[Neurons] Professional Communicator Certification

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Announcing a New Certification

Professional Communicator/ Facilitator Credentials

In every Meta-Coach Training that we conduct this year, we are offering a
new Certification.  It is the first of two certifications for anyone in the
role of a leader. 

 

Why are we doing this?  Because not everybody wants to be a Coach.  Not
everyone wants to be a Professional Coach.  And yet many people attend the
Meta-Coach trainings to improve their communication skills so that they can
be more effective as leaders in running a company, managing processes,
facilitating meetings, influencing people, setting a vision, and so on.

 

Now given that NLP is itself a Communication Model, it makes perfect sense
to provide NLP Training so that people can be certified as a Professional
Communicator /Facilitator (PCF).  The PCF credentials will result from
training in the seven models of Meta-Coaching: NLP, Meta-States, Axis of
Change, the Matrix Model, the Self-Actualization Quadrants, the Benchmarking
Model, and the Facilitation Model.  So if you attend, meet the competency
requirements, and graduate from Modules I, II, and III- you can receive the
PCF credentials.  

 

I have attached a Brochure about this new Certification.

 

NLP as a Communication Model

Last year I wrote the Preface to a new NLP book, Neuro-Linguistic
Programming: Concepts and Applications (2008) edited by Kunal Gaurav and
published by the Icfai University Press in India.  Since that Preface
describes the heart of NLP as a communication model, here is that Preface.

                        

What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming?  Most essentially, NLP is a
communication model.  It is a very refined communication model which reveals
the dynamic structures of what we call "thinking."  And when you know how
you create your internal experiences (your inner game), you have many of the
keys for transforming your experiences, adding resources, taking control of
your self-communications, managing your state, creating emotional
intelligence, and modeling the brightest and best.  And with that then
winning at the outer game becomes a cinch.

 

Can a mere "communication model" do all of that?  And if so, how?  How can
the communicating discovery do all of that?  The answer is that when we
"think" -we are using much more than just our mind.  We are using our full
neurology-our brain, our nervous systems, our physiology and this includes
our emotions and all of the higher layers of our mind.  So NLP is a systemic
model of how we use all of the languages of the mind and all of the
neurological processes of the body to create (or map) our sense of reality.
And from our maps come the ways that we explore and navigate the territory
of the world.

 

So as "a highly refined systemic communication model," NLP gives us the
ability to map or model human experiences.  This is what makes NLP a meta
discipline above and beyond the mere content of "what" we're thinking to the
context, process, and structure that drives and empowers our thinking.  And
that's why you will find so many applications and facets of NLP in this
book-personal development, therapy, coaching, parenting, relating, health
and fitness, medicine, business, marketing, sales, politics, influence, etc.

 

Unlike most fields, NLP has no specific content.  It is not exclusively
about therapy or hypnosis or business or sales or relationships or health or
hundreds of other contents and yet it is about all of these.  As a
meta-discipline it is a how each of these domains work from a structural or
process perspective.  That's what we call "magic."  The magic is the
structure.  That's because when you know the structure, you know the
leverage points where you can do what otherwise would seem like magic.

 

This now explains why NLP is a model of change and transformation and so
used by therapists, hypnotherapists, managers, leaders, parents, sales
people, and anyone in the change business.  NLP puts into the hands of a
change agent the leverage tools for change because to change something, you
need to know how it works.  When you know how it operates as a dynamic
structure, then you also know where to apply resources for transformative
change.

 

This is what brought me into the field of NLP originally.  The first thing I
learned in NLP was the structure of a phobia-of a strong negative emotional
reaction that over-charged the body with too much fear.  The secret?  The
person with a phobia mentally maps something fearful as a movie (consciously
or unconsciously) and then steps into that movie.  Doing that is what fills
the body full of fear.  Then the person's neurology is fully activated into
the fear state.

 

It makes perfect sense.  Regardless of the content of the fear-snakes, small
closed places, airplanes, public speaking, etc.-the person is feeling fear
and acting out with total aversion behavior because he or she is inside the
movie.  Well, inside their mind they are inside the movie.  So, when a
professional communicator can enable the person to step outside of the
movie, the phobic reactiveness stops.  It is as simple as that; it is as
profound as that.

 

In NLP, we say that structure is the problem and structure is the solution.
One structure creates a living hell and reduces resourcefulness; another
structure provides relief and enhances a person's ability to deal with
things.  And with NLP, you don't have to explore history, find out "what
your mother did to you," why you are that way, what's wrong with you, etc.
That is content and mostly besides the point.  People are not the problem;
the frame is the problem.  And so new frames are the solutions.  That's the
promise and the "magic" of NLP.

 

Structure explains experience.  That's why if a person, just by thinking
about something fearful, can fill his or her body full of fear when there's
nothing present that's triggering the fear, then the person is doing it.
The person, by "thinking" and "emoting" in a certain way, by a particular
way of structuring thoughts, is demonstrating a tremendous skill.  And if
you can do that, you can do many other incredible things.  It's all about
finding and replicating the structure or process.

 

So, as you will discover in this book, there are many facets of the NLP
Communication Model that are as "magical" as curing phobia and emotional
reactiveness.  What is the reason for that?  Simply because the NLP model
provides you the keys to the structure of experience.  Whether it is
business competencies, leadership skills, management, coaching, therapy,
wealth creation, parenting, health, fitness, sports -if it involves human
beings, human experiences, and knowledgeable competence-it involves
experience.  And structure is the key.

 

A warning about this.  This does not mean that we can do everything in ten
minutes.  The structure of some experiences involve processes that take
days, weeks, months, even years.  Yet when you know the structure of that
experience, you have a way of accelerating your learning, development, and
mastery.

 

In this book, Kunal Gaurav and Srikanta Kumar Padhi have provided a
significant contribution to the field of NLP by putting together this most
unique anthology from NLP theorists, writers, and trainers from around the
world.  If this is your first introduction to the field, then welcome to the
adventure of exploring the structure of experiences-especially the highest
and best experiences.  If you have already entered this domain, then I'm
sure this will awaken in you even more of the possibilities we have for
adding more richness to our own lives and the lives of those who we touch.

 

 
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

 
Colorado, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

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