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Beginning NLP

3 NLP Techniques to Create Instant State Change

I had a request to re-post this classic from our archives, so here it is! By Kevin Creedon, it’s a great little piece of quick-change artistry good for all 🙂 3 NLP Techniques to Create Instant State Change – by Kevin Creedon “Think of a problem.” Those four words are used repeatedly throughout NLP training because most of the time NLP techniques are used in a prescriptive manner. That means that, after the fact, we

Tom Dotz July 18, 2021

Rapport: What It Is and Why You Care

815 Words, 3.26 time to read, read online <link> After the last couple of emails about some very specific ways to establish rapport, it occurred to me that I hadn’t defined it, or described its importance. Let’s dive into that now and be clear on how, where, and why you care (a lot) about the ability to have rapport, and even to be able to turn it off at will. John Grinder, the co-founder of

Tom Dotz October 29, 2020

Life Skills: Rapport #3, Influence : You’ve Paced, Now Lead

361 Words, time 1.44 In the last couple posts (here and here) you were shown the rapport move called pacing. Pacing effectively creates a connection so that you can lead a conversation in the direction you want to go. This could be as simple as where to have dinner or as complex as agreeing on a project development contract. Pacing allows you to establish a connection regardless of the content of the interaction. It gives

Tom Dotz October 19, 2020

Life Skills: Rapport #2, The Power Move: Pacing And Leading In Conversational Rapport-Building

Life Skills: Pacing and Leading, The Power Move In Conversational Rapport-Building. Many behaviors can be paced, or mirrored. These NLP Rapport skills are pretty easy to learn, and you can practice them anytime and anywhere that you can observe someone. They are tools you can use to create better connections and have greater influence. These NLP skills will benefit you in all types of communications. And in today’s world, COVID-19 has eliminated physical face-to-face meetings.

Tom Dotz September 24, 2020

Anchoring

Anchoring for Results

Anchoring in NLP is a core technique. As the basis of so many larger processes, getting very skilled at anchoring is work that will be so very worth it. You can use anchoring to maintain a state, to elicit a resourceful state, to eliminate unwanted reactions, and as a part of so many other processes. It really is a core technique, without which, I’m not sure you can effectively practice NLP. As NLP practitioners, whether

Tracy Hoobyar August 31, 2017

The Power Of Touch

Another of our popular stories from Tom Hoobyar embodying some NLP processes and everyday wisdom. This week’s story draws from Section 1 — about anchoring (and much more)- in the NLP Portable Practitioner Training . If you have it, you’ll get even more out of the story! Enjoy, Tom Dotz The Power Of Touch By Tom Hoobyar Article Word Count 1227, average reading time 4.9 minutes. Some years back I met this nice woman in

Tom Dotz July 8, 2010

Deciding to learn? Can’t quite get motivated? Strategies: The Commanding NLP Model

Deciding to learn? Can’t quite get motivated? Strategies: The Commanding NLP Model A Story, a Video, a Process, and Announcements Three: This week in NLP! From the questions and comments I see around the web it’s evident that NLP is becoming known more and more as a bundle of “patterns” or “techniques,” mostly concerned with some aspect of self-improvement. That is a sadly limited view. These are simply applications of NLP, or as Grinder once

Tom Dotz June 24, 2010

Sliding Into Focus With Sliding Anchors

Sliding Into Focus: Sliding Anchors! Accelerate your anchoring technique with this force multiplier. In our recent survey a number of you mentioned a desire to have a greater ability to concentrate and focus on a project for an extended period of time. This is a common experience we all face more and more as we are expected to do more and more and are now living in the information overload world that Alvin Toffler predicted

Tom Dotz May 28, 2009

Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech?

Found this one in the local weekly, “Westword.” 🙂 “Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech? In this recently posted video, for instance, Obama is accused of using “the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis,” to … As you may have heard, Barack Obama recently became the president of the United States. However, his enemies continue to portray him as a smooth but dangerous character whose rhetorical

Tom Dotz February 6, 2009

Are You Tuning In?

A client told me today “I’m becoming increasingly, keenly aware of the concept of rapport … and how my responses control and influence every situation.” “Really?” I ask. She says “Since the NLP workshop, I’ve been sitting in meetings, practicing looking around, changing my body posture, watching my facial expression, aligning with the ideas being spoken. Align, align, align. And now I’m noticing that lately when people talk — they’re looking to ME for my

lisaj January 23, 2009