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If you want to learn about Strategic NLP: presuppositions, representational systems, anchoring — the foundations of the method, explained without jargon.

What Is NLP

Discover what NLP is, who invented it, and how Neuro-Linguistic Programming works according to Giovanni Ceroni's method in "The...

The Fundamental Presuppositions of NLP

Discover the fundamental presuppositions of Neuro-Linguistic Programming according to Giovanni Ceroni: from the map to the territory,...

The Map Is Not the Territory

What "the map is not the territory" means in NLP: how deletion, generalization and distortion build our subjective experience.

What Is an Internal State

Discover what an internal state is in NLP: the four components (physiology, focus, representations, internal dialogue) and how to change...

The Four Stages of Learning

Discover the four-stage learning model: unconsciously incompetent, consciously incompetent, consciously competent, unconsciously competent.

The Effective Study Method

Giovanni Ceroni's three-stage study method: skim reading, analytical reading, mind maps and self-testing to turn information into...

Atomic Habits and Behavioral Change

How to build new habits and drop limiting ones: the cue-craving-response-reward cycle and the four laws of behavior change.

The Carriage Metaphor

Gurdjieff's carriage metaphor applied to NLP: body, horses, coachman and passenger as a map for understanding the person.

Compulsive Buying

Why compulsive buying happens, which cognitive biases fuel it, and the NLP questions to defuse it, according to Giovanni Ceroni.

Impostor Syndrome

What impostor syndrome is, which cognitive biases fuel it, and Giovanni Ceroni's NLP questions for recognizing and overcoming it.

The Three Gates

What the Three Gates are in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: the instinctive, emotional and cognitive gate, and why effective communication always...

Opening the Three Gates in Communication

How to apply the Three Gates model in real communication: the

Emotions in NLP

How emotions work according to NLP: visualization, the space between cause and effect, and the first technique for changing a limiting...

Emotional Granularity

What emotional granularity is and why naming emotions precisely changes your internal state: Giovanni Ceroni's table of empowering...

Music, Light and Scents as Regulators of Internal State

How music, light, scents and silence shape neuro-hormonal state according to Giovanni Ceroni, with practical examples of classical...

Russell's Circumplex

What Russell's circumplex (Circumplex Model of Affect) is: valence and arousal as the coordinates of emotion, and how NLP transforms them.

Internal Dialogue

What internal dialogue is according to Giovanni Ceroni: how it works, why it limits us, and the NLP techniques to interrupt it and turn...

Effective Communication

What effective communication means according to NLP: the three verbal, paraverbal and non-verbal channels, and why responsibility always...

Representational Systems

What representational systems are in NLP: visual, auditory, kinesthetic and digital auditory, with example phrases and non-verbal signals.

Eye Accessing Cues

What eye accessing cues are in Bandler and Grinder's NLP: visual, auditory, constructed and remembered kinesthetic, and how to calibrate...

What Are Metaprograms

What metaprograms are in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: Away From/Toward, Internal/External Reference, General/Specific, Sameness/Difference.

Qualities of a Good Communicator

The five skills of an effective communicator according to Giovanni Ceroni: responsibility, uptime, listening, congruence and...

What Is Calibration

What calibration is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: the state of uptime, the seven planes of calibration, and the most common mistakes to avoid.

Rapport

What Rapport is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: pacing physiology, voice and words, mirroring, matching, and how to test attunement with someone.

The Agreement Frame

What the agreement frame is in coaching according to Giovanni Ceroni: how to build a clear, shared pact with a client from the very...

Words to Avoid in Communication

Words to avoid according to Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: why

The Feedback Sandwich

What the feedback sandwich is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: the three layers for giving effective feedback that opens gates instead of...

The Blind Spot

What the blind spot is according to Giovanni Ceroni: the distance between intention and impact, and why only feedback can make it...

The Emotion Abacus

Giovanni Ceroni's emotion abacus: Plutchik's wheel, Ekman's model and Feldman Barrett's theory, with practical exercises for recognizing...

Communicating Is Not Informing

Why communicating doesn't mean informing according to Giovanni Ceroni: attitude, impact, and the gap between intention and what actually...

What Are Submodalities

What submodalities are in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: analog and digital, visual, auditory and kinesthetic categories, and how to use them...

Physiology and Mood Management

How to manage mood through physiology according to Giovanni Ceroni: the superhero posture, the smiling technique, and the empowering...

What Is an Anchor and How Anchoring Works

What an anchor is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: Pavlov's conditioning, the emotional peak, and the three keys to creating an effective...

The Change Process Model

How a change intervention is structured in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: from Rapport to future pacing, through current state and desired state.

Empowering and Limiting Anchors

What limiting anchors are and the principle of Collapsing Anchors according to Giovanni Ceroni: how they form and why they need...

What Is Reframing

What reframing is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: meaning reframing and context reframing, and why changing meaning changes mood.

Generalizations, Deletions and Distortions

How the mind builds its own map of the world through generalizations, deletions and distortions, according to Giovanni Ceroni's NLP.

What Is the Milton Model

What the Milton Model is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: presuppositions, linguistic ambiguities, and Milton Erickson's artfully vague language.

What Is the Meta Model

What the Meta Model is in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP: how precise questions recover structure and meaning from language, from Bandler and...

The Double Track of Language

How to use the Milton Model and Meta Model together according to Giovanni Ceroni: the Rapport-Milton-Meta-Milton sequence and when to...

Handling Negotiation and Conflict with NLP

How to handle negotiations and conflict according to Giovanni Ceroni: recognizing the closed gate, using the Meta Model and reframing to...