This year’s NLP Conference this year in London was a tremendous success with 450 people attending the two-day event. Not only is that one of the few remaining NLP Conferences, it is certainly the largest. And it is primarily due to the faith and vision of one person, Jo Hogg. Here’s a head’s up for next year’s conference, it will be at Regis College again, November 25-27 2007.
This year I presented an introduction to the Wealth Creation modeling and training of Neuro-Semantics; next year I will present some facet of the Self-Actualization model on Unleashing Potentials.
While there this year, I had a dozen or so people come to the presentation, not so much for the content of Wealth Creation, but because they wanted to know more about Neuro-Semantics. The same thing happened in Avignon in southern France this past weekend, a couple people there told me about the same thing verbatim. They had read books and/or articles on the website and wanted to know more about Neuro-Semantics as a model and field.
Yet one person who I spoke with in London had a very unique way of describing his interest. He said that hewas interested in “Neuro-Semantic NLP.” “I’ve read the Matrix model and Mind-Lines and I’m just really fascinated by what you’re doing with Neuro-Semantic NLP.” I like that. Prior to that it was always Neuro-Semantics and NLP or Neuro-Semantics taking NLP to a new level. This was new, “Neuro-Semantic NLP.”
That evening I thought about it a lot and the next day I asked him what “Neuro-Semantic NLP” meant to him. “Well, it’s a new kind of NLP. What you’re doing with the idea of frames, levels of frames, multiple-levels of frames and how these dynamic frames are the logical levels and the higher states, it not only takes NLP to new places, but it gives NLP a whole new quality— you are dealing with meaning directly without getting it mixed up religion.”
Since that conversation, I’ve thought a lot about what he said. “Neuro-Semantic NLP” certainly acknowledges the dominate source of Neuro-Semantics, namely NLP. “Neuro-Semantic NLP” also says that what we are doing in Neuro-Semantics is giving NLP a new quality and focus, one focusing on our neuro-semantic nature. As a class of life that incorporates meaning neurologically in our mind-body system, meaning is not just a phenomenon of language and concepts, it is a holistic embodied experience. We know things in our body, in muscle-memory, and we use all of our biological senses and processing levels to generate meaning.
In London, I ran the Mind-to-Muscle pattern and talked about embodying meaning and several individuals who had very moving experiences with it, especially one sports coach, were thrilled about the power of closing the knowing-doing gap and taking what’s conceptual and installing it as procedural knowing in the body. He commented “this puts the K back in NLP” referring to K for kinesthetics. I think I’ll be making the comment from now on,
“This is Neuro-Semantic NLP. We make it meaningful from the conceptual level all the way down to the kinesthetic level.”
For years, we Neuro-Semanticists have been saying, “This is coaching the body to feel an idea. It is enabling you to know in your body what you know and even believe in your mind.”
At the London conference I noticed that some of the directions that different branches of NLP are going really differs from our direction. Some are focusing on more esoteric and mystic things; some are focusing on the enogram and using that model over the Meta- Programs, others talk about “pure” NLP as if its not allowed to develop and evolve.
Then there is Neuro-Semantic NLP.
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