Report NLP Master Practitioner

The International Center for Positive Change and Hypnosis, NLP Master Practitioner group met this weekend for the module entitled Beliefs, Values and Criteria.

The group covered the following topics:

• The nature of Beliefs
• Changing Beliefs using sub-modalities
• Changing Beliefs using chaining anchors
• Changing beliefs using reframes
• Values
• Eliciting values
• Chancing values
• Criteria
• Eliciting criteria
• Stacking criteria

And other matters

Shawn Carson

NLP training in New York

NLP's New Behavior Generator

New Behavior Generator
The New Behavior Generator is an NLP pattern that uses the Implicit Modeling process.

Here is an exercise taught on our Master Practitioner Training in New York course to experience the New Behavior Generator:

Work in pairs. The modeler picks a person who you know or have seen on film. Someone you would like to model.

• Using hypnotic language, the coach asks the person to see and hear the model doing whatever it is that they wish to model. Focus on the BMIRs shown when the behavior is undertaken, rather than the actual behaviors to be modeled.
• Continue until the modeler has a very clear picture of the model performing the behavior, and until the coach begins to see some physiological shifts. The coach begins to gather verbal patterns the modeler uses to describe how the model acts and behaves and moves and looks and sounds.
• Guide the modeler to begin to move with the model, and in the modeler’s mind, to begin to adopt their posture, physiology, facial expressions, gestures, and micro movements.
• Continue until the modeler begins to feel “in synch” with the model, and the coach begins to notice more defined physiological shifts. The coach continues to gather the modeler’s words as they describe how it feels to be moving as the model moves, including more kinesthetic words.
• At this point, invite the modeler to move inside the skin of the model and experience the experience from the inside. If done properly the coach will likely see a significant physiological shift at this stage.
• The coach uses the words and phrases gathered to this point to guide the modeler through the experience of “being” the model, performing the skill.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training New York

Implicit Modeling in NLP

Modeling in NLP refers to the process whereby we model another person's skills and behavior in order to increase our own abilities.

Implicit modeling involves copying another person's physiology, posture and so on in order to get an intuitive feel for how they do what they do.

Natural Implicit Modeling
Implicit modeling can be thought of as “copying”. If you have ever watched children after they have seen an exciting movie they will play at being the characters, mimicking the behaviors they have seen, including facial expressions, movement, language, words and phrases etc.

This is a natural human learning process, and is hard-wired into our brains; when we see an action performed our brains react as if we were actually doing it ourselves. This provides an initial “experience” of performing the action that the brain uses as a reference or model prior to actually do it.

I remember as a child, I would watch the old westerns, cowboys and Indians (not very PC these days!) my friends and I would play for hours creeping through the woods.

Now you may remember some time, some occasion from your own childhood when you pretended to be somebody else. Perhaps you had been to see a movie and wanted to be the hero or heroine. Maybe it was a baseball player, tennis player, or some other sports star. Maybe it was a pop star, a movie star. Maybe it was a teacher or someone else at school you admired. I don’t know, but I do know that we have all had these experiences.

And what I’d like you to do is to pick an experience, now, like that, when you admired a person, and wanted to be them, and pretended to be them. Some person who was or is your hero! Remember what it feels like, now, really step back into this experience. Feel what it feels like to have that child-like curiosity now, about how things are done, and that child-like belief that you can be another person, that child-like openness to becoming another person, for a time.

And as you’re remembering and feeling that, begin to remember, to see what you saw, when you looked at your hero, with that child-like gaze. It wasn’t necessary to really understand now exactly what they are doing, just looking softly at them and noticing how they stand, and how they are moving, and how they are breathing. Seeing their face and their expression.

And remember what it was like as you find yourself becoming your hero, seeing out of their eyes, feeling what they are feeling, having the skills that they have, believing we can do anything and everything our hero can do..

Implicit modeling uses this principle as the first step to learning a skill.

Implicit modeling relies on the fact that BMIRs reflect the underlying state. While it is not necessarily true that adopting BMIRs will exactly replicate the state, there is a link between the two. Adopting the BMIRs of the skilled person while attempting their skill may offer us some intuitive feel for the skill.

The Nerk-Nerk State
The Nerk-Nerk state is a state of pure sensory observation, uncolored by beliefs, values and other “filters”. It is of course a theoretical state impossible to achieve in practice. However, we can consider the possibility of such a state.

Implicit Modeling in Practice
Here is the process for Implicit Modeling:
• Pick a subject who you would like to copy.
• Ask them to perform the specific skill that you are seeking to model. If the skill is complex, pick one aspect and use the principles of micro-modeling.
• Adopt the Nerk-Nerk state.
• As you watch them perform the skill, take in everything they are doing at the same time. Do not seek to focus on their eye-accessing, or specific behaviors. Just watch them.
• Adopt their posture, facial expression, tone, breathing, on a ‘global’ basis.
• Perform the behavior while “in their state” as reflected in the BMIRs.
• Become aware of what you learn, about performing the skill.
• Now, as yourself, attempt to perform the skill.
• Notice differences between the experiences.

In order to do Implicit Modeling we should copy posture and other BMIRs without judgement as to what they mean.

Report of NLP Thursday practice group June 5, 2008

Our Thursday NLP practice group met today.

The main topic of conversation was changing meta programs.

The wisdom of changing meta programs, and the circumstances in which they might be changed were discussed.

The methods of changing were discussed:

• Changing the meta program
• Moving the meta program along the relevant continuum
• Adding strategies in specific circumstances

Methods of changing meta programs were discussed. In particular the need to go meta to the meta program either by adopting a meta position, or by using time-line techniques.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training New York

Modeling and the TOTE Model

What is the TOTE Model?

Trigger/Test
Decide when to run the Strategy

Operate
Do something, either internally such as make a picture in our mind, or in the outside world

Test
Compare the current state with the desired state

Exit
If the current state matches the desired state, stop, otherwise return to ‘operate’

This is the basic model for running a strategy, where a strategy is a method of achieving some outcome.

In Modeling, we seek to replicate the skill that a person has in achieving some outcome, so the TOTE model forms the fundamental basis of Modeling.

Multiple TOTES
In order to achieve a particular outcome, it may only be necessary to do one simple task, in a very small period of time. Think about bowling for example. The bowler picks up the ball, takes her position, moves forward to the lane and releases the ball. The skill is in doing that one pattern very consistently.

Other skills require multiple actions over extended periods of time. Think about painting a picture. It demands that we pick a medium and materials, a subject, sketch rafts, perhaps prepare and select specific materials for each element of the composition, then actually prepare the work possibly over many hours and days, reviewing and making modifications as we go.

For this reason the TOTE model can be overly simplistic. One way to add sophistication to the TOTE model is to treat a skill as a series of short self contained actions, so for example bowling may be described as one, two or three TOTES, whereas painting a picture may be dozens or hundreds of separate TOTEs.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training in New York

NLP Modeling

NLP was originally developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder based upon "modeling" of three famous therapists, Fritz Perls the developer of Gestalt Therapy, Virginia Satir, one of the pioneers of family therapy, and Milton Erickson, the father of modern hypnosis. 

The process by which these three giants of modern therapy were modeled in many ways showed NLP in a microcosm. For this reason, John Grinder has defined NLP as being "the modeling of excellence".

Of course, it is also true that through modeling our clients, we can assist them in the change process. In the posts that follow, we will explore some of the modeling techniques that NLP uses. However, in this post we will give an overview of the NLP modeling process.

As with much of NLP, NLP Modeling describes a natural process, namely how we learn to “do” a new skill. Whether we learned how to ride a bicycle by playing with our friends, learned fishing with our grandfather, or learned to play softball at school, we naturally went through the modeling process.

NLP Modeling makes the processes, which we naturally use to learn a new skill, explicit. This allows us to model people we admire to take on their skills, more easily share our skills with other, and practice our NLP skills at the same time!

What is Modeling?
In NLP, Modeling is defined as taking one person’s “skill” and breaking it down in such a way that it can be learned by another person.

Modeling includes the NLP concept of ‘elegance’ which is defined as achieving the desired result in as few steps as possible. Hence, Modeling includes identifying which steps are essential to the process and which steps are not. The superfluous steps can then be deleted from the process.

We can think of modeling as describing a skill in multiple ways. The juxtaposition of the various descriptions gives us the requisite richness in the model.

NLP Master Practitioner Report

The weekend of June 1 and 2 we held the second weekend of our NLP Master Practitioner course, covering modeling and advanced eye accessing cues.

A complete example of the modeling process was conducted, utilizing macro and micro modeling, explicit and implicit modeling, strategies, logical levels, and perceptual positions.

The eye accessing patterns included advanced eye accessing alignment, and eye movement desensitization.

We also covered proxy BMIRs, and modeled through the dance SCORE model.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training in New York