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Getting Motivated: The Godiva Chocolate Pattern!

by Richard Bandler, excerpted from the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Manual Trainer Edition A fast little process – with a little practice you’ll find yourself doing this in just minutes – that’s great for motivating yourself to do things you know you need to do and want to have completed but seem to keep putting off. This pattern is an example of the power of submodalities. It is especially useful for changing your feelings about getting

Tom Dotz April 15, 2009

Applying NLP: More Stories in Coaching, Consulting, Leading

Last week we brought you another great story of the power of applying just one of the most basic NLP techniques for establishing rapport (“Tuning In” Jan 23, 09) Here is another example – excerpted from one of the most popular articles we posted last year – of the effectiveness and transformative qualities of NLP The Power Of Presupposing: Positive Intent “Gerry was working with a senior executive who oversaw a budget of about $1

Tom Dotz January 29, 2009

The Parts Party

Because of the requests as a result of the post “The Inside Family” I’m posting this version of the Parts Party format (you may want to read “The Inside Family” first. :-).

Tom Dotz August 27, 2008

Anchors In Your World

If you played with this weeks’ Tip, you noticed how anchors already are and have been affecting you for your entire life, and affect you to this day. Here’s another set of examples in this article by Seth Godin, a brilliant marketer and a very good writer. The context is familiar to all of us: Meetings! Yea! He shows both how existing out of awareness anchors affect us, and how we can deliberately

Tom Dotz July 14, 2008

Submodalities, Part 3, The Swish

THE SWISH PATTERN (Richard Bandler) Joke: A young recruit in the army began acting very strangely one morning. Instead of his regular duties, he was continually moving about, searching for something in a very distracted way. When questioned about it he would only say, “I’ve got to find it. I know it’s here somewhere.” When they asked him what he was looking for, he would only say, “I don’t know,” and continue searching. After a

Tom Dotz May 29, 2008

Submodalities Model, Part 2: Mapping Across

Following on your proactive practice with last week’s introduction and preparation, you’ll be able to step right in to this fundamental and powerful piece of NLP. Ideally use the same partner to work with, although if you enroll a new one and take them through the introductory portion again, you’ll just learn that much more!

Tom Dotz May 22, 2008

Submodalities Model, Part 1

Submodalities are one of the predominant models in NLP. They have been used in creating some of the most powerful interventions including the Swish Variations, the Forgiveness Pattern, Mapping Across, the Grief Pattern, and 20 more that I know of. The entire area of Timelines (which we will explore later in this series) is just one area of submodalities. This first part is a simple explanation and exploratioin of submodalities. You’ll need someone to work

Tom Dotz May 15, 2008