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Excellence Through NLP For Educators

The document discusses Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and its applications in education. It provides the origin and models of NLP, including the meta model of deletion, generalization, and distortion. It then discusses how NLP techniques like modeling, visualization, and perceptual positioning can be used by teachers to improve learning and memory in students. The document concludes by stating that NLP is gaining wider acceptance and could revolutionize classrooms, with techniques to develop rapport, use language positively, and enhance learning styles and memory.

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Excellence Through NLP For Educators

The document discusses Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and its applications in education. It provides the origin and models of NLP, including the meta model of deletion, generalization, and distortion. It then discusses how NLP techniques like modeling, visualization, and perceptual positioning can be used by teachers to improve learning and memory in students. The document concludes by stating that NLP is gaining wider acceptance and could revolutionize classrooms, with techniques to develop rapport, use language positively, and enhance learning styles and memory.

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EXCELLENCE THROUGH NLP

IN ACADEMICS
Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra
NLP Practitioner, Author & National Awardee

Neuro-linguistic programming, NLP for short, is


the proto- (some would say pseudo-) science
from where we obtained the notion of learning
styles currently doing nothing whatsoever to
enhance the educational success of school
students nationwide.

Originated by a Californian, NLP's influence is


spreading: it has crept stealthily into the
business arena, and is being given increasing
credence in our schools.

NLP: Origin
NLP in Education* is a model of communication that was
originally founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
In the 1970s the two men became curious as to how some
highly successful therapists were able to consistently
achieve that success. They wanted to find out HOW they
where achieving their successes rather than WHY they
were doing what they did.

NLP: Origin
The team of NLP researchers spent time
deconstructing how people such as
Virginia Satir, Milton Erikson and Fritz
Perls achieved their consistent success
with their clients.

NLP: Models
After studying extraordinary people,
Richard Bandler and John Grinder created
the following models:
Meta Model
Milton Model
Modeling Excellence

NLP Meta Models


It showcases the process of carefully questioning the
distortions that occur in natural language with the
intent of helping someone develop new choice in
thinking and behavior.
It consists of 3 categories:
Deletion
Generalization
Distortion

NLP: Meta Model- Deletion


We have some aspects because we do not have
the words to express them, or because we
think them less important and yet others
because we just did not notice them at the
time.
Example: Mistakes were made.

Who made the mistake?

NLP: Meta Model- Generalization


We generalize when we take an example to represent a
whole group.
For example: we see how our parents treat each other and
take that as the model of how men and women live together.
Generalization is the basis of learning, our beliefs are
generalization.

NLP: Meta Model- Distortion


Distortion is how we change our experience.
Distortion like deletion neither good nor bad.
It depends on what and how you distort. It can
make you unhappy and paranoid. It is also the
basis for creativity, artistic talents.

NLP: Meta Model- Distortion


Blamers: He makes me furuious
Presupposition: It refers to an assumption
whereby the truth is taken for granted. Eg. I
know why you did that.

NLP: Origin
What they identified was:

The words they used


What questions they asked
Changes in voice tone
Changes is body posture and physiology
What they listened out for when taking to someone
How they structured their language

Neuro Linguistic Programming


Neuro : The nerve communication network
in the human body.
Linguistic: The language you use to speak
to yourself or others.
Programming: The operating instructions
that create an outcome.

Neuro Linguistic Programming

Change Agent!
NLP is known as a psychological vehicle
for change. It is primarily taught as a
set
of
assumptions
that
are
implemented in a one-on-one setting.
The change occurs as the person alters
their inner makeup (e.g., identity, core
beliefs, perceptions).

How to succeed with NLP- Going from Good


to Great at work
Increase your confidence
Improve your influencing skills
Create a rapport with others
Be more effective in your communication
Understand the use of body language
Handle conflict situations
Dispel anxiety
Trust your intuition

NLP promises that if you use its techniques, you


will be able to build instantaneous rapport with
others. In doing so, you will, of course, become
ever more successful in social situations and,
consequently, will be able to exert influence on
those around you.

Aside from the technique NLPers call "pace and


lead", in which you inhabit the body language of
an upset child to bring them out of it and cheer
them up, there is little here that stands up to
any analysis quite so well as the skin of a rice
pudding stands up to a mildly inquisitive finger.

Repeating the process of HOW someone does


something
is
known
as
modeling.
Changing is the process of how someone does
something is known as creating behaviour
change.

NLP
preaches
visualization, the
technique you hear of athletes using: they
imagine crossing the line, exultant in victory, so
many times and in such refulgent detail that
they, through some stroke of magic, cause the
victory to happen.

Teachers about to enter the

an unruly class

crucible of

should create an
internal movie of a lesson in which they feel allpowerful. Through a process of near-religious
transformation, they will suddenly be able to
control the most stubbornly difficult of broods.

The authors of Neuro-linguistic programming,


suggest that not only should we put our desired
outcome through a "smart" analysis, (it should be
Specific, have Milestones, be As now - that is, in
the present tense - have Results and be Timebased); but we should also ensure it is "pure"
(Positive, Under our control, the Right size and
Ecological).

As for mirroring people's body language to create


rapport with them: isn't that a bit sneaky? If you
want to build relationships, being honest seems a
good place to start. Playing a one-sided game
during a two-way conversation is hardly a sound
basis for trust.

The one educational arena that teachers have


found assistance from NLP has been in the
identification of students learning styles.

NLP categorises the ways we process sensory


information into representational systems;
most people display a preference for one system,
but an ability to utilise all of them is likely to
achieve the best results.

The representational systems are similar to the


main learning styles put forward by the theory of
multiple intelligences:visual, where the learner
responds best to demonstrations, charts and
other visual stimuli;auditorywhere a verbal
explanation is preferred andkinestheticwhere
the student learns best from hands-on
experience.

Lets look at a couple of examples of NLP techniques which


some teachers are now implementing to great advantage:

Perceptual Positioning
Sometimes teachers need to ask their students
to look at something from an entirely different
point of view than the one they would naturally
adopt. Perceptual positioning is an approach
which can facilitate this. For example, the
teacher might conduct an exercise involving
three students of differing opinions where they
set up three chairs, each of which is tagged with

Presupposition
Presupposition deals with unspoken meanings in
dialogues. For example a teacher offers the class a
choice, Would you like to draw the diagram now or
complete the questions first? The message that both
must be completed is unspoken but nonetheless clear.
Allowing students this element of choice means
theyre more likely to focus on their decision about
which to complete first rather than challenging the

Positive Attitude
As teachers we have all the resources we need to
succeed. All we have to do is to know how to use our
skills. Businesses succeed because of the innate belief
that people can do what they say they are going to do.
Utter self-belief, een when it would seem to be flying
in the face of facts, will always win the day.

Starting off with positive intent!


One needs to use every ounce of his skills to
produce a high quality piece of work.
Using the NLP techniques to develop a more
positive outlook will mean that we are enabling
choice in our life, creating the life that we want
rather than coping with the life that we have ended
up with.

Pura Vida

(Its a great life)

In Costa Rica when people meet each other they say, Que tal?, meaning How are
you? The standard and automatic response is Pura Vida, meaning Its a great
life?
People who have a natural belief that it is Pura Vida are those who will find what
they expect.
Gareth James, Director of People Plus, said:

Always be positive- even when saying negative things! it takes 10 can dos to recover from
1 cant do negativity drains others of energy and de-motivates them to work with you.

NLP is now being adopted by some


universities as part of their curriculum, a
sure sign of the wider acceptance it now
enjoys.
Could it be at the forefront of a revolution
in the classroom?

The magic of positive language


Begin every conversation and every
piece of communication with the
assumption that you will succeed and
that you will get what you are looking
for.

Improving learning & memory for


your students
Step 1: Help your students to have a goal or a
purpose for remembering what they are
learning

Improving learning & memory for


your students
Step 2: Consciously decide to put what they
learn into long term memory -> to set a
program in their unconscious mind.

Improving learning & memory for


your students
Step 3: To store what they have learned
according to their preferred system.

Improving learning & memory for


your students
Step 4: Keep a memory active by retrieving it
and using it.

Developing a Rapport

Matching-

doing exactly the same


as the person you are talking to. That
means you match their right with your
right and their lefet with your left.

Developing a Rapport

Mirroring-

acting as though you


are looking at a mirror image so their
left will be your right and their right
will be your left.

Developing a Rapport

Posture- Stand in the same way and


hold your head in the same way.

Developing a Rapport

Hand Movements-

Watch how
they move their hands when they talk and
do the same, initaitlly smaller versions of
what they do and gradually increasing to
the same level of expansiveness.

Developing a Rapport

Facial Expressions-

Watch for how


much they want to maintain eye contact and
make sure you stay in the same levels. Notice
how often they blink and do the same.

Developing a Rapport

Breathing-

Notice the kind of breating


they do, whether it is light, shallow, deep, fast
and slow and breathe in the same way.

Developing a Rapport

Speech-

Match the speech so that your


voice shares the same tone, speed, timbre and
volume. Look out for how people end their
sentences and finish off in the same way that
they do.

Developing a Rapport

Words-

Look for whether they are using


auditory vocabulary, kinesthetic.

Developing a Rapport

Keywords-

If they favor a certain word


pattern or exclamation, introduce them all into
your language too.

Using Anchors:
To create a positive state. An anchor is
a stimulus that triggers in you or others
and it can come from any one of the
five senses- sight, sound, touch, smell
and taste.

More with Anchors


These anchors are physical,
auditory and sensory and are
individual to you and your life.

More with Anchors


Music
Tastes and Smells
Convince yourself and convince
others

NLP is not a thing !


It is a methodology that consists of a range of different techniques.
People become skillful in the use of NLP techniques through being
taught well.
Using NLP techniques helps people create more choices in their life
and in the life of others.

Thanks !

Leaning matters !

[email protected]

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