Calibration

Using analogue marking to calibrate the state and internal representations of a person. Once calibrated you can determine what someone is thinking and feeling from the person’s analogue markings.

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Cartesian Co-ordinates

Descarte postulated that he could prove a theorem by testing it in four quadrants. The quadrants are the theorem, the opposite of the theorem, the inverse of the theorem and the non-mirror image reverse of the theorem. He said that if the theorem is proved in all four quadrants then the theorem is true. We can use this concept with problems. Since no problem is actually true, it will not prove in all four quadrants. Once a client has the experience of it not proving in all quadrants they begin to have doubts about their problem or it totally disappears.

Book: Prime Concerns – James – Available from the office

Course: NLP Master Practitioner Certification

Cause & Effect

It seems to be a law of the universe that everything that happens has a cause. You do not just get things happening without there being a cause for it. When you think that something or someone other than you causes the things that happen in your life then you have no power to change. The key to empowering yourself is to put yourself at cause for the things that happen in your universe. It does not matter whether you really do cause everything that happens in your life; if you think you do, you will always have options, choices, and something to do to change what is happening.

Book: The Secret Of Creating Your Future® – James

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Chaining Anchors

An anchoring technique (see anchoring) that enables a person to get out of stuck states like procrastination, confusion, overwhelm, etc. and move to more useful states like motivation, understanding, competent etc.

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Change Personal History

A technique that enables someone to change something in their past that has a negative impact on them in the present. There is a traditional NLP technique using anchoring and you can also use Time Line Therapy® techniques.

Books: Frogs Into Princes – Bandler & Grinder, Time Line Therapy® and the Basis of Personality – James & Woodsmall

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Chunking Up and Down

A set of questions that enable you to control the level of abstraction someone is using. For instance there are questions that enable you to get someone to give you the detail when they are giving you too broad a picture and also questions to enable you to get someone to give you the overall concepts if they are giving you too many details. Also vital in negotiation.

Book: Time Line Therapy® and the Basis of Personality – James & Woodsmall

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Circle of Excellence

An anchoring technique that enables you to create a powerful anchor that you can use to recall your most powerful positive feelings whenever you need them. For instance when you are about to go into an important meeting or interview, give a presentation, or ask that certain someone for a date!

Collapse Anchors

An anchoring technique that enables you to delete disempowering associations you have created in your neurology. Associations like “Whenever my boss looks at me in a certain way I feel bad” or “Whenever I think of cold calling I get scared”.

Books: Frogs Into Princes – Bandler and Grinder, Unlimited Power – Tony Robbins

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Conscious Mind

The mind you are thinking with now. You use your conscious mind for rationalising, making sense of things, and analysing things.

Content or Meaning Reframe

A conversational technique that enables you to change the meaning of disempowering beliefs or events.

For example: “My boss yelling at me means he doesn’t like me.”

Reframe: “The reason your boss yells at you is because he knows you can do better.”

Books: Unlimited Power – Tony Robbins, Reframing – Bandler & Grinder

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Context Reframe

A conversational technique that enables you to change the meaning of an event by shifting the context that someone is thinking of in relation to that event.. In NLP we say that all meaning is context dependent. For instance, when it is 75 degrees in London, we think it is a lovely day. If you had the same day on holiday in the Caribbean you would be disappointed. Milton Erickson used a brilliant context reframe with some parents who were complaining that their daughter was too headstrong. He reframed them by saying that they must feel so good in the knowledge that their daughter would be safe and know her own mind when it was time for her to leave home.

Books: Unlimited Power – Tony Robbins, Reframing – Bandler & Grinder

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Contrastive Analysis

A submodality’s technique that enables you to distinguish the different ways someone codes their thinking. For instance: for a moment think of someone you really like, get a picture of them and notice where that picture is located in your visual field (i.e. up and to the right or straight in front). Now clear the screen and do the same for someone you really dislike or like least. Are the two pictures located in different places? If they are, then you just used contrastive analysis to determine how you code like and dislike of people you know.

Book: Using Your Brain For A Change – Bandler

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification

Criteria

(Same as Values)

Book: Time Line Therapy® & The Basis Of Personality – James & Woodsmall

Course: NLP Master Practitioner Certification

Cross Over Mirroring

A rapport technique where you mirror something in someone’s physiology with something different in your physiology. For instance, mirroring someone’s in and out breath with the rise and fall of your finger. Useful if you want to build rapport with someone whose breathing you didn’t want to match.

Course: NLP Practitioner Certification