Starting our “Sampling” series, this is an audio clip from the beginning of one of our Classics, “Stories That Change People” by David Gordon. MP3 format with intro by yours truly. I posted the first 50+ minutes which include a couple of great stories and the what and how of Metaphoric Change according to David.Click HERE to download your sample clip!
Find out how to get the whole program HEREIf you don’t know who David Gordon is, aside from being a warm, wonderful, and very bright person, as one of the original developers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, he has helped create and shape the field for almost 30 years.
Though his work has touched virtually every aspect of NLP, David’s primary areas of contribution to the field have been in the use of therapeutic metaphors, inspired by his work with Milton H. Erickson, and the pursuit of modeling. Modeling has consumed most of his professional attention for the last 20 years.
In addition to training thousands of people in NLP, hypnosis, therapeutic metaphor, and modeling, David has written many articles on NLP, as well as books on various aspects of therapy, including Therapeutic Metaphors, Phoenix: The Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson (with Maribeth Meyers-Anderson), and The Emprint Method and Know How (both with Leslie Cameron-Bandler and Michael Lebeau).
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“Find out how to get the whole program HERE” Link for David Gordon’s Stories that change people is hyperlinked to the 50 min audio sample. The link that is supposed to deliver the Audio sample is working correctly.
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Mike
Fixed! Thanks
I’m really glad NLPCO now has a blog. I hope this can facilitate more dialogue in the NLP community.
David Gordon is a wonderful teacher. This audio program is pretty good–I’ve been working through it with a therapist friend of mine. Almost everyone–healer or not–could use more training like this in creating metaphors.
This particular recording though could seriously use some editing. There are many parts that drag on and on with examples from the audience that I didn’t find useful at all. There are also things like “now we’ll take a break for lunch” that could easily be cut out.
For all the focus on effective communication, nearly every book, audio, and video I’ve ever seen on NLP (except some of the more popular works, and books by Steve Andreas) could use better editing and production quality. NLPCO is doing a much better job than say Michael Hall, who’s books are littered with simple spelling and punctuation errors, but I’d still love to see the bar raised to make the high-quality content of NLP presented in a high-quality way.
Most NLP products are extremely expensive for the quality too. I absolutely love the NLP model, love the way NLPCO presents it, and I use NLP continually in my coaching practice and in my daily life. But I’ve been disappointed with nearly every NLP product I’ve ever purchased. If we are to make NLP a respected modality, we have a lot of work to do in the presentation of our field.
Hi Duff,
Thanks for your comments. We are re-mastering a number of these great classics. Originally they were recorded under less than ideal conditions, in live seminars. This both meant real creativity and some extraneous noise. So we are going through them one at a time remastering them to preserve the quality of the original while removing the extraneous you mention. Our first re-mastering, of the “Advanced Language Patterns” by Connirae Andreas, will be out in June.
Cheers,
Tom Dotz