AFTER LEARNING NLP, WHAT?

To learn NLP is to learn a communication model. Why? Because that’s what NLP is— a Communication Model. And the foundation of that model goes to the irreducible fundamental elements of thinking— how you code your thoughts in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic representations as well as the meta-representational system— language. That’s why when you train Coaching Essentials or NLP Prac. or an Introduction to NLP— you are training Rep. Systems and the Meta-Model.

So, test yourself. How well do you know all of that? Yes, I know that you know it, but how well? Recently in several trainings I’ve asked for a show of hands— “How many of you can quote the 12 distinctions of the Meta-Model?” “Who here knows the extended Meta-Model and the 21 distinctions?”

Even among the trainers, very few raise their hands. And even fewer raise their hands when asked, “Who have trained your intuitions so that you can hear rep. systems in predicates and can see it in semantic gestures?” Yet all of that is actually basic NLP. What’s after that? After you learn the basic NLP Model: Rep. Systems, Sub-Modalities, Meta-Model, Strategies, Milton Model and the basic patterns, then comes integration.