Practical NLP Podcast

Milton Model part 5 - Switching Referential Index, Selection Restriction Violations, Tag Questions

Continuing the exploration of the NLP Milton Model - Embedded Suggestions! How to embed a word or phrase in a longer sentence so the unconscious mind takes it as a suggestion

This week something a bit different - social media expert Sarah Arrow of sarkemedia.com interviewing me about how NLP can help bloggers and people using social media in their marketing. I posted the video of the interview (done via Google Hangouts) previously - here is the audio from it. OK, you don't get to see Sarah, but on the other hand you won't get distracted by Hangouts' automated cutting f...

Practical NLP Podcast episode 40: The Milton Model part 3 - Pacing, Utilisation and Four Kinds of Ambiguities

Milton Model part 2: This episode covers language patterns that can be classed as Generalisations and Deletions, with practical examples for business

If you want to influence people in any way, you need to know about the language patterns in NLP's 'Milton Model'. Part 1: Distortions

This episode covers the Meta Model with the group of patterns we can class as Deletions, and the associated questions to recover the missing information. We also include some vital tips for using the Meta Model in practice, so you don't become a 'Meta Model Monster' and annoy everyone around you.

This episode covers the Meta Model Generalisations language patterns - universal quantifiers and modal operators, plus questions that go with them

This episode explains the 'distortion' patterns in the NLP Meta Model: Mind-reads, value judgments, cause and effect, complex equivalences, & presuppositions

Practical NLP Podcast 34: chunking up, chunking down, the ladder of abstraction, or 'Hierarchy of Ideas', from big picture to details, and creativity

Presuppositions in language part 2, including Awareness, Time, Adverb/Adjective, Inclusive and exclusive Or, and Ordinal

A guide to linguistic presuppositions - unspoken assumptions that you have to take as true ('presupposed') in order to understand a statement or question. Part 1 - more next time!

To use NLP language patterns well, you need to understand the difference between between 'Deep Structure' (what we mean to say) and 'Surface Structure' (what actually comes out of our mouths).

A step by step guide to chaining anchors, suggest some real-life practical applications for anchoring in business and elsewhere, review the material about anchoring covered in the last few podcasts, and suggest some ways that you can practice and sharpen your anchoring skills.

When NLP anchoring fails, most often it's because you haven't elicited a strong enough state. Here's how to do state elicitation

With this NLP technique called "The Circle of Excellence", you can feel at your best whenever you need to. This episode talks you through how to have your personal resources ready to access, just one step away.

This episode goes under the hood to find out why NLP anchoring works

A simple NLP exercise to set yourself up with a resource anchor so you can feel more resourceful any time you want.

How NLP can help you develop emotional intelligence, including a focusing exercise to help you increase your self-awareness

The idea of 'genius' approached from an NLP perspective. This is an extract from an NLP Master Practitioner course that I ran in Manchester in about 2009. It starts to introduce the concept of 'modelling' (or 'modeling' in American English) in NLP - a way of rapidly learning some ability from a person who is good at it and stripping that reproduction down to a 'model' that contains the essentials,...

This week we unpack the NLP Swish Pattern to see the nuts and bolts that you need to get right to make it work

The NLP Swish Pattern is great for defusing the triggers for unwanted behaviours or emotional responses. Here's how to do it, step by step

Mapping Across is a simple NLP submodality technique that will help if you like a particular food too much and want to be able to leave it alone - or, more generally, if you want to move from a particular state to something more resourceful (e.g. confusion to confidence that you will understand).

This week's podcast looks at, or rather listens to, 'auditory submodalities', and shows you a powerful and easy way to apply them to defuse an inner critical voice (also known as the 'chatterbox', 'Self 1', or 'the monkey mind', depending on which school of coaching you went to or which self-help books you've read). Featuring Donald Duck, a gremlin, and what people might say to themselves about in...

In this week's episode we start looking at changework interventions, beginning with visual submodalities