NLP Email Training 42

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Look into your inner self! Inside is the source of goodness that never stops bubbling as long as you don't stop digging.

Marcus Aurelius

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

In this lesson, we will discuss a simple and elegant model for describing personal change. The model comes from Robert Dilts, one of the most enthusiastic NLP developers. It provides information about the best point at which to start a change process. The focus is on the fact that we are not just changing a particle of ourselves, but thinking holistically. A change leads to further changes at 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.

Skills:

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 everyday actions. Beliefs and attitudes can include both permissions (allowances) and restrictions (prohibitions).

Identity:

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

Belonging / Vision / Mission:

This concerns our professional, family, social, or any other (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 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 at the logical levels:

Environment:

The noise in the room makes it difficult to have dictations written. Anchors can easily be set during a group exercise. Cancer has afflicted me.

Behavior:

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

Skills:

You cannot 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 will never get by 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 stupid, 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 is 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 show?
• Skills: What can you do? What skills and abilities do you have? What can you do particularly well?
• Beliefs and Values: What beliefs guide you?
• Identity: Who are you?
• Belonging: What do you belong to? What mission are you pursuing?

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 pityingly. "Try again: take a deep breath, close your eyes ..."

Alice laughed. "I don't even need to try," she said. "Something impossible cannot be believed."

"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 had already 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 consciousness that have previously been little accessible to them. They collect various mosaic pieces of their personality and combine them into a coherent overall picture.

This creates a multifaceted panorama of personality, in which individual focal points, important areas of concern, potential problems, and future development opportunities can be recognized. The client gradually develops a map of their personality. The Personality Panorama complements NLP with a practical and effective method, enabling a holistic diagnosis in collaboration with the client and thus 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. The structured approach of the Personality Panorama therefore suggests its use particularly in business coaching. Detailed case studies in this book demonstrate the method in practice.

Here the book can be ordered: Now on Amazon

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