Tag Archive for 'New Code'

Latest from Tony Robbins

Published on 2 March, 2010 in profile. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

For a few years, I was on the trainer team with Anthony Robbins. As you might already know, Tony is one of the best when it comes to personal development, and has based much of his work on NLP. When I was speaking with Dr John Grinder (co-founder of NLP) about Tony, he said, “Tony is very good. I trained him myself.”

I personally discovered NLP by picking up Tony’s Unlimited Power, a book that some consider to be something of a stylized version of an NLP training.

Earlier today, I found out that Tony has just launched his new website.
Something that I found as I explored it was that you can now take his Personal Strengths Profile free of charge.

It’ll take about half-an-hour to run through it, but I just did it and thought it was good enough to suggest that you consider it too. It has a bit of Disc, but also a very interesting values assessment.

FYI I (Dan) have just finished the Graduate Certificate of NLP, and been certified as a Trainer of New Code NLP. As the first person in China to complete this, I’m pretty pleased about it. The GradCertNLP was 40 days of training, roughly equivalent to an advanced Master Practitioner training. It was a big commitment in time and energy, but I am really pleased with the results.

We are looking to having the first weekend of our Master Practitioner training at the end of March. This will be a great adventure for us, taking up some advanced NLP patterns, NLP Modeling, language patterns and an in-depth exploration of virtual questions, values and the core of what drives us. I am contemplating offering a Practitioner of New Code NLP training but we haven’t set any dates yet.

Types of NLP training

Published on 12 January, 2010 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

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.

In a sense, the fourth level would be the Graduate Certificate of NLP. Continue reading ‘Types of NLP training’

New Code NLP session

Published on 17 September, 2009 in events. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Sunlight refracting from the SWFC prismThe other morning, I noticed the sun reflecting off the top of the Shanghai World Financial Centre. And the building was acting like a prism, with beams of light scattered off the surface. Yet, as I looked up at the beautiful beams of light, it occurred to me that I couldn’t see the light itself as much as I could see the dust from which the light was reflecting. As beautiful as it appeared to me, it was the dust in the air that allowed me to even perceive it!

You can’t see the light without the dust in the air.

Next Wednesday night, we will be having a session on New Code NLP

You will learn the New Code change format. This simple, elegant and generative strategy will be something that you can use immediately.

After all: What if you could take your best state of mind and resources with you where you need them the most?

You will also learn how to work “Content Free” – so you don’t have to spend so much time talking about the challenge and move your focus instead onto dealing with things and moving forward.

New Code NLP describes the recent work of Dr John Grinder. Much of what is taught as “NLP” these days is focused on the techniques produced through modeling genius. They found eye accessing, submodalities, anchoring, the Milton Model, the Meta Model and patterns like the Swish, Collapse Anchors and Reframing – amazingly powerful techniques. Yet the techniques that NLP leaves behind are not NLP any more than the dust in the air is the light itself.

You can learn more about New Code NLP in our session next Wednesday night.

Learn about “Content Free” processes. Learn the New Code change format. Enjoy a great evening.

New Code NLP with Dan Smith – 23 September – 7:15pm start – 100RMB

We’ll be in a convenient central venue just north of West Nanjing Road subway station, the REV office. That’s Unit 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu.

We can only hold 12 people, but if you’d like to come, please let me know to hold a place for you.

Richard Bandler’s Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning

Published on 24 August, 2009 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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.

More recently, Richard has branded his work as Design Human Engineering™ and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning™, while John has channeled his focus into New Code NLP. While both might appear to be superficially different, each is in the pursuit of modeling excellence.

And if you look beyond the surface, they are remarkably similar. Let me give you an example… Continue reading ‘Richard Bandler’s Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning’

What is New Code?

Published on 6 August, 2009 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

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.

NLP New Code logoNew 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.

What is New Code?

Published on 31 May, 2009 in article. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
New Code NLP

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!

More on New Code

Published on 19 January, 2009 in event review. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Following on from yesterday’s session on New Code led by Dan Smith is this video from Dr John Grinder on the New Code.

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.

And here’s Dr John Grinder:

More from China NLP after the New Year!

Dan Smith on The New Code

Published on 8 January, 2009 in events. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

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