[Neurons] 2019 Neurons #42 THE ELUSIVE OBVIOUS--- WHAT IS NLP?

Mon Sep 16 23:49:39 EDT 2019

Anthony Pinto
ptony at mysatori.com.my

Thanks Dr. Michael Hall.

Yes, just keeping it simple helps more people understand what NLP is and 
how the practice can help people live more effectively.

I would also suggest that NLP is a communication model of the 5 basic 
communicating functions - Saying, Doing, Thinking, Feeling and Making 
Meaning. And the Communication Model shows us where we trip ourselves in 
these functions and how we can become more resourceful in executing 
these functions!

Regards,
Anthony

On 9/16/19 11:50 AM, Michael Hall wrote:
>
> *From: L. Michael Hall*
>
> *2019 Neurons #42*
>
> *September 16, 2019 *
>
> **
>
> *THE ELUSIVE OBVIOUS—*
>
> *WHAT IS NLP?***
>
> **
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> **
>
> For me, it is a simple thing to define is NLP.  Yes, I know that the 
> question, “What is NLP?” induces many NLP Trainers and practitioners 
> into a state of uncontrollable stuttering. Yet the truth is that the 
> answer is obvious and right before your eyes—if you only have eyes to 
> see it.  I bring this up again because last week I read chapter 6 of 
> Bruce Grimley’s book on NLP and Coaching, fantastically titled, “A New 
> Theory of NLP.”  After collecting 14 definitions of NLP from “15 NLP 
> experts from around the world,” and then writing a whole chapter on 
> what NLP is, I was stunned that not one time did Bruce or any of these 
> “experts” say the elusive obvious—/NLP is a communication model. /Amazing!
>
> One expert said that it “defies easy description.”  Others quoted the 
> subtitle of /NLP Volume I/, “the study of the structure of subjective 
> experience” which is valid.  Steve Andreas came very close “An 
> explicit and powerful model of human experience and communication.”
>
> It’s amazing that we have so complicated this question, “What is NLP?” 
> and turned it into an area of complexity.  Here’s what I wrote two 
> years ago as a post here on Neurons as I argued that it is simply and 
> essentially /a communication model /(#30, July 10, 2017).**
>
> //
>
> *NLP: WHAT IS IT— REALLY?*//
>
> Morpheus asked Neo when they first met, “Do you want to know what /it 
> is/?”  Neo answered with a question, “What is the Matrix?”  The 
> question here is, “What is NLP?”  Now some NLP people seem to have a 
> challenge about defining and describing what it is.  I suppose that’s 
> because as a meta-discipline, it can be applied to so many things.  
> And yet, what it can be applied to is /not /the same thing as what it 
> /is.  Identity /is not the same thing as /applicaiton./
>
> //
>
> In terms of defining NLP, it is /a communication model. /How do I know 
> that?  Well, look at the title of the original books.  The two volumes 
> of /The Structure of Magic /is titled, /A Book about Communication and 
> Change. /And in those two volumes, the authors present “A Meta-Model 
> of Language in Therapy.”  Next, look at all of the communication 
> models of NLP—
>
> ∙ The list of 12 linguistic distinctions (from Transformational 
> Grammar) and questions to enable a person get a fuller and deeper 
> representation of the person’s experience is the Meta-Model.
>
> ∙ The list of the sensory representation systems and their 
> distinctions that comprise the language of the mind.
>
> ∙ The list of non-linguistic processes (calibrating, pacing, etc.) for 
> communicating.
>
> ∙ The list of meta-program distinctions of perceptual filters that 
> influence communication.
>
> ∙ The list of state or trance inducing linguistic and non-linguistic 
> forms, hence hypnotic communication.
>
> ∙ The list of communication/guidelines/ such as “The meaning of your 
> communication is the response you receive.”//
>
> //
>
> /It’s a Communication Model!/  And the original design was to look at 
> /how/ the expert communicators in therapy (Perls, Satir, Erickson) 
> communicated which resulted in effective therapeutic change.  Later, 
> others were modeled for communication expertise in business, medicine, 
> leadership, etc.  The originators also used and quoted the Satir 
> Categories of Communication, they started with the linguistic 
> formulations from Transformational Grammar and a little bit from 
> General Semantics.
>
> In April (2017) when I was in London for the NLP Conference, we 
> conducted a short meeting for the NLP Leadership Summit and at the 
> heart of the conversation this year was membership as well as what is 
> accepted as “Neuro-Linguistic Programming.” One person suggested 
> several new age techniques around “energy.”  That’s when co-founder 
> Frank Pucelik spoke up to correct that mis-understanding.//
>
> “I remember what we did at the beginning and a lot of it was surely 
> /not /NLP.  We studied these things (new age techniques and things 
> from Esalen) to try to find interesting patterns, to increase our 
> observation skills, or to find out if there was any truth claims in 
> these strange systems, and sometimes just for fun to see if we could 
> do them.   We studied many things including but not limited to, 
> Psychodrama, Re-evaluation Co-counseling, Art therapy, stage hypnosis, 
> Castaneda (Don Juan, etc.), Bio Feedback, Sensory Deprivation 
> (Isolation tanks), Massage Therapy, Reading Auras, Gestalt, TA 
> (Transactional Analysis), Rogerian Therapy, Earth Coincidence Control 
> Office (John Lilly), Dolphin Communication Patterns (Bateson) , 
> Encounter Group Processes, Sensitivity T-Groups, Past Lives, Occult 
> Belief Systems, Pavlov, and many more.  But we never considered any of 
> these systems to be NLP.  We based NLP on all the processes that are 
> known to be NLP/Meta today.   The Meta-Model, Rep. Systems, Systematic 
> Use of Negations, Calibrations, Major Beliefs, Anchoring, Pacing and 
> Leading, The Milton Model, Satirs' Conjoint Family Systems, Brain 
> Hemisphere Functions, and the rest.”
>
> Those were “the wild days of NLP” and in those wild days, while the 
> founders explored lots of things, that in itself did /not /turn those 
> things into NLP.  Later Robert Dilts along with the originators put 
> together the first Volume of NLP and sub-titled the book, /The Study 
> of the Structure of Subjective Experience /(1980).  That’s because 
> /the elements of communication/ (linguistics, sensory systems, 
> non-linguistic responses, etc.) are simultaneously the components of 
> experience.  And if they are the components of experience— then we can 
> use the very tools of communication to /model the structure of any and 
> every experience./  That’s why NLP, as a Communication Model, grew and 
> expanded by the process of modeling.
>
> Isn’t that fantastic!? /The components of experience— then we can use 
> the very tools of communication to model the structure of any and 
> every experience. /Did you catch the connection?  The variables by 
> which communication works (an experience) are the very variables 
> (structure) of all experiences.  That’s why and how the NLP model 
> gives us the tools for modeling the structure (form, patterning) of 
> experiences.
>
> I was not explicit aware of this when I first learned NLP.  It wasn’t 
> until 1996 that I explicitly woke up to this connection between 
> /communication and modeling /when Richard Bandler asked me to write a 
> book on the 25-history of the Meta-Model.  And I did.  The book (first 
> titled, /The Secret of Magic, /1997, and later re-titled, 
> /Communication Magic, /2001) was published by Crown House 
> Publications.  Prior to that (1992) I had added nine additional 
> distinctions to the Meta-Model from Korzybski’s General Semantics.  
> And that list was then published in NLP Journals around the world and 
> was incorporated in the second edition of /Magic Demystified /written 
> by Bryon Lewis (and Frank Pucelik).
>
> What is it? /Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a Communication 
> Model. /It describes how we are patterned (programmed) in and by the 
> communication processes within neurology and linguistics.  And yes, it 
> can be /applied /to anything “human,” especially any and every human 
> experience.   But it is /not /everything.  It is /not /therapy, 
> counseling, psychology, or hypnosis— even though it arose from those 
> disciplines.  It is /not /persuasion, sales, management, leadership, 
> or even coaching.  Although obviously as a communication model, it 
> will have lots of practical usefulness in these fields. /Nor /is NLP 
> any of the many kinds of sci-fi “energy” programs that are touted 
> under the name of NLP.
>
> *L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.*
>
> *Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics*
>
> *P.O. Box 8*
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> *Clifton CO. 81520 USA*
>
> *www.neurosemantics.com   look for the special offer*
>
> Author of the stunning new history of NLP--- *NLP Secrets. *
>
> Investigative Journalism which has exposed what has been kept secrets 
> for decades.
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