![]() It was as if I had unconsciously outsourced the decision of what ‘purpose’ looks like as if it indeed it is a ‘thing’ that others could recognise, a static form. I had focussed on self-actualisation for years, yet NLP tools helped me to identify how I - or at least my representational ‘I’ - was getting in my own way, and it did so with greater clarity than I had ever experienced before.Ī small example: I realised during the training that the positive intention behind my external referencing pattern was to reach my full potential (I somehow thought that others could help me get there and didn’t fully trust myself!) Yet in this process of seeking, I had confused ‘full potential’ with ‘purpose’ or more specifically, with doing. Paradoxically, I had been resisting NLP due to pre-established frames (belief structures, values, memories), and yet only by using NLP to release the frames I moved beyond resistance. I noticed that from a place of diffuse receptivity, full acceptance was completely available and from this place I thrived in the training: my listening expanded to depths far beyond the words, I allowed the teaching in without judgement, and, I was completely engaged! And there was my hook my unconscious filter: to put it simply, “orange values are bad”.Īs this filter moved from unconscious (subject) awareness to conscious (object) awareness it shifted. I had associated the NLP metaphors of machine, including ‘fire the anchor’ and ‘meta programs’, with those widely and unconsciously appropriated by orange organisations (using Ken Wilber’s colour coding of developmental stages of consciousness). I attached meaning to the mechanistic metaphors and my perceptual capacity in the moment was limited by these meaning filters, as was my openness to learning. I noticed that at times, the language jarred and disrupted my learning and I would become lost in my own internal map of reality. ![]() I had noticed that some of the NLP jargon, used to describe humans being human, felt mechanistic. Yet I was curious about the lack of awareness among many of my friends and colleagues (often students of Integral Theory and engaged in self-actualisation) in the powerful contribution NLP makes to the Human Potential movement. I could certainly see how NLP tools may be used for coercion. The reactions I received felt incongruous with my subjective experience of NLP and I was curious about why. More broadly speaking, there was confusion about how it was aligned with my fascination for evolutionary human development and my embodied inquiry into in Integral Theory in practice. I also had little awareness of its frames or applications, except that it was used as a communication tool.Īs I shared with my friends that I was training in NLP, I became intrigued by the reaction I consistently received: mostly, NLP was perceived as a ‘manipulative’ or even ‘aggressive’ tool. ![]() While I had heard of NLP, I had no previous experience of it. ![]() I began the practitioner training with very few expectations (apart from being in the presence of skillful and engaging trainers at The Coaching Room, having completed their Integral-Semantics Facilitation course!). My very first experience of NLP was transformative. My Transformative Experience With NLP and Integral Theory
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