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Could anybody explain games and other activities from John Grinder on how to improve the stimulation of memory and learning?

14-01-2012T00:55:23+00:00

Hello,

Could anybody explain games and other activities from John Grinder on how to improve the stimulation of memory and learning, like for example the NASA game ?

On this video it seems thjis person explains the NASA game from John Grinder, it seems that one should use a pencil and move it in all directions in front of the eye and the eye has to follow it. But unfortunately he speaks in Polish and I donÄt understand polish.
Could anybody explain more precise? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-x-a0y-vxU

Best regards
Frank

What is the first advantage children have, that makes them great in learning regarding John Grinder?

13-01-2012T23:22:00+00:00

Hello,

Could anybody explain in precise details what the first advantage is, John Grinder (he talks on it in the video below) found in children, that makes them great in learning? He only shortly repeated the first advantage for the first 28 seconds on this video. I didn’t understand what he meant. Is there maybe another video available (previously in that seminar)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSI7z9_Ga0Y&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Recommended NLP Reading List

19-09-2009T23:52:06+00:00

Here is a list of NLP books which make very interesting reading. Please post your reveiws on the books bellow.

Whispering in the Wind: Bostic St Clair and Grinder
Includes John Grinder’s reflections on how NLP was created, the intellectual influences on NLP and a short Grinder autobiography. John and Carmen critique the classic code, present New Code as well as a modelling format and proposals for the NLP field to grow. A must read for anyone involved in NLP.

Structure of Magic I: Bandler and Grinder
The first NLP book, written to present Grinder and Bandler’s modelling of Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir. The meta model of language, its thirteen patterns, an overview of the transformational model, deep structure and surface structure feature in this book. Essential reading if you want an insight into the thinking that launched NLP

Structure of Magic II: Grinder and Bandler
The second book where Grinder and Bandler present the Four Tuple (VAKOG) how we form our mental maps. This is where representational systems, incongruities, and Satir Categories are published.

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson: Bandler and Grinder
Grinder and Bandler’s first book on Milton Erickson where they present what later becomes Milton Model. The book includes transcriptions of Erickson’s work with Grinder and Bandler’s commentary, a section on applying the patterning as well as an article written by Erickson about a joint project he undertook with Aldous Huxley on states of psychological awareness. The Appendix includes an excellent list of natural language presuppositions

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson: Vol II. Grinder Delozier and Bandler
The authors write in detail about 4 tuples as a tracking system when using hypnosis. The book includes detailed analysis of Erickson’s work with clients.

Frogs into Princes: Bandler and Grinder
An NLP classic, written from transcripts of Grinder and Bandler seminars. The reader will see the NLP presuppositions feature early in this book (without reference to the presuppositions). The book includes quite a lot of information on anchoring, a section change personal history and another section on reframing.

Reframing: Bandler and Grinder
While some of the reframing methods in this book are out of the date there are many gems in this book. There is a section on parts and parts negotiation, sex step reframing in its original format (its been updated since), and a section on working with families and systems.

Transformations: Grinder and Bandler
This book is series of transcriptions of Grinder and Bandler at work using hypnosis formats. The book includes lots of useful and practical insights into NLP and Hypnosis, practical exercises for simple but effective inductions.

Using your Brain For a Change : Richard Bandler
Connirae and Steve Andreas edited this book of Bandler nuggets which include the early application of submodality shifts. The swish, belief change, mapping submodalities are all presented in this book in their earliest formats.

Turtles all the Way Down: The perquisites of genius Grinder and Delozier
A transcription of a five day seminar, where the authors present the first edition of New Code NLP. An excellent opportunity to explore the metaphors the authors were using as reference points for the New Code and for the seasoned new codeer to recognise its roots and how it has evolved.

Books by people who influenced the development of NLP

Milton H Erickson

The seminars, workshops and lectures of Milton Erickson
Volume I: The Healing in Hypnosis – Edited by Margaret O’Ryan and Florence Sharp
Volume II: Reframing in Hypnosis – edited by Florence Sharp
Volume III: Mind –Body Communication in Hypnosis –edited by Ernest L Rossi

These books capture the style and spirit if Erickson’s work. They are full of case studies and reports on the seminars Erickson gave mainly to psychologists. Volume I includes an insightful Erickson autobiographical chapter.

Steps to Ecology of Mind: Gregory Bateson
Bateson was major influence on the development of NLP and particularly John Grinder’s thinking. This book is a classic and a collection of Bateson’s essays including topics on biological systems, anthropology, cybernetics. NLP raeaders will find the sections on addiction (alcoholism), double bind theory, logical levels of learning and pattern of interest and relevant to NLP

New People Making: Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir was one of the original NLP models. In this book she presents her unique insight into family systems, communication and her renowned Satir Category archetypes. An excellent book written by one of most revered family therapists from her time.

Gestalt Therapy Verbatim: Fritz Perls
In this book you will read excellent transcripts and notes from Perls’ lectures and therapy. Perls wok in therapy is legendary and he was key influence on the early days of NLP. Gestalt therapy was Bandler’s first touch point with the therapeutic world.

NLP and hypnosis books by other authors

Training Trances: Overdurf and Silverthorn
A great book on applying Ericksonian hypnosis in change work contexts. The book is easy to read, highly practical and the authors researched pretty much everything published by Erickson as well as lot published about Erickson in brining this work together.

The Magic of NLP demystified: Lewis and Pucelik
This book clearly presents four tuples, the patterns from the meta model and representational systems in easy read without dumbing down the information. An excellent and easy to read book.

Can we Start Again: Daryll Scott
Daryll Scott attended the NLP Academy Trainers Training with John, Carmen and myself, is an ITA member and well respected business trainer. In this book Daryll outlines the business applications of NLP.

Interesting Reading

Holographic Universe: Michael Talbot
The universe as a hologram, our nervous system as a quantum mechanical device, synchronicity, collective unconscious. Talbot collates a lot of information in an easy to read format –that work as fantastic metaphors for change

Taking the Quantum Leap: Fred Wolf PhD
This book entertainingly traces the history of physics from the observations of the earlyGreeks through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton to the dazzling theories of such scientists as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Bohm. This everday view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.

Entanglement: The Great Mystery in Physics: Amir D Aczel
Aczel (Fermat’s Last Theorem) discusses a great mystery in physics: the concept of entanglement in quantum physics. He begins by explaining that “entanglement” occurs when two subatomic particles are somehow connected or “entangled” with one another, so that when something happens to one particle, the same thing simultaneously happens to the other particle, even if it’s miles away. However, this concept violates the theory of special relativity, since communication between two places cannot occur faster than the speed of light. A good metaphor for the connected nature of life

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968) Carlos Castaneda
Castaneda spent time learning the ways of Mesoamerican shamanism from Yaqui shaman named don Juan Matus. This is first book of twelve where he narrates the different levels of his experiences. Castanedao writes of attention, states, accessing states, reducing dialogue and a lot of he writes has parallels with NLP.

About Characterlogical Adjectives

29-09-2011T19:06:00+00:00

New Coders use characterlogical adjectives regularly, it seems part of what New Code includes. It’s only one of many techniques, how do you utilize it? In what ways have you found characterlogical adjectives useful?
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About Characterlogical Adjectives
by Noah Scales on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 12:06pm

About this document

This document contains information about characterlogical adjectives. Background and application information in this document comes from my browsing the NLPU Master Practitioner Manual, but I learned about characterlogical adjectives elsewhere, from older material about the NLP New Code developed by Delozier and Grinder. The exercises are my own common-sense creation. I hope they’re of interest, and prompt you to share your own exercises for developing facility with characterlogical adjectives.

About characterlogical adjectives

Adjectives that, in a word, describe the behavior of someone else and myself relating in a way that I consider “stuck”. Examples of characterlogical adjectives include: “arrogant”, “withdrawn”, “aggressive”, “picky”, “mean”. Assigning characterlogical adjectives from a 3rd perceptual position is part of New Code.

Value of characterlogical adjectives

Labeling you and another person with adjectives that describe you in an interaction allow you to take an observer position on both you and the other person, and give you a reference point for changing the interaction, from a resourceful observer position.

Relationships between communication behaviors include:

Complementary (e.g., “aggressive”, “defensive”) complementary behaviors are different from each other, but also elicit each other.
Symmetrical (e.g., “self-absorbed”,”withdrawn”) symmetrical behaviors are different from each other in interpretation, but have a similar or identical description
Asymmetrical (e.g., “calm”, “panicked”) asymmetrical behaviors are different from each other in both interpretation and description.

Application:

1. see and hear the person, doing what they’re doing, and label it with a characterlogical adjective.
2. next see and hear yourself and the person, you both doing what you’re doing, and label what you in particular are doing during that interaction.

Exercise 1 (observing strangers outside):

1. Observe two or more people communicating
2. Label each two-person interaction “symmetrical”, “complementary”, “assymmetrical”.
3. Label each participant with a characterlogical adjective wrt an interaction.

Exercise 2 (groups of 3):

1. Person A models a behavior that bothers them when others do it, but without offering a characterlogical adjective for the behavior.
2. Person B playacts 3 different responses, a symmetrical one, a complementary one, and an assymmetrical one, again without offering a characterlogical adjective.
3. Person C privately labels each of the two participants with one or more characterlogical adjectives.
4. After Person B’s playacting ends, Person C reports adjectives for each of Person B’s behaviors.
5. rotate the roles taken by each person.

Exercise 3 (groups of 3):

1. Person A chooses a complementary interaction from their history, labeling their own behavior and the other person’s behavior for the benefit of Persons B and C.
2. Person A and person B playact the interaction, with Person A coaching Person B as necessary.
3. Person C suggests incremental changes to Person A’s behavior with the intention to change the interaction from complementary to asymmetrical.
NOTE: Person B does their best to continue acting according to the same label as Person A’s behavior changes.
4. When Persons A,B, and C all agree that the behavior is asymmetrical, Person A labels their new behavior in the interaction.
5. rotate the roles taken by each person.

Exercise 4 (groups of 3):
Prop: 3 copies of a list of characterlogical adjective pairs
1. Each person records a relationship type next to each of the adjective pairs in the list.
2. When each list copy has all its adjective pairs classified, Person A reads their choices to Persons B and C.
3. Persons B and C listen, and put an ‘x’ or other mark next to their own choices if it disagrees with Person A’s choices.
4. For each difference in Person B or C’s lists, Persons B and C explain their choice to Person A.
5. rotate the roles taken by each person.

Characterlogical adjective pair examples:

visualisation training

03-01-2012T12:25:31+00:00

Hi and a happy new year to all.
After not having used the skill for years ( I was never a star at it either ), I noticed that visualisation has become quite difficult when I started a guided imagery routine.
I would be very grateful if somebody could point me to some a-z exercise scripts. Ideally in a readable format rather than mp3 or vids.

A Perceptual Positions Process to explore Characterlogical Adjectives

28-12-2011T16:04:32+00:00

Dear all,

I wonder whether anyone would be kind enough to review the following exercise I’ve been experimenting with and offer any suggestions, feedback, or advice… It arose as I thought around how I could utilise characterlogical adjectives, multiple description and perceptual positions…

Thanks

Gareth

Characterlogical Adjective Exploration Process

This exercise can be used for any demanding interpersonal situation or experience where you experience yourself as unresourceful and lacking a variety of choice in relation to the other person (or persons) involved. In preparation, mark out 3 spaces on the floor (or use 3 chairs) for each of the 3 Perceptual Positions…

i. In Position 1, choose an adjective to describe how you see the other person(s) in this situation, e.g. aggressive, defensive, controlling, apologetic, anxious, uncertain, demanding, needy, etc
ii. Choose an adjective to describe how you are in response to this
iii. Utilise Perceptual Positions to explore your representations/perceptions of the adjectives chosen and your own and the other person’s position in this situation: Use the Frames and Questions of the Outcome, Intention, Consequence Model and Description, Evaluation, Interpretation Model within the context of the Perceptual Positions Exercise (exploring Outcome, Intent & Consequences and asking yourself questions about the way you are describing, evaluating and interpreting such) – starting in Position 1 and then stepping into Position 2 to enhance your learnings about self and other.
iv. Re-integrate the learnings from Positions 1 & 2 into 1st Position
v. Move to Position 3 and use the Frames & Questions as outlined above in step iii to explore the wider systemic Outcomes, Intents and Consequences from an Observer position (Utilise your skills with unconscious signals and cues to gain access to intuitions and sense-experiences to understand such) and secondly to increase the number of possible descriptions and adjectives that could be used to describe the situation under review (multiple description).
vi. Re-integrate the wider systemic learnings from Position 3 into 1st Position and acknowledge there will be contexts where this information could be very useful to you (without consciously over-specifying what they may be so as to cue the unconscious to review the ecology and contexts so framed)…
vii. Sleep on it…

Additional Elements and Ideas that could be incorporated:

- In step i access a Know Nothing State first (i.e. deepen breathing, relax foveal vision, increase peripheral vision, loosen jaw and open mouth slightly to quieten down internal dialogue, etc) and then commence Process
- After Step ii decide whether the interaction can best be coded as Symmetrical, Complimentary or Asymmetrical and then after step vi utilise an N Step Reframe Process to request of the Unconscious the generation of new behavioural choices with regard to usefully responding to the interaction pattern identified in step ii, within the context under review
- And/Or after Step vi use a New Code Game (or equivalent) to access a high performance state and step back into 1st Position…

1st and 2nd order Change - the New Code way…

26-12-2011T17:42:26+00:00

Hi all,

I’m posting this query in the hope that someone can help me clarify something from my reading of ‘Whispering’... It’s about 1st and 2nd order change and I have 2 specific questions:

The first is to do with the choices John and Carmen made about addiction, physical symptoms and issues associated with significant 2ndry gain being the members of the class of 2nd order change… I can understand that all 3 are behaviours, etc that serve a purpose, e.g. addiction serving the possible purpose of supplying relaxation at a higher logical level, or physical symptoms serving the purpose of being within the class of unconscious signals that signify that something is out of equilibrium within the body system, etc, etc… My question is: Does anyone know the rules/criteria John and Carmen used to select these 3 and not other potential ‘behaviours’?

My thinking as I work around this one is that anxiety could be such a context for 2nd order change - after all it too might serve a purpose, i.e. signalling concerns around safety and security, etc… (although perhaps because it signals often through physical symptoms or is associated with 2ndry gain (i.e. the securing of reassurance or proximity seeking with important others) it fits within the membership of the class of all behaviours associated with 2nd order change???)...

If anyone can help me think this through some more then I would really value this - perhaps even suggest some alternative frames from which I can begin my enquiry…

My 2nd question is linked to whether anyone knows how John’s use of 1st and 2nd order change (i.e. bounded and unbounded) fits with more typical notions of these concepts within the field of therapy and specifically systemic/strategic therapy…

My understanding of these terms comes from my training in systemic models where 1st order change relates to changes within a given system/context, i.e. a change in behaviour, thoughts, feelings, cycles of interaction, etc (changes amongst the variety of moves one can play in a given game) whilst 2nd order change relates to a change to the governing frames of reference that set the scene for such behaving, thinking, feeling, interacting, etc… (i.e. a change to the rules for how the game is played)... E.g. Watzlawick et al (1974) “Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution”... Often the use of 2nd order change (as far as I’ve so far understood this from my supervisor; a systemic psychotherapist) is linked to changes (reframing) in beliefs, presuppositions and rules at the level of the system so that those within it come to a set of new meanings and understandings about what it is that they do together such that the original problem situation is re-evaluated and re-interpreted (Noah’s posts on Description, Interpretation and Evaluation have really helped me think more broadly about such things). This seems to me different to the description in ‘Whispering’ where such things as beliefs, etc could conceivably fit into the class of 1st order change if they were not associated with 2ndry gain, etc…

Phew!

Any thoughts, suggestions, help, guidance, questions, reflections, stories, metaphors and so on would be gratefully received.

Thanks and all the best for the New Year,

Gareth

New code and improved motor skills

19-09-2010T18:35:52+00:00

I tried something out today. I was at the park with my wife and daughter, Emily, who is 8.

We were trying to cross one of those wooden beam things which are about 16 feet long and on a pivot at each end. As you attempt to walk along it it rocks on it’s pivots. It was about 6 inches off the ground.

Emily managed to get across very slowly. Me and the wife failed miserably (I ended up with dirt all down my back as I fell heavily!). I then thought of modelling.
I watched Emily again, but this time with fovial vision, mirroring her breathing. Unbelievably I crossed the beam on my next try! It felt surreal, as if I was in a trance state.

I suggested to my wife, Janine, that I play a new code game to see if it would help her. She wasn’t up for that but Emily was. So I got her to play the NASA game. As soon as I felt she was in state I took her to the beam…she ran along it at a rate of knots! It was amazing to watch!
But what was really amazing was my wife went straight after Emily and also crossed it successfully! I believe it was because she was unconsciously micro muscle mirroring Emily while she was playing the game and had got herself in a high performance state.

Does anyone out there have any experience of new code games enhancing motor skills in any other contexts; I would be interested to hear about it?

New ‘New Code’ Book???

18-12-2011T16:30:41+00:00

Hi all,

I heard whispers recently on the Linkedin site that John is releasing a “New Code Source Book” soon. Does anyone know if this is correct, and if so, when this might be available? And aside from “Whispering” and “Turtles” does anyone know of any other New Code books that might have been written by others in the New Code Community?

Many thanks

Gareth

I NEED A COMPASS AND A MAP

12-12-2011T20:29:25+00:00

Hi There,

My name is David and I am a Professional Golf Coach, Singer/Songwriter and insatiable personal growth addict.

I have read a little about NLP and I understand the principles and have applied them to great success in my own life.
I am looking for recommendations as to how I can learn about NLP in a structured and effective way. I want to master this as I am a complete believer in the power of our minds and their untapped potential.

Please consider helping me by pointing me in the direction of some essential reading etc!

I would be eternally grateful!

Kindest Regards
David Muir