[Neurons] Question on an entry door for international work

[Alison]

Hello

 

Can I ask a question?

 

I did a two-week NLP training earlier this year and came away with the
feeling of something great but was pretty confused as to how I could use NLP
in my work (international development). The course had launched into a set
of practical exercises – swish technique and all that, followed by the New
Code. I saw it as a menu of techniques and kept missing the punch-line. I
“failed” to pass to practitioner status and with the confusion and failure
was ready to jettison the field. BUT :-) I re-framed and sat down at the
computer to search for more information on the Internet to help me make more
sense of NLP and to find out how on Earth I could use it in international
development scenarios. Lots of interesting stuff and then I stumbled on some
articles by Michael Hall on neuro-semantics – aah – here we go, this was now
starting to make sense.

 

Now, my problem is where is the context, where is the entry door? It is such
an enormous field that it is possible to feel you have to be an
expert/master practitioner to be able to apply NLP/neuro-semantics. Is there
a mechanism to help you find which bit of this field is appropriate for you?

 

It seems to me that the approach to use it all for “change” is:

 

*            Either tips and tricks, NLP exercises

*            Or modelling on someone who does it well

 

But can you help more with where to begin? Do any of your books look at the
entry? In the course I did it was very personalised, it turned out that
there were a lot of therapists on board, but I was working as a
communications officer for the European Commission at the time – therapy was
not an option. (The course had not been described as for therapists which is
why I went, but it was definitely structured for them).

 

If this is the sort of question I am permitted to ask I would love to have
some guidance as to where/how to use this great information in a group
setting, where people from different cultures, different social classes,
rich and poor, have to get together to implement a project. It is a
fantastic market for NLP/n-s because of all the underlying issues but has
there been any work in this sort of area, and have you got any literature
that is directly relevant? How can I wade through all the great literature
and pull out something that helps us to side-step our differences and focus
us all on the project in hand? (Would it help if I listed the steps that we
go through, for example, problem identification, actors involved/effected,
project identification/changes required, consultations (in situ and in
Europe), project formulation, project implementation, communication,
monitoring and evaluation, final behavioural changes effected by the project
– now I’m writing this I am thinking its such a great field for NLP/n-s!)

 

With very many thanks for any thoughts.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alison Eades

                            

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