Entries from September 2007 ↓

Accessing Cues

Subtle behaviors that will both help to trigger and indicate which representational system a person is using to think with. Typical types of accessing cues include eye movements, voice tone, tempo, body posture, gestures, and breathing patterns.

Anchoring

The process of associating an internal response with some external trigger (similar to classical conditioning) so that the response may be quickly, and sometimes covertly, reaccessed.

Auditory

Relating to hearing or the sense of hearing. Continue reading →

The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™
NLP Practitioner Level Certification Skills Requirements

A minimum ability to utilize the basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP™:

1. Behavioral integration of the basic presuppositions of NLP
2. Rapport Establishment & Maintenance
3. Verbal & Nonverbal Pacing & Leading
4. Verbal and Nonverbal Elicitation of Responses
5. Calibrating through Sensory Experience
6. Representational Systems (Sensory Predicates and Accessing Cues)
7. Milton Model, Meta Model
8. Elicitation of Well-Formed Goals, Direction, and Present State
9. Overlapping and Translating Representational Systems
10. Eliciting, Installing & Utilizing Anchors in all sensory systems
11. Ability To Shift Consciousness
12. Submodalities (utilizing including Timelines, Belief Change, Swish Patterns, etc.)
13. Omni Directional Chunking
14. Accessing and Building Resources
15. Content & Context Reframing
16. Creating & Utilizing Metaphors
17. Strategy Detection, Elicitation, Utilization, And Installation
18. Demonstration of Flexibility of Behavior and Attitude

The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™
Master Practitioner Level Certification Skills Requirements

The ability to master the basic skills, techniques, patterns and concepts of NLP™:

1. Behavioral competency in all Practitioner level skills and the demonstration to do several of these simultaneously.
2. The ability to design behavioral flexibility and attitudes that produce specific results with self and others.
3. Demonstrated ability to do change work with self and others.
4. Minimum ability to identify and utilize the Master Practitioner skills, techniques, and patterns linguistically:

• Changing Beliefs
• Eliciting & Utilizing Meta-Programs
• Criteria: Identification of and Utilization of Criteria, adjusting Criteria
• Sleight of Mouth Patterns
• Deliberate multilevel communication: Stacking Realities, Timeline Patterns, Stacking Presuppositions Temporal/Spatial Predicates
• Negotiating
• Propulsion Systems
• Installing Strategies
• Threshold Pattern
• Breaking Generalizations & Building New Ones
• Rapid Inductions
• Deep Trance Phenomena
• Deep Trance Identification

by Paul McKenna

There is an old saying: “The only person who likes changes is a wet baby”. It’s certainly true for some people and definitely true for some NLP’ers. In 1993 we sat down with Richard Bandler to talk about what was going on with people using NLP. Richard said: “So many of these people are just copying what they’ve heard from someone else who copied it from someone else who copied it from me - I can’t believe people think that 21 days or 24 days or any amount of days is what makes a practitioner training. It’s who is teaching, how they are teaching and what they are teaching.” Continue reading →

ABBOTT (behind the counter at: Super Duper computer store): Can I help you?

COSTELLO: Thanks. I’m setting up an office in my den, and I’m thinking about buying a computer.

ABBOTT: Mac?

COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou.

ABBOTT: Your computer?

COSTELLO: I don’t own a computer. I want to buy one. Continue reading →

1. The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is more often valuable than changing the content of our experience of reality.
2. The meaning of the communication is the response you get.
3. All distinctions human beings are able to make concerning our environment and our behavior can be usefully represented through the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory senses.
4. The resources individuals need in order to effect a change are already within them.
5. The map is not the territory.
6. The positive worth of the individual is held constant, while the value and appropriateness of internal and/or external behavior is questioned.
7. There is a positive intention motivating every behavior, and a context in which every behavior has value.
8. Feedback vs. Failure - All results and behaviors are achievements, whether they are desired outcomes for a given task/context, or not.

Dr. Richard Bandler