NLP Techniques For Education
NLP Techniques For Education
NLP: Definition
y The study of what works in thinking,
language, and behaviour.
y A way of coding and reproducing excellence
that enables you to consistently achieve the
results
Components of
Neuro‐Linguistic Programming Your Anchors
y Neuro y A favourite piece of music
y Awareness of our thought patterns and how y A special perfume
these affect our work and life y A specific touch
y Linguistic
Li i i y The taste of a memorable meal
Th t t f bl l
y Our language is our life y The view of a special place
y What we can say is what we can think and do y Someone who is close to you
y Programming y The memory of a particular time in your life
y The anticipation of a future event
y We run our lives by strategies, by our life
programme y OR all the BAD anchors
Activity: Gathering your inner TAP INTO YOUR INNER POTENTIAL:
resources ANCHORING
y Think of the good things y A process of learning to hold on to the
mental and emotional states that are crucial
to success
y A way of choosing the emotional state we
want and finding a way of accessing it when
we choose
y A stimulus: sound, image, touch, smell,
taste that triggers a consistent response
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Outcomes of Anchoring A Bad Day or A Good Day
y Access the resources (feelings and states) y scenarios
that we want when we want them
y Replace unwanted feelings and thoughts
with desirable ones
y Gain control over our emotions
y Positively influence the response we trigger
in other people
y Experience the day the way we want
Ask How, not Why Anchoring Exercise
y Choose a distraction free place and make yourself
y Ask: How do I get that way? comfortable
y Don’t ask: Why do I feel this way? y Choose a pleasant state/feeling that you’ve experienced
and you want to access when you choose
y Choose an anchor, e.g. touching thumb and little finger
Ch h t hi th b d littl fi
y Recall the memory when this feeling is strongest
y How raises awareness of the structure of the
y What do you see? Colours? Texture? Sounds?
experience, as opposed to reinforcing the y Experience the feeling of being there, then touch your
reasons for the state and consequently the fingers
y Release fingers and move away: Breaking state
state itself
y The touch of the finger is now the anchor for the feeling
y Test the anchor. Working? No? Try again
Robert Dilts’ Framework
Reactive or Proactive Purpose
y Accept the situation and feel upset
y Get inwardly annoyed Identity
y Complain to others around you about the way Beliefs and
you have been treated values
y Ask for a meeting with your manager to discuss
the decision Capabilities
y Accelerate the completion of the project so that Behaviour
you can announce its readiness for launch
y Leave the company Environment
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Attention to Lower Levels Attention to Higher Levels
y Affected by changes in other people’s y Proactive behaviour requires you to focus on
behaviours and changes in the environment. the higher levels (Purpose to values)
y Tend to be more reactive in dealing with y The more able you are to able to operate
life independently of other people’s behaviour
and changes in the environment, the more
proactive you become
Reflection
y Who are you?
y Low‐level or high‐level person? Write your own
life script!
y Fill in the higher‐level values for yourself.
Fill in the higher‐level values for yourself
y Applying this to your students.