COACHING FROM THE KNOW-NOTHING STATE

If there is a state you should know about and abundantly use, it is one that is as difficult to access as it sounds ironic—the know-nothing state. Yet, what is this state really and why is it so important? And, where did it come from?

You might not know this, but the Know-Nothing state has actually been in the field of NLP from the beginning. In the early days around 1975 the early NLP developers described it as “stopping the world.” “The world” here refers to your construct of reality. So “stopping the world” is the process of where you stop using your constructs, and moving to an innocent and open state. They also used Perls’ statement, “Lose your mind and come to your senses” to describe it. So it has been around for a long time.