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Harry Knox introduces the concept of Metaphor in relation to problem identification and then problem resolution in a content free way using metaphor. The intention being to stimulate change in a generative way by working at a different or meta level to the original problem.
Framing is an important part of any communication. How we ‘frame’ a message can dramatically change it’s effectiveness.
In this BBC News article If only the bail-out had been called a rescue Jonathan Gabay discusses how choice of words affected the passage of America’s $700 billion bail-out plan. The use of the word bail-out is the problem he compares and contrasts two different ways of making the same pitch.
Would you prefer a $700 billion bail-out plan, or a $700 million rescue plan?
In both cases the plan is the same, the frame is different. Bail-out suggest failure and breakdown, rescue suggests heroic efforts to save the day.
The article contains an excellent discussion of the use of these frames although he talks about it in terms of branding rather than framing.
If you are interested in frames an excellent book about framing is Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff. It’s about framing in American politics but the principles are good far beyond that bear pit.
Cross-posted from Practical Wellbeing
NLP’s second model is the human sensory processing model that incorporates eye accessing and sensory language predicates. Often known as the VAKOG model. Here is a short introduction to sensory language predicates presented by Nigel Hetherington.
NLP has been in existence for more than 30 years. One of it’s signature techniques is the Visual Kinesthetic (VK) dissociation process (sometimes known as the fast phobia cure) that is used to distance oneself from stressful experiences.
‘Real’ psychologists can be a bit ’sniffy’ about NLP processes citing the lack of scientific research in this field. They might find some reassurance from the article Analyse Emotions From a Distance.
The article reviews a study from Ethan Kross of the University of Michigan which suggests that the best way to cope with distressing situations is to analyse feelings from a psychologically distanced perspective.
It is an invaluable human ability to think about what we do, but reviewing our mistakes over and over, re-experiencing the same negative emotions the we felt the first time around, tends to keep us stuck in negativity. It can be very helpful to take a sort of mental time out, to sit back and review the situation from a distance
This effect revolves around a fundamental distinction in NLP.
When we are remembering (or imagining) a situation are we ‘fully in’ the situation seeing it from our own eyes, feeling the feelings and hearing the sounds as if they were happening to us right now? If so then we are ‘associated’ into that experience.
Or are we seeing the experience as an onlooker as if we are watching ourselves on TV, as if the experience was happening to someone else. If so then we are ‘dissociated’ from the experience.
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It’s the NLP Cafe’s First Birthday this month and we’d like to invite you to our FREE anniversary session.
Most other people would be content to sit around, eat birthday cake and reminisce. Not us! We are going to have our usual structured foray into the world of NLP and then eat birthday cake and reminisce.
The subject of this month’s meeting will be an NLP version of ‘The Work’ a self development process created by Byron Katie. Although she doesn’t mention NLP in her work there are many NLP aspects in her approach to eliciting and neutralising limiting beliefs. In this workshop Andy Hunt will explore the work from an NLP perspective and demonstrate ways of applying it in daily life.
We do hope you can come along and join our Birthday Bash!
Since it’s our Birthday it’s FREE … and there will be cake!
The NLP Cafe meets at 7pm on Tuesday, October 21st 2008 at St Oswald’s Hospice Teaching Centre, Regent Ave, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1EE
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