NLP Email Training 42

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Look inside yourself! Inside is the source of good, which never stops bubbling as long as you don't stop digging.

Marcus Aurelius

The Logical Levels (1) according to Gregory Bateson / Robert Dilts

This lesson is about a simple and elegant model for describing personal change. The model comes from Robert Dilts, one of the most diligent NLP developers. It provides information about the best point at which change work should begin. The focus is on not just changing a part of ourselves, but thinking holistically. A change leads to further changes on other levels. You probably know the example of a butterfly's wing flap that can trigger storms elsewhere.

First, I want to introduce you to the individual levels:

Environment:

This is everything we react to, our surroundings, and other people we encounter.

Behavior:

These are our concrete actions.

Capabilities:

These are the groups or classes of behaviors, general skills, and strategies that we use in our lives.

Beliefs and Values:

These are the various guiding ideas that we hold to be true and use as the basis for our daily actions. Beliefs and attitudes can include both permissions and restrictions.

Identity:

This is my fundamental self-image: my deepest, central values and my purpose or mission in my life.

Belonging / Vision / Mission:

This is about our professional, familial, societal, or any other kind of (perhaps philosophical, religious) mission. This is the deepest level where we consider and implement the greatest metaphysical questions. Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? This spiritual level guides and shapes our lives and provides a foundation for our existence. Any change at this level has profound effects on all levels. In a sense, it contains everything we do, but it is more than the sum of its parts.

(Literature: Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, NLP: Successful Communication and Personal Development, Freiburg i. Breisgau 1992.)

Examples of verbal statements on the logical levels:

Environment:

The noise in the room makes it difficult to write dictations. Anchors can be easily set during a group exercise. The cancer has affected me.

Behavior:

In this dictation, you didn't spell well. You set an anchor with this person. Sometimes I just can't behave healthily.

Capabilities:

You can't spell well. You are capable of anchoring other people. I am unable to be in a good state.

Beliefs and Values:

If you can't spell, you'll never get along in school. Knowing how to anchor makes you an influential person. It is a wrong attitude to want to rebel against the inevitable.

Identity:

You are dumb, a learning-disabled child. You are a good NLP practitioner. I am a cancer victim.

Belonging:

You belong to the learning-disabled, the underachievers. You belong to the best of the NLP elite. You belong to the victims of cancer, those who suffer the same fate.

Exercise for This Week

After these preliminary considerations, it's your turn. Describe yourself according to the Logical Levels, e.g.:

• Environment: In what environment do you live/work?
• Behavior: What do you do there? What behaviors do you exhibit?
• Capabilities: What can you do? What skills and abilities do you have? What are you particularly good at?
• Beliefs and Values: What beliefs guide you?
• Identity: Who are you?
• Belonging: What do you belong to? What mission do you pursue?

In the next lesson, I will present you with another exercise on the Logical Levels.

Supplementary links

Audio:

Introduction to the logical levels >>>
Stephan briefly introduces the logical levels here.

Text:

Logical Levels >>>
Deepening the model of logical levels according to Robert Dilts.

Metaphor of the Week
Alice and her beliefs

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"No?" said the Queen sympathetically. "Try again: take a deep breath, close your eyes..."

Alice laughed. "I don't need to try," she said. "You can't believe something impossible."

"You just haven't had the right practice yet," said the Queen. "At your age, I spent half an hour on it every day. Sometimes I believed up to six impossible things before breakfast."

Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass

Book Recommendation

Personality Panorama. Applied NLP in Counseling and Coaching
Author: Daniela Blickhan

Short Description:
The Personality Panorama allows a client to bring areas of their personality into awareness that were previously less accessible to them. They gather various mosaic pieces of their personality and assemble them into a coherent overall picture.

This creates a multi-layered panorama of the personality, in which individual focal points, important areas of interest, potential problems, and future development opportunities can be identified. The client develops a map of their personality step by step. The Personality Panorama complements NLP with a practical and effective method that enables holistic diagnostics in collaboration with the client, providing a solid foundation for the therapeutic process.

The Personality Panorama is applicable in counseling and coaching as well as in psychotherapy. Many coaching clients are not very interested in therapeutic language. Therefore, the structured method of the Personality Panorama suggests its use especially in business coaching. Detailed case studies in this book demonstrate the method in practice.

Here the book can be ordered: Now at Amazon

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