"Belief Blaster!" "Limitation Annihilator!" "Fear Destroyer"... These are the names of some typical, accepted "Nlp convert techniques." The grab bag of these "interventions," which are in general patterns that help one part of a someone to more successfully defeat (annihilate!...crush!..exterminate!) some other part of the very same person, is what accepted Nlp is best known for. For the most part, this kind of "frat rat" Nlp stuff is perceived to be what Nlp is, at least by the small part of the world that has even heard of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. So, may I say this simply: this kind of stuff, especially when offered without context, and with wee or no instruction about the broader contact of being human, is just plain embarrassing. It's not that these "techniques" cannot be useful. For the most part, they truly do work to furnish a narrow range of internal processing revisions for which they are intended. But again, absent context, this stuff is wee more than junk.
When Nlp was first being uncovered, disclosed, and developed, one of its main selling points was that it would allow someone with no contact working with others to--"magically"--replicate a vast part of the skill and effectiveness of the eminent thinkers and practitioners who were the first exemplars for Bandler, Grinder, et al. What this meant was that someone of adequate brain could behave like Virginia Satir, talk like Milton Ericson, and think like Gregory Bateson and Alfred Korsybski, without knowing anything about what these citizen truly knew about. It was amazing, truly! The distillation and crystallization of that much wisdom and know-how were awesome.
The mystery comes later. Here's an analogy: have you ever driven somewhere new, someplace unfamiliar to you, using only the Gps? You fly to a new city, rent a car, fire up the Gps, and the procedure it offers allows you to execute brilliantly, going directly where the procedure will take you, arriving in good shape and on time, without ever knowing where you are, really, or what is around you. Isn't that strange? I ask citizen about this all the time. Many citizen have no problem with this experience; they want to get where they need to get, and it matters not at all that they do not know where they are or, really, how they got there.
Of course, like most everybody else, I use this super-efficient, more-or-less reliable, Gps-guru advent to go somewhere new all the time. For example, I recently drove a rented car from Philadelphia to visit the battlefield monument in Gettysburg, Pa. The "Gps Lady" took me right there efficiently, even exactly into the excellent parking lot. But I had not looked at a real map before I left, so, although I was where I wanted to be, and hadn't even been thrown into obscuring by all the detours in uptown Gettysburg, I still could not feel where I was, except I was there, but where was that there at? This became especially annoying through the afternoon, as I encountered more and more references to geography and communities of the surrounding counties that had some role in the unfolding of the three-day battle.
So, I could learn that general Longstreet did such and such here, because the exhibit showed me that, but I could not expand my awareness and curiosity to step into what general Meade did when he moved from over there, to someplace that was off the map at the Visitors' Center. Later, when I got to a big triple "A" map of Pennsylvania, rather than just the Gps set of set of instructions within a procedure, I could feel a whole lot more of what I had just been part of experiencing, and, for me, this was a much good feeling. I could feel the surrounding territory, and I could have created my own procedure for how to get somewhere, a procedure based on my curiosity, rather than on a the procedural expertise of the the Gps programmers.
For me, this whole field is about my preference for understanding context, for having adequate information (even if the "procedure" does not ask for more information), and especially about having good way to creative selection instead of pre-programmed procedure, any way "expert" the programmers may be, or claim to be. Imagine doing Nlp changework using the "Nlp Gps:" (9.99 on E-Z Pay!) Just adopt the "technique" you want to do, then corollary the instructions: "Make a right turn at the next floor anchor; prepare to ask the Outcome Frame interrogate printed on that card; stop here; ask the question; when the write back is spoken, press Continue to tiptoe to the next step......etc." Horrifyingly, this truly is how Nlp truly is in most places. The Nlp practitioner is not a truly a practitioner; they have roughly no traditional perception or imagination, or uniquely contributing sense of their participation in the longer, wider scope of human unfolding and fulfillment.. They are merely following the Gps's instructions, trusting the famed name who made the program up, possibly years before. They are not Practitioners; they are technicians, following technical procedures, according to specifications.
To me, this is a nightmare. We do not need more well-trained technicians in this field. We need technically competent practitioners who live and work with wisdom and heart--with interest in and respect for the complicated firm of human experience. Wisdom and heart can be modeled and taught, and, to some extent, they can even be learned and developed in the nearnessy of good teachers, over time. But they cannot be learned naturally by following the step-by-step, context-less instructions that come from the Gps.
The Mission: To rescue Nlp From the Nlp habitancy
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