of endeavour within the Behavioural Sciences, a communication methodology for detecting patterns and building models of human behaviour. NLP is used to study the patterns of how we do what we do and how we know what we know; subsequently it is also an epistemology 1.
Its methods are so successful that many of its models have been incorporated into management training, coaching, psychotherapy, education, sports performance and personal development. If you have attended a recent management seminar or done some form of personal development it is likely that you have been exposed to some NLP techniques. The NLP method of modelling has been used to build models that are applied to many areas of human performance, including presentations, derivative trading, learning, even the practise of hypnosis.
The Origins ofs NLP
NLP was originated by Dr. John Grinder, at that time an associate professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Richard Bandler, who was a fourth year psychology student.
New Code NLP
The new code of NLP is a reorganisation and recoding of the fundamentals of NLP. The recoding was begun by classic code NLP co-creator John Grinder with Judith DeLozier 2 . and has been developed further in recent years by Grinder with Carmen Bostic St. Clair 3.
History: NLP began with Modelling genius
The classic code of NLP began in the mid 1970's with the collaboration between John Grinder, an assistant professor of linguistics and Richard Bandler a psychology student. Grinder modelled Bandler tacitly while Bandler did Gestalt therapy.
Tacit modelling involves mimicking the behaviour of a model while in a 'know nothing' state until you can reproduce the skill and get the same result as the model in a similar context within a similar timeframe. See the chapter on modelling.
Grinder used the patterns he had modelled, later making them explicit from his own experience. After this, Grinder and Bandler modelled other patterns from exemplars of human excellence in psychotherapy and published these. They became the first models of NLP 4.
An explicit model comprises the minimum number of patterns necessary and sufficient to reproduce similar outcomes in the same class of context as the exemplar who was modelled5.
A pattern is a sequence of behaviour that repeats through time such that if the first part of the sequence occurs the second part of the sequence can be predicted.
Bandler and Grinder then began teaching NLP to the public, with the assistance of their early students. Through the following years thousands of people have learned the classic code of NLP, and now there are thousands of classic code NLP trainers. Most cities in the developed world have at least one and often a number of NLP training organizations purporting to teach NLP.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a generic name for a field
The name "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" is deemed in law to be generic and is not able to be trade marked. Subsequently, there are no formal controls over who can teach and certify others in NLP. Buyers beware. This makes it particularly important to identify problems with the definitions, application and training of NLP.
NLP in the classic form has been taught for about 25 years, and has a number of flaws in its application and teaching. The purpose of NLP is to model human excellence. One of the results of NLP modelling is a collection of explicit patterns and models of human excellence. For some NLP trainers the practice of training involves a recipe book approach where specific examples of previously modelled patterns are taught explicitly. The deployment of any particular pattern is made consciously, with the usual constraints of conscious attention 6.
Excellent practice of NLP is driven by feedback. Grinder responded to the consequences of the way classic NLP is coded, practiced and taught within the NLP community by thoroughly re-examining the classic code of NLP. As a result, he and his partners developed a solution to the most significant problems in the classic code NLP, which are built into the new code.
The shift in emphasis with the New Code
What are some of the differences between the NLP codes? A significant difference between the new code of NLP and the classic code is the specification of the roles of conscious attention and the unconscious mind.
Historically, application of classic code NLP was oriented towards conscious manipulation of internal representations (visual images, sounds, and sensations). There was no formal engagement of the unconscious mind. An outcome was chosen in isolation and a process implemented to shift from the present state to the desired state. If the outcome had unfortunate consequences to the person's lifestyle, family or social system, this became apparent through feedback in real time.
Engaging the unconscious has its benefits
It is useful to engage the unconscious mind when choosing outcomes and resources. The unconscious has access to a greater range of possibilities than the conscious mind. It works with patterns, in metaphor and can consider multiple time frames, logical levels and perceptual positions. The unconscious mind has the capacity to imagine future scenarios and include likely consequences. It can deliver intents, solutions and many other resources to consciousness and carries information from all our experience.
When we engage the unconscious mind in forming outcomes and choosing resources, the ensuing change respects the person's ecology. Ecology in this context considers the broader scope of possible consequences (benefits and costs) of any action, including change. When we include consequences, we can test resources before the change and ensure the entire well being of the person and the systems in which they operate. Unfortunate consequences are identified early on so the process can be altered to fit the needs of the person.
When the classic code was developed, there was no explicit reference to the unconscious mind and no formal means of engaging with it. This has been rectified in the New Code and is an essential element.
The importance of framing (conscious involvement)
One of the roles of conscious attention is the art of framing. Framing defines the context to be examined and / or the desired outcome to be considered. Framing identifies the parameters within which the unconscious will operate to make links and develop resources.
Arranging unconscious selection of resources
A person wanting a change can consult their unconscious mind about consciously identified proposals and possible resources for achieving their outcome. Initially they can learn to develop a formal signal system with the unconscious. As their acuity develops, they recognize and use naturally occurring bodily signals as communications from the unconscious.
This form of communication enables a person to propose courses of action to their unconscious mind. When the unconscious disagrees, the person can change their approach, gather more information, research the frame and context or take such other action as they see fit. They are forewarned that pursing the original proposal will be incongruent and therefore liable to unfortunate consequences. Equally, an affirmative response from the unconscious indicates that the proposed action will be taken congruently, thereby increasing the likelihood of functional consequences.
As communication with the unconscious mind develops, it may progress naturally from "yes", "no" and "don't know" signal responses to offering fully formed ideas to the conscious mind in response to proposals and questions. Since this is how ideas are communicated already, the intent is to recognise when the unconscious uses this route to communicate in response to conscious queries.
The inclusion of intention/s and consequences
Intention was first identified within NLP practice with Grinder's development of the Six Step Reframe, a pattern used for changing behaviour and states. Six Step Reframing 7. can be applied to any defined pattern. Including intention increases the scope of possibility when considering desired outcomes. For example, "What do I want? And what do I want it for"? This question applied in a well-formed outcome raises the possibility that the original outcome may not lead to the most effective result. The intent for an outcome allows multiple options to be considered or the intent itself to become the outcome.
An indicator of the likely ecology in an outcome is a match between the consequences of achieving the outcome and the intent for pursuing it. Grinder has expressed concern about the lack of ecology in the use of classic code patterns when used to pursue outcomes in isolation from the rest of the subject's life. Grinder's outcome, intention and consequences model addresses that issue.
Emphasizing state rather than behaviour in NLP
The new code of NLP attends to changing state instead of replacing one behaviour directly with a single, different behaviour. A change in state leads to a range of different, naturally occurring behaviour. Instead of replacing one piece of behaviour with another in a context, an appropriately framed context can be used to elicit a suitable state which enables a range of possible, fitting behaviour to manifest. When the state is associated into the context, the client can alter their behaviour spontaneously in response to the conditions they find there.
Change processes with the new code of NLP often use content free high performance states. These can be associated into one or more contexts where a client wants more choice or a specific outcome.
Features of a new code approach to teaching NLP
Teaching the new code requires deep unconscious familiarity with the patterns to be offered, combined with fluency in chunking, perceptual position shifting and the language of process instructions. A trainer needs to be able to offer experiential discovery exercises in which the intended pattern is presupposed, having demonstrated the pattern at intervals, covertly, throughout the training. This approach precludes conscious interference, spurious meaning or comparison with prior knowledge. A comprehensive new code NLP training produces graduates who think in NLP patterns, ask penetrating questions and communicate naturally and elegantly in their own style.
The new code approach to training is minimalist, code congruent and process and discovery oriented. Minimalism strips away non-essential material (content), ritual and artificial aids from the training context. Code congruence in training requires maximum similarity between training and assessment with reference to context, process, resources and material, in the interest of facilitating learning and performance. Code congruence in disseminating learning to life requires the training to blend with life as much as possible and to maintain that connection through each exercise. The new code training uses experiential discovery exercises. The training room has freedom of entry and exit, natural light and direct links to the outside. The new code approach requires students to converse in their own words in as natural an environment as possible, using process instructions as their frame for each exercise.
Framing for conscious attention and metaphor for unconscious attention
Framing is essential to a new code training. The intent is to facilitate students to discover patterns of excellence for themselves through exposure to training exercises, experiences and games. Also for students to experience unconscious uptake of generative patterns of excellence for which the evidence will be the questions they ask, the behaviour they offer and the links they make. The intent for unconscious uptake is to prevent students from making conscious links between what they think they are learning and what they know already that they think relates to it. Ideally, students learn unconsciously, then allow the patterns to generalise and be expressed unconsciously until sometime later, the student starts to gain conscious awareness.
Given the ascendancy of conscious processing in western society, students like to know what they are going to learn, what it is for and what is the reason for learning it before they do anything. When training the new code, this is first raised on day one.
Conventional learning expects the conscious mind to learn before a skill or topic becomes available unconsciously. This is hard work and allows conscious ideas and opinion to filter new information before it is experienced. This is limiting. Learners want to be able to respond with nlp patterns, not talk about them. Therefore participants are asked to do discovery exercises without knowing what they are for in advance. They are given clear process instructions but no reasoning. After doing the exercises there will be a chance to discuss them.
New code NLP trainers and practitioners use framing extensively before beginning to teach a pattern or intervene with a client. It can be presupposed that the unconscious has access to all our resources; and there are times when we run out of ideas. At those times the unconscious mind needs a frame of reference on which to base the search for resources that fit the particular situation. For the conscious mind, the discovery method favoured in the new code of NLP does not provide meaning in advance and conscious minds like meaning. Framing provides enough meaning, albeit different from the covert intent of the exercise, to enable participants' conscious minds to participate in a useful manner. That is, to perform the overt task of the exercise.
To recap what we stated earlier, framing is a way of establishing and defining the context and / or the desired outcome. It is a prerequisite for engaging both the conscious and unconscious attention of students or consulting clients.
The use of games to build content free high performance states
One aspect of a new code design for training and coaching is the use of activities and games to develop content free high performance states in participants. Once elicited, these states can be applied to any context where someone wants to enhance their performance. These high performance states are referred to as content free as they arise as a by-product of the game or activity. They manifest in the present, thereby avoiding the use of sense memory as a source of resources for high performance. Thus they are uncontaminated with specific memory content.
The use of content free high performance states leads to more robust changes and better generalizations of those changes into people's lives. It is also congruent with the idea that ethical application of NLP be content free. It avoids any risk of imposing consultants' values on their clients, which is a serious drawback of content oriented models, for example conventional psychotherapy, counselling or management consulting.
NLP trainers model the patterns to be learnt
Getting NLP back on track; reorienting to patterning and modelling
With the exponential growth of people teaching the developed models and applications of NLP models to business, coaching, therapy, education, personal development etc., there has been very little attention from NLP trainers to modelling and the development of new models. Much of what is promoted as new models is simply repackaging of existing NLP models into applications of NLP. In fact most of the NLP books published in recent years are simply variations on standard NLP themes. As Grinder states in an interview he did for us in 1996
" One of the expectations which I personally carried at the time of discovery and development of NLP was that people interested in our work would cleanly make the distinction between NLP and applications of NLP. My hope at the time was that given this distinction, there would arise a group of committed men and women who would recognize the meta levels tools which we had either discovered (the Milton Model.....), or created (the verbal patterns of the Meta Model or Precision Model, Representational Systems....), and go out and identify and create new models of excellence to offer the world. This has not happened and is very disappointing to me. NLP is popularly represented and commonly practiced at least one logical level below what it was clearly understood to be at the time by Bandler and me." 8.
The new code of NLP corrects this consequence with an explicit reorientation back to the core skills of NLP Modelling.
From NLP technicians to NLP artists; the shift away from procedure to the incorporation and generalisation of patterns
A consequence of classic code teaching and learning NLP is that the material becomes formulaic through packaging as techniques in recipe or scripted form. This results in practitioners who are really NLP technicians. They can only express NLP through the formatted techniques that they have been given, without an appreciation of the underlying NLP patterns. Unless they can gain the patterns experientially, they will remain technicians and be limited to the ritualised techniques they were taught in their NLP training. Unfortunately, even ritualised NLP makes a discernible difference to the qualitiy of people's lives, so continues to attract many students who are then led to believe they have learned the genuine article. This leads to another consequence; the development of perceptual filters that preclude the likelihood of discovering the patterns of NLP. If you know it all already (and your trainer has anchored credibility), why would you "repeat" what you have finished learning?
A new code approach to teaching and learning NLP involves creating a context or series of contexts within which the target patterns are demonstrated, with multiple descriptions 9.
Students who learn to attend to the detection and utilization of patterns in self and others develop artistry in their use of NLP. They have behavioural flexibility and can respond creatively in any context.
Summary of differences between the classic code and the new code of NLP
A useful way of thinking about the difference between new code and classic code NLP is in terms of emphasis.
The classic code emphasizes technique, mechanistic metaphors and the production of NLP technicians. It uses conscious explicit models that are often divorced from their original context. "Where do I use this technique" and "how do I know which technique to use" are common questions from classic code students and practitioners. There is a tendency for classic code practitioners to try to fit clients to procedures, instead of creating interventions with each client.
The new code emphasizes the relationship between the conscious and unconscious minds of the individual, their relationships with others and their relationship with the world. It works towards the personal evolution of the participant. The new code promotes unconscious competence which may be followed by conscious appreciation. Training drills are used in service to pattern incorporation and the development of unconscious competence. The balance between the conscious and unconscious minds is paramount. This is known as the conscious / unconscious interface. The new code is directed towards the detection and utilisation of patterns in the world, with an emphasis on patterns. A new code practitioner often creates a process spontaneously in response to a particular context. In the new code, participants explore psychological states. They learn to recognise, inventory and change states. This work connects with the development and incorporation by each participant of a modelling state. A modelling state is a state of mind for modelling excellence. Another aspect of the new code is attention training (essential for modelling). That is learning where and how you place your attention, how that relates to state, perceptual position and context.
Grinder and DeLozier developed the new code as a second description of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to create a system for learning NLP that fosters the development of systemic wisdom in the participant. If you want to learn more about the new code, read Turtles All the Way Down by Judith Delozier and John Grinder and Whispering in the Wind by Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder. The new NLP qualification the Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming is taught through a new code design.
Chris Collingwood is an NLP Trainer Trainer, NLP modeller and Director of Inspiritive Pty Ltd. He is the co-author with Jules Collingwood of The NLP Field Guide; Part 1. A reference manual of practitioner level patterns. He has over fifteen years experience in coaching, consulting and leading seminars in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Chris's background includes extensive training with developers of NLP, including Dr. John Grinder, co-originator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Chris is an NLP trainer certified as a trainer by Dr. John Grinder.
Chris holds a Diploma in Training and Assessment Systems, a BA degree in Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Masters degree in Applied Science Social Ecology. He has been exploring Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 1980.
© 2003 Chris Collingwood.
New Code of NLP - Footnotes
1. Epistemology, a branch of philosophy is the study of how we know what we know.
2. One of the first new code of NLP seminars was DeLozier and Grinder's Prerequisites to Personal Genius, taught in San Francisco in 1986 the seminar was transcribed and edited into their book Turtles all the Way Down.
3. See their book Whispering in the Wind, 2002 which contains a major section on the new code. The book examines NLP Epistemology in depth and distinguishes between NLP modelling, NLP application and NLP training. This is a seminal book in the field and one of the most important NLP books written in recent years.
4. See Bandler and Grinder's The Structure of Magic Volumes 1 & 2, Patterns of the Hypnotic Technique of Milton H. Erickson MD. Volumes 1 & 2 (with DeLozier), Frogs into Princes, Trance-formations and Reframing.
5. See Whispering in the Wind. Bostic St Clair and Grinder have a chapter explicating the criteria for modelling in Whispering.
6. Conscious attention at any one moment in time is limited to between 5 and 9 chunks of information. See G.A.Miller's paper "The Magic number seven plus or minus 2".
7. Read the chapter of the Breakthrough pattern which documents the development of Six Step Reframing in Bostic St. Clair and Grinders book Whispering in the Wind (2002).
8. See the interview with John Grinder
9. Read DeLozier and Grinder's Turtles all the Way Down and Bateson's Mind and Nature; a necessary unity, for rich explanations of the concept of Multiple Descriptions. Referred to as Double Description by Bateson.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
NLP is a new field of endeavour within the Behavioural Sciences, a communication methodology for detecting patterns and building models of human behaviour. NLP is used to study the patterns of how we do what we do and how we know what we know; subsequently it is also an epistemology 1.
Its methods are so successful that many of its models have been incorporated into management training, coaching, psychotherapy, education, sports performance and personal development. If you have attended a recent management seminar or done some form of personal development it is likely that you have been exposed to some NLP techniques. The NLP method of modelling has been used to build models that are applied to many areas of human performance, including presentations, derivative trading, learning, even the practise of hypnosis.
The Origins ofs NLP
NLP was originated by Dr. John Grinder, at that time an associate professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Richard Bandler, who was a fourth year psychology student.
New Code NLP
The new code of NLP is a reorganisation and recoding of the fundamentals of NLP. The recoding was begun by classic code NLP co-creator John Grinder with Judith DeLozier 2 . and has been developed further in recent years by Grinder with Carmen Bostic St. Clair 3.
History: NLP began with Modelling genius
The classic code of NLP began in the mid 1970's with the collaboration between John Grinder, an assistant professor of linguistics and Richard Bandler a psychology student. Grinder modelled Bandler tacitly while Bandler did Gestalt therapy.
Tacit modelling involves mimicking the behaviour of a model while in a 'know nothing' state until you can reproduce the skill and get the same result as the model in a similar context within a similar timeframe. See the chapter on modelling.
Grinder used the patterns he had modelled, later making them explicit from his own experience. After this, Grinder and Bandler modelled other patterns from exemplars of human excellence in psychotherapy and published these. They became the first models of NLP 4.
An explicit model comprises the minimum number of patterns necessary and sufficient to reproduce similar outcomes in the same class of context as the exemplar who was modelled5.
A pattern is a sequence of behaviour that repeats through time such that if the first part of the sequence occurs the second part of the sequence can be predicted.
Bandler and Grinder then began teaching NLP to the public, with the assistance of their early students. Through the following years thousands of people have learned the classic code of NLP, and now there are thousands of classic code NLP trainers. Most cities in the developed world have at least one and often a number of NLP training organizations purporting to teach NLP.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a generic name for a field
The name "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" is deemed in law to be generic and is not able to be trade marked. Subsequently, there are no formal controls over who can teach and certify others in NLP. Buyers beware. This makes it particularly important to identify problems with the definitions, application and training of NLP.
NLP in the classic form has been taught for about 25 years, and has a number of flaws in its application and teaching. The purpose of NLP is to model human excellence. One of the results of NLP modelling is a collection of explicit patterns and models of human excellence. For some NLP trainers the practice of training involves a recipe book approach where specific examples of previously modelled patterns are taught explicitly. The deployment of any particular pattern is made consciously, with the usual constraints of conscious attention 6.
Excellent practice of NLP is driven by feedback. Grinder responded to the consequences of the way classic NLP is coded, practiced and taught within the NLP community by thoroughly re-examining the classic code of NLP. As a result, he and his partners developed a solution to the most significant problems in the classic code NLP, which are built into the new code.
The shift in emphasis with the New Code
What are some of the differences between the NLP codes? A significant difference between the new code of NLP and the classic code is the specification of the roles of conscious attention and the unconscious mind.
Historically, application of classic code NLP was oriented towards conscious manipulation of internal representations (visual images, sounds, and sensations). There was no formal engagement of the unconscious mind. An outcome was chosen in isolation and a process implemented to shift from the present state to the desired state. If the outcome had unfortunate consequences to the person's lifestyle, family or social system, this became apparent through feedback in real time.
Engaging the unconscious has its benefits
It is useful to engage the unconscious mind when choosing outcomes and resources. The unconscious has access to a greater range of possibilities than the conscious mind. It works with patterns, in metaphor and can consider multiple time frames, logical levels and perceptual positions. The unconscious mind has the capacity to imagine future scenarios and include likely consequences. It can deliver intents, solutions and many other resources to consciousness and carries information from all our experience.
When we engage the unconscious mind in forming outcomes and choosing resources, the ensuing change respects the person's ecology. Ecology in this context considers the broader scope of possible consequences (benefits and costs) of any action, including change. When we include consequences, we can test resources before the change and ensure the entire well being of the person and the systems in which they operate. Unfortunate consequences are identified early on so the process can be altered to fit the needs of the person.
When the classic code was developed, there was no explicit reference to the unconscious mind and no formal means of engaging with it. This has been rectified in the New Code and is an essential element.
The importance of framing (conscious involvement)
One of the roles of conscious attention is the art of framing. Framing defines the context to be examined and / or the desired outcome to be considered. Framing identifies the parameters within which the unconscious will operate to make links and develop resources.
Arranging unconscious selection of resources
A person wanting a change can consult their unconscious mind about consciously identified proposals and possible resources for achieving their outcome. Initially they can learn to develop a formal signal system with the unconscious. As their acuity develops, they recognize and use naturally occurring bodily signals as communications from the unconscious.
This form of communication enables a person to propose courses of action to their unconscious mind. When the unconscious disagrees, the person can change their approach, gather more information, research the frame and context or take such other action as they see fit. They are forewarned that pursing the original proposal will be incongruent and therefore liable to unfortunate consequences. Equally, an affirmative response from the unconscious indicates that the proposed action will be taken congruently, thereby increasing the likelihood of functional consequences.
As communication with the unconscious mind develops, it may progress naturally from "yes", "no" and "don't know" signal responses to offering fully formed ideas to the conscious mind in response to proposals and questions. Since this is how ideas are communicated already, the intent is to recognise when the unconscious uses this route to communicate in response to conscious queries.
The inclusion of intention/s and consequences
Intention was first identified within NLP practice with Grinder's development of the Six Step Reframe, a pattern used for changing behaviour and states. Six Step Reframing 7. can be applied to any defined pattern. Including intention increases the scope of possibility when considering desired outcomes. For example, "What do I want? And what do I want it for"? This question applied in a well-formed outcome raises the possibility that the original outcome may not lead to the most effective result. The intent for an outcome allows multiple options to be considered or the intent itself to become the outcome.
An indicator of the likely ecology in an outcome is a match between the consequences of achieving the outcome and the intent for pursuing it. Grinder has expressed concern about the lack of ecology in the use of classic code patterns when used to pursue outcomes in isolation from the rest of the subject's life. Grinder's outcome, intention and consequences model addresses that issue.
Emphasizing state rather than behaviour in NLP
The new code of NLP attends to changing state instead of replacing one behaviour directly with a single, different behaviour. A change in state leads to a range of different, naturally occurring behaviour. Instead of replacing one piece of behaviour with another in a context, an appropriately framed context can be used to elicit a suitable state which enables a range of possible, fitting behaviour to manifest. When the state is associated into the context, the client can alter their behaviour spontaneously in response to the conditions they find there.
Change processes with the new code of NLP often use content free high performance states. These can be associated into one or more contexts where a client wants more choice or a specific outcome.
Features of a new code approach to teaching NLP
Teaching the new code requires deep unconscious familiarity with the patterns to be offered, combined with fluency in chunking, perceptual position shifting and the language of process instructions. A trainer needs to be able to offer experiential discovery exercises in which the intended pattern is presupposed, having demonstrated the pattern at intervals, covertly, throughout the training. This approach precludes conscious interference, spurious meaning or comparison with prior knowledge. A comprehensive new code NLP training produces graduates who think in NLP patterns, ask penetrating questions and communicate naturally and elegantly in their own style.
The new code approach to training is minimalist, code congruent and process and discovery oriented. Minimalism strips away non-essential material (content), ritual and artificial aids from the training context. Code congruence in training requires maximum similarity between training and assessment with reference to context, process, resources and material, in the interest of facilitating learning and performance. Code congruence in disseminating learning to life requires the training to blend with life as much as possible and to maintain that connection through each exercise. The new code training uses experiential discovery exercises. The training room has freedom of entry and exit, natural light and direct links to the outside. The new code approach requires students to converse in their own words in as natural an environment as possible, using process instructions as their frame for each exercise.
Framing for conscious attention and metaphor for unconscious attention
Framing is essential to a new code training. The intent is to facilitate students to discover patterns of excellence for themselves through exposure to training exercises, experiences and games. Also for students to experience unconscious uptake of generative patterns of excellence for which the evidence will be the questions they ask, the behaviour they offer and the links they make. The intent for unconscious uptake is to prevent students from making conscious links between what they think they are learning and what they know already that they think relates to it. Ideally, students learn unconsciously, then allow the patterns to generalise and be expressed unconsciously until sometime later, the student starts to gain conscious awareness.
Given the ascendancy of conscious processing in western society, students like to know what they are going to learn, what it is for and what is the reason for learning it before they do anything. When training the new code, this is first raised on day one.
Conventional learning expects the conscious mind to learn before a skill or topic becomes available unconsciously. This is hard work and allows conscious ideas and opinion to filter new information before it is experienced. This is limiting. Learners want to be able to respond with nlp patterns, not talk about them. Therefore participants are asked to do discovery exercises without knowing what they are for in advance. They are given clear process instructions but no reasoning. After doing the exercises there will be a chance to discuss them.
New code NLP trainers and practitioners use framing extensively before beginning to teach a pattern or intervene with a client. It can be presupposed that the unconscious has access to all our resources; and there are times when we run out of ideas. At those times the unconscious mind needs a frame of reference on which to base the search for resources that fit the particular situation. For the conscious mind, the discovery method favoured in the new code of NLP does not provide meaning in advance and conscious minds like meaning. Framing provides enough meaning, albeit different from the covert intent of the exercise, to enable participants' conscious minds to participate in a useful manner. That is, to perform the overt task of the exercise.
To recap what we stated earlier, framing is a way of establishing and defining the context and / or the desired outcome. It is a prerequisite for engaging both the conscious and unconscious attention of students or consulting clients.
The use of games to build content free high performance states
One aspect of a new code design for training and coaching is the use of activities and games to develop content free high performance states in participants. Once elicited, these states can be applied to any context where someone wants to enhance their performance. These high performance states are referred to as content free as they arise as a by-product of the game or activity. They manifest in the present, thereby avoiding the use of sense memory as a source of resources for high performance. Thus they are uncontaminated with specific memory content.
The use of content free high performance states leads to more robust changes and better generalizations of those changes into people's lives. It is also congruent with the idea that ethical application of NLP be content free. It avoids any risk of imposing consultants' values on their clients, which is a serious drawback of content oriented models, for example conventional psychotherapy, counselling or management consulting.
NLP trainers model the patterns to be learnt
Getting NLP back on track; reorienting to patterning and modelling
With the exponential growth of people teaching the developed models and applications of NLP models to business, coaching, therapy, education, personal development etc., there has been very little attention from NLP trainers to modelling and the development of new models. Much of what is promoted as new models is simply repackaging of existing NLP models into applications of NLP. In fact most of the NLP books published in recent years are simply variations on standard NLP themes. As Grinder states in an interview he did for us in 1996
" One of the expectations which I personally carried at the time of discovery and development of NLP was that people interested in our work would cleanly make the distinction between NLP and applications of NLP. My hope at the time was that given this distinction, there would arise a group of committed men and women who would recognize the meta levels tools which we had either discovered (the Milton Model.....), or created (the verbal patterns of the Meta Model or Precision Model, Representational Systems....), and go out and identify and create new models of excellence to offer the world. This has not happened and is very disappointing to me. NLP is popularly represented and commonly practiced at least one logical level below what it was clearly understood to be at the time by Bandler and me." 8.
The new code of NLP corrects this consequence with an explicit reorientation back to the core skills of NLP Modelling.
From NLP technicians to NLP artists; the shift away from procedure to the incorporation and generalisation of patterns
A consequence of classic code teaching and learning NLP is that the material becomes formulaic through packaging as techniques in recipe or scripted form. This results in practitioners who are really NLP technicians. They can only express NLP through the formatted techniques that they have been given, without an appreciation of the underlying NLP patterns. Unless they can gain the patterns experientially, they will remain technicians and be limited to the ritualised techniques they were taught in their NLP training. Unfortunately, even ritualised NLP makes a discernible difference to the qualitiy of people's lives, so continues to attract many students who are then led to believe they have learned the genuine article. This leads to another consequence; the development of perceptual filters that preclude the likelihood of discovering the patterns of NLP. If you know it all already (and your trainer has anchored credibility), why would you "repeat" what you have finished learning?
A new code approach to teaching and learning NLP involves creating a context or series of contexts within which the target patterns are demonstrated, with multiple descriptions 9.
Students who learn to attend to the detection and utilization of patterns in self and others develop artistry in their use of NLP. They have behavioural flexibility and can respond creatively in any context.
Summary of differences between the classic code and the new code of NLP
A useful way of thinking about the difference between new code and classic code NLP is in terms of emphasis.
The classic code emphasizes technique, mechanistic metaphors and the production of NLP technicians. It uses conscious explicit models that are often divorced from their original context. "Where do I use this technique" and "how do I know which technique to use" are common questions from classic code students and practitioners. There is a tendency for classic code practitioners to try to fit clients to procedures, instead of creating interventions with each client.
The new code emphasizes the relationship between the conscious and unconscious minds of the individual, their relationships with others and their relationship with the world. It works towards the personal evolution of the participant. The new code promotes unconscious competence which may be followed by conscious appreciation. Training drills are used in service to pattern incorporation and the development of unconscious competence. The balance between the conscious and unconscious minds is paramount. This is known as the conscious / unconscious interface. The new code is directed towards the detection and utilisation of patterns in the world, with an emphasis on patterns. A new code practitioner often creates a process spontaneously in response to a particular context. In the new code, participants explore psychological states. They learn to recognise, inventory and change states. This work connects with the development and incorporation by each participant of a modelling state. A modelling state is a state of mind for modelling excellence. Another aspect of the new code is attention training (essential for modelling). That is learning where and how you place your attention, how that relates to state, perceptual position and context.
Grinder and DeLozier developed the new code as a second description of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to create a system for learning NLP that fosters the development of systemic wisdom in the participant. If you want to learn more about the new code, read Turtles All the Way Down by Judith Delozier and John Grinder and Whispering in the Wind by Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder. The new NLP qualification the Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming is taught through a new code design.
Chris Collingwood is an NLP Trainer Trainer, NLP modeller and Director of Inspiritive Pty Ltd. He is the co-author with Jules Collingwood of The NLP Field Guide; Part 1. A reference manual of practitioner level patterns. He has over fifteen years experience in coaching, consulting and leading seminars in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Chris's background includes extensive training with developers of NLP, including Dr. John Grinder, co-originator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Chris is an NLP trainer certified as a trainer by Dr. John Grinder.
Chris holds a Diploma in Training and Assessment Systems, a BA degree in Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Masters degree in Applied Science Social Ecology. He has been exploring Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 1980.
© 2003 Chris Collingwood.
New Code of NLP - Footnotes
1. Epistemology, a branch of philosophy is the study of how we know what we know.
2. One of the first new code of NLP seminars was DeLozier and Grinder's Prerequisites to Personal Genius, taught in San Francisco in 1986 the seminar was transcribed and edited into their book Turtles all the Way Down.
3. See their book Whispering in the Wind, 2002 which contains a major section on the new code. The book examines NLP Epistemology in depth and distinguishes between NLP modelling, NLP application and NLP training. This is a seminal book in the field and one of the most important NLP books written in recent years.
4. See Bandler and Grinder's The Structure of Magic Volumes 1 & 2, Patterns of the Hypnotic Technique of Milton H. Erickson MD. Volumes 1 & 2 (with DeLozier), Frogs into Princes, Trance-formations and Reframing.
5. See Whispering in the Wind. Bostic St Clair and Grinder have a chapter explicating the criteria for modelling in Whispering.
6. Conscious attention at any one moment in time is limited to between 5 and 9 chunks of information. See G.A.Miller's paper "The Magic number seven plus or minus 2".
7. Read the chapter of the Breakthrough pattern which documents the development of Six Step Reframing in Bostic St. Clair and Grinders book Whispering in the Wind (2002).
8. See the interview with John Grinder
9. Read DeLozier and Grinder's Turtles all the Way Down and Bateson's Mind and Nature; a necessary unity, for rich explanations of the concept of Multiple Descriptions. Referred to as Double Description by Bateson.
What is NLP? part 5
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What is NLP? part 5
28. Does Anthony Robbins use NLP?
Anthony Robbins was an NLP trainer. Now he applies NLP to teach personal success. Many people who enjoyed his seminars then decide they want to study NLP and come to our courses. During the 24 day practitioner training people have the opportunity to learn NLP as an epistemology and methodology and immerse themselves deeply in the NLP patterns to develop skills and capabilities of their choice. I am grateful for the work that Robbins has done to inspire people to go further into learning NLP.
29. Is there a relationship between Time-Line processes and NLP?
Timeline processes are products of NLP. Mental timelines were developed by Steve and Connirae Andreas, physical timelines by John Grinder and Robert Dilts. Mental and Physical time lines are explored in quality practitioner trainings. This includes time line elicitation, modelling timelines (self and others) and using time lines for change. See the Steve and Connirae Andreas article A Brief History of Timelines.
30. What is the difference between Classic and New code NLP?
A useful way of thinking about the difference between new code NLP and classic code NLP is in terms of emphasis.
Classic code emphasises technique, mechanistic metaphors and the production of NLP technicians. It uses conscious explicit models that are often divorced from their original context. With Classic code you often hear the questions "where do I use this technique" and "how do I know which technique to use"? There is a tendency for classic code trained practitioners to try to fit clients to procedures, rather than creating interventions with clients.
New code emphasises the relationship between the conscious and unconscious minds of the individual, their relationships with others and their relationship with the world. It works towards the personal evolution of the participant.
New code promotes unconscious competence. Training drills are used in service to pattern incorporation and the development of unconscious competence. The balance between the conscious and unconscious minds is paramount. This is known as the conscious / unconscious interface. New code is directed towards the detection and utilisation of patterns in the world, with an emphasis on patterns. A new code practitioner often creates a process spontaneously in response to a particular context. In new code participants do a lot of exploration of psychological states. They learn to recognise, inventory and change states. This work connects in with the development and incorporation by each participant of a modeling state. A state of mind for modelling excellence. Another aspect of New code is attention training (essential for modelling). That is learning where and how you place your attention, how that relates to state, perceptual position and context. My understanding is that Grinder and DeLozier developed new code as a second description of Neuro-Linguistic programming to create a system for learning NLP which is more likely to foster the development of systemic wisdom in the participant. If you want to learn more about New code read Turtles All the Way Down by Judith Delozier and John Grinder and Whispering in the Wind by Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder.
© 1999 Chris & Jules Collingwood, Claire Andrea Zammit.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 5
28. Does Anthony Robbins use NLP?
Anthony Robbins was an NLP trainer. Now he applies NLP to teach personal success. Many people who enjoyed his seminars then decide they want to study NLP and come to our courses. During the 24 day practitioner training people have the opportunity to learn NLP as an epistemology and methodology and immerse themselves deeply in the NLP patterns to develop skills and capabilities of their choice. I am grateful for the work that Robbins has done to inspire people to go further into learning NLP.
29. Is there a relationship between Time-Line processes and NLP?
Timeline processes are products of NLP. Mental timelines were developed by Steve and Connirae Andreas, physical timelines by John Grinder and Robert Dilts. Mental and Physical time lines are explored in quality practitioner trainings. This includes time line elicitation, modelling timelines (self and others) and using time lines for change. See the Steve and Connirae Andreas article A Brief History of Timelines.
30. What is the difference between Classic and New code NLP?
A useful way of thinking about the difference between new code NLP and classic code NLP is in terms of emphasis.
Classic code emphasises technique, mechanistic metaphors and the production of NLP technicians. It uses conscious explicit models that are often divorced from their original context. With Classic code you often hear the questions "where do I use this technique" and "how do I know which technique to use"? There is a tendency for classic code trained practitioners to try to fit clients to procedures, rather than creating interventions with clients.
New code emphasises the relationship between the conscious and unconscious minds of the individual, their relationships with others and their relationship with the world. It works towards the personal evolution of the participant.
New code promotes unconscious competence. Training drills are used in service to pattern incorporation and the development of unconscious competence. The balance between the conscious and unconscious minds is paramount. This is known as the conscious / unconscious interface. New code is directed towards the detection and utilisation of patterns in the world, with an emphasis on patterns. A new code practitioner often creates a process spontaneously in response to a particular context. In new code participants do a lot of exploration of psychological states. They learn to recognise, inventory and change states. This work connects in with the development and incorporation by each participant of a modeling state. A state of mind for modelling excellence. Another aspect of New code is attention training (essential for modelling). That is learning where and how you place your attention, how that relates to state, perceptual position and context. My understanding is that Grinder and DeLozier developed new code as a second description of Neuro-Linguistic programming to create a system for learning NLP which is more likely to foster the development of systemic wisdom in the participant. If you want to learn more about New code read Turtles All the Way Down by Judith Delozier and John Grinder and Whispering in the Wind by Carmen Bostic St Clair and John Grinder.
© 1999 Chris & Jules Collingwood, Claire Andrea Zammit.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 5
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
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What is NLP? part 5
21. How do I know if I'm getting good training?
The evidence is in the results you get by the end of the training. Compare the level of skill you had before the training with the level of skill you have after the training and your outcomes at the beginning of the training with how effectively you have achieved them. Also you may discover enhancements in the quality of your communication skills, your thinking skills, your expression, your relationship to the outer world months or even years after the training.
22. If I have already done some training with another organisation and I am concerned with the quality of training I have received what can I do?
I suggest reviewing the outcomes you had for doing that training, reflect on if or how deeply you explored those outcomes with the trainers at the beginning of the training. Ask your trainers about it. If you are still not happy with what you have achieved you may like to consider what you want from NLP and you can call us at Inspiritive to talk about your outcomes. You may be able to get those outcomes through repeating a practitioner training with us. (Discounts available for Certified NLP Practitioners you want to repeat practitioner training).
23. Is NLP training expensive?
Good quality training is relatively inexpensive. For around Aus. $180 per day, for what you learn it is extremely good value for money. In Australia self education expenses are tax deductible. And frankly, in terms of the benefits of learning NLP how can you afford not to accelerate your personal evolution.
24. How long have you been involved in NLP?
I first read about NLP back in 1979. I read an article called "People who read People" written by Daniel Goleman in a magazine called Psychology Today. By the end of the article I knew that this was what I wanted to do. At that time I had to import all three books that had been published. It took three months for the books to arrive! I was so fascinated I read them over and over again. As soon as I could I completed an NLP Practitioner training. By the end of 1981 I was counselling people using NLP full time in a Doctor's surgery. In 1983 I started training in NLP. In 1984 I met John Grinder and I've never looked back.
25. What excites you the most about NLP?
Through the epistemology and methodology of NLP a person can create their own personal culture and have choice about what they do and where they go, what they create, how they express themselves. I think it provides a personal renaissance for people.
I am deeply satisfied when I think about many former students who have blossomed in terms of their own evolution and experience of life through NLP. They are out in the world more capable, doing what they want to do, following their dreams and creating what they want to create.
26. Who are the originators of NLP?
NLP was originated by Dr. John Grinder, an associate Professor of Linguistics, and Richard Bandler back in the early to mid 70's while John was working at the University of California Santa Cruz. See our interview with Dr John Grinder.
27. Who are some of the people who have developed NLP?In the early days there was a small group of people around John and Richard, many of whom have since contributed to NLP. Judith DeLozier co-developed new code NLP with John. Leslie Cameron-Bandler has made significant contributions with models for working with emotions and personality. Robert Dilts had a lasting impact on NLP. Stephen Gilligan has added to the field of Ericksonian Hypnosis. See our Who's Who in NLP
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 5
21. How do I know if I'm getting good training?
The evidence is in the results you get by the end of the training. Compare the level of skill you had before the training with the level of skill you have after the training and your outcomes at the beginning of the training with how effectively you have achieved them. Also you may discover enhancements in the quality of your communication skills, your thinking skills, your expression, your relationship to the outer world months or even years after the training.
22. If I have already done some training with another organisation and I am concerned with the quality of training I have received what can I do?
I suggest reviewing the outcomes you had for doing that training, reflect on if or how deeply you explored those outcomes with the trainers at the beginning of the training. Ask your trainers about it. If you are still not happy with what you have achieved you may like to consider what you want from NLP and you can call us at Inspiritive to talk about your outcomes. You may be able to get those outcomes through repeating a practitioner training with us. (Discounts available for Certified NLP Practitioners you want to repeat practitioner training).
23. Is NLP training expensive?
Good quality training is relatively inexpensive. For around Aus. $180 per day, for what you learn it is extremely good value for money. In Australia self education expenses are tax deductible. And frankly, in terms of the benefits of learning NLP how can you afford not to accelerate your personal evolution.
24. How long have you been involved in NLP?
I first read about NLP back in 1979. I read an article called "People who read People" written by Daniel Goleman in a magazine called Psychology Today. By the end of the article I knew that this was what I wanted to do. At that time I had to import all three books that had been published. It took three months for the books to arrive! I was so fascinated I read them over and over again. As soon as I could I completed an NLP Practitioner training. By the end of 1981 I was counselling people using NLP full time in a Doctor's surgery. In 1983 I started training in NLP. In 1984 I met John Grinder and I've never looked back.
25. What excites you the most about NLP?
Through the epistemology and methodology of NLP a person can create their own personal culture and have choice about what they do and where they go, what they create, how they express themselves. I think it provides a personal renaissance for people.
I am deeply satisfied when I think about many former students who have blossomed in terms of their own evolution and experience of life through NLP. They are out in the world more capable, doing what they want to do, following their dreams and creating what they want to create.
26. Who are the originators of NLP?
NLP was originated by Dr. John Grinder, an associate Professor of Linguistics, and Richard Bandler back in the early to mid 70's while John was working at the University of California Santa Cruz. See our interview with Dr John Grinder.
27. Who are some of the people who have developed NLP?In the early days there was a small group of people around John and Richard, many of whom have since contributed to NLP. Judith DeLozier co-developed new code NLP with John. Leslie Cameron-Bandler has made significant contributions with models for working with emotions and personality. Robert Dilts had a lasting impact on NLP. Stephen Gilligan has added to the field of Ericksonian Hypnosis. See our Who's Who in NLP
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 4
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 4
15. I've seen lots of NLP courses advertised ranging anywhere from seven days to 21 days for practitioner training. What would be the advantage of a longer training?
NLP is best learned experientially. The more live training days where you are actively engaged in your own learning as a participant, the better. Also the quality of the trainers is very important. You want to have skilled and experienced trainers. It can be difficult to find out if a trainer is highly skilled. Generally you would be better off trained by people who studied with one of the originators of NLP, in contrast to fourth or fifth generation trainers. It is like a game of Chinese whispers: The closer you are to the source, the higher the quality of information. If someone claims to be trained by Grinder or Bandler, ask them how many days and at what level. There are trainers who make this claim on the strength of a single day's participation in one the originators' seminars.
In the last few years the length of training for practitioners has been shrinking. Some training promoters are claiming that "using accelerated learning methods" they can teach "practitioner" training in a very short amount of time. Our response is that NLP patterns are the basis for accelerated learning, and that the people who benefit most from shorter trainings are the trainers themselves in terms of lower overheads, increased earning capacity, and more free time.
Full length trainings do not necessarily cost more than short ones, and you will usually find the trainers running them are committed to a thorough transfer of NLP (experientially and conceptually with the emphasis on the experiential acquisition of the patterns).
16. What could I expect at the end of Inspiritive's 21 day practitioner training?
Expect an enrichment of your skills in communication with others and in communication with yourself; skills in choosing your emotional and psychological states; skills for enhancing your relationships (professional and personal); skills that explore and develop your thinking processes. Skills that enable you to model and replicate your own talents, behaviour and capabilities, even refining, enhancing and enriching them. See the brochure for our NLP Practitioner training.
17. How do NLP practitioners help clients?
By creating a context where clients can explore, discover and experience the resources that they need to assist them with the outcomes they have set for the session. By resources I mean skills, behaviours, understanding, beliefs; anything that makes a difference in the ability of the client to achieve their outcomes with positive flow on consequences.
18. Can practitioners assist clients to discover their outcomes?
Practitioners create a context where clients can explore and develop their outcomes, discover what they want, how they would know if they got it, what resources they would need to develop to achieve that outcome and the costs and consequences of achieving that outcome. See our article on creating a Well-Formed Outcome.
19. How do you know if someone is a good NLP practitioner or trainer?
There is a congruence in their communication; an alignment in their body language and their verbal language. The practitioner or trainer has a focus on the relationship between themselves and the client or student. They will ask questions and suggest trains of thought that enable the individual to make their own discoveries. Also avoid anyone who describes NLP as a way to manipulate and control people and get them to do things for you.
20. Can NLP be a tool for manipulation?
NLP is a neutral field of endeavour. Like anything else with wide applications that works, it can be used or abused. Responsible practitioners and trainers assist clients and students to discover their own outcomes and to consider those outcomes in relation to their whole life system before acting on them. Responsible practitioners do not try to impose their will on others but they may invite clients to question beliefs that could be limiting them.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
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What is NLP? part 4
15. I've seen lots of NLP courses advertised ranging anywhere from seven days to 21 days for practitioner training. What would be the advantage of a longer training?
NLP is best learned experientially. The more live training days where you are actively engaged in your own learning as a participant, the better. Also the quality of the trainers is very important. You want to have skilled and experienced trainers. It can be difficult to find out if a trainer is highly skilled. Generally you would be better off trained by people who studied with one of the originators of NLP, in contrast to fourth or fifth generation trainers. It is like a game of Chinese whispers: The closer you are to the source, the higher the quality of information. If someone claims to be trained by Grinder or Bandler, ask them how many days and at what level. There are trainers who make this claim on the strength of a single day's participation in one the originators' seminars.
In the last few years the length of training for practitioners has been shrinking. Some training promoters are claiming that "using accelerated learning methods" they can teach "practitioner" training in a very short amount of time. Our response is that NLP patterns are the basis for accelerated learning, and that the people who benefit most from shorter trainings are the trainers themselves in terms of lower overheads, increased earning capacity, and more free time.
Full length trainings do not necessarily cost more than short ones, and you will usually find the trainers running them are committed to a thorough transfer of NLP (experientially and conceptually with the emphasis on the experiential acquisition of the patterns).
16. What could I expect at the end of Inspiritive's 21 day practitioner training?
Expect an enrichment of your skills in communication with others and in communication with yourself; skills in choosing your emotional and psychological states; skills for enhancing your relationships (professional and personal); skills that explore and develop your thinking processes. Skills that enable you to model and replicate your own talents, behaviour and capabilities, even refining, enhancing and enriching them. See the brochure for our NLP Practitioner training.
17. How do NLP practitioners help clients?
By creating a context where clients can explore, discover and experience the resources that they need to assist them with the outcomes they have set for the session. By resources I mean skills, behaviours, understanding, beliefs; anything that makes a difference in the ability of the client to achieve their outcomes with positive flow on consequences.
18. Can practitioners assist clients to discover their outcomes?
Practitioners create a context where clients can explore and develop their outcomes, discover what they want, how they would know if they got it, what resources they would need to develop to achieve that outcome and the costs and consequences of achieving that outcome. See our article on creating a Well-Formed Outcome.
19. How do you know if someone is a good NLP practitioner or trainer?
There is a congruence in their communication; an alignment in their body language and their verbal language. The practitioner or trainer has a focus on the relationship between themselves and the client or student. They will ask questions and suggest trains of thought that enable the individual to make their own discoveries. Also avoid anyone who describes NLP as a way to manipulate and control people and get them to do things for you.
20. Can NLP be a tool for manipulation?
NLP is a neutral field of endeavour. Like anything else with wide applications that works, it can be used or abused. Responsible practitioners and trainers assist clients and students to discover their own outcomes and to consider those outcomes in relation to their whole life system before acting on them. Responsible practitioners do not try to impose their will on others but they may invite clients to question beliefs that could be limiting them.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 3
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What is NLP? part 3
11. Can NLP be used for deep level personal development?
You can use NLP to choose the way you want to be in life, and the skills and capabilities you want to develop. You can use NLP to explore your own patterns of thinking and behaviour. You can model yourself. In other words you can replicate the best examples of your own skills and capabilities access them more consistently. Also you can use NLP to explore other people's skills and capabilities and increase your range of behavioural choice.
12. How can you tell if someone has really mastered NLP?
There is a natural quality to their communication and behaviour and a smoothness in their movement. Often it is easier to spot someone who has a partial or poor training in NLP. With those people you can see procedural behaviour as if they were following a set of instructions. A skilled in NLP practitioner is very natural and it can be quite difficult to detect their NLP background.
13. How long would it take to achieve a level of mastery with NLP?
It's quite an individual matter. As a rule of thumb it is useful for a person to attend practitioner and master practitioner two or three times in two or three years and to practice processes regularly until those skills are totally integrated. With NLP it's great to take a pattern, to practice it until it becomes familiar and then forget about it consciously while it becomes part of your repertoire. Then move your conscious attention to the next pattern you want to incorporate.
14. What is the best way of learning NLP?
My personal opinion is that learning NLP experientially through live seminars where you are immersed in the experience of the NLP patterns is most effective. I think watching videos and listening to audio tapes can help but not as a substitute for hands on training.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
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What is NLP? part 3
11. Can NLP be used for deep level personal development?
You can use NLP to choose the way you want to be in life, and the skills and capabilities you want to develop. You can use NLP to explore your own patterns of thinking and behaviour. You can model yourself. In other words you can replicate the best examples of your own skills and capabilities access them more consistently. Also you can use NLP to explore other people's skills and capabilities and increase your range of behavioural choice.
12. How can you tell if someone has really mastered NLP?
There is a natural quality to their communication and behaviour and a smoothness in their movement. Often it is easier to spot someone who has a partial or poor training in NLP. With those people you can see procedural behaviour as if they were following a set of instructions. A skilled in NLP practitioner is very natural and it can be quite difficult to detect their NLP background.
13. How long would it take to achieve a level of mastery with NLP?
It's quite an individual matter. As a rule of thumb it is useful for a person to attend practitioner and master practitioner two or three times in two or three years and to practice processes regularly until those skills are totally integrated. With NLP it's great to take a pattern, to practice it until it becomes familiar and then forget about it consciously while it becomes part of your repertoire. Then move your conscious attention to the next pattern you want to incorporate.
14. What is the best way of learning NLP?
My personal opinion is that learning NLP experientially through live seminars where you are immersed in the experience of the NLP patterns is most effective. I think watching videos and listening to audio tapes can help but not as a substitute for hands on training.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 2
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What is NLP? part 2
6. It's very important that people appreciate the distinctions between the applications of NLP and NLP itself.
Often people are more interested in the applications, probably because they can measure results immediately. I think for personal evolution, learning NLP as an epistemology and methodology has a marked flow on effect throughout a person's life. In contrast, learning set procedures or an application of NLP to just one context can be limiting. For example, if you learn specifically to create a compelling future, or to sell or do effective psychotherapy, it will be harder to transfer those skills to other contexts. Someone may be a very good negotiator but have a lousy relationship at home. By learning NLP itself, people generalise the principles and underlying patterns into multiple areas of their lives and get much richer value.
7. So how is it different from other techniques?
NLP is not a set of techniques or a collection of formats. Many techniques have been developed through the epistemology and methodology of NLP. Now if we compare NLP processes to other techniques, the significant distinction is that a skilled NLP practitioner or trainer understands the patterns behind the techniques. They will use the processes to frame a context where the client can have a rich experience of the underlying pattern (or patterns).
With a rich array of patterns of organisation in your system of mind, then in any context (e.g. psychotherapy), you can design interventions on the spot and tailor processes for each client, rather than robotically using existing formats for clients in general. NLP trained people who rely on technique (poorly trained) tend to have inflexible responses to our rich and diverse world.
8. So it is unfair to say that NLP is just a set of tools?
Yes, when people think of NLP as just a set of tools', probably they have only experienced the applications of NLP, not NLP as an epistemology and methodology for modelling. Their training may have over emphasised procedure; I call it doing NLP by numbers (like painting by numbers).
NLP is a system that creates tools (including techniques / formats) as a by-product. Rather than focusing on tools, it is more useful to attend to NLP as a system that promotes the personal enrichment and skill development for people, their families and communities as a byproduct of modelling human excellence.
9. So is NLP a way of thinking?
I like to think of NLP as a useful approach for exploring the different ways of thinking that skilled and capable people have in their lives. If you model a group of excellent teachers you can build models of their range of expertise. All fit with the outcome of excellent teaching. Instead of having one way of thinking, with NLP you can have many approaches to any outcome in the appropriate context/s where you want to have that outcome. It naturally supports and enhances creativity.
10. Can a person develop their individuality through NLP?
I think so. Each of us is unique and NLP does respect the uniqueness of the individual. Instead of claiming one 'right' way of doing something, with NLP you can explore and add many choices to your life, your family and your community. Skill in detecting and using patterns is a key to having many choices available. Having choice supports both individuality and co-operation with others.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 2
6. It's very important that people appreciate the distinctions between the applications of NLP and NLP itself.
Often people are more interested in the applications, probably because they can measure results immediately. I think for personal evolution, learning NLP as an epistemology and methodology has a marked flow on effect throughout a person's life. In contrast, learning set procedures or an application of NLP to just one context can be limiting. For example, if you learn specifically to create a compelling future, or to sell or do effective psychotherapy, it will be harder to transfer those skills to other contexts. Someone may be a very good negotiator but have a lousy relationship at home. By learning NLP itself, people generalise the principles and underlying patterns into multiple areas of their lives and get much richer value.
7. So how is it different from other techniques?
NLP is not a set of techniques or a collection of formats. Many techniques have been developed through the epistemology and methodology of NLP. Now if we compare NLP processes to other techniques, the significant distinction is that a skilled NLP practitioner or trainer understands the patterns behind the techniques. They will use the processes to frame a context where the client can have a rich experience of the underlying pattern (or patterns).
With a rich array of patterns of organisation in your system of mind, then in any context (e.g. psychotherapy), you can design interventions on the spot and tailor processes for each client, rather than robotically using existing formats for clients in general. NLP trained people who rely on technique (poorly trained) tend to have inflexible responses to our rich and diverse world.
8. So it is unfair to say that NLP is just a set of tools?
Yes, when people think of NLP as just a set of tools', probably they have only experienced the applications of NLP, not NLP as an epistemology and methodology for modelling. Their training may have over emphasised procedure; I call it doing NLP by numbers (like painting by numbers).
NLP is a system that creates tools (including techniques / formats) as a by-product. Rather than focusing on tools, it is more useful to attend to NLP as a system that promotes the personal enrichment and skill development for people, their families and communities as a byproduct of modelling human excellence.
9. So is NLP a way of thinking?
I like to think of NLP as a useful approach for exploring the different ways of thinking that skilled and capable people have in their lives. If you model a group of excellent teachers you can build models of their range of expertise. All fit with the outcome of excellent teaching. Instead of having one way of thinking, with NLP you can have many approaches to any outcome in the appropriate context/s where you want to have that outcome. It naturally supports and enhances creativity.
10. Can a person develop their individuality through NLP?
I think so. Each of us is unique and NLP does respect the uniqueness of the individual. Instead of claiming one 'right' way of doing something, with NLP you can explore and add many choices to your life, your family and your community. Skill in detecting and using patterns is a key to having many choices available. Having choice supports both individuality and co-operation with others.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
What is NLP? part 1
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1. What is NLP?, part 1
Neuro Linguistic Programming explores how we know what we know and how we do what we do. Neuro means brain, linguistics language and programming refers to coding (representation). It examines the relationships between thought, communication and behaviour.
NLP is an "epistemology" meaning the study of how we know what we know. You could think of it as a way of exploring the patterns of organisation and behaviour of human intuition (neuro-linguistic programmes).
NLP is also a "methodology" which allows us to unpack how we do what we do. By using NLP as a methodology we can explore how people organise their thinking processes, their beliefs and their behaviour so that we can replicate their skills and capabilities in particular areas. Those skills and capabilities can then be transferred to others. See our What is NLP? FAQ.
2. So how is it useful?
If someone is very skillful and has spent years developing a particular capability, we can use NLP to build a description of how they perform that capability. We can replicate the patterns of organisation that make up their intuitions and then those skills can be transferred to other people, so others can learn the same capabilities far more rapidly than would be possible through the usual ways of learning.
We modelled one of Sydney's best futures and commodities traders. This gentleman gets a very high return on his trades. His average was 70% return per annum for the past seven years before we worked with him. We were able to unpack how he made such effective trading decisions and other important patterns concerning his trading. As a result we are able to work with other traders, coaching them to enhance their skills in derivatives trading.
In terms of application, there are descriptions of patterns of organisation from great psychotherapists, educators and business people available through the NLP community and generic NLP models for gathering high quality information, exploring thinking processes and enhancing relationships. If you want to learn how to learn, how to think and enhance your communication skills then NLP is useful.
3. Can NLP be used to make fast changes?
Some people get very rapid change. With others a number of consultations is more appropriate. It depends on the client, the context and the client's outcome. An NLP practitioner will design a series of interventions to help each client create changes in an ecological time frame (a time frame that supports positive consequences for the client and their significant relationships). The relationship between client and practitioner is very important. Usually the greater the rapport, the greater the potential for change.
4. Can you give me an example of some of the fastest changes?
There is an NLP process for reducing phobias that helps some people in 20 minutes. The perceived speed of NLP change work is relative to the time needed for an equivalent piece of work using other methodologies. However the quality of lasting change with NLP is more important than the shorter time frame. NLP provides a methodology for detecting and using patterns enabling clients to make lasting changes in their lives in a few sessions rather than years of therapy. A skilled practitioner designs an approach for each client rather than fitting clients to technique or philosophy.
5. How is NLP itself different from its applications?
NLP explores how we take information in from the world, how we represent the world in our mind, organise ourselves and then shape our behaviour. With NLP we can build descriptions of how people organise themselves. We look at embodied patterns of organisation that enable the expression of mental, emotional and physical activity. That is what NLP is: an epistemology and a methodology for modelling human excellence.Now from that epistemology and methodology, multiple applications from NLP have arisen (and many more yet to be derived). There are applications to psychotherapy and counselling, education, business, management to leadership, negotiation, artistic endeavours. There are applications of NLP to almost every major area of human endeavour.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
1. What is NLP?, part 1
Neuro Linguistic Programming explores how we know what we know and how we do what we do. Neuro means brain, linguistics language and programming refers to coding (representation). It examines the relationships between thought, communication and behaviour.
NLP is an "epistemology" meaning the study of how we know what we know. You could think of it as a way of exploring the patterns of organisation and behaviour of human intuition (neuro-linguistic programmes).
NLP is also a "methodology" which allows us to unpack how we do what we do. By using NLP as a methodology we can explore how people organise their thinking processes, their beliefs and their behaviour so that we can replicate their skills and capabilities in particular areas. Those skills and capabilities can then be transferred to others. See our What is NLP? FAQ.
2. So how is it useful?
If someone is very skillful and has spent years developing a particular capability, we can use NLP to build a description of how they perform that capability. We can replicate the patterns of organisation that make up their intuitions and then those skills can be transferred to other people, so others can learn the same capabilities far more rapidly than would be possible through the usual ways of learning.
We modelled one of Sydney's best futures and commodities traders. This gentleman gets a very high return on his trades. His average was 70% return per annum for the past seven years before we worked with him. We were able to unpack how he made such effective trading decisions and other important patterns concerning his trading. As a result we are able to work with other traders, coaching them to enhance their skills in derivatives trading.
In terms of application, there are descriptions of patterns of organisation from great psychotherapists, educators and business people available through the NLP community and generic NLP models for gathering high quality information, exploring thinking processes and enhancing relationships. If you want to learn how to learn, how to think and enhance your communication skills then NLP is useful.
3. Can NLP be used to make fast changes?
Some people get very rapid change. With others a number of consultations is more appropriate. It depends on the client, the context and the client's outcome. An NLP practitioner will design a series of interventions to help each client create changes in an ecological time frame (a time frame that supports positive consequences for the client and their significant relationships). The relationship between client and practitioner is very important. Usually the greater the rapport, the greater the potential for change.
4. Can you give me an example of some of the fastest changes?
There is an NLP process for reducing phobias that helps some people in 20 minutes. The perceived speed of NLP change work is relative to the time needed for an equivalent piece of work using other methodologies. However the quality of lasting change with NLP is more important than the shorter time frame. NLP provides a methodology for detecting and using patterns enabling clients to make lasting changes in their lives in a few sessions rather than years of therapy. A skilled practitioner designs an approach for each client rather than fitting clients to technique or philosophy.
5. How is NLP itself different from its applications?
NLP explores how we take information in from the world, how we represent the world in our mind, organise ourselves and then shape our behaviour. With NLP we can build descriptions of how people organise themselves. We look at embodied patterns of organisation that enable the expression of mental, emotional and physical activity. That is what NLP is: an epistemology and a methodology for modelling human excellence.Now from that epistemology and methodology, multiple applications from NLP have arisen (and many more yet to be derived). There are applications to psychotherapy and counselling, education, business, management to leadership, negotiation, artistic endeavours. There are applications of NLP to almost every major area of human endeavour.
For Richard Bandler’s NLP course on CD, visit:
www.razaaa.com
www.coachingandmentoringonline.com
NLP part 4
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NLP, part 4
The three essential ingredients of a logical paradox are:
An absolute statement,
Recursion,
Negation.
In paradox, an absolute statement is recursively applied to its own negation, bridging two logical levels. If the statement is true, then it is false, and if it is false, then it is true. This perpetual oscillation between truth and falsity challenges all our ideas about certainty and reality, and this is at least one reason why we find it so difficult to think about paradox.
There are two more very important elements in the word "enough." "Enough" presupposes some point on a continuum, while the person has been using an absolute either/or (sure/unsure) distinction with no middle ground. No matter how the person answers, if they accept this presupposition, they are agreeing to a frame in which certainty is on an analog continuum rather than an absolute, digital either/or, and consequently other alternative understandings can be considered. Unless they challenge this presupposition, either answer to this question moves them to an experience of partial uncertainty.
There is yet another important element in the word "enough". It presupposes reaching a threshold, in this case a threshold of certainty. If the person replies "No", they are saying that their certainty is something less than the threshold. If they reply "Yes", they are saying that their certainty has reached (or exceeded) the threshold, and is "enough" to be uncertain.
Are you sure enough to be unsure? is the question form of the statement, "If you are sure enough, you will be unsure", and this is presupposed when asked as a question. This presupposition states that great certainty includes within it the ability to be unsure, taking two experiences that have been experienced as polar opposites, and nesting one within the other.
I have already mentioned that it is very difficult for most of us to process logical paradoxes. When we hear this paradox, stated as a question, (with the "enough" presuppositions packed inside it), most people simply give up and respond yes or no.
If a person answers "Yes," they are agreeing to a state of unsureness (the "unsure"), and if they answer "No," they are also agreeing to a state of unsureness "not sure enough." Whichever response is given, they are agreeing to a degree of uncertainty, and consequently the willingness to consider alternative understandings.
This pattern has the same form as a paradoxical challenge that the devil supposedly once offered to God in regard to God's omnipotence. The devil challenged God to create a rock so large that even God could not move it. If God cannot create a very large rock that he cannot move, he is not omniptent in his ability to create rocks, and if he does create such a rock, he is not omnipotent in his ability to move rocks. Either way the absoluteness of God's omnipotence is destroyed.
To summarize, this pattern is very useful in situations in which a person is very certain about how they understand something, this understanding causes them difficulty, and their certainty results in their being not willing to even consider alternative understandings. Using this pattern can open them to considering other models of the world.
Learning how to sort out levels of experience in this way is a very useful skill that can help us understand the structure of problems, and decide which level of understanding could use some improvement. This makes it much easier to find our way through the twisting corridors of another person's mind, in order to help them find their way out of their predicaments--and also keeps us from wasting our time solving problems that they don't have!
Confusion about levels of thinking, the recursion which transcends levels, and particularly recursion that includes negation, are present in many human problems. It is a little-explored realm, and one that often creates paradoxical traps for us. Knowing the three essential elements of paradox (absolute statement, recursion, and negation) can help us identify these traps, and avoid them.
We can't avoid logical levels, or recursion, and we wouldn't want to--that would keep us from thinking about thinking, and having feelings about feelings, thinking about feelings, and many other valuable and unique aspects of our humanity.
But we can learn to use positive statements whenever possible, rather than negations, and learn to be very careful when we do use negation.The NLP emphasis on positive outcomes is one example of the value of this, and the benefits that can result from this kind of care in thinking.
And we can be doubly careful when recursion is also present, which is much more often than we usually think. To give only one example, when someone says, "I am a bad person", they are saying that everything that they do is bad, and one of their behaviors is the sentence that s/he just said to you, so "badness" applies to the sentence about badness.
And finally, we can also learn to be very cautious about making absolute statements, realizing that all knowledge is relative, contextual, and based on our very limited experience and understanding. Paradoxically, that is one thing we can be very certain about!
I think it is truly amazing that with the three pounds of jelly between our ears we can imagine and think about an infinite universe, but it would be useful to have a little humility all the same.Let's start with some humility about our knowledge and certainty.
In case the reader at this point is still insistent that there is such a thing as absolute certainty, I offer the following quote from Warren S. McCulloch's 1945 article "Why the Mind is in the Head", now included in his marvelous book Embodiments of Mind, MIT Press, 1965. McCulloch was one of the first and the best to apply mathematical analysis to the functioning of the nervous system.
"Accordingly to increase certainty, every hypothesis should be of minimum logical, or a priori, probability, so that if it be confirmed in experiment, then it shall be because the world is so constructed. Unfortunately for those who quest absolute certainty, a hypothesis of zero logical probability is a contradiction, and hence can never be confirmed. Its neurological equivalent would be a neuron that required infinite coincidence to trip it. This, in a finite world, is the same as though it had no afferents. It never fires".
First published in Anchor Point, October, 2000, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 3-8
©2000 Steve Andreas
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NLP, part 4
The three essential ingredients of a logical paradox are:
An absolute statement,
Recursion,
Negation.
In paradox, an absolute statement is recursively applied to its own negation, bridging two logical levels. If the statement is true, then it is false, and if it is false, then it is true. This perpetual oscillation between truth and falsity challenges all our ideas about certainty and reality, and this is at least one reason why we find it so difficult to think about paradox.
There are two more very important elements in the word "enough." "Enough" presupposes some point on a continuum, while the person has been using an absolute either/or (sure/unsure) distinction with no middle ground. No matter how the person answers, if they accept this presupposition, they are agreeing to a frame in which certainty is on an analog continuum rather than an absolute, digital either/or, and consequently other alternative understandings can be considered. Unless they challenge this presupposition, either answer to this question moves them to an experience of partial uncertainty.
There is yet another important element in the word "enough". It presupposes reaching a threshold, in this case a threshold of certainty. If the person replies "No", they are saying that their certainty is something less than the threshold. If they reply "Yes", they are saying that their certainty has reached (or exceeded) the threshold, and is "enough" to be uncertain.
Are you sure enough to be unsure? is the question form of the statement, "If you are sure enough, you will be unsure", and this is presupposed when asked as a question. This presupposition states that great certainty includes within it the ability to be unsure, taking two experiences that have been experienced as polar opposites, and nesting one within the other.
I have already mentioned that it is very difficult for most of us to process logical paradoxes. When we hear this paradox, stated as a question, (with the "enough" presuppositions packed inside it), most people simply give up and respond yes or no.
If a person answers "Yes," they are agreeing to a state of unsureness (the "unsure"), and if they answer "No," they are also agreeing to a state of unsureness "not sure enough." Whichever response is given, they are agreeing to a degree of uncertainty, and consequently the willingness to consider alternative understandings.
This pattern has the same form as a paradoxical challenge that the devil supposedly once offered to God in regard to God's omnipotence. The devil challenged God to create a rock so large that even God could not move it. If God cannot create a very large rock that he cannot move, he is not omniptent in his ability to create rocks, and if he does create such a rock, he is not omnipotent in his ability to move rocks. Either way the absoluteness of God's omnipotence is destroyed.
To summarize, this pattern is very useful in situations in which a person is very certain about how they understand something, this understanding causes them difficulty, and their certainty results in their being not willing to even consider alternative understandings. Using this pattern can open them to considering other models of the world.
Learning how to sort out levels of experience in this way is a very useful skill that can help us understand the structure of problems, and decide which level of understanding could use some improvement. This makes it much easier to find our way through the twisting corridors of another person's mind, in order to help them find their way out of their predicaments--and also keeps us from wasting our time solving problems that they don't have!
Confusion about levels of thinking, the recursion which transcends levels, and particularly recursion that includes negation, are present in many human problems. It is a little-explored realm, and one that often creates paradoxical traps for us. Knowing the three essential elements of paradox (absolute statement, recursion, and negation) can help us identify these traps, and avoid them.
We can't avoid logical levels, or recursion, and we wouldn't want to--that would keep us from thinking about thinking, and having feelings about feelings, thinking about feelings, and many other valuable and unique aspects of our humanity.
But we can learn to use positive statements whenever possible, rather than negations, and learn to be very careful when we do use negation.The NLP emphasis on positive outcomes is one example of the value of this, and the benefits that can result from this kind of care in thinking.
And we can be doubly careful when recursion is also present, which is much more often than we usually think. To give only one example, when someone says, "I am a bad person", they are saying that everything that they do is bad, and one of their behaviors is the sentence that s/he just said to you, so "badness" applies to the sentence about badness.
And finally, we can also learn to be very cautious about making absolute statements, realizing that all knowledge is relative, contextual, and based on our very limited experience and understanding. Paradoxically, that is one thing we can be very certain about!
I think it is truly amazing that with the three pounds of jelly between our ears we can imagine and think about an infinite universe, but it would be useful to have a little humility all the same.Let's start with some humility about our knowledge and certainty.
In case the reader at this point is still insistent that there is such a thing as absolute certainty, I offer the following quote from Warren S. McCulloch's 1945 article "Why the Mind is in the Head", now included in his marvelous book Embodiments of Mind, MIT Press, 1965. McCulloch was one of the first and the best to apply mathematical analysis to the functioning of the nervous system.
"Accordingly to increase certainty, every hypothesis should be of minimum logical, or a priori, probability, so that if it be confirmed in experiment, then it shall be because the world is so constructed. Unfortunately for those who quest absolute certainty, a hypothesis of zero logical probability is a contradiction, and hence can never be confirmed. Its neurological equivalent would be a neuron that required infinite coincidence to trip it. This, in a finite world, is the same as though it had no afferents. It never fires".
First published in Anchor Point, October, 2000, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. 3-8
©2000 Steve Andreas
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