The NLP App

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We are working on these areas:

You can note your areas of interest on the registration form!

1

Education

Bandler has written his ultimate book for teachers - or has he?

Bandler and Woodsmall from the early days declared that NLP was extremely important for the education of our children - fifty years later NLP is seen as a pseudo science and not part of main stream education - what happened?

1. His book is like an academic tome. Bandler is into the science and this book reflects it.
2. Teachers need fast access to NLP not a book to study. How come Bandler has not recognised the needs of his reader. Jordan Petereson did the same thing with his best seller - they won't get read!

Teachers are trained to follow a certain structure. NLP will need to be presented by matching where they are coming from not where NLPers are coming from

Don't tell them what to do, give them a new perspective, move them into a new success model.

1. Enlighten them on the conscious and the unconscious
2. Explain MoW and Logical Levels to create the model of individuality
3. Format a learning process - outcome - state - value - rep' systems - memory model - repetition

Background
Education

The team leader was qualified as a Secondary Specialist Maths teacher in 1975. Over the next 30 years he taught in secondary, junior, special schools and secure units. Alway he was confused by the lack of intellectual thinking by the staff. Heads were into politics and general teachers just wante to get through the day. Only one head teacher impressed.

The answer to how do pupils learn would be answered by a description of how the lesson content was delivered. Of course there were some good caring teachers but generally minds fixed in their own thinking.

 

It is important that we understand the thinking in order to be able to present NLP based ideas at a level that will make sense to teachers. As with most human behaviour the participants have difficulty seeing the facts which leaves little information to work with in the brain; sensory acuity is limited.

 

A comical example of this is our team leader when teaching at what was then the largest secondary school in Europe. An emergency staff meeting was called. Over one hundred teachers attended. The emergency was that the coffee fund in the teachers staffroom was short of money. People were not paying for their tea and coffees. For forty minutes ideas were thrown into the ring. Get an outside caterer in, bring in pay as you go drink machines, everybody bring in their own supplies, pay a peson to organise and sell drinks each day. The teachers were very creative but I had done the maths, the homework,  and eventually I put my hand up and was asked to add my penny's worth.

 

I pointed out that sometimes I didn't have the right change, or forgot, or was in a hurry, just normal behaviour of a busy teacher. I then pointed out that the amount of cash missing from the kitty was equivalent to one and a half cups of coffee a teacher per term. Nobody had done the sums, nobody had gathered the information, done the homework. I recieved a round of applause and no change swere made to the system but at the end of the term there was the same amount of extra money in the kitty as the deficit had been.

 

To serve education best we need to raise our game, we need to do our homework.

2

Medicine

Patients in hospital experience stress

Trance/meditation audios reflecting the conjunction of body and mind.

1. Before surgery or a procedure - aim to relax and induce confidence in a good outcome
2. Induce brain to help with healing - listened to before sleep - on waking

Staff deserve knowledge of good people skills

A support app to provide some basic useful NLP.

1. Sensory acuity to notice unconscious state cues
2. Rapport skills to lead patients into different states
3. Many NHS staff are new to the UK and may want some hints to reduce cultural differences

Background
Hospital Experience

The team has personal experience of a child  treated for Leukemia, a hip replacement and catarac surgery.

The NHS staff in all instances were exceptional and highly focussed on each patient as an individual. Although all had very good people skills there was sense that they were unsure of what they were doing. We think we could give them a framework whereby their confidence and effectiveness can be increased.

Staff cultural differences are noticed by them and they try hard to avoid any awkwardness; they want to learn.

3

Jordan Peterson

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The Canadian psychologist and YouTube phenomena

With over 7.5m followers he gained the attention of Gen Z and Millenials searching for an anwser to what is happening in life; who they are, what is life about.

1. Peterson doesn't supply good answers because he does not talk about how the brain works only what it is affected by and produces
2. His book is not an easy read, small type and too many pages

The 20 to 30+ generation deserve better answers than they are being given

Our app can support them and provide basic useful NLP.

1. NLP can provide one of the best answers for them
2. If we could influence them and give them better thinking, questioning and communications skills the world could be a better place

Background
Jordan Peterson

In a troubled world where people are actively searching for inner peace and personal understanding the followers of Peterson are an obvious marketplace for NLP. Not the NLP of Tony Robbins with his hyper performance and high costs but a more practical way to give people the experience that core NLP offers.

 

This would not so much be teelling them hatt to find but lead them through a series of exercises which takes them to a personal realisation of the way people think and communicate. In a similar way to that used by the founders to document the science.

 

We are already in possesion of appropriate mobile app software.We need to select the exercises and the information around them.

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PTSD

PTSD is experienced by more people than only those in the armed forces

Although NLP trainer Frank Pucelic wraps his treatment up in a story format we believe that a more direct approach could be just as effective.

1. Using switches in the unconscious as taught in core NLP
2. Collapse the unconscious anchors. The experience is remembered but without the kinesthetics

Our approach bypasses the need to recover bad feelings

Sensory acuity skills are paramount here.

1. Sensory acuity to notice unconscious state cues and be able to anchor without the need for the full experience
2. Excellent rapport skills are essential to be able to monitor the internal states of the client

Background
PTSD

The team has personal experience of a child  treated for Leukemia, a hip replacement and catarac surgery.

The NHS staff in all instances were exceptional and highly focussed on each patient as an individual. Although all had very good people skills there was sense that they were unsure of what they were doing. We think we could give them a framework whereby their confidence and effectiveness can be increased.

Staff cultural differences are noticed by them and they try hard to avoid any awkwardness; they want to learn.

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Depression

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Depression is a growing global problem

The lack of ethical leadership, honest media and a social media prescence lacking in substance it is not surprising that people are getting depressed - there is little to feed the soul.

1. Perhaps it is difficult to get depressed if a person has little mental flexibility. The cleverer you are the easier it is to get depressed?
2. Today's global issues and the ability to be influenced by them minute by minute through the internet may also be a new problem for the mind. It used to be possible to just be religious in order to put ones mind in a trance like state to ignore the problems. But now it is more obvious that religion doesn't work, the evidence is building that there are no gods. That comfort blanket is being pulled out from under people's feet
3. A useful solution from NLP could help people considerably with mental health

Background
Depression

The experience of depression is one of the senses closing down as if a dimmer switch has been turned dow on anything of importance.

 

At the core is an inability to access any ideas of the future. Timeline wise this is like there is only a dim light on right now and past and future is in the dark. With this comes  a very limited experience of what is valuable. No values have any level of kinesthetic that stimulate action or thought. A depressed person can know they are in it but can see no way out. Can see no way out in their brain even if they can think of family they are dissociated from any feelings around them. Without feelings there is no point in anything.

 

Taking an understanding of this we aim to format a process to use with a depressed person that reflects the experience they are actually having. The target is to solve the problem in one session!

 

I found out that my next door neighbour for months had got up in the morning and after breakfast just sat in her chair crying for the rest of the day.

There was no reason for this. She had a loving partner, no financial, health or family problems.

In two very short sessions whatever was causing it had gone. No stories or history had been gone into just the ability to notice the unconscious signals har brain was giving out and then the rapport skill to have her go through a swish process and collapse anchors.

 

6

Childhood Cancer

Childhood cancer touches everyone's heart. After 50 years now is the time for NLP to address the issues

In the UK 5 children everyday are diagnosed with cancer. Worldwide 400,000 are diagnosed every year.

1. State control, basic NLP, would be very useful to possess for both child and parent
2. Mind and body are totally connected. Correct thinking can help the healing process

We are in relation to a mum who recognised this and totally cracked it for her son!

The task is tomodel her process so that other parents can take advantage of it.

1. Firstly setting the patient up as a SuperHero!
2. Secondly define six environments the child will need a plan to handle
3. Present this so that it is palatable to parents at a time when they will be at their most terrified and confused

Background
Childhood Cancer

A four year old son went from having a strange rash and being taken to A&E to being rushed on a 100mph 80 mile  dash to the UK's leading childhood cancer hospital.

 

Before a procedure during the next few days the child pulled his mum down to him and asked her "is it going to hurt?"

 

At that point she new she had to become a "Bad Ass Mum". She and her son went into battle mode with strategies for handling all the procedures, chemo, hair falling out etc.

The result was that the son became the controller of his responses. Nurses and doctors were astonished with his attitude, bravery and interest in everything. He was put forward for the UK National WellChild Awards and won.

 

The presentation was done by Meghan and Harry and six months later the mother had a private telephone conversation with Meghan to talk about mum stress.

 

Modelling the strategy mum and child used is another area we want to cover. This is wonderful inspiring story including a lift back from hospital in a brand new chauffered Rolls Royce.

7

Autism - SEN

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Autism and SEN are worldwide isues effecting a surprising number of children

There are around 150,000 autistic children in the UK and in the USA the percenatge is even higher.

1. There is no reason to suppose that the autistic brain cannot be influenced by NLP
2. Our personal experience is that high level rapport skills can achieve a level of communication with non-responsive autistic children in just a couple of minutes

Giving parents NLP skills gives them tools to influence their child's thinking

This will fill a big gap in the resources parents presently have

1. Sensory acuity to notice unconscious state cues
2. An ability to model thinking processes
3. The ability to choose which of their child's behaviours to influence first
3. Rapport skills to lead their child into different state and thinking

Background
Autism and ESN

Here is a thought - parents of 'normal' children go through life only having to respond to the education system and the feedback they get from it. They may buy some private coaching or extra books. They may take extra time in evenings helping them to do home work but they will be pretty sure that at the end of the day their child will leave education, find an appropriate job, find a partner and start their own family. And many will say "I just want them to be happy". 

 

The autistic parent on the other hand has the behaviour of their child not fitting the 'norm' and the long term prognosis that they may not be able to handle the world after they (the parent) has gone. That is a devestating thought.

 

Autism covers a very wide range of behaviours and abilities. It is a fascinating area of human study but suffers from the narrow view of the professionals. This is how psychologists, behaviour specialists and social scientists work - or at least their sytems work.

 

Find an abnormal human behaviour and document it. Make intelligent guesses as to what produces that behaviour (in 99% of cases that will be external to the mental processes happening in the brain - where NLP lives). Write their findings up. They then find any behavioural activity or drugs that will induce changes to the behaviour and document it. Kapow - we now have an expert! They go on TV, media and work in universities. Parents of autistic children have very little help apart from the words of these experts which have very little effect on any child's behaviour.

 

What we do know is that the autistics brain is very similar to everybody elses; there is no major difference. This means that as NLPers we should be able to model how a child is thinking and provide some changes that will take place at the neurological level and help autistics to think more clearly and have more choices.

 

But what we are suggesting is an app that teaches the parent to ahve the sensory acuity skills and rapport skills with a basic knowledge of rep systems and states so that the parent can start 'reading' their child's processing patterns and the choose some interventions to see if they work. 

8

Students

Students experience stress

Often away from home for the first time and in a very different academic system the college, students often experience self doubt and anxiety.

1. New social skills are needed, self organisation and time management needed
2. Personal responsibility is put much more on the individual

Inspiring a new confidence through self understanding and self belief

Adapting the NLP model to benefit struggling students.

1. Has to be fast and fun to fit a student's busy life
2. Can be presented as games to play in social situations
3. Personal assessment process to appreciate the start point and make end point targets
4. Backed by meditations and mini trances for state change

Background
Student Anxiety

This area has been researched for the past two years by a UK university student.

 

Anxiety is a widespread problem and its causes are many. From fear of failure to peer pressure and money worries.

 

And then there is the overwhelming concern of failure of the course.

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Meditation

Meditations are a powerful way to help a person's unconscious align with their conscious aims

There is a huge trend for meditations in many forms but we have yet to find quality examples.

1. Voices of narrators not chosen for their ability to induce trance
2. Structure of the content does not reflect an understanding of Logical Levels or Perceptual Positions

Meditations can be used in the other areas in this list

All NLP techniques require the 'client' to be in an appropriate state to start with that reflects the process of the technique.

1. Meditations are designed to put the listener in a trance state; NLP's interest in hypnosis can be used
2. Formats need to be defined for different meditation outcomes
3. The success of the 'Calm' app shows how millions globally are happy to engage with the idea of meditations. A useful way to get NLP into the larger population?

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