NLP and New Behaviour Generator
Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 21:06 | in NLP, Personal growth NLP
My very first post is about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). What is NLP? In short...it is the science of how the brain codes learning and experience. NLP helps you become a better person, increase your influence and achieve your life goals. NLP was begun in the mid-seventies by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
NLP presuppositions:
- The meaning of your communication is in the response you get
- You have all the resources you need
- Success is the ability to achieve intended results
- You can turn failure into feedback
- The map is not the territory
- There is a positive intention behind every behaviour
- You cannot not communicate
- There are always more choices
My story
I'm attending a NLP Practitioner class (130 hours) which is a second level as defined by INPLTA. I joined a NLP training about one year ago and it is by far the best investment in my personal growth.
This weekend we have a final session where each participant has to prepare a presentation of one NLP technique. My job is to present a New behaviour generator technique.
New Behaviour Generator
This technique can help you generate automatic changes in your behaviour or can help you become more comfortable in some particular situation. It can be used to adopt the behaviour of a role model, so it's categorized as a modeling technique.
Steps:
- Identify the new behaviour (activity) you want, or the change you want in an old one.
- Choose a person you admire and who masters this behavior, someone who you would like to model.
- Close your eyes, take a deep breath and visualise that person clearly. Remember a time when you witnessed this person acting in that way. Pay close attention to how they look, speak, use their body, walk,... Stay disassociated and memorise these effective strategies.
- Now change the scene so that this time you are in the lead role, but you still stay disassociated. Adjust any negative aspects of your behaviour to match that of your role model.
- Now play the scene again so that you actually look through the eyes of this person (you) with your own eyes. You must directly experience and feel this new behaviour.
- Step into the future an imagine yourself in the same situation in which you have new resources available. This step is also called ecology check.
Reader Comments (1)
Seems like an interesting technique, I might actually try it with one behaviour of mine that really bothers me from time to time... (no, it's not beer drinking :)
I just have to find a role model. Suppose cartoons are not appropriate?
Thx for sharing this one!