This advanced NLP book builds
on the foundation established in "Heart of the Mind",
by the Andreases. This book offers rich
information and specific examples of how to work successfully in helping people
change. Specific methods are presented for changing habits, for congruently
finally saying "no" when that is appropriate, eliminating compulsions, building
self-concept, becoming more self-referenced and less vulnerable to others'
opinions, utilization of timelines and time frames for planning and motivation,
shifting the relative importance of criteria/values, and much more.
Table of Contents:
- Timelines
- Utilizing
Time
- The Swish Pattern
- Shifting
the Importance of Criteria
- Eliminating Compulsions
- "The
Last Straw" Threshold Pattern
- Internal/External Reference
- A Strategy for Responding
to Criticism
- Accessing Kinesthetic
States
- Other Submodality Interventions
From the Foreword by Richard
Bandler
Steve and
Connirae Andreas came to their first NLP seminar with me in fall of 1977,
nearly ten years ago. Since then they have consistently demonstrated their
tenacity in taking the patterns I teach and using them repeatedly until
they understand them thoroughly. Chapter 3 on The Swish Pattern demonstrates
how they can take a specific pattern and then explore it thoroughly to determine
the essential pieces that make it work, as well as how to adapt the pattern
to unusual or difficult cases.
Most of my students tell me about their successes with the patterns I teach.
In contrast, Connirae and Steve tell me about their failures, because those
are much more interesting to them. Successes are boring, because they only
confirm what you already know. Failures are much more interesting, because
they indicate where you can learn something new. Their fascination with the
variety of subjective experience, and the regularities that underlie that
variety, shows in the quality of the NLP trainings they have been offering
over the last eight years. Their teaching is widely-known for its integrity,
ecology, attention to detail, and this is also clearly reflected in this
book.
Most NLP students are content if they master the patterns that have
already been developed. One of my greatest pleasures is having someone
learn not only the specific patterns that I teach, but the perceptions,
attitudes, and thinking processes that create those patterns. Steve
and Connirae are among the few who have gone on to use NLP modeling
techniques to develop useful new patterns, and this, too, is evident
in this book. Chapter 8, "A Strategy for Responding
to Criticism," demonstrates their ability to model an essential skill - openness
to feedback - and distill it into a clean and elegant syntax.
