NLP
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 Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is, who invented it, and how it works according to Giovanni Ceroni's method in “The Invisible Blade”.
The Fundamental Presuppositions of NLP
From the map and the territory to the value of the person, by way of feedback. The presuppositions of NLP as seen by Giovanni Ceroni.
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
Physiology, focus, representations and internal dialogue make up your internal state. Understanding how they interact in NLP lets you change it.
The Four Stages of Learning
Discover the four-stage learning model: unconsciously incompetent, consciously incompetent, consciously competent, unconsciously competent.
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
Body, horses, coachman and passenger. Gurdjieff's carriage metaphor, read through NLP, becomes a map for understanding the person.
How the Brain Works
Why is change so exhausting? How the brain works, explained through System 1 and System 2, the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.
What Are Heuristics
What heuristics are, the main ones (anchoring, scarcity, social proof, availability) and how to recognize them in your everyday decisions.
What Are Cognitive Biases
What cognitive biases are, the main ones (confirmation, anchoring, optimism, Dunning-Kruger) and how to defuse them with targeted questions.
Compulsive Buying
Why do we buy on impulse even when we don't need to? Learn where compulsive buying comes from, the biases behind it and the NLP questions to stop it.
Impostor Syndrome
Do you feel inadequate despite your results? Impostor syndrome feeds on cognitive biases, and NLP questions help you overcome it.
The Three Gates of Communication
Instinctive, emotional and cognitive: these are the Three Gates in Giovanni Ceroni's NLP. Every effective communication starts here, and here is why.
Emotions in NLP
How do emotions work in NLP? Through visualization and the space between cause and effect, you learn the first technique to change a limiting memory.
Emotional Granularity
Naming what you feel with precision changes your internal state. Emotional granularity explains why your vocabulary of emotions matters so much.
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
That voice in your head sometimes holds you back. Discover how internal dialogue works and which NLP techniques interrupt it to make it an ally.
Effective Communication
In effective communication, responsibility for the result always lies with the speaker. Here's how the verbal, paraverbal and non-verbal channels work together.
Representational Systems
Visual, auditory, kinesthetic and auditory digital are the NLP representational systems. With example phrases and non-verbal signals to recognize them.
Eye Accessing Cues in NLP
Where do your eyes go when you remember or imagine? Bandler and Grinder's eye accessing cues, visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and how to calibrate them.
What Are Metaprograms
Away From or Toward, Internal or External Reference. NLP metaprograms reveal how a person thinks and decides, and which lever motivates them.
What Is Calibration
Learning to read human signals requires a state of uptime. Discover the seven planes of calibration in NLP and the most common mistakes to avoid.
Rapport
Pacing physiology, voice and words builds attunement. Discover Rapport in NLP, from mirroring to matching, and how to test your connection with others.
Words and Biochemistry
The words you choose act on your brain's biochemistry. The article covers linguistic micro-threats, pre-frame and a recalibration table.
What Are Submodalities
Analog or digital, visual, auditory and kinesthetic. NLP submodalities show how we construct reality and how to use them for change.
What Is an Anchor and How Anchoring Works
From Pavlov's conditioning to anchoring in NLP. Here are the three keys to creating an empowering anchor that works when you need it.
The Change Process Model
From Rapport to future pacing, through current state and desired state. This is the model NLP uses to structure a change intervention.
Empowering and Limiting Anchors
Limiting anchors often form without us noticing. Here is how they are created and why Collapsing Anchors requires a careful work of investigation.
What Is Reframing
Changing the frame of an event can change your mood. Reframing in NLP works on two levels: meaning reframing and context reframing.
Generalizations, Deletions and Distortions
Each of us builds our own map of the world. According to NLP, the mind does it through generalizations, deletions and distortions.
What Is the Milton Model
Presuppositions, ambiguity and artfully vague language. The Milton Model comes from Milton Erickson's style and is a linguistic tool of NLP.
What Is the Meta Model
The NLP Meta Model uses precise questions to recover the structure and meaning that everyday language tends to lose along the way.
The Double Track of Language
The Milton Model and the Meta Model can work as a pair. The Rapport-Milton-Meta-Milton sequence helps you know when to choose one or the other.