Report of NLP Thursday practice group Thur May 22, 2008

The practice group meeting on Thursday May 22 practiced moving time using temporal predicates.

Temporal predicates allow time-line techniques to be used to help a client change, in a conversational manner.

Melissa Tiers Practice Group Wednesday May 21, 2008

Melissa Tiers held her regular hypnosis and NLP practice group on Wednesday.

The session began with Shawn Carson of International Center for Positive Change giving a summary of his weekend Master Practitioner course. Shawn briefly explained the NLP concept of Strategies  and Logical Levels.

The group then practiced using eye accessing or eye movements to calibrate and reset a strategy. Melissa explained that a strategy would be reflected in a person's eye movements under NLP principles. Therefore by asking a client to move their eyes in a different pattern while thinking about a problem (especially a more resourceful pattern) will disrupt the old strategy.

The group then practiced mapping across submodalities for motivation.

Collapsing anchors

Anchoring is the process in NLP of attaching a stimulus to a response, a sort of kindly Pavlovian conditioning.

So for example, we ask a client to imagine a positive experience then touch their arm or hand as that experience reaches a peak of intensity.

Collapsing anchors is a process whereby we anchor a negative experience to one stimulus, say our client is in a negative state:

• we touch the knuckle on the index finger on their right hand to anchor the negative state.
•  We then ask them to think of a positive experience and when that experience peaks we touch the knuckle on the middle finger on their right hand.
  
• We then fire both anchors at the same time. The positive and negative states both seek to be present in the client's physiology at the same time.
• Typically we will see the client go through a state of confusion.
• If the positive state is large enough, the client will end up in a positive state.

Collapsing anchors is a principle that is used in the NLP coaching model, and the NLP Meta pattern.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training New York

We then fire both

Representational Systems

A representational system is simply the NLP term for a sensory system

The five representational systems are:

• Visual (seeing pictures)
• Auditory (hearing sounds)
• Kinesthetic (feelings)
• Olfactory (smell)
• Gustatory (taste)

The representational systems are sometimes referred to as VAKOG (i.e. the first letter of each system).

The three systems which are used most in NLP are visual, auditory and kinesthetic systems, sometimes called VAK.

Many NLP patterns are based on changing how we represent the world around us in VAK.

Shawn

New York NLP

Hypnosis Inductions and NLP

At our recent Thursday practice group, we discussed with our good friend Caty Shannon the type of hypnotic induction (the sort that we learned in our hypnosis training in New York with Melissa Tiers) one would use for particular NLP patterns.

For example, if one decided to lead a client through the visual squash, (a staple technique in NLP practitioner trainings) what would be an appropriate induction? As the visual squash aims for parts integration through movement of the hands and arms, then an induction that pre-frames the unconscious to control the hands and arms, such as arm catalepsy and/or arm levitation.

It is interesting to consider which inductions are most suited to which NLP patterns, perhaps you have some ideas?

Shawn Carson

NLP training in New York

Top 10 NLP Techniques Part II

These articles discuss the top ten techniques of neuro linguistic programming (nlp) that we use in our nlp practice here in New York. This part of the article discusses the second 5 techniques, the first 5 are discussed in part 1 of the article.

The techniques should only be used by properly qualified persons. Anyone with a medical or other diagnozable condition should seek qualified medical assistance.

➢NLP Technique 6: Change Personal History

When we have a problem issue that repeats itself in our life, something that we do again and again and wish to change, then the Change Personal History technique of nlp is perfect for you. This technique uses dissociation to get distance from the old events and allows us to identify the resources that we would have needed to have behaved differently at those times. By getting into the state where we have access to these resources, we can relive those events in a more resourceful way. This gives our unconscious mind positive reference experiences that we can use to behave more resourcefully in future.

➢NLP Technique 7: Verbal Reframes

The meaning of any event exists only in our own head. Without the frame we put on an event there is no meaning. By using the verbal reframe patterns of neurolinguistic programming we can change the meaning that is attached to an event. A failure becomes a learning experience, an annoying friend becomes an opportunity to exercise compassion etc.

➢NLP Technique 8: Time Based Techniques

Time Based Techniques using a persons time line or perception of time, use a spatial model of time to make time travel possible. Our unconscious mind uses space when it thinks about time, with the past perhaps to our left or right or behind us, and our future in the opposite direction. Once we understand our own metaphor for time we can begin to move our problems into the past and make a bright future for ourselves.

➢NLP Technique 9: Symbolic NLP

NLP recognizes that we use symbolism to represent the world around us. By exploring and changing the symbols that we use to model the world, we can pick metaphors and symbols that give us more options for changing our real world behavior the way we want.

➢NLP Technique 10: Collapsing Anchors

Finally, and certainly not least, of our top ten nlp techniques is collapsing anchors. In fact collapsing anchors is the basis of most neurolinguistic programming techniques. The nlp technique of Collapsing anchors creates an anchor for the problem state that we want to change, and a second anchor for the positive state that we would rather have instead. By firing off both the anchors at the same time, particularly if the positive anchor and state is stronger than the negative, we come to a new resourceful state exactly at the moment that we need it.

These are some of our favorite techniques to teach on our nlp practitioner and nlp master practitioner training here at the International Center for Positive Change and Hypnosis in New York City, NY.

NLP Meet-Up Group Wednesday April 30, 2008

The NLP Meet-up group met at Valentino's food market on 14th Street and 5th Ave.

The group focused on hypnotic inductions with Jeff giving several demonstrations of inductions including the Elman induction to a small but appreciative audience.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training New York