Advanced NLP: modeling, research, articles
Written by Joy Livingwell, 22 July 2010
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“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it,” Simon Sinek explains in this fascinating TED Talk:
Posted under communication, strategies.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 29 June 2010
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In “The Secret Power of Time,” professor Philip Zimbardo discusses how ways of representing of time affect people’s work, health and well-being. A fascinating non-NLP view of time:
Have you read the book Zimbaro mentions, The Geography of Time? (I haven’t.) If so, what do you think of it?
Posted under science & news, time & timelines.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 9 June 2010
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After getting my final chemotherapy treatment at the beginning of May, I experienced ongoing problems with tiredness. Curiously, mental fatigue severe enough to keep me from writing blog posts had little effect on my ability to date and socialize. Which makes sense, I suppose; our ancestors spent millions of years socializing, not blogging.
My busy dating life gives me plenty of opportunities to learn more about relationships. Which brings me to today’s topic, personal (relationship) chemistry.
Posted under NLP articles, relationships.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 5 April 2010
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Gary Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
When someone gets plenty of convincing evidence they are loved — evidence that fits their convincer criteria — they feel loved and appreciated. In Chapman’s words, their “emotional gas tank” gets filled.
When people don’t get convincing evidence of love — or worse, when they get convincing evidence that they are not loved — their emotional gas tank gets depleted and they feel unloved, unappreciated… and often hurt, hostile, resentful, etc. This can happen even when they are receiving lots of love — because it’s in a form they don’t recognize as love.
Posted under NLP articles, meta-programs, relationships.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 28 March 2010
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One of the most fruitful parts of my modeling work involves unpacking aspects of NLP that most of us NLPers don’t question.
Take disassociation, for example. In your NLP training you might have learned that disassociated = not associated.
Wrong.
When my research buddy Jan “yon” Saeger and I started investigating disassociation, Jan quickly realized that, strictly speaking, disassociation doesn’t exist.
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Written by Joy Livingwell, 20 March 2010
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An ingenious use of sensory cues:
Gross! Anti-theft lunch bags printed with green mold blotches gross out your coworkers so they won’t steal your food. From ThinkOfThe.com.
Posted under humor.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 13 March 2010
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For me, brain research provides a fascinating peek into what goes on “under the hood” when we do NLP. Sometimes the information is useful for doing NLP. Often it verifies what NLPers have known or suspected for years. Sometimes it’s just interesting or fun.
Abstract thought prompts literal physical responses
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02angier.html
Researcher subjects literally lean forward when thinking about the future, backward when thinking about the past. According to Nils B. Jostmann of the University of Amsterdam, “How we process information is related not just to our brains but to our entire body. We use every system available to us to come to a conclusion and make sense of what’s going on.”
Posted under science & news.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 5 March 2010
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In “NLP and the myth of the quick fix,” I discussed how promoting NLP as an instant cure-all causes problems for NLPers an our customers.
Unfortunately, NLP’s “quick fix” mentality also extends to NLP training.
NLP includes advanced technology for quickly transferring skills. However, while training can expose students to skills and techniques, mastering skills takes practice. And practice takes time.
Posted under NLP articles, critique.
Written by Joy Livingwell, 5 March 2010
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Neurologist Oliver Sacks explains Charles Bonnet syndrome, a type of visual hallucination that affects 10% of visually impaired people. Most are afraid to mention it lest others think they’re crazy. About 10% of hearing-impaired people get auditory hallucinations for similar neurological reasons. If you work with clients, you should know about this.
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Written by Joy Livingwell, 26 February 2010
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When I began my NLP training in 2002, I quickly embraced the myth of the NLP “quick fix.”
To their credit, my trainers were fairly low-key about what NLP could do. But they did promote the idea of NLP working “much faster” than alternatives, such as conventional therapy. And during training, my fellow students and I were often able to quickly fix some of our own and other people’s problems. Sometimes these were issues that had endured for decades, yet with NLP we could resolve them in under half an hour.
Many of us NLP students, including me, quickly developed overblown ideas of what NLP (and we) could accomplish.
Posted under NLP articles, critique.