Birmingham NLP Training with Kochin

10 Day NLP Practitioner Training Core Content


Four Pillars of NLP

These relate to four central skills/behaviours that are central to NLP. They are:

1) Rapport

2) Outcome thinking

3) Sensory Awareness

4) Behavioural Flexibility

Presuppositions of NLP

The presuppositions of NLP are a cluster of beliefs and assumptions that we presuppose to be true. Like any truth they may, or may not be so, and that depends upon your point of view. However, the early developers identified that these "beliefs" were common amongst those that they "modelled" within the field of human behavioural excellence. In NLP we invite you to "try them on" as if they were truths, and note what happens when you do.

Well Formed Outcomes

An approach we adopt to determine an appropriateness of an outcome in terms of suitability/quality.

Rapport

One of the pillars of NLP. Rapport is a term used to indicate the level of relationship you have with another person. Crudely this may be good, or not so good, and there is much that NLP can do to provide you with enhanced skills to influence the quality of a relationship in line with the "outcome" that you seek from that relationship.

Sensory Acuity

You will learn how to become increasingly sensitive to subtle verbal and particularly non verbal changes within people.

Calibration

This term is used to describe how you start to "calibrate" those changes (as in sensory acuity) which you notice when working with a particular person. We all respond and show (leak) what we experience differently. E.G. Relaxation or anxiety.

Representational Systems

How we "represent" information using our five senses to make sense of what we perceive to be reality. Most of us have mastered one or two systems better than the others and can enhance many competencies and outcomes through understanding which these might be and further developing them. We also learn how to understand other peoples sensory preferences, and adjust our communication to meet theirs, and in so doing enhancing rapport and potential outcomes.

Known as Rep systems for short, this area includes skills such as; Eye Accessing Cues and Predicates, the latter being NLP jargon for sensory based words like, see and hear. The five senses are known as:

Visual (Sight)
Auditory (Hearing)
Kinaesthetic (Feeling)
Olfactory (Smell)
Gustatory (Taste)

Collectively the five senses are often referred to as VAKOG with the first three being most significant within western society.

Sub-modalities

Each of the senses are made up of parts that we call submodalities. If we take visual as an example. Its not just that I saw a car, the car is moving fast away from me, was a dirty dark red etc etc. Submodalities are how we structure our sensory experience. One of the great significances in this is that every sensory experience is coded, every behaviour is coded, and that enables us to change both our recollection of the experience, and if we chose to do so, our behaviour in response to what we recalled. We can even learn to "elicit" the submodality strategy (strategy is the sequence of submodalities) behind the behaviours of others, and try them on. The latter is one of the skills we learn within the field of modelling which is central to NLP.
State Management

We are always in a "state" (happy, sad, anxious etc), and states have great influence over our what we do, and "can do" at any given moment in time. In this area you will learn how to manage your state (take control of), learn how to ethically influence the state of others and in so doing, significantly enhance the quality of the outcomes you seek.

Anchors

We are surrounded by anchors which directly influence our thoughts and actions. Most of the time it's an unconscious response to what we know as a stimuli such as the smell of toast, fresh coffee, traffic lights, someone shouting etc etc. Understanding this provides us with many opportunities including building resourceful anchors that empower us, through to collapsing resourceful anchors that hinder us.

Perceptual Positions

The ability to be able to explore different perspectives on anything you wish to explore. In this training we look at three positions, and in doing so you can note the impact this has on the conclusions you draw as you explore what we call 1st, 2nd and 3rd perceptual positions.

Meta Model

The Meta Model is an approach / skills set we use to explore what really lies behind that which someone "perceives" to be true. It is a very powerful tool for drilling down to uncover the information that we have (often unconsciously) generalised, deleted or distorted.

Milton Model

Modelled from the late Milton H Erickson, this is a language orientated tool that achieves its objectives by doing exactly the opposite of the Meta Model. I.E. Instead of drilling down to recover deleted, distorted and generalised information, it use what we call "artfully vague" language to facilitate communication with the clients "unconscious" mind. This has many uses not least the fact that our unconscious mind represents the treasure trove of all our collective experiences, beliefs values and understanding which are stored/coded and a sensory level. When we refer to the unconscious, we are mealy referring to all that is outside of conscious our current awareness.

Frames and Framing

We all perceive things in different ways, and what if we had the ability / skills to perceive / present things in other ways? NLP training introduces us to the ability to be able to both frame and "reframe" things in the moment, both for ourselves, and others. A classic example might be; is the pint half full, or half empty?

Modelling + Modelling project

Modelling lies at the core of NLP. By modelling we refer to the skills and process behind observing and mapping the successfully behaviours of outstanding people in any field of life. This includes mapping behaviours, physiology, beliefs, values, internal states and the strategies they adopt which enables then to do what they do. Much of what they do they do at an unconscious level. We will not only show you how to model, we will give you the opportunity to model someone and get feedback from your submission of a modelling project.

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