China NLP

Sunday, 27 Jul, 2008 | 2:00pm-5:00pm | Arch II, 115 Changshu Road, near Changle Road

This Sunday afternoon, please join us to explore personal change through The 7 Master Steps for Lasting Change with Dan Smith.

These seven steps provide a structure within which we can apply the skills, strategies and techniques of NLP when working with ourselves or others to create change. It’s simple enough for you to love it yet comprehensive enough for you to use it.

Please do RSVP to 27jul08@chinanlp.org

Your RSVP helps us get your materials and catering ready - with massive thanks once again to REV.

And here’s a flyer you can download…

Thanks to Andrew Shih and Ailing Wang for leading an engaging and exciting session this Saturday afternoon. Another big group - about thirty of us - enjoyed a few hours exploring A Hero’s Journey, Representational Systems and Anchoring, with demonstrations and partner-based exercises.

As we move from The Innocent, through the Orphan, Martyr, Wanderer, Warrior and onto the Sorcerer as we conquer our Dragons, we each find challenges. And we can each explore what is ready to take us to the next level.

From Ailing, we learnt how anchoring is a powerful tool that allows us to access states, memories and capabilities more readily and even on demand. More sophisticated applications of anchoring allow us to cancel existing anchors that don’t serve us by a pattern called “collapse anchors”. All this needs an appropriate context to be relevant.

In our next session (~27th), we can explore The Seven Master Steps for Lasting Change. This is the accessible and easy to manage change model made popular by Anthony Robbins, and is a model that I find invaluable in my personal, training and coaching/ counselling/ consulting experiences… simple enough to be robust, complex enough to be comprehensive.

Request for your input

• Firstly, we have a number of people pencilled in for upcoming sessions. If you are interested in contributing to the group, please do let me know.
• Secondly, I am interested in scheduling a mid-week session over the next month or so. If this fits with you, could you let me know whether Tuesday or Wednesday would work best for you?

More information to come - but see you there on the afternoon of the 26th..

Do you want to become the hero or heroine of your own life journey?

No man is a lone ranger, yet how many times have you heard from success stories that the best person to help you along is… “yourself”? Join us on 12 July as Andrew Shih and Ailing Wang guide you through the stages of one’s life journey, and show you how to achieve personal development with the aid of the fundamental NLP technique of Anchoring.

Inspired by the famous non - fiction book Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Andrew and Ailing will discuss the journey of the archetypal hero found in world mythologies, and guide us along as we become that hero.

The story of a hero repeats across cultures, across eras and across languages. The structure is the much the same - sometimes the hero is named Hercules or Luke Skywalker while another hero might be named Po (from Kung Fu Panda):

• The hero starts in the ordinary world, and receives a call to adventure.
• The hero then faces a road of trials.
• At its most intense, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help along the journey.
• If the hero survives, the hero may achieve a goal (a “boon”), which often results in important self-knowledge.
• The hero must then decide whether to return this boon (the return to the ordinary world), often facing challenges on the return journey.
• (If) the hero is successful in returning, the boon or gift may be used to improve the world.

And find out how the hero becomes successful with the help of the powerful technique of Anchoring…

Anchoring is the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with (anchored to) some stimuli, in such a way that perception of the stimuli (the anchor) is led by reflex to the anchored response occurring. The stimulus may be quite neutral or even out of conscious awareness, and the response may be either positive or negative. They are capable of being formed and reinforced by repeated stimuli, and thus are analogous to classical conditioning.

It’s looking to be a great Saturday afternoon with ChinaNLP - we hope you can join us… Look out for our big blue banners at the venue!

During our last session, we explored values systems and personal values.

Values systems is a way of looking at collections of values and beliefs that together present a relatively stable world view. These relatively stable configurations - somewhat like electron shells - are recognisable and present characteristic strengths and weaknesses. While we could just scratch the surface, it was thought provoking and challenging!

We also explored personal values, and went through a detailed exercise on how to elicit our values. After one volunteer brought out a few pages worth of her own values, we examined how to put them into hierarchies and resolve potential conflicts working as partners.

It was a great afternoon - see you at the next one!

Speaking of which, our next session is 12 July with Andrew Shih and Ailing Wang.

We have a big week in values coming up with China NLP

Firstly, Lynda Dyer is back for a special breakfast event on Wednesday. Lynda will be speaking on “How to Elicit and Change the Values and Beliefs in Your World” in an event at Friends Kitchen from 7:30am. As it includes breakfast, there is a small charge - so please contact Hong Pan to register your place.

You can check out this values handout from Lynda for more information (including Hong’s details).

Then, Dan Smith (Chairman of The China NLP Society) will be delivering a session on Eliciting, Designing and Changing Values this Sunday afternoon.

We’ll be looking forward to a playful and interactive exploration of how we can understand and use our values to generate more congruent momentum towards what we really want to have and experience. See you there!

And, as usual, the session is free thanks to REV…

This afternoon, I was privileged to witness one of the most professional China NLP sessions ever.

Jeff Tan opened the session with a background of NLP to an audience of at least 33 people, and shared in his usual engaging and energizing style before handing over to Nicolas Binse. Nicolas guided us through an explanation of eye accessing cues, one of the oldest models of NLP, and demonstrated the process by videotaping the responses of one of the participants to a series of questions.

The experience was direct, engaging and rich, allowing us to see that while the model is simple, we need to understand that it’s not as simple as The Negotiator makes out. Cues are often very subtle - even when projected on the big screen and we must calibrate and cultivate our sensory acuity. After all, when you ask someone the colour of their car and they look up and to their right, they might be telling the truth and just looking for the right word in your language.

For me, it confirmed that the way we store memories and process information is tied to the way that we move our eyes… and personally, I like to use this in three areas:

1. Delivering information: presenting ideas requiring construction or imagination to the right of the stage, where people will tend to be more ‘creative’,
2. Interacting with others: knowing that if they look to my left, they’re making something up or being creative, while if they look to my right they’re probably bringing something from memory, and
3. Trying to remember or create something myself: looking to my left for remembering and my right for being creative.

Great thanks again to REV for sponsoring China NLP. The venue was very comfortable, the food and drinks great, and the registration process smoother than I have ever experienced. And now we even have banners so that people can find our venues.

Upcoming: Dan Smith on Values, 22 June, then
The Hero’s Journey with Andrew Shih, 28 June.

I’m delighted to confirm that Jeff and Nicolas will be delivering a session on NLP Fundamentals next weekend. This is the first time this year that Jeff has presented a session with us and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to it.

Nicolas has been involved with China NLP for a long time and he will be sharing some specific exercises in eye accessing that will be of interest to us all.

Venue details to come - but make sure you’re ready for next Sunday afternoon, 1 June.

Eve Lo delighted a group of 23 or so people on Saturday afternoon.

Before the break, she gave us a sophisticated framework for building rapport, understanding and influencing others covertly. After the break, we worked through a detailed exercise and were shocked to find that it was time to go already…

We again thank Andrew Shih and MSD for their support!

Looking forward to our next event: 1 June - on Eye Accessing and NLP Fundamentals… more to come soon!

As you may recall, this weekend, we are privileged to have international trainer Eve Lo joining us at MSD with a presentation on Language and Behaviour Profiles.

“LAB” stands for Language And Behavior.  It is a way of thinking about people and groups that allows you to notice and respond to how they get motivated, process information and make decisions.  We will explore
about a dozen questions that you can feed into casual conversation or use as a formal survey for groups.  As you attend to how people answer the question directly, you can notice patterns by the manner of what they do (or don’t) say.

… then, you can start using the appropriate influencing language for the situation; People respond faster when you use “their” language.
( From the Book: “Words that Change Mind” , written by Shelle Rose Charvet)

Eve Lo is an Executive Consultant with 20+ years of experience in brand management, sales/ marketing, and corporate training. You can find out more about Eve in English here or in Chinese here.

When? This Saturday from 2pm
Where? MSD China
26F, Shanghai Central Plaza
381 Huai Hai Middle Road, Shanghai 200020 (Line 1 Metro at Huang Pi Nan Road, exit 1 - one of the exit elevator go straight into the building)

China NLP promotes NLP training and awareness through regular sessions open to the public.

Join us when you can…