THE MYTH OF THE NON-JUDGMENTAL OBSERVER
One of the things often taught in NLP trainings is that the third perceptual position is a state of non-judgmental observation. In other words, when we step outside an experience and observe it from the outside, we become neutral witnesses to what happened. As Neuro-Semantics trainers we know that i
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THE MYTH OF THE NON-JUDGMENTAL OBSERVER
One of the things often taught in NLP trainings is that the third perceptual position is a state of non-judgmental observation. In other words, when we step outside an experience and observe it from the outside, we become neutral witnesses to what happened. As Neuro-Semantics trainers we know that in practice, that’s rarely what occurs.
More often than not, rather than becoming neutral observers, when people ‘step out’ of their memories they evaluate themselves. They judge what they did, how they handled it, or what it says about them, for better and for worse. Stepping out of an experience does not automatically produce non-judgment. It simply creates a different point of perception.
