Shanghai – Wednesday, 21 July – 7-9pm
Daniel Smith
New Code NLP offers simplicity, understanding and powerfully elegant methods for creating excellence.
After founding NLP in the 1970s, Bandler and Grinder went their separate ways, offering different styles of NLP in their trainings.
Along the way, many people missed the point of NLP. They got lost in techniques and ‘magic phrases’ instead of continuing to explore the structure of magic. New Code NLP brings together the work of Dr John Grinder in directing NLP to where it belongs – the most powerful tool in the pursuit of excellence in the world today.
In two hours with Daniel Smith, you can learn some fun basics of New Code NLP, experience some “New Code Games” and the “New Code Change Format”.
Quick summary: In this session, we explored the Breath of Life, the Rhythm of Life and applied them to the New Code Change Format. We also spoke about the origins of NLP, and how New Code NLP focuses upon modelling, unconscious signals, state manipulations (rather than behavioural manipulations), using New Code Games and working content free.
Thanks for a wonderful night!
When I want my son to smile, I just have to smile at him. When pretty girls smile at him, he’s already learnt to smile back at them… perhaps even more important than learning to smile at his father!
The same thing happens when we want him to open his mouth to eat – we open our mouth nice and wide, and he responds by opening his mouth. It’s like magic 
A few weeks back, I taught my son to blow raspberries. It’s a simple thing – you just stick your tongue out and blow, but he’s really mastered it now. Though he hasn’t yet figured out that he shouldn’t do it when he’s feeding…
I’m in Hangzhou assisting with the New Code Coaching training led by Dr John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair, and one of the topics that just came up was ‘mirror neurons’ (or ‘镜神经元’). According to wikipedia, a mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Mirror neurons offer the neurological basis for rapport and explain why we can connect with people by mirroring their body language, gestures, words and rhythm.
Another website describes them this way:
“Mirror neurons are active when the monkeys perform certain tasks, but they also fire when the monkeys watch someone else perform the same specific task. There is evidence that a similar observation/action matching system exists in humans. The mirror system is sometimes considered to represent a primitive version, or possibly a precursor in phylogeny, of a simulation heuristic that might underlie mindreading.”
If you’re interested in how to build stronger connections with the people around you, you might want to check out how our brains are wired to help us learn from other people, just by watching them.
I had a great time with Peter Lin and his team at Magic NLP in Taipei for New Code NLP with John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair.
Over the five days (14-18 May 2010), the students were sensational – full of energy, insight and a willingness to jump right into the experiences and adventures.
Here's a photo of the group on the last day. If you look carefully, you can see me there on the right of Carmen in about the middle of the second row...
I’ve had a few people asking me, “What is New Code” and while I’ve given answers in the past, it’s a good time to answer it again.
Dr John Grinder and Dr Richard Bandler developed NLP together through the 1970s. They discovered (and created?) many fantastic skills and opportunities for change, learning and growth.
After Grinder and Bandler started working independently from each other, each explored the field further in their own way. Bandler created Design Human Engineering and more recently Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning. Grinder developed New Code NLP, first with Judith DeLozier in Turtles All the Way Down and more recently with Carmen Bostic St Clair in Whispering in the Wind.
New Code NLP brings together the latest developments from NLP co-creator, Dr John Grinder, and his partner, Carmen Bostic St Clair, and includes powerful yet easy-to-use processes for NLP change work and personal evolution. Even if you are familiar with “NLP” as a field, you will likely want to experience the latest and best through New Code NLP.
Inspiritive quote Grinder and Bostic (2000) to say that New Code is:
A description of NLP which uses a systemic approach to demonstrate and teach the patterns by providing a series of contexts in which they manifest spontaneously. In the New Code of NLP the unconscious of the client is explicitly assigned the responsibility for the selection of the critical elements-the desired state, the resource, or new behaviour. The unconscious is explicitly involved in all steps. There are precise constraints placed upon the selection of new behaviour, more specifically, the new behaviour must satisfy the original positive intention(s) of the behaviour to be changed. The manipulation occurs at the level of state and intention as opposed to that of behaviour.
You can read more about New Code NLP at Inspiritive and at ITANLP.
It was great to have Elsie and Marc able to attend the session with Dr John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair a few weeks ago, and I’m hoping to post a review from them here shortly.
The training was focused on “New Code”. While there are many forms and styles of NLP training in the world, New Code is the one most closely associated with NLP Co-Founder Dr John Grinder. As highlighted by this article from Michael Carroll (from NLP Academy in the UK), New Code focused more on personal congruence and the connection with your unconscious mind, developing “high performance states” and “content free” work. You can also find more information on New Code with Chris and Jules Collingwood’s Inspiritive in Australia.
We had a session in China NLP in January focused on New Code, but after reading Michael’s article, I thought it was worth mentioning again!
