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In the current season of NLP Matters, we have been talking about the NLP Model of Communication. This model encapsulates and integrates our physiological, psychological, and cognitive functioning as it explains how humans collect and process information through our 5 senses to make meaning and create our own map of reality. In the last episode, we discussed the totally fascinating functioning of our 7 unconscious filters. Starting with– Time/Space/Matter/Energy, Language, and Memories. In this episode, we’ll be exploring another three filters - Decisions, Values and Beliefs, and Attitudes. Listen to the podcast to find out more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we continue our exploration of the workings of the human mind, we can see why learning the NLP Model of Communication can assist us to apply our knowledge to create change, growth, and new behaviours.  In this episode, we’ll begin to look at the unconscious filters which sift through the incoming sensory data we experience as we continually construct our reality and our relationships with others. In the NLP Model of Communication there are seven unconscious filters that are key to how we as humans select the information/data we focus on in our external environment - time/space/matter/energy (that’s all one filter), language, memories, decisions, metaprograms, values and beliefs, and attitudes.  In this episode, we will explore how the first 3 filters - Time/ Space / Matter /Energy,  language, and our memories impact our perception and the construction of our map of reality. Listen to the podcast to find out more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are now well on our way into our investigation into what NLP has to say about the totally fascinating workings of the human mind, and why this is important to how we think, behave and go about constructing our reality and our relationships with others. In this episode, we’ll look at the role of our ‘states’ or emotions.  Over the past few episodes, we've been talking about the ways in which our senses and our mind combine to construct our version of reality. So where do our internal feelings or emotions fit into this NLP Model of Communication, and why does it matter? Listen to the podcast to find out more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the past two episodes, we have begun exploring what NLP has to say about the fascinating workings of the human mind. Learning about how our minds work reveals the structure that underpins how we think, behave, and construct our relationships with others. It means we can discover how we create our reality.  In this episode, we’ll discuss the processes that enable us to selectively filter the information or data that we then use to construct our own experience of reality. We will focus on 3 key processes: deletion, distortion, and generalization. Listen to the podcast to find out more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our last episode, we discussed how as humans, we use our senses and neurology to construct an internal version of an external reality. We also said that by definition each of these “internal representations” or “maps” are different and unique.  As humans, there’s a lot of information available to us in the external environment moment to moment. So much that it’s physically impossible for our senses to take all this information in, and because we cannot process the sheer volume of information available, we go through a process of selecting the information we do take in and the information that we filter out.  In this episode, we’re going to look in more detail at how this actually works as we explore how we construct our internal representation of the world and the process of filtering information. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we begin another season of the NLP Matters Podcast and start to delve into the totally fascinating workings of the human mind from the perspective of NLP. We’ll be examining things like what NLP has to say about consciousness, the nature of reality, thinking, and communication. We’ll start that conversation by looking at the NLP Model of Communication and the Role of the Senses in Perception. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Presuppositions of NLP provide us with a kind of code of conduct or compass that guides us as we use and apply powerful NLP techniques. Together, they form the ecological framework that ensures that the practice of NLP is constructive and expansive. In this episode, we’ll review these presuppositions and discover how when looked at as a whole, we have a really solid framework not only for how we use NLP but for our living our lives in general. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we’ll delve deeper into the final three NLP Presuppositions - that all procedures should increase wholeness, that all procedures should be designed to increase choice, and that behaviour and change should be evaluated in terms of context and ecology. Much like other NLP presuppositions such as people are doing the best they can with the resources they’ve got, and we all have everything within us when we need to make the changes we want in our life, the presupps we are looking at in this episode continue the theme that there isn’t any part of us we have to get rid of or fix, rather all procedures should increase our choice and our wholeness.  And, when we look at the final NLP presupp of understanding our behaviour in terms of context and ecology, we see that it gives us the freedom to accept ourselves. Maybe, if necessary, even forgive ourselves and others rather than taking up a position of judgement and criticism.  Ultimately, this acceptance frame means we can choose to continue as we are or we can choose to change based on this newfound wisdom.  Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As you follow these podcasts, one of the pictures you will be starting to form about NLP is its expansive nature. As we apply NLP in our lives, we get to expand our notion of what is possible for humans to achieve. In NLP, we emphasise ways of being, thinking, and doing, that increase growth, choice, possibility, personal responsibility, and ultimately, personal power. Together, they can be seen as the characteristics of what Carol Dweck a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University calls, the growth mindset. This expansive mindset stands in contrast to a fixed mindset which is characterized by resistance to change, fighting to keep the status quo, limiting choice, blame, and helplessness. In this episode, we’ll continue to explore two more fantastic NLP Presuppositions that ultimately show us the power of bringing behavioural flexibility in our lives - The Law of Requisite Variety and that the Meaning of Communication Is the Response You Get. Listen to the podcast to listen more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, we explored three NLP presuppositions that focus on acknowledging and accepting our personal power by redefining our responsibility as communicators. This time, we’ll delve deeper into two more NLP Presuppositions that really challenge us to see the world from a different perspective  - that people are not their behaviours, and that everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available. In NLP, we describe this as taking up different perceptual positions. These different perceptual positions mean more than just an intellectual acknowledgment that everyone has their own version of reality or “map” of the world, rather, we take the imaginative leap and wonder, “What if I had their map? How could I see their world?”  Listen to the podcast to listen more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we’ll explore three more presuppositions of NLP. First, is that resistance to communication is a sign of a lack of rapport. Second, is that the most important information about a person is their behaviour. And lastly, that there is no failure, only feedback. These 3 presuppositions share a common emphasis on looking for meaning beyond just our words or actions or outcomes. They focus on acknowledging and accepting our personal power by redefining our responsibility as communicators. Responsibility for communicating means that we need to notice more than just what is said and encompass behaviour as being a primary indicator of meaning. Finally, we also need to take on board the feedback available to us in a way that means we can use it to grow, adapt, and continuously improve our communication and connection both to ourselves and others.  Listen to the podcast to listen more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Presuppositions of NLP provide us with a compass that guides us as we use and apply powerful NLP techniques to take control of our own lives and really make a difference. These presuppositions form the ecological framework that ensures the practice of NLP is constructive and expansive rather than restrictive and destructive. In this episode, we’ll take a closer look at two of these important presuppositions - The map is not the territory, and having respect for the other person’s model of the world. Listen to the podcast to listen more. Show Notes and Blog The Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we begin our 2nd season of the NLP Matters Podcast, we move on to explore what is perhaps the most fundamental component of NLP, the NLP presuppositions. These presuppositions provide us with the compass that guides us as we use and apply powerful NLP techniques to take control of our own lives and really make a difference. There are a number of presuppositions of NLP., in fact, 14 in all. Despite the fact that they have varying origins, they form the basis upon which the work of NLP is built, and together, they provide the framework that ensures the techniques and strategies of NLP are developed and implemented ethically and responsibly.  In this episode, we’ll briefly introduce each of the presuppositions, and over the next few episodes, we will explore how they can apply in our own lives in more depth. Listen to the podcast to listen more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have spent much of the past few months discussing and applying a number of NLP strategies to the setting of our goals using NLP techniques like the Be-Do-Have model, 6 Core Needs, the 5 Principles of Success, the Keys to An Achievable Outcome, and the Well-Formedness Conditions, with each strategy adding a new layer to the journey of Building our Successful Life and ensuring our goals are robust and resilient. In this episode, we’ll draw all these threads together so we can see how unstoppable we can be when we bring them all into play. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the past few weeks, we have seen how when taken individually, the Well-Formedness Conditions give us a great understanding on the specifics of our outcome and what needs to be done to achieve it. This also means we get even more clarity on who we need to be to deliver on the actions that will ultimately get us our results.  In this episode, we will get to see just how powerful this strategy becomes when we combine all the Well-Formedness Conditions together and apply them all to our outcome. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NLP technique of Well Formedness Conditions, which adds the final layer to the journey of Building our Successful Life and ensuring our goals are robust and resilient. So far, we have looked closely at the first five of the Well Formedness Conditions. In this episode, we’ll explore the Well-Formedness Condition of expanding on the sensory-specific details that describe the first step on the way to achieving our goal. And once we’ve done that, we’ll look at the final step of the Well-Formedness Conditions, which is to confirm that our goal increases choices. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we have completed the first of the 5 Success Principles, Knowing our Outcome, we can use the Keys to an Achievable Outcome, and then,  the Well-Formedness Conditions to get an even greater understanding on the specifics or our outcome and the targeted actions required to achieve this outcome. This also means we get even more clarity on who we need to be to deliver on these actions that will get our results. Having looked at steps 1, 2, and 3, in the Well-Formedness Conditions the next step we want to explore is again confirming that our goal is ecological. Because we have worked even more on our goal and we have even more sensory specific detail, our goal has developed, and that means we may find that there are some new misalignments between our conscious and unconscious minds or other potential impacts that arise from our goal that we didn’t notice before. It is also important that we have more than one way to achieve it. By revisiting an ecology check and making sure that we have more than one way to achieve our goal, at this point we can reconfirm that our goal is aligned and that we are ready to go! Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NLP technique of Well-Formedness Conditions adds the final layer to the journey of Building Our Successful Life by ensuring that our goals are robust and ready to go.  When we apply the Well-Formedness Conditions to our goal, we are doing our final check to confirm both the absolute alignment and resilience of our goals. We have so far looked closely at the first two steps - stating our goal in the positive and having the goal self-initiated and self-maintained. The next step is all about providing the detail around our goal. Why do we want to specify our outcome in detail? Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog The Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the previous episode, we introduced the NLP technique called the Well-Formedness Conditions, which adds the final layer to the journey of Building our Successful Life by ensuring our goals are robust and ready to go. The theme of this first NLP Matters podcast series is to support us in working our way through the process of really building the life we want to have, our own version of a successful life. As we work through this process layer by layer, we gain even more clarity on what it is we actually do want to have! When we have used the first of the Five Success Principles, Knowing our Outcome, as well as the Keys to an Achievable Outcome, we get an even greater understanding on what needs to be done – the targeted actions, to achieve the outcome, and who we need to be to deliver on these actions to get the results. The next step is making sure that we believe both consciously and unconsciously that our desired outcome is totally achievable because we do not want to invest all this effort and time only to set ourselves up to fail, do we?  This is where the Well Formedness Conditions adds so much more value. When we use it together with the Five Success Principles and Keys to an Achievable Outcome, this final check confirms that all the work we have already done planning and preparing for our success is not only possible, but even more than that it is also totally do-able. In this episode, we take a deeper dive into the first two of these conditions – stating our goal in the positive, and having the goal self-initiated and self-maintained. Listen to the podcast to learn more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we’ll start to explore yet another really useful NLP tool that adds the final layer to our theme of Building our Successful Life and ensuring our goals are ready to go. This tool is called the Well Formedness Conditions. When we apply these conditions to our goal we get to do our final check to confirm both the absolute alignment and resilience of our goals. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.