[Neurons] 2014 "Neurons" Meta Reflection #44
L. Michael Hall
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Tue Nov 4 08:09:10 EST 2014
From: L. Michael Hall
Meta Reflections 2014 #44
November 3, 2014
Neuro-Semantic Vision Series #2
THE COLLABORATIVE VISION
For us in Neuro-Semantics, the vision of collaboration means first and
foremost being inclusive of others rather than exclusive. We do not think
that everyone has to fully and completely agree with everything to be a part
of the association. Nor do we require or demand a consensus on all of the
possible differences of opinion. That's not what we are about and not what
we want. What we want is for people to bring their individuality,
differences, and unique perspectives and contribute them in the community.
In this, we truly do not want a bunch of clones. We do not have a creed
that a person has to sign. All we ask is a commitment to the vision and
values.
The vision and the values are the unifying factors which pull us together.
We have a vision of applying NLP to ourselves and that highlights our value
of personal congruency in those who we hold up as leaders. We also have a
vision of collaboration, operating from abundance, and being a good team
player. We have a vision about quality training and high standards-rigorous
standards, in fact, some of the most rigorous anywhere. These are the
things that pull us together. Another vision that we have is that NLP is a
model- a Communication Model and therefore a way that we can describe human
experience or functioning. This we agree on.
We hold commonly the premises of NLP such as "The map is not the territory,"
and "People do the best with what they have," and "People operate on the
world with their maps." These and the other presuppositions of NLP motivate
us and from them we expect differences of opinion and style. The premises
also invite us to care about and to create a collaboration at the higher
level of vision and values of NLP. That's why the collaboration is
inclusive rather than exclusive. And that's what has been keeping the level
of creativity very high within the Neuro-Semantic community.
Next, collaboration means being respectful of others, acknowledging their
contributions, giving credit where credit belongs, and quoting sources. To
not do that is to not be professional. Anyone who has written a Master
thesis or a Doctoral dissertation or for that matter, almost any University
paper, knows that you give credit, and you acknowledge others. A
professional person does not plagiarize. You do not take the materials of
others and "steal" it and present it as if it is your own.
This is one of the disrespectful and actually shameful things that has and
continues to plague the NLP communities. There is a lot of plagiarism,
"stealing" of intellectual property, narrow claims of "ownership" of ideas,
refusal to acknowledge others, etc. An evidence of this is seen in how so
many NLP books are published with no bibliography! There is not a single
reference! It's as if the author is so stingy with his or her information,
or so fearful and insecure to mention the work of another person. And
oftentimes the materials of earlier authors are used and quoted (sometimes
verbatim) without any credit or acknowledgment.
That non-collaborative way of operating typically comes from scarcity rather
than abundance and a low sense of self rather than a strong self-confidence.
Those authors act as if they would be less or lose something if they gave
credit to others. The truth is that it takes a solid sense of self to be
able to recognize and celebrate the brilliance and intelligence of others.
In fact, all of the "fighting" in the field of NLP over "intellectual
property" and the refusing to acknowledge the shoulders of the giants that
we stand on ... shows an immaturity and poverty-mentality.
In Neuro-Semantics collaboration also means that we can accomplish more
together than alone or apart. We recognize the value of people coming
together and working in unison for a project that's bigger than one single
person. And so we are accomplishing a lot because of it. The
Self-Leadership School Project is a good example. It took 40 Meta-Coaches
working for 2 years to turn basic NLP (Introduction to NLP, Coaching
Essentials) and the basic introduction to Meta-States (APG, Accessing
Personal Genius) into a course of study that could be taught at school. We
turned it into 40 lesson plans, one lesson to be taught for 1 hour at school
for each grade. So we created 40 grade-appropriate lessons for each of the
12 grades of school. That is now available in English and it is currently
being translated into Spanish, Portuguese, China, Norwegian, and other
languages and we are giving that to any school who wants it.
Our vision and value of collaboration also has allowed us to do something
that is unique in the field of NLP-we have created and maintained for two
decades a world-wide community. This is actually the only international
"community" in the field of NLP. I wrote about this in the book,
Innovations of NLP (2011). There are other "communities" in NLP-some are
virtual, some are very small in-groups around a specific person (a little
fiefdom), or around a business, and other cooperative adventures are those
of a National Association which, while not a real community, at least an
attempt at cooperating in holding a conference from time to time. If a
community is a collaborative community uniting to do more together than
alone or apart, then there is very few in NLP. So in this, we in
Neuro-Semantics are leading the way and pioneering how to collaborate as a
community.
Neuro-Semantics, like NLP, began as a collaboration. For many years I
worked with Bob to construct the foundations of Neuro-Semantics and we led
out by writing 9 books together. And along the way we brought in various
other people and that continued until we created our first leadership team,
and then as we trained Trainers who then came on board as part of leading
this movement. And as things grew, we began encouraging and acknowledging
Developers-people inventing new patterns and processes, people contributing
to the over-all community.
In all of this, collaboration lies at the very heart of Neuro-Semantics.
That's why we have put collaboration (and the benchmarks of collaboration)
at the core of leadership in Neuro-Semantics and encourage collaboration in
the Institutes in 19 countries and the over 60 MCF chapters in many more
countries. Why? If we are going to break out of the small niche that NLP
holds all around the world and if we are to break out in a way that presents
a positive brand - one of quality, abundance, collaboration,
professionalism, respect, etc.-then we have to be working together.
Together we can do much more than we can do apart or alone!
L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Executive Director
Neuro-Semantics International
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Clifton, CO. 81520 USA
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