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East Bay NLP Cafe, Berkeley
What is East Bay NLP Cafe?
It is a group that meets monthly to learn and practice NLP. You will need some NLP know-how to participate.
When: usually the 3rd or 4th Sunday of the month, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Program schedule: 1-3 times monthly by email, no spam. Subscribe with a blank email: East_bay_cafe-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Where: Berkeley area
Prerequisite: some experience doing NLP
Cost: Free
This group focuses on 3 areas:
- Modeling. NLP is modeling (finding out precisely how people do things), not the trail of techniques that resulted from it. Yet modeling rarely gets taught in NLP trainings.
- Practice and skill-building.
- Making changes in our own lives. Benefit from an outcome-based focus and accountability. Practice all the skills you use with clients as you assist your fellow NLPers and make progress yourself.
Once you know how to model, you become much more effective at getting change. With practice, you can develop custom interventions on the spot. Plus, modeling is lots of fun, a great way to build your NLP skills, and always interesting as you explore the territory directly.
Next meeting: not yet scheduled
Future meeting dates, presenters, and topics
TBA by email — how to sign up
Past presentations
Note: This list is NOT kept up-to-date.
October 2004: Nancy Freedom demonstrated and taught her improved version of Six-Step Reframing.
September 2004: We modeled a recognition strategy -- how the explorer noticed particular people as "significant" upon first meeting them.
August 2004: We modeled the difference between wanting something optional and feeling like we "need" it.
July 2004: We modeled focused attention -- how people do it, what triggers it, what keeps our attention focused or pops us out. We found that triggering focus and flow states involved foregrounding what we were focusing on and the process of doing it, and backgrounding everything else.
Two visual strategies worked as triggers for flow in the people we modeled:
- Wrapping the picture around us or getting pulled into it as a way of associating fully (5 people)
- Magnifying the picture, in one case until it filled the entire visual field (2 people)
Other submodality shifts involved making sounds farther away and fainter; making what we focused on colorful and 3-D, and everything else 2-D and grayer, fainter, or black and white; and associating only into the kinesthetics of what we're doing (motion and emotion) while backgrounding other sensations.
June 2004: We explored anchoring techniques that work more reliably and generate stronger states. We used this to trigger states we wanted but hadn't been able to get reliably.
May 2004: Wilma Keppel did a brief presentation on Markova modality stacking, then Jan "yon" Saeger demonstrated Self Witnessing, a technique taught in NLP Health Practitioner training.
April 2004: Tom Stephan presented on spirituality and NLP.
March 2004: We practiced interventions.
February 2004: Jan Saeger presented a powerful new technique he developed, the Global Swish. Wilma Keppel then described the results of research she and Jan Saeger have done on the structure of personality and how it relates to people's problems.
January 2004: We created a disclosure form that complies with the new California health law. (If you do business NLP, you may not need it — but if you do reimprinting in a business setting, having a signed disclosure protects you legally.)
December 2003: Orv Barr presented Nick LeForce's new Fast Forgiveness process. It's quick, easy, and so simple children (and child parts) can understand and do it. Jan Saeger discussed Markova modality stacking.
November 2003: Howard Cohen told us about the new California health law, SB577, how it affects NLPers, who needs to comply, and how to do so.
October 2003: Orv Barr led us in modeling conversational NLP skills.
September 2003: Jan Saeger and Wilma Keppel presented the results of their synchronicity modeling project.
August 2003: Nancy Freedom explored recent political use of language patterns that terrify.
July 2003: Wilma Keppel demonstrated her method of installing parts ecologically.
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