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I enjoyed watching Michael’s video this month on Mastery and how it helps not to limit the definition of NLP, allowing us to constantly grow. Mastery is a constant learning process. So I immediately wanted to share my idea about being “CONTENT - AWARE”, which embraces both content-free and content-full processes, depending on what is needed.

When I took Premier Practioner with Michael, Jon Grinder spoke very eloquently of the dangers of adding content as a coach to helping the CHANGE process. I believe this work is fantastic, especially right now when many coaches sharing their own programs rather than being clean, pure, content free. However, I feel there are times when adding content is crucial, especially with time constraints and in businesses that require high level detail. Basically, I find my self weaving between content free and content full depending on the level of rapport, expectations, time constraints etc.

Thanks for the video, and I wish you all well.

Any feedback or comments would be cool

Sergio

Hey Sergio,

Good to see you in here. I agree, sometimes clients don’t even want to work content free and then you really have a problem if you’re striving to be content free.

As you pointed out John Grinder has identified the dangers. I personally always aim to as Grinder would say “stay the hell out of people’s content.” haha. It is a fine line to be trod and I find when I am able to stay content free the change works on many more levels than I or the client could have anticipated.

Hope you’re doing well, what are you up to these days?

Best

Dave

Respecting other peoples map of the world is crucial.

What is acceptable to you as a behaviour may unacceptable to me, however due to it being your map of the world I will respect it, on the other flip of the coin would I work with a murderer who wants more resources so that he can murder people more effectively, no is the answer. I will respect my own map of the world in this context.