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To quote Master Trainer Rex Steven Sikes
"NLP is not something one does to someone else, it is not the techniques, it is not only the mind or the body. NLP, for me, is about how the NLP operator lives his/her life in balance. NLP can be one of the aspects of having a wonderful glorious experience."
Mastering NLP means "understanding the concepts behind the techniques, and being able to operate from that level". If you reach that point, the techniques only serve as a safety net: something you can go back to as a resource is everything else fails.
NLP is a model about making models. These models are made by observing people who are seen as an expert in their field.
To observe experts, NLP offers some building blocks, such as:
The use of these building blocks is taught during NLP training. That's why the trainings are called "NLP Practitioner" and "NLP Master Practitioner training".
Apart from the building blocks,
some typical skills will be learned during NLP-training, such as
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NLP can be used differently by anyone who has learned about it.
It can be combined with whatever a person is doing. Click
here to see how I have been using it in my job!
The contribution by Keith Fail also explains what NLP can be used for...
Often NLP is seen as a bunch of applications, and is mistaken as being equal to the applications.
The items described below are just applications.
These applications have been developed using the basic building blocks.
A/ NLP is, among others, being used by therapists, and has applications like:
- collapsing anchors
- Visual squash
- 6-step reframing
- V/K dissociation
- Change Personal History
- Aligning Logical Levels
- Belief Change Cycle
- Reimprint
In NLP-jargon, these applications are often called "procedures" . These procedures form a set of change techniques that can be added to a therapeutic model. An NLP-therapist, therefor, is probably a therapist using some of the procedures mentioned above.
A page describing when to use what technique
B/ In business, NLP techniques can
be applied in sales, recruitment and consulting.
If you don't know NLP, you won't notice when it's applied, except when complete
models are used "as is".
Some specific applications are:
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C/ For enhancing creativity, the Disney Model was developed by Robert Dilts (see his book "Skills for the Future").
D/ In Learning, you can work on the structure of the wow-state. But also how theachers can incorporate findings on representational systems, state-management, etc ... . A lot of books have been written on learning and teaching, (see the page from "Patrick's NeuroLinguistic Library" on this topic for more)
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DHE stands for "Design Human Engineering".
It has been developed (and trademarked) by Richard Bandler.
As far as I know, it's supposed to be the "successor of NLP". The
irony that the name is inspired on the term "Human Engineering", which
was also launched by Korzybski (who also made up "Neurolinguistics" - see above).
From what I heard from participants, DHE-training builds upon some NLP-building blocks, sub-modalities in particular. I never participated, because of the License Agreement (yuck!) they make participants sign (in the license agreement - version I saw dates from DHE with Bandler in Köln in September 1995 - you also sign that Bandler owns all the rights to the intellectual property known as NLP).
The basic idea behind DHE is that there are more powerful ways to develop strategies than to elicit existing strategies from experts (which is what NLP does). During a DHE-training, you learn to install a control panel for yourself, with the push-buttons on the inside, so that you can better control yourself, in stead of having others pushing your unconscious buttons that are accessible from the outside.
Follow this link if you want to know how Richard Bandler and John Lavalle market DHE.
If you want another opinion, by a participant to one of the DHE seminars, read the following:
" DHE - Marketing gimmick par excellence! As a graduate of Sikes and Lavalle course in 1995 I can state with confidence that much of DHE is nothing but NLP repackaged. How can I state this? Well, NLP Comprehensive used to allow people to rent video tapes of some of Bandler’s earlier seminars. One of which was "Hypnosis and Advanced Submodalities 1987" Most of what I learned in DHE was the same material that was presented on tapes (I had rented the tapes after taking the seminar). In fact I learned more from the tapes than I did from the training. " -- Rodger Clampitt
I've also read claims that The Silva Method (which was developed between 1944 and 1966 by Jose Silva) looks a lot like DHE, but I'm sceptical about that. As far as I know, DHE doesn't claim to have anything to do with psychics or ESP. Probably this "similarity" is inspired by the fact that DHE also gives you a form of mind control. Well, make up your own mind on this... Here is a link to a website about The Silva Method
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