I am really excited about our forthcoming Master Practitioner training.
Jeff has given me the lead on this event that will be the first of it’s kind in Asia where you will be able to learn not just more advanced NLP techniques, but NLP Modeling. We’ll cover more advanced NLP techniques of course. Though more than just a collection of techniques, what most attracted me to NLP in the first place is how NLP provides a mechanism to get access to genius by absorbing their skills. Continue reading ‘NLP Master Practitioner with Dan Smith’
A few years ago, I completed an MBA. It was hard work but the path was pretty straight-forward, with a number of compulsory subjects and some electives. And once I finished, I graduated and could put “MBA” after my name.
There are three basic levels of NLP training.
The first basic level of training is “Practitioner”. An NLP Practitioner will typically have been exposed to between 7 and 18 days of NLP training, focused on learning the fundamental patterns, techniques and attitudes.
The second basic level is “Master Practitioner”. Building on the Practitioner, Master Practitioner usually involves an extra 6-18 days of training. Sometimes this is focused on learning additional “advanced” patterns, while other trainers will focus Master Practitioner on Modeling.
The third basic level is “Trainer”. NLP Trainers Trainings are usually conducted over about three weeks, and is less focused on improving “NLP skills” and more focused on how to present NLP material.
One of the first things that stands out to me as I watch Richard Bandler training in Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning is just how similar it is to New Code NLP.
Richard and John worked together or “ran together” (as John phrases it) for about seven years at the start of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
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.
China NLP has always been focused on sharing and exploring NLP experiences. I’ve just updated the “What is NLP” page to reflect this. Here’s a snippet…
Since founded by Mark Julien, China NLP brings together a community of individuals interested in exploring and developing their NLP skills. Our speakers and trainers volunteer their time to share their ideas and insights. We look to cover a wide range of subjects across the NLP domain without attachment to any particular school of thought.
In a session, we might have someone who trained with NLP University (Robert Dilts), another who trained with Tad James, a Richard Bandler-trained Executive Coach, and others who have taken their NLP training with local training companies. We welcome and value everyone.
And if you would like to contribute something to China NLP, please do contact us…
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!
In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, “the techniques are an outgrowth of a technology that is about asking questions.”
I just came across a set of classic Richard Bandler videos. 11-and-a-half-hours of Richard actually, recorded in a training with NLP Comprehensive in Colorado. With an array of topics covering layering responses, propulsion systems, attitudes, perceptual grids, nonverbal amplifications, playing with problems and weaving complexes, I really appreciate Bandler’s insights and the sheer entertainment value of his style.
One of the things that always stands out to me when I spend time watching or listening to Richard is the deep similarities to John Grinder. It’s easy to get lost in the wonderful techniques, but despite their overt differences, Bandler and Grinder’s approach and focus on the underlying technology rather than the superficial techniques is remarkably similar.
This Thursday night in Shanghai, we have a special session with an outstanding visitor from Australia, Greg Layton.
Thursday 7 May – from 7:00pm – 100RMB
In this special master class, Greg Layton, outlines the latest NLP techniques that empower mastery of communication and the importance of these skills in coaching, sales, negotiation and relationship building.
Specifically he will discuss how to use the following NLP Linguistic Patterns and more importantly how to ensure your success in using them:
Frames
Representational System Predicates
Metaphor
Meta Model
Milton Model
As part of the evening, Greg will coach a skills session on the Meta Model’s short form product, John Grinder’s Verbal Package ensuring that you come away with a new skill set to use immediately.
Having spent a few hours with Greg in the past week since his return from a modelling project at Shaolin, I am very excited that Greg has offered to share some of his high quality training with us.
7 May: Sorry, we’re full! But please put your details in the form below and we’ll put you on our wait list:
In our session, we particularly focused on how New Code focuses more on the structure than the examples, renews emphasis on the modeling process so that we might ‘refill the well’, promotes a “content-free” approach and focuses on the state as a leverage point for change. We saw a content-laden and content free version of an exercise similar to the Core Transformations session from last year and experienced the Alphabet Game.
Dan Smith will lead an exploration of The New Code, the most recent insights into NLP emphasized by co-founder Dr John Grinder.
For me, New Code brings the focus onto the process and away from the content… so that when you’re working with someone, you can keep focused on the structure of the pattern, intervention or challenge, and stop wasting so much time hearing about what they think the problem is and let them solve it themselves.
There were a bunch of other insights from my time with Grinder last October that I’m looking forward to sharing with you too:
Sunday 18 January – 2pm @ Grand Theatre Coffee Beanery
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.
