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This section aims to cover several sides of a same field: a field of learning, helping others to learn, and the organization of learning, complete with the why's behind.
Somehow I have the feeling that compared to 'Introducing NLP', this book has less to offer. I bought the book about 2 years before going to an NLP trainers training, and that probably has to do a lot with it.
After looking around for a while, I must admit that it is the best book about training I've found (as long as you're not involved in the classic education). The book offers a good and complete overview of what training is all about. If you know something about training, you will find out how much you already know. A nice feature of this book is its use of brain maps to offer a section overview, and really each chapter ends with an overview, offering the key points. My conclusion? If you want to know about training, get this book! If you want to get training in training, follow a seminar!
Robert Dilts gradually became an expert in training over the 18 years he spend in the NLP field before writing this book. He had to learn it from the feedback he got from the seminars he gave. Over the last years, Robert has been giving trainer trainings, and he did some projects that are related to the topic of this book. However, this book is not a complete answer to all topics related to training, which shouldn't come as a surprise, since the book only covers the first part of a series of trainings organized. I must say that I preferred by far the real life training of NLP University, compared by reading this book.
The material in this book is based on Bandler's Trainer's training of 1990. Michael was asked to write the notes for this training, which Bandler gave in collaboration with Eric Robbie, Christine Hall, Will MacDonald and John LaValle. The text mainly looks like a transcript to me, even if the author has reworked it. However, according to the author, what you get in your hand has been expanded with what he learned at other trainings since then (even it is not clear to me what he means with this). Get a copy of this if you want to know what Bandler's trainer's training is about but you are afraid to go...
<Just received / in review> Probably the first NLP book discussing education, years before others
Michael, the brother of John Grinder, has specialized during the last decade to apply NLP skills to improve upon education. These 2 books are a result of this work: they are a compilation of NLP skills and other non-verbal strategies Michael modeled from successful teachers. Both books really complement each other. "Righting ..." is more NLP oriented. "ENVoY" focuses more on skills by exercises and peer observation. "Righting ..." explains the differences in learning styles students come to school with, and what a teacher can do to adapt his behavior so that his class will get more out of it. The learning styles as defined by Michael are mainly the representational systems used by the students. Michael could have done more by including other NLP models and techniques in this book. His focus is also directed towards learning disabilities and the failures of the education system in dealing with this (I think his remarks in this area are valid for other countries as well). "Envoy" is organized around the different phases Michael distinguishes in the process of a lesson, with a part focused to skills useful in all these phases. Both books are do-books: they contain a lot of forms to be filled out by the reader, they are oriented to the field.
It shows that the authors of this book combine a solid theoretical background in education with a lot of NLP knowledge. Compared to the books written by Michael Grinder, this book is a more academic work. It combines both about NLP and an application of NLP. It covers more NLP (e.g. the meta-model, beliefs, strategies, ...), and also shows us good modeling examples, such as strategies for handwriting, spelling, reading and arithmetic. Where it excels in its theoretic body, the exercises are of a different nature than Michael's, and this makes it to get you involved with the material if you have no NLP background. In short, I think that someone in the education field can learn a lot out of these 3 books. Which book you read first, will depend on the area you are involved in and the approach that matches with your own way of learning.
This book got some nice reviews from Robert Dilts, Suzi Smith and Tim Hallbom . According to these persons, the book is among the best modeling results for the area of education. It covers learning strategies and techniques on how to learn, not just what to learn. The book is written with the teachers, counselors and parents of struggling students in mind, including Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), as the cover says. The author seems specialized in ADD. In this book you'll find a first section on academic skills for students (strategies for spelling, reading, writing, math, memorizing, test taking, taking notes, etc). A second section gives tips to parents and teachers. Thirdly, you'll get the theory of learning styles, in the NLP sense of the term. The final section treats learning disabilities in depth (especially Dyslexia and ADD).
This short text contains a lot of information on how to apply NLP skills in a training context. Reading it is easy if you have some NLP know-how. Applying it will take some more time. The content of these 26 pages will keep you busy for one week during a Trainer's Training...
This booklet points to Bateson, and makes the difference between several kinds of learning and how to stimulate them. The concepts of the parable can be applied in order to give useful feedback, something that was stressed during the trainer's training I followed at NLP University in the Summer of 1996. The book has now been incorporated in Robert's book entitled "Visionary leadership Skills" which has been reviewed in the Business-section of this list.
For the Why's behind learning & teaching:
Two books that are a must for NLP-ers that are active in an business environment. These books offer a lot of inspiration on how to apply NLP. The first one is rather conceptual and gives a vision. One of its important aspects is systems thinking, a topic that only became "popular" in the NLP field around 1994. The second book will help you do do something useful with this vision, without having to re-invent the wheel. For those familiar with the NLP-presuppositions, check out the similarities! NLP is in some ways the "How to" to Senge's theoretical framework.
For modeling on teaching
This book is intended as introduction to Sufi thought, but it also clarifies a lot about Sufi Teaching. I personally see a lot of parallels between good NLP teaching and the "requirements" Isdries Shah formulates for the teacher-student relation.
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