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Charles gave us so much in this evening,
What constitutes neuro-linguistic? What's anchored in anchoring? Non-linear and non-proportional change. Successful adaptation as restriction creators. Presuppositions and their behavioural correlations. Cognitive Linguistics as a 'new' foundation for NLP. and more!!
If you were there did you spot all this? If you weren’t “wot a lot you missed”!
This is the short report of the evening. There is a longer one,
m-u-c-h l-o-n-g-e-r , you’ll find a link at the bottom of this report if this is not enough and you just must have more.
Charles sent me his ‘handout notes’ well in advance of the meeting so I was able to forward them to those who said they would be there. This hasn’t happened before and I’m interested to know if it was helpful to have a real flavour of the evening before we started or whether it caused confusion, consternation or a happy sense of excitement at what was in store. Let me know please. Email Nigel.
Charles was sharing with us , “for the first time in the UK” some work from his audio program “Worlds within a word”.
We were expertly led into our own inner world as exposed by the words we use. Not only did this tell us something about our language but also about how we use our language to form patterns of behaviour and favourite ways of achieving our goals. Sometimes the habit of using only our favourites causes us to stop using a richer and wider availability of resources. Reconnecting with these existing but unused patterns allows us to free up a restriction in our progress towards our goal.
From his work in cognitive linguistics Charles has identified specific ‘rhythms’ in time that show up in our language and point to our habitual way of coping. These habits are based on past success and this is why we continue to favour them. They may not be getting the great results now that they used to. So using a different rhythm changes our perspective and allows us to achieve our goal, when our usual rhythm no longer works as it should.
In the second half of the evening Charles demonstrated just how powerful this is as he stacked anchors and had volunteers ‘walk’ their time line, first with their usual mode, and then with another mode they knew and had used in the past. During the break he helped some people to change their sentence structure and notice their own rhythms, and see how a small change can make a big difference.
We had plenty of time to play with this, and though to begin with it seemed complicated, by the end of the evening we could understand how simple, yet profound, this work is.
Charles presented his ideas with humour and a great sense of fun. The demonstrations were especially helpful and the evening as usual was too short.
Thank you Charles for venturing into the deep south. I know we have only just scratched the surface of this, maybe you’ll come back next year and give us some more.
If you can’t wait until then and need more now follow this link to the long report, based on a recording of the evening, with the addition of cartoons! (Well you can’t have everything.) Return to NLP-South main site
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