[Neurons] 2015 "Neurons" Meta Reflections #24

Mon Jun 1 08:59:43 EDT 2015

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections #24

June 1, 2015

THE POLITICS WITHIN THE NLP

AND NEURO-SEMANTIC MODELS

While I am sure there is the full range of political views held by
NLP-people in general, having explored the basic psychological principles
and premises within the NLP models and the Humanistic Psychology of
Self-Actualization from which it came, there seems to me to be some
preferred views politically.  These are implied by the models or I could say
that the models seem to privilege and promote a particular political
perspective.  I can't here write everything about this.  Yet I have written
many chapters about this in the latest book, Political Coaching.  There you
can find chapters on the political psychology and philosophy of
Self-Actualization. 

What then is the NLP model and what is presupposed in the NLP model?  In
Meta Reflection #7 this year I noted that NLP is a communication model, a
modeling model, and a self-development model.  Originating long before
Bandler and Grinder, it started from the Human Potential Movement and
therefore involves several assumptions about people and about human nature. 

           It assumes that people are responsible beings.  They are people
who can access their abilities to respond (mentally, emotionally, verbally,
and behaviorally) and they are not inherently victims.

           It assumes that people have all the resources that they need to
live fully.  They are not broken, but they can be traumatized and hurt.
They may not be accessing their inner resources, but they could.  They may
not have their resources sequences or developed, but they could.

           It assumes that people can be held accountable for their
responses.  They are ultimately responsible and accountable for developing
their skills and making the most of their lives.

           It assumes that people are people and there is no status
hierarchy of people.  We are all equal in being human beings and that
differences in skills, knowledge, and experience define what a person can
and cannot do. 

           It assumes that people can learn and that they are responsible
for learning to do the best with what life has provided them.

Let's now ask, "What political philosophy does this all suggest?" "What is
implied politically in terms of the way we construct governments?"  "What
does this imply about how we should invent ever-better government structures
and policies for managing our life together as people?"

           First it implies a democratic philosophy of equality of person's
before the eyes of the law.  We all know that people are not literally
equal.  We are different from each other in many ways.  Yet in spite of
those differences mentally and emotionally, in terms of talents and
temperments, in terms of predispositions and attitudes, we can treat each
other as equal human beings.  And we can set up our societies and establish
laws so that people are treated as equals before the eyes of the law and
treated as persons without regard to where born, economic status, education
status, color of skin, ethnicity, etc.   This is the ideal.

           Second it implies an enabling and facilitating of
self-development and self-reliance.  Humanistic or Self-Actualization
Psychology holds a high level belief in people.  People can be and are wired
to develop, grow, learn and to become independent.  This then enables them
to connect and to become inter-dependent in healthy and productive ways.
This means that people should not become dependent on society and treated as
victims of history or other forces.   Government should generate laws and
structures that encourage, teach, and support self-reliance and should seek
to avoid as much as possible treating people as if they were children or
incompetent by nature and needy for government hand-outs and support.
Support should be for the truly needy and for those without any chance of
development.  Support for most should be short-term and with an eye on
getting off of support.  When people are healthy and developing, they want
to be independent.

           It implies the responsibility of balanced finances.  For
government it means treating the people's money as they treat their own
personal budgets- spending only what they have and not borrowing into
incredible debt.  Governments in Greece, Italy, and other European countries
have been failing for this very reason.  Politicians, all too often, seem to
think that they money they spend is unlimited.  They seem to forget that it
is the people's money and not their money.  That's because government gets
its money by taxing the people.

           It implies that the human way is that of learning and
developing.  We are not born knowing or competent.  We become.  We have to
learn and develop and that requires teaching, mentoring, training, coaching,
consulting, etc.  A healthy republic requires informed citizens.  They have
to also learn how to be a productive member of a society and to enter into
"the democratic agreement" of adding their voices and cooperating when the
vote goes against them.  That does not mean a majority rule in a spiteful
way against a minority, but take time to consider and fully hear the voice
of the minorities.  Then we can have what is called a deep democracy.  If
government should invest in anything other than defense and protection
against crime and enemies, it is education.  It is to a government's welfare
to have as much transparency of information and citizens who can do critical
thinking.

Self-Actualization Psychology- the psychology of NLP and Neuro-Semantics
believes in the bright side of human nature while simultaneously recognizing
that human nature can go wrong, that people can be hurt and traumatized, and
therefore create highly distorted forms of humanity.  Therapy along with a
thorough education and continuous adult education is the solution.  A
society can be no healthier than its citizens. So when we have toxic beliefs
and habits in a society, this lowers the quality of understanding and
intelligence, which lowers the democracy, which lowers the quality of life.
And that's why we have recovered the original psychology of NLP and make it
dominate in all of our Neuro-Semantic trainings.  We want the highest values
and meanings for people's lives which they can then implement in their best
performances and relationships.  That's what we are about.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

               Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

               Neuro-Semantics International

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