In NLP we say ‘You cannot not communicate.’ – which comes originally from the philosophical and experimental research by Bateson, Watzlawick, Jackson, Beavin Bavelas et al, as they attempted to describe the indescribable – the interactional patterns, pathologies and paradoxes and what they called the ‘pragmatics’ of human communication.
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The foundation of NLP in practice is surely a fundamental emotional intelligence.
This tends to be coded at its simplest, in basic NLP terms, as rapport, calibration and state.
However, sometimes this seems to denote only a purely technical and instrumental procedure prior to committing NLP on someone!
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Part 1. “Making a fool of myself”
Reframing and The Inner Game of Performance
Though at first, this advice may not seem specially super helpful, I think it’s only fair to point out that, depending on what you mean by “making” and “fool” , it happens. We can sometimes actually get it wrong, we can…
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Film blog from Judith Lowe's garden, giving you an update on what's happening at PPD Learning, and also some reminders for practicing your NLP.
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Especially if you don’t want to be a trainer or therapist? Do we, as a field, have any plans for this?
Maybe you’ve done your training, you’re still excited about learning NLP, but somehow never get round to really challenging yourself to take your learning to the next level?
Or you’ve done a couple of the shorter courses and you believe, and in some cases have been told, that you are pretty much ready to call yourself an expert? (yikes!)
Maybe you just don’t know there’s anywhere else to go?
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