John Grinder PhD., “What is NLP?”

Very much so. Also, audio tapes are very effective. Paul Mackenna is somewhat out dated now but he’s a brilliant talker and very good at what he does. Look him up…

what’s then the best way to learn NLP? The seminars seem quite expensive, can you learn from a book?

Obviously Rollo May believed in truth.

he said it. “modelling excellence” he said words like strategies, accelerate learning strategies, program to explore one state of learning behavior – excellence. i think that problem for most people is recognizing that no matter what body of knowledge you learn application is key. nlp provides tools. grinder says a very intellectual definition. this guys a genius. i think sometimes they forget who the audience is. i can understand that people could be put off by this definition.

I had the pleasure to train with John Grinder. What a remarkable man. Very insightful.

For our application courses there are no prerequisites however for our Grad Cert NLP program people need a degree or an advanced diploma to gain entry. There are specific patterns modelled in NLP used by Derren Brown including calibration, milton model, sensory acuity, pattern detection, attention training and anchoring. All covered in the Grad Cert NLP program.

One distinction is to continue to model in a “know-nothing state” until you reach criteria. For the target skill keep modelling until you can achieve a similar outcome in a similar time frame for that skill. There are multiple skills made up of multiple patterns carried by Geniuses. A skilled modeller may become more skilled than the Genius modeled. Part of the modelling process is dropping out non-essential patterns. One can generalise the patterns modelled from an expert to other contexts.

I guess he’s found words to be a more effective form of communication than grunts, squeals and hand claps.

“…one of the most common ways of avoiding seeing truth – the particular form of “resistance” generally used by intellectuals in psychotherapy – is to make an abstract or logical principle out of the problem, and generally by enough clever intellectualizing one can arrive at a fine-looking solution which is so fascinating.” -Rollo May

Seems to me the kind of thing you learn by doing it rather than trying to make sense of its definition. Clearly a very intelligent man.

Wanting research that substantiates NLP (a new field) is like wanting research that substantiates psychology (an established field). In psychology researchers test hypotheses and build theories. NLP deals in models rather than theory. In NLP skilled trainers and modelers create models of high performers. The test is whether other people applying the patterns that have been modeled can achieve similar outcomes to the expert in a similar time frame.

I think “Turtles all the way down”

The more I learn about NLP the madder I get at my past encounters with psychologists and psychiatrists, especially for not advising me that it exists in any form… and then I want to work harder at it and research it more because it really does work for me (and it’s oddly fun). It’s been helpful in many ways in just a couple of days of practice and I’ve been overcoming myself and my own thoughts and have been feeling a lot better. Thank you for the video!