when I started the training sessions
and these other things would go officially
your objectives you got this congruency between
the differences you can detect in their behaviours
and the promised criteria
the entire training is about
so in that sense it's extremely practical
I have the
both the experience directly
of the observation that much
of what happens in university is
I'm not quite sure what it is
but what is clear
is when you finish then you go out and actually learn how to do things
but there's not a lot of practical application
at university
I don't think that there's any justification for theory
i don't think that NLP in particular
has reached a point where it's even
possible to talk with any precision about theory
of what we doing
NLP from the beginning has the base on calibration
the identification of specific highly valued outcomes
and then getting them by whatever means possible
over the years
this has refined itself somewhat
there is now in ethics to the application of NLP
which I don't think that when I had
explicitly in the early days when we started this
this thing
and with the New Code the organization of some of the patterning and
a shift in the focus
of what we doing
things have moved around quite a bit
I would like you to keep in mind
let me ask you this
think of a trainer
someone who you yourself
have taken courses from
who you consider to be
really quite good
one of the finest trainers you've been exposed to
what kind of things that they do
that distinguish them from other trainers
and made them in your opinion
in your perceptions and in your experince
a superior training
what sort of things?
- questioning -
questioning what?
who's questioning what?
the trainer's questioning you
in order to... what was the intention behind that
as far as you can tell
- answer the subject but most of it's questioning
the way of thinking -
the way of thinking?
I suppose the way that
ok, that's an important difference in my world
and answer the genuine
so
what I'm gonna propose is at the level of practitioner
the course that we finished last week
I don't give a dam whether the practitioner understands anything
I don't care how they think
I don't care whether they can describe
or find, or...
offer any comments
that are intellectually sound about the patterning
if they can
be confronted
with the particular challenge
somebody wants to make a change
self-application included which I think it's the essential part
and they can select a pattern
applying the pattern successfully in the sense of
the client to the differences that they seek
I'm perfectly happy with that
in fact that we prefer
that at practitioner level there was almost nothing in the way of definition
for the simple reason
that a pattern presented by
the presenter belongs to the presenter
pattern
that is discovered by the sudent
by someone participating of course
belongs to the person that discovers it
so there's a lot of inductive work
that I think it's essential to
bringing people alive practitioner level
the point where they are a fine representation
of what a practitioner is, for NLP
but this is a different level
I know this is false
but nevertheless I'm gonna start with the assumption
that you know how to do all the best
that is a content competency
this is not true for all of you
and certainly not true for any of you for all of the patterns
but my assumption is
that if you are committed enough to show up here
that you're going to be committed enough to practice
the patterns which are new to you
or the ones you have been exposed to
and certainly the ones that are relatively
fresh that as you only done it a few times
you obsessively compulsory practice these things
until you have a competent confidency
whether it is...
the change work
at the level you do it with or negotiations etc
at the level of NLP patterns
without the competency action
do all of the patterns
I don't think you can really
so, this is an imperfect world
however I wanna point your attention at the fact
that I'm starting with the presupposition which I know it to be false
you know, reveal how specifically it's false as you go along
so, I want you to understand
the content competency is a prerequisite to be a trainer
they can't do these things
how can you train somebody else to do them
so
at the practitioner level I don't care
whether you can think your way around these patterns
or describe them
As long as you can do them
As long as you can select them
giving some challenge
and apply them effectively
I'm a happy guy
consider this to be practitioner level competency
but when you move to the level of trainig
you need two things
you need is first fundamental content competency
the ability to apply the patterns effectively
to figure it out
given a particularly challenge
which of the patterns is most likely to be effective responding to the job
and then the actual application
and successfully carry it through
practitioner
now you are enter another round
you have to have someone understanding what the hell you're doing
there will be people who are inappropriate intellectually curious
they will ask you questions
for example they will ask you things like
what is the relationship between mirroring
strategies of the nineteen seventies
modelled by Grinder and Bandler
form Satir
Pearls, etc
and mirroring us?
who's gonna answer to that
how many people here familiar with
for those who are not
I urge you this evening
to go begin
the beginning of an investigation
and the investigation
is a delivery into
the neurology
the physiology, the biochemistry
when we are calibrating
we're very much like a tracker in the woods
we see scratches at the bottom of the tree
of a certain size of that...
certain kind of tree we see tracks
left by the passage of an animal
these are the calibration points that the hunter
or the tracker uses
to know what has passed
and what state it was in and what is was doing
and as we watch our movements
as we should watch some changes in breathing
as we listen
the change in the voice quality of someone
we doing exactly the same thing as a tracker
we doing exactly the same thing as a hunter
we are looking at the reminisce
we are seeing the surface reflection of deeper
underlying neurological, biochemical and physiological shifts
and the more profound your appreciation
of what these things that we can see in here directly at the surface level
represent a deeper level
neurologically etc...
the more profound appreciation
will be of the patterns of
our circuitry in NLP
and figure it out ways to use them
and from there actually see the patterns
and most of all it gives you a depth
in your own background
which allows you to
present to the people
who your presenting to
a coherent appreciation of the patterns
which are the subject of the training that you doing
nothing substitutes for actually being able to do it
however we're having this in-depth appreciation
of what's behind of things we pay attention to
will in form your work it'll make it more subtle
more profound
they are more effective
even as you training xxx