In the current season of NLP Matters, we have been talking about the NLP Model of Communication. This model encapsulates and integrates our physiological, psychological, and cognitive functioning as it explains how humans collect and process information through our 5 senses to make meaning and create our own map of reality. In the last episode, we discussed the totally fascinating functioning of our 7 unconscious filters. Starting with– Time/Space/Matter/Energy, Language, and Memories. In this e...
Jan 26, 2023•29 min•Ep. 42
As we continue our exploration of the workings of the human mind, we can see why learning the NLP Model of Communication can assist us to apply our knowledge to create change, growth, and new behaviours. In this episode, we’ll begin to look at the unconscious filters which sift through the incoming sensory data we experience as we continually construct our reality and our relationships with others. In the NLP Model of Communication there are seven unconscious filters that are key to how we as hu...
Jan 18, 2023•30 min•Ep. 41
We are now well on our way into our investigation into what NLP has to say about the totally fascinating workings of the human mind, and why this is important to how we think, behave and go about constructing our reality and our relationships with others. In this episode, we’ll look at the role of our ‘states’ or emotions. Over the past few episodes, we've been talking about the ways in which our senses and our mind combine to construct our version of reality. So where do our internal feelings o...
Jan 11, 2023•19 min•Ep. 40
In the past two episodes, we have begun exploring what NLP has to say about the fascinating workings of the human mind. Learning about how our minds work reveals the structure that underpins how we think, behave, and construct our relationships with others. It means we can discover how we create our reality. In this episode, we’ll discuss the processes that enable us to selectively filter the information or data that we then use to construct our own experience of reality. We will focus on 3 key ...
Jan 05, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 39
In our last episode, we discussed how as humans, we use our senses and neurology to construct an internal version of an external reality. We also said that by definition each of these “internal representations” or “maps” are different and unique. As humans, there’s a lot of information available to us in the external environment moment to moment. So much that it’s physically impossible for our senses to take all this information in, and because we cannot process the sheer volume of information a...
Feb 10, 2021•20 min•Season 3Ep. 38
In this episode, we begin another season of the NLP Matters Podcast and start to delve into the totally fascinating workings of the human mind from the perspective of NLP. We’ll be examining things like what NLP has to say about consciousness, the nature of reality, thinking, and communication. We’ll start that conversation by looking at the NLP Model of Communication and the Role of the Senses in Perception. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcast See omnyst...
Jan 22, 2021•18 min•Season 3Ep. 37
The Presuppositions of NLP provide us with a kind of code of conduct or compass that guides us as we use and apply powerful NLP techniques. Together, they form the ecological framework that ensures that the practice of NLP is constructive and expansive. In this episode, we’ll review these presuppositions and discover how when looked at as a whole, we have a really solid framework not only for how we use NLP but for our living our lives in general. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes ...
Jan 13, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 36
In this episode, we’ll delve deeper into the final three NLP Presuppositions - that all procedures should increase wholeness, that all procedures should be designed to increase choice, and that behaviour and change should be evaluated in terms of context and ecology. Much like other NLP presuppositions such as people are doing the best they can with the resources they’ve got, and we all have everything within us when we need to make the changes we want in our life, the presupps we are looking at...
Dec 04, 2020•15 min•Season 2Ep. 35
As you follow these podcasts, one of the pictures you will be starting to form about NLP is its expansive nature. As we apply NLP in our lives, we get to expand our notion of what is possible for humans to achieve. In NLP, we emphasise ways of being, thinking, and doing, that increase growth, choice, possibility, personal responsibility, and ultimately, personal power. Together, they can be seen as the characteristics of what Carol Dweck a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University calls, th...
Nov 27, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Last week, we explored three NLP presuppositions that focus on acknowledging and accepting our personal power by redefining our responsibility as communicators. This time, we’ll delve deeper into two more NLP Presuppositions that really challenge us to see the world from a different perspective - that people are not their behaviours, and that everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available. In NLP, we describe this as taking up different perceptual positions. These dif...
Nov 18, 2020•18 min•Season 2Ep. 33
In this episode, we’ll explore three more presuppositions of NLP. First, is that resistance to communication is a sign of a lack of rapport. Second, is that the most important information about a person is their behaviour. And lastly, that there is no failure, only feedback. These 3 presuppositions share a common emphasis on looking for meaning beyond just our words or actions or outcomes. They focus on acknowledging and accepting our personal power by redefining our responsibility as communicat...
Nov 12, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 32
The Presuppositions of NLP provide us with a compass that guides us as we use and apply powerful NLP techniques to take control of our own lives and really make a difference. These presuppositions form the ecological framework that ensures the practice of NLP is constructive and expansive rather than restrictive and destructive. In this episode, we’ll take a closer look at two of these important presuppositions - The map is not the territory, and having respect for the other person’s model of th...
Nov 04, 2020•15 min•Season 2Ep. 31
As we begin our 2nd season of the NLP Matters Podcast, we move on to explore what is perhaps the most fundamental component of NLP, the NLP presuppositions. These presuppositions provide us with the compass that guides us as we use and apply powerful NLP techniques to take control of our own lives and really make a difference. There are a number of presuppositions of NLP., in fact, 14 in all. Despite the fact that they have varying origins, they form the basis upon which the work of NLP is built...
Oct 28, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 30
We have spent much of the past few months discussing and applying a number of NLP strategies to the setting of our goals using NLP techniques like the Be-Do-Have model, 6 Core Needs, the 5 Principles of Success, the Keys to An Achievable Outcome, and the Well-Formedness Conditions, with each strategy adding a new layer to the journey of Building our Successful Life and ensuring our goals are robust and resilient. In this episode, we’ll draw all these threads together so we can see how unstoppabl...
Oct 15, 2020•20 min•Ep. 29
Over the past few weeks, we have seen how when taken individually, the Well-Formedness Conditions give us a great understanding on the specifics of our outcome and what needs to be done to achieve it. This also means we get even more clarity on who we need to be to deliver on the actions that will ultimately get us our results. In this episode, we will get to see just how powerful this strategy becomes when we combine all the Well-Formedness Conditions together and apply them all to our outcome....
Sep 30, 2020•24 min•Ep. 28
The NLP technique of Well Formedness Conditions, which adds the final layer to the journey of Building our Successful Life and ensuring our goals are robust and resilient. So far, we have looked closely at the first five of the Well Formedness Conditions. In this episode, we’ll explore the Well-Formedness Condition of expanding on the sensory-specific details that describe the first step on the way to achieving our goal. And once we’ve done that, we’ll look at the final step of the Well-Formedne...
Sep 23, 2020•16 min•Ep. 27
When we have completed the first of the 5 Success Principles, Knowing our Outcome, we can use the Keys to an Achievable Outcome, and then, the Well-Formedness Conditions to get an even greater understanding on the specifics or our outcome and the targeted actions required to achieve this outcome. This also means we get even more clarity on who we need to be to deliver on these actions that will get our results. Having looked at steps 1, 2, and 3, in the Well-Formedness Conditions the next step w...
Sep 16, 2020•24 min•Ep. 26
The NLP technique of Well-Formedness Conditions adds the final layer to the journey of Building Our Successful Life by ensuring that our goals are robust and ready to go. When we apply the Well-Formedness Conditions to our goal, we are doing our final check to confirm both the absolute alignment and resilience of our goals. We have so far looked closely at the first two steps - stating our goal in the positive and having the goal self-initiated and self-maintained. The next step is all about pro...
Sep 09, 2020•23 min•Ep. 25
In the previous episode, we introduced the NLP technique called the Well-Formedness Conditions, which adds the final layer to the journey of Building our Successful Life by ensuring our goals are robust and ready to go. The theme of this first NLP Matters podcast series is to support us in working our way through the process of really building the life we want to have, our own version of a successful life. As we work through this process layer by layer, we gain even more clarity on what it is we...
Sep 02, 2020•27 min•Ep. 24
In this episode, we’ll start to explore yet another really useful NLP tool that adds the final layer to our theme of Building our Successful Life and ensuring our goals are ready to go. This tool is called the Well Formedness Conditions. When we apply these conditions to our goal we get to do our final check to confirm both the absolute alignment and resilience of our goals. Listen to the podcast to learn more. Show Notes and Blog NLP Matters Podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
Aug 27, 2020•23 min•Ep. 23
The Keys to an Achievable Outcome guide us as we develop a rich and deep understanding of the first of the Five Success Principles of Success - Knowing Your Outcome. The Keys to an Achievable Outcome dive deeply into our desired outcome so we can have great clarity and do a robust check – is this goal really what we want? It provides a recipe we can follow that develops a very clear definition of the outcome we are going for and then we get to confirm that the goal is formulated thoroughly looki...
Aug 20, 2020•22 min•Ep. 22
Since episode 16, we have been exploring the NLP technique called the Keys to an Achievable Outcome. I trust that throughout these episodes, you are getting a really clear insight into the power of these keys when it comes to designing and delivering on your goals. Having covered keys one to eight, let’s get to the ninth and final key, which is, “Is this goal ecological?” This is a powerful reflective question for us to ask ourselves, because too often we may choose goals and invest great effort...
Aug 12, 2020•19 min•Ep. 21
The Keys to an Achievable Outcome is a powerful set of keys that ensures that our desired outcomes or goals are structured in a way that maximises our potential for success. Last week, we learned the importance of having a goal that is congruently desirable and making sure that our goal is self-initiated and maintained. In this episode, we’ll explore the 7th and 8th keys - ensuring that our goal is appropriately contextualised and that we have (or at least know) the resources we need in order to...
Aug 06, 2020•15 min•Ep. 20
One of the tools that NLP gives us to get a real focus and clarity around our goals is The Keys to an Achievable Outcome, which really solidifies the first of the Five Principles of Success - Knowing Your Outcome. The Keys to an Achievable Outcome can be seen as an expression of the science of setting goals. Having covered the steps one to four of these keys, let’s now move on the next two - checking that our goal is congruently desirable and ensuring that it is self-initiated and maintained. Th...
Jul 29, 2020•14 min•Ep. 19
In our last episode, we learned the first two Keys to an Achievable Outcome - stating our goal in the positive and specifying the present situation. But how do you actually know when you’ve actually achieved your goal? You may find it hard to believe, but quite often, people don’t recognize when they have achieved their goal. We may have something we are aiming to do or something you want to achieve, and we become so busy doing it that we get so caught up in the process. And, when we have actual...
Jul 22, 2020•17 min•Ep. 18
Imagine that you have been working your way through the process of really building the life you want to have. And as you work through this process you gain even more clarity, on what it is you actually do want to have! You have used the first of the 5 Success Principles, Knowing your Outcome and you are also getting a greater understanding of what needs to be done – the targeted actions, to achieve the outcome - and who you need to be to deliver on these actions to get the results. Now is the ti...
Jul 15, 2020•18 min•Ep. 15
In the last couple of weeks, we examined the Five Principles of Success from NLP - Knowing Our Outcome, Taking Action, Sensory Acuity, Behavioral Flexibility, and the Physiology and Psychology of Excellence. In this episode, we’ll continue to build on the theme of NLP tools that you can use to build your successful life, and as we move on from the Five Success Principles the focus goes back to defining our outcome. In this episode, we are going to begin to look at one of these NLP tools called T...
Jul 07, 2020•18 min•Ep. 16
Over the past six episodes we have been exploring the NLP 5 Principles for Success. We said at the start of our journey through the Five Principles of Success that with NLP we could study and decode the patterns of thinking, strategies and techniques that are shared by successful people. Using NLP modelling strategies, we discover that it is possible to follow them on our very own path to success. They have made the journey so much easier for us, leading the way and, because we can learn from th...
Jul 01, 2020•20 min•Ep. 15
We have noted that as successful people we need to invest time, effort, and imagination into some key areas to build and achieve our success. Firstly, we ensure we meet number one of the 5 Success Principles – Knowing our outcome. This means we are clear about where we are going, our goal. Secondly, we know that no goal can be reached without targeted action. We are not only taking action, but we are taking specific actions that will bring us closer to our goal. Thirdly, we use our sensory acuit...
Jun 23, 2020•17 min•Ep. 14
In the past couple of weeks, we have noted that successful people invest time, effort and imagination to ensure they meet the first of the 5 Success Principles – Knowing your outcome! They know that secondly no goal can be reached without targeted action, and thirdly they develop the sensory acuity to be able to check to see if they are on course. The question then becomes, what happens if I discover that my course needs correcting? We need to be able to adapt to the new information that tells u...
Jun 16, 2020•17 min•Ep. 13
