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
Magic, Misdirection, And Emerging Science Behind NLP
In the NYT today is another of the reports I’m finding more and more of these days. The theories behind NLP that were so outre when first proposed 30 years ago are now being re-proposed and validated with increasing frequency by mainstream science particularly in the field of neuroscience. Here’s a lovely and simple example one such study of how we construct our inner reality. The folowing paragraph in particular could have been taked directly
Tom Dotz
August 12, 2008
Negative Commands: One Of The Ways Language Directs Attention
Language Directs Attention: Negative Commands – How they don’t work (and do!) Here Connirae Andreas describes this distinction in a context where it’s a easy to recognize the importance of this distinction! And whatever you do, don’t start wondering now just how soon you’ll find ways to use these in your life.:-) Offering Positive Alternatives: Telling Children What We DO Want Let’s suppose your child came up to you and asked you what you wanted
Tom Dotz
August 8, 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
The Eyes Have It
Here’s Tom Best in a clip from “The NLP Portable Practitioner Training” Defining and Demonstrating the famous NLP Eye Accessing Cues! LIke it? Give us a thumbs up on YouTube!
Tom Dotz
June 5, 2008
Submodalities Part 4: Distance/Color Swish
The first variation on the Swish, the distance/color swish, is a nice variation. Here it is, again from the classic NLP Comprehensive 24 Day Practitioner Training Trainer’s Manual. A number of people have asked about this classic. Here’s the link to more information, and a special savings for you – enter this coupon code “Classic” (no quote marks) and get $100 off the cost of the manual! Frame: Size/brightness is only one (out of literally
Tom Dotz
June 5, 2008
On Modeling Excellence in a Complex World – David Gordon, Presentation at NLP Canada
In preparing this address, naturally the first thing I did was look again at the conference title: “Modeling Excellence in an Increasingly Complex World.” And I thought back to when I was a kid, and recalled that it seemed pretty darned complex then, too. We were diving under chairs to protect ourselves from atomic bombs, and crowds of white adults were screaming at a little black girl trying to go to school, and we were
Tom Dotz
May 29, 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
Is NLP Manipulative?
Of course NLP is manipulative. That is one way to put NLP processes and understandings to work. Human behavior is by nature manipulative. From our first breath we manipulate our environment and caretakers to ensure our needs are met. We manipulate ourselves by the minute with our thoughts, positive and negative. We manipulate others with our love, our politeness, our anger, and our tears. If I engage
Tom Dotz
May 15, 2008