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GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
The principles and techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) originated in the 1970s with the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder. These principles have been adapted by and integrated into more familiar therapies, such as cognitive-behavioral, possibility therapy, solution-focused, and EMDR. NLP is a combination of communications theory and psychotherapy. It posits that we have characteristic ways of responding to people and new experiences based upon unconsciously learned physical, cognitive, and linguistic responses. By helping clients reprogram these learned responses-often in a single session-rapid and profound change can occur.
This beginning, introductory course covers the theory behind NLP and includes specific techniques for treating, not just disorders, but broader conditions as well, such as helping clients accept and utilize criticism, enhance their learning, improve their effectiveness in businesses and organizations, and quickly reach a state of forgiveness. Therapists will learn how to bypass clients' consciousness and elicit unconscious motivation for change. Verbatim transcripts of sessions take you into the therapist's office to witness NLP in action. NLP is not without its critics, and this course also provides a critique of NLP.
Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
Summarize the theoretical basis of NLP and the key concepts for creating rapid change
List specific NLP techniques for treating specific disorders and conditions
Practice how to embed messages in clients' unconscious
Review the major criticisms of NLP
Course Syllabus:
Definition of NLP
The study of the structure of subjective experience
Cognitive behavioral therapy on steroids
A pragmatic methodology for modeling human excellence
Applications of NLP
Educational: enhancing learning and transforming "learning disabilities" into effective thinking and learning
Psychotherapeutic: transforming/intervening with phobias, anxiety, grief, PTSD, addictions, and other internal conflicts
Communication: developing rapport, resolving conflicts, and enhancing intimacy
Sports: enhancing motivation and focus
Business and organizational management: increasing business and organizational effectiveness
Fundamentals of NLP
Working with the most basic "atoms" of experience-visual images, auditory sounds and words, kinesthetic feelings and subsequent responses to virtually everything
Working with the smaller aspects of these three main sensory channels
How to change clients' internal structures
Communicating unconscious messages
Difference between presuppositions and implications
Clients' perspective patterns, how they affect disorders and how to change them
Identifying clients' primary patterns and using appropriate exercises for working with each
Visual patterns
Auditory patterns
Kinesthetic patterns
The opposite ways of resolving phobias and grief
Limiting beliefs
Helping clients hear and utilize criticism
Dissociating from the immediate situation
Dissociating from the criticism itself
Watching and hearing the criticism from the dissociated state
Evaluating the criticism
Deciding on a response
Consider changing future behavior
Rehearsal Reassociation
Forgiveness
Discovering the specific mental transformation that each specific client needs to make in order to forgive
Elicit and satisfy the objections to forgiving
Helping clients resolve grief
The traps that freeze grieving and leave it unresolved
Reuniting with the lost experience rather than recalling the end
