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The Living Matrix (a new feature-length movie) and NLP
This movie includes a segment on NLP with Arielle Essex, an NLP Master Practitioner, and what she did after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. The NLP principles involved are pretty old and basic, but I think they are nicely presented, and should generate some interest in NLP. [I suspect that some of the rest of the film may be pretty flaky, like the movie What the (Bleep) do we Know, but the NLP piece isn’t.] Here is the link for the NLP segment.

Thirty years ago when I was just beginning to learn NLP, I used six-step reframing with a woman with a similar underlying dynamic. She had irregular menstrual bleeding and high blood pressure. She was a single mom with a lot of responsibilities; her symptoms began when she began to seriously consider having another child. The part of her that was causing her symptoms wanted her to enjoy life more, free of the additional responsibility of a baby. After she got this message and fully agreed with it, her blood pressure dropped 50 mm at her next doctor visit, and two weeks later, her periods became normal. This example is written up in detail in Heart of the Mind (link book title to RPP) pp. 74-75.
http://realpeoplepress.com/blog/

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[info]metanymous
2009-06-18 01:28 am UTC (link)
CEUs for Therapists: Online NLP Courses with Steve Andreas

For those who need CEU’s, there are now two online courses in NLP taught by Steve Andreas.
1. Neuro-Linguistic Programming: an introduction to the briefest brief therapy. 4 CE credits http://www.zurinstitute.com/neuro_linguistic_programming_course.html
The course reading covers a wide range of NLP processes, starting with a general introduction, and continuing with processes for treating phobias, perfectionism, and vulnerability to criticism. Also included is a process for creating perspective, transforming anger into forgiveness, and the positive use of presuppositions and implication.
CEU’s are available for psychologists (by APA), LCSW and MFTs in CA (by BBS), Social workers (by ASWB), counselors (by NBCC & NAADAC), nurses (by CA-BRN), and more. More about Zur Institute’s CE accreditations at http://www.zurinstitute.com/CEcredits.html
2. Transforming Traumatic Memories A-505 6 CE Credits
http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/index.php/cecourses/audio-courses
In this six-hour audio telecourse you can learn a brief and highly effective technique for treating a wide range of common clinical problems, from anxiety and relationship difficulties to psychosomatic complaints and PTSD. This method identifies and transforms a traumatic memory that underlies a problem by creating a new positive imprint experience that occurs before the traumatic one, preparing the client for it, and transforming its impact.
CEU’s are available for psychologists, social workers, professional counselors, and chemical dependency counselors. Details at: http://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/ce-approvals

Placebos
This is an exceptionally detailed and even-handed article surveying an immense body of research on placebos.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-05-20

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[info]metanymous
2009-06-18 01:30 am UTC (link)
Free TeleConference with Advanced Mastery Training Trainers!

Are you considering attending the new “Advanced Mastery Training” with Trainers Andrew Austin, Steve Andreas, and Steven Watson? (August 10-15, 2009 in Winter Park, Colorado). This is a unique training opportunity, specially designed for NLP Master Practitioners wanting to deepen their practice and artistry.

You can join in a free conference call, with one or all three of our Trainers. They’ll tell you why they are excited about this training, and you can ask any questions you may have about how it will be useful to you. You can still receive the early signup discount until May 15. ($750 total for the 6 days of training, including additional evening sessions.)
Free Conference Call Schedule

Each call will be about ½ hour in length. In case you aren’t able to make these calls live, they will be recorded and available on our website for free download.

Andrew Austin
May 3 (Sunday), 9:00 am Pacific Time; 10 am Denver Time, 12 noon Eastern.
Steve Watson
May 6 (Wednesday), 6:00 pm Pacific Time; 7 pm Denver Time, 9pm Eastern.
Steve Andreas
May 7 (Thursday), 6:00 pm Pacific Time; 7 pm Denver Time, 9pm Eastern.

(Don’t know what time this is in your area? Click here for a time zone converter.)

Caller Instructions
Dial (712) 775-7000
When prompted for the access code, enter: 315922#

These calls are free except for your long distance charges to the above number. We recommend using a landline if possible. (Cell phones sometimes create static.)

Who is Invited?
Anyone considering attending the Advanced Mastery Training, August 10-15 in Winter Park Colorado, is welcome to join these calls.

Final Advanced Mastery Training Dates
August 10-15, 2009, Monday through Saturday.

Please check these dates on your Calendar. We have shifted the dates 1 day (to accommodate NLP Comprehensive’s Master Practitioner Group).
What Will Be Included in this Packed Training

Andy Austin will be presenting some of his recent models and observations that inform his work with clients, including:

* The “5 patterns of chronicity”: larger behavioral frames that prevent change.
* The 3 “pillars”—or guilt, anxiety, temper, and relevant rule structure governing these.
* Frame setting and leveling the client’s state to ensure willing compliance with changework.
* The I/you frame—what the client’s pronouns tells you about their beliefs, and what to do about it.
* Elicitation is installation: setting direction with questions.
* “The Therapeutic Error”: key components of goals.

Steve Andreas will be offering demonstrations of one-on-one open-ended sessions with clients (with workshop participants, and we will also invite non-participants to come in specially for these sessions.) Steve has been doing videotaped client sessions one day a month. Both live and DVD sessions will become the focus for modeling what was done, how the change was created, including multiple perspectives from the 3 trainers. Steve will also demonstrate and teach a variety of ways to work with troublesome self-talk, which is a key element underlying a wide variety of problems. He will also demonstrate Nick Kemp’s spinning feelings method, another key component to resolving many different kinds of problems.

Steve Watson will be offering demonstrations drawing from his extensive clinical practice and teaching experience, including extensive experience with Multiple Personality and other unusual clients. We have asked Steve to emphasize demonstration and teaching in hypnosis, one of his specialties, because many people are expressing interest in deepening their skills in this area.

Beyond the specific approaches presented by each trainer, we anticipate a dynamic exchange and synthesis between the three trainers, who will all be present for the entire 6 days. This will provide opportunities for multiple perspectives on the same events. The questions and comments of our participant group will also influence the direction and applications as this training unfolds.

To learn more about the Advanced Mastery Training and to register,
visit www.toolsfortransforming.com/advanced-trainings

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[info]metanymous
2009-06-18 01:35 am UTC (link)
Case Report*
Steve Andreas
© 2007

Cathy was a 55–year-old single client of a colleague. Her initial complaint was that although she was very competent in her work, she repeatedly raged at her boss and at co-workers. It soon emerged that she had a history of sexual abuse from her father, and had a very difficult time separating her own experience from others. This made it hard for her to know her own needs, and defend herself from the expectations and intrusions from others—what is often called “codependence,” or “enmeshment.”

My colleague had done a lot of work with her intermittently over a period of several years, and she had made a lot of progress, but they had reached a plateau. Cathy’s sense of herself was still wobbly and unclear, and she often felt numb, as if she were “just going through the motions,” and she wanted to feel “solid in my skin.” My colleague knew that one of my specialties was working with self-concept, so she asked me to do a session with Cathy while she observed.

When we first sat down, Cathy was obviously very anxious—tense and nervous about what might happen, and her attention was intently on me, rather than on herself, and what she wanted from our session. When I asked her what she was experiencing right now, she said that she was scared. When I asked her what she was scared of, she said, “You’re so big! You’re towering over me.” (Later she said, “At that moment I felt like a child; there I was, this little person with this big giant man towering over me, and all the bad memories of my father’s abuse just rushed in!”)

I immediately got out of my chair, which was a little higher than the couch she was sitting on, and sat down on the floor, and her whole body visibly relaxed. (Later, she told me, “If you hadn’t sat down on the floor, I can’t imagine how that session would have gone.”)

As she told me about her outcomes for the session, she repeatedly said, “Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself.” Knowing that what someone says is often literal, rather than metaphoric, I asked her to pause and take a step backward into herself. This was one of those times when I fervently wished that I was recording the session on video, because her transformation was so profound—I wish change was always so easy! We spent some time consolidating this new way of being in her body, but that moment when she stepped back into herself was the key that opened a door. In the absence of video, I offer Cathy’s report a year and a half later:

“When you said to ‘Take a step backward’—WOW, I can still feel it—I literally stepped back into my body, back inside my skin, and I felt so different. At first it kind of scared me—it was unsettling because it was so unfamiliar. I felt ‘connected,’ I felt ‘whole’ in a way I hadn’t known was possible. When I took a walk right after that session, I felt ‘in my body’ so intensely. I felt my skin and bones, a tingling sensation all over, even the movement of my blood through my veins, and all my ‘borders,’ my ‘edges’—where my body ends, and everything outside me begins.

“Before this, the world was kind of a ‘soupy’ place for me. I felt ‘the same as’ others. I thought everyone saw the world the same as I do, and I rarely made distinct choices—I just kind of shuffled along with the crowd. I’ve spent the majority of my life ‘a head of myself,’ in my head and in the future, rather than in my body in the present. I was making life choices based on experiences and beliefs I’d accepted as ‘law’ long ago and far away.

“I now know in my bones that I can choose, that I make choices every minute, and I no longer live from a place of fear. I know now when it’s appropriate to be afraid, and when it’s not. Since then I have become increasingly aware of who I am, what I want, where I stand in relation to others, and not being swayed by what others around me say or want—and this continues to grow. It’s all still amazing to me. And when I sometimes ‘get ahead of myself’ now, I notice it, and I just take a step backward—back to myself!”

It’s very important to recognize that all of Cathy’s insights were the result (not the cause) of taking the action of stepping back into herself, and her own life.

*Originally published in the Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter, 2007.

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