A-Z of Techniques
Techniques are alphabetically listed, please choose a letter to view its list:
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Calibration
Using analogue marking to calibrate the state and internal representations of a person. Once calibrated you can determine what someone is thinking and feeling from the person's analogue markings.
Courses:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Cartesian Co-ordinates
Descarte postulated that he could prove a theorem by testing it in four quadrants. The quadrants are the theorem, the opposite of the theorem, the inverse of the theorem and the non-mirror image reverse of the theorem. He said that if the theorem is proved in all four quadrants then the theorem is true. We can use this concept with problems. Since no problem is actually true it will not prove in all four quadrants. Once a client has the experience of it not proving in all quadrants they begin to have doubts about their problem or it totally disappears.
Book:
Prime Concerns - James - Available from the office
Course:
NLP Master Practitioner Certification
Cause & Effect
It seems to be a law of the universe that everything that happens has a cause. You don’t just get things happening without there being a cause for it. When you think that something or someone other than you causes the things that happen in your life then you have no power to change it. The key to empowering yourself is to put yourself at cause for the things that happen in your universe. It doesn’t matter whether you really do cause everything that happens in your life, if you think you do you will always have options, choices and something to do to change what’s happening.
Book:
The Secret Of Creating Your Future® - James - Available from the office
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Chaining Anchors
An anchoring technique (see anchoring) that enables a person to get out of stuck states like procrastination, confusion, overwhelm, etc. and move to more useful states like motivation, understanding, competent etc.
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Change Personal History
A technique that enables someone to change something in their past that has a negative impact on them in the present. There is a traditional NLP technique using anchoring and also Time Line Therapy® techniques.
Books:
Frogs Into Princes - Bandler & Grinder
Time Line Therapy® and the Basis of Personality - James & Woodsmall
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Chunking Up and Down
A set of questions that enable you to control the level of abstraction someone is using. For instance there are questions that enable you to get someone to give you the detail when they are giving you too broad a picture and also questions to enable you to get someone to give you the overall concepts if they are giving you too much detail. Also vital in negotiation.
Book:
Time Line Therapy® and the Basis of Personality - James & Woodsmall
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Circle Of Excellence
An anchoring technique that enables you to create a powerful anchor that you can use to recall your most powerful positive feelings whenever you need them. For instance when you are about to go into an important meeting or interview, give a presentation or ask that certain someone for a date!
Collapse Anchors
An anchoring technique that enables you to delete disempowering associations you have created in your neurology. Associations like “Whenever my boss looks at me in a certain way I feel bad” or “Whenever I think of cold calling I get scared”
Books:
Frogs Into Princes - Bandler and Grinder
Unlimited Power - Tony Robbins
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Conscious Mind
The mind you are thinking with now. You use your conscious mind for rationalizing, making sense of things, and analyzing things.
Content or Meaning Reframe
A conversational technique that enables you to change the meaning of disempowering beliefs or events.
For example: - “My boss yelling at me means he doesn’t like me”
Reframe: - “The reason your boss yells at you is because he knows you can do better.”
Books:
Unlimited Power - Tony Robbins
Reframing - Bandler & Grinder
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Context Reframe
A conversational technique that enables you to change the meaning of an event by shifting the context that someone is thinking of the event in. In NLP we say that all meaning is context dependent. For instance, when its 75 degrees in London we think it’s a lovely day. If you had the same day on holiday in the Caribbean you’d be disappointed. Milton Erickson used a brilliant context reframe with some parents who were complaining that their daughter was too headstrong. He reframed them by saying that they must feel so good in the knowledge that their daughter would be safe and know her own mind when it was time for her the leave home.
Books:
Unlimited Power - Tony Robbins
Reframing - Bandler & Grinder
Course:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Contrastive Analysis
A submodalities technique that enables you to distinguish the different ways that someone codes their thinking. For instance, for a moment think of someone you really like, get a picture of them and notice where that picture is located in your visual field (i.e. up and to the right or straight in front). Now clear the screen and do the same for someone you really dislike or like least. Are the two pictures located in different places? If they are then you just used contrastive analysis to determine how you code like and dislike of people you know.
Book:
Using Your Brain For A Change - Bandler
Courses:
NLP Practitioner Certification
Criteria
The same as values.
Book:
Time Line Therapy® & The Basis Of Personality - James & Woodsmall
Course:
NLP Master Practitioner Certification
Cross Over Mirroring
A rapport technique where you mirror something in someone's physiology with something different in your physiology. For instance mirroring someone's in and out breath with the rise and fall of your finger. Useful if you wanted to build rapport with someone whose breathing you didn’t want to match.
