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Predicates in NLP | NLP World

predicatesThis blog about predicates in NLP has been taken from a live training. Included is a video on predicates featuring Adam Sprackling and Terry Elston.

Predicates appear like  ’normal’ words, yet are the very illustration of the inner world that we can make sense of via these ‘living’ descriptions. They are sometimes called The VAKOG (visual, auditory, Kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustatory), yet it also includes self talk as well.

 

 

 

Below, Terry and Adam play with words showing how a person can completely mismatch another if they don’t have enough sensory awareness to discover how another makes sense of their own inner world.

 

“We’re going to have a little fun here, we’re going to show you a skit that
we did on Predicates.

If you remember, Predicates are the words that we
use, the words that we use to describe our inner world to the outside
world. They come in forms of Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory,
Gustatory, Self-talk, and we’re going to show you how to mismatch using
predicates in this skit, and then how to match using predicates in this
skit, and also how to cross over representational systems, that’s going
from one preferred representational […]

By |March 12th, 2013|NLP Posts|Comments Off
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Predicates in NLP | NLP World

predicatesThis blog about predicates in NLP has been taken from a live training. Included is a video on predicates featuring Adam Sprackling and Terry Elston.

Predicates appear like  ’normal’ words, yet are the very illustration of the inner world that we can make sense of via these ‘living’ descriptions. They are sometimes called The VAKOG (visual, auditory, Kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustatory), yet it also includes self talk as well.

 

 

 

Below, Terry and Adam play with words showing how a person can completely mismatch another if they don’t have enough sensory awareness to discover how another makes sense of their own inner world.

 

“We’re going to have a little fun here, we’re going to show you a skit that
we did on Predicates.

If you remember, Predicates are the words that we
use, the words that we use to describe our inner world to the outside
world. They come in forms of Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory,
Gustatory, Self-talk, and we’re going to show you how to mismatch using
predicates in this skit, and then how to match using predicates in this
skit, and also how to cross over representational systems, that’s going
from one preferred representational […]

By |March 12th, 2013|NLP Posts|Comments Off
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Examples of The Meta Model in NLP

This section is to show you some examples of The Meta Model in NLP. We already covered the basis of the Meta Model in the last blog (if you didn’t catch it, just go to the home page and see ‘recent posts’).

NLP_META_ModelLet’s start with Mind-Reading.
Somebody says to somebody else, “You don’t like me.”
Well, that’s a mind-read, isn’t it?
So what would be the response to that? Well that would be “How do you know
I don’t like you?” and what that will do is it recovers the source of the information.

“Well you looked at me funny on Tuesday afternoon in 1973.”
Well now you know what they’re referring to, perhaps you can clear it up.
So mind-reading: “you don’t like me” or “Susan doesn’t like me”.
Well how do you know Susan doesn’t like you?

Number Two: Lost Performative.
“It’s bad to be inconsistent.”
Well where’s the performer of that? Who’s saying that?
So the response is, “Who says it’s bad? According to whom? How do you know
it’s bad? It’s bad to be inconsistent – well how do you know? Who says?”
which will get you, gathers […]

By |March 3rd, 2013|NLP Posts|Comments Off
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The Meta Model in NLP

nlp-man-head.jpgThe distinction we’re going to look at now in NLP is something called the Meta Model.

This piece has been taken from a live training, so it may not scan as reading material, so if you can ‘hear’ it as the spoken word, it’ll dance more easily!

The Meta Model, according to the history that I know, was arrived at by the originators of NLP going out and modelling Virginia Satir. Now Virginia Satir was known as the mother, or I think it was the mother or the grandmother of all family therapy. She was known as a family therapist. She would go into people’s homes, and people’s families and she would simply ask questions. And because of the intention, and obviously the consciousness of what she was doing, with her languaging and the actual questions themselves, what people would discover is that they would come down inside the truth of a reality that they hadn’t seen before because it had been buried so deep under the normal kind of language patterns that arrive in your head.

So, the theory is this, underneath the habitual languaging that you’re normally doing in your head […]

By |February 24th, 2013|meta model, NLP Posts|Comments Off
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Sensory Awareness with NLP

I made a transcript of a sensory awareness NLP session from a training I delivered recently.

This was a live training in the aspects of sensory awareness with NLP, therefore the grammar of written English may be somewhat compromised at times:

What we’re going to look at now is one of the cornerstones of NLP. One of
the cornerstones actually of any kind of relating and communicating and
listening with your senses that you’ll ever come across. So we call that
NLP Sensory Acuity, or you could call it Sensory Awareness.

Why this is so fundamentally important and imperative for any kind of
relationship work that you’re going to be doing including if you’re a
teacher, classrooms, meetings, business, social or with clients one to one,
is that your client will tell you everything that’s going inside them
really through their body.

Now I’m not just talking about how they’re sitting, whether their arms are
folded or unfolded, or you know whether their head is cocked on one side or
another, but everything. I’m talking about the eyes, the breathing, the
lips, the colour of the cheeks, whether the breathing is coming from the
top or the middle or the lower of their chest. All these are absolute
give-aways as to what a person is […]

By |February 15th, 2013|NLP Posts|Comments Off
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