[Neurons] 2025 Neurons #9 META-NLP --- THE NEWEST EDITION

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2025 Neurons #9

March 3, 2025

 

META-NLP: THE NEW EDITION

 

As best that I remember, the last time to conducted NLP Practitioner (which
we call Meta-NLP in Neuro-Semantics) was 2004.  By that time we had
approximately 200 Neuro-Semantics NLP Trainers, so there really was no
reason for me to continue running that training.  Additionally I thought it
inappropriate to compete against those I had trained. It was time to turn
over Meta-NLP to the trainers so I can focus on Meta-Coach which we were
just developing.  And that's what I did.

 

Now it is not the case that I didn't teach the basics of NLP any longer.  I
did.  That's because just about everything we do in Neuro-Semantics is
founded on the basic NLP model.  In Meta-Coaching everything in NLP that
involves rapport, listening, questioning, framing, etc. is fully embedded
into Meta-Coaching.   When I began the frame game series of books and
trainings, that also has basic NLP inside it (frames, beliefs, Meta-Model).
Similarly in the self-actualization series of books and trainings. So while
I was not formally training Prac., I continued training all of its pieces in
various forms.  That especially became evident when I began studying
Critical Thinking (2016) because I went through the entire NLP model,
especially the Meta-Model, looking at it through the eyes of critical
thinking.  That resulted in Executive Thinking (2016) and the first draft of
Brain Camp I.

 

Later, there was a request to update Prac. which I did in 2012.  Later in
2019, due to a reduction in the demand for "NLP Prac," I redesigned Prac. in
three modules: Communication Excellence, Linguistic Excellence, and
Communication Magic.  That formulated Prac. into three modules of three
days.  In that way trainers could offer shorter 3-day trainings as stand
alone modules and those interested in the NLP certification could achieve
that in 9 intensive days. 

 

Fast forward to the post-pandemic years, and my wife Geraldine who had been
traveling with me since 2018 kept hearing bits and pieces of NLP and saying,
"I was not taught NLP that way."  I would also frequently concluded, "And
that's NLP 101."  Yet often people would say, "What?  Huh?" That led us to
talk about the natural problem in which each generation, the information
passed onto the next generation of trainers being reduced to some extent or
a different emphasis would arise.  In the end, some of the standards and
distinctions of the original model would be slowly lost by the 4th or 5th
generation.  This would be especially true for trainers who did not
constantly renew their knowledge by reading the original books, but getting
their understanding second-hand or fourth-hand.

 

Eventually Geraldine encouraged Bruneau, Joyce, and Jameel in Mauritius to
urge me to train it "one more time."  She urged others.  Then she urged
Mohamed in Egypt and his team of trainers.  "Just one more time, we will
record it, and you don't ever have to do it again."  Finally I capitulated
to them-at first thinking they would forget it.  But they didn't.

 

Now in the meantime I learned something else-something deeper and more
profound about NLP.  Through all of these years I thought NLP was "A
Communication Model."  That's what almost everyone in the field had
concluded.  And it made sense.  But digging deeper, I discovered that it is
more of a Thinking Model.  Communication is its application, not its core.
And strange enough, the founders partially knew that and would say that "it
is all about the kind and quality of thinking."  But then they moved on from
that and never developed that understanding.  One author, Joseph Yeager,
even titled his book, Thinking about Thinking with NLP.  For me, as I
realized that NLP is about thinking, that led me into the thinking series of
books and trainings (now 11 of them).

 

So now here I am, 21 years later with the prospect of training Meta-NLP one
last time.  What shall I do?  How shall I approach it?  Here's what I'm
planning for August of 2025.  There will be three modules of three-days
each, each one focusing on the three aspects of NLP.  The application will
be personal empowerment.

 

Theme: Living Personal Empowerment

The art of discovering, owning, and developing your innate powers of
personality so you can live with energy, vitality, and passion and be as
effective and productive was you want to be.

 

I. Neurology: The Source of Personal Empowerment.  The core of NLP-sensory
systems, states, VAK, rapport, acuity, etc.  As it turns out-  Human
functioning itself is the source of personal empowerment.  Discover how your
mind works, your powers of thinking, the dynamics of your consciousness as
you communicate to yourself and others, the art of self-management of your
thinking and emoting, and lots of patterns for making this real in your life
(Circle of Excellence, Movie Rewind, Detecting states, etc.).

 

II: Linguistics: The Expression of Personal Empowerment.  The magic of words
to change minds and lives.  The model of all models, the Meta-Model- how
your neuro-linguistics work in creating your states and experiences.  How to
detect words as doorways into your mind, how to de-hypnotize you from
dis-empowering trances, the magic of hypnotic thinking and speaking, the art
of constructing skills and competencies, how to model excellence, etc.  We
will use many patterns for learning the patterns of clear thinking,
persuasive speaking, and strategic thinking.

 

III. Programming: The Hidden Secrets of Personal Empowerment.  The multiple
meta-models that govern your thinking, emotions, and responses: the
Meta-States Model, the Meta-Programs, the Strategy Model, etc.  All of which
works mostly unconsciously and via repetitions create your deeper behavioral
patterns or programs. We will explore the Meta Domain of your mind (the Meta
Place) as the hidden powers of your empowerment.  This will give you the
ability to call out unconscious programs and update them.  And we'll use
many patterns to actualize all of this into everyday behaviors (Personal
Change History, Reframing, Expanding Meta-Programs, Strategies for living,
etc.).

 

When and Where: Living Personal Empowerment will be in August in Cairo Egypt
at Lucid Trainings.  The first module: August 2-4, second: August 6-8, and
the third: August 10-12.  For details contact
<mailto:Mohamed at lucidtraining.net> Mohamed at lucidtraining.net .  Soon there
will be a devoted website for this training.

 

 

 

AND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN NLP MASTER PRACTIONER TRAINING --- 

.       There will be the NLP Mastery 2025 event in South Africa -- here is
the link: https://nlpmastery2025.com/.

.       This will be taught by Master Trainer, Jason Schneider .an excellent
trainer!

.       For more information you can also contact Christiaan Nienkemper
--- christiaan1112 at gmail.com 

 

 

 



L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist8.pair.net/pipermail/neurons/attachments/20250302/148bbe91/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 36723 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://pairlist8.pair.net/pipermail/neurons/attachments/20250302/148bbe91/attachment-0001.jpg>