Hi All,
I thought it might be interesting to do some online practice by watching a subject who is doing a less-than-optimal behaviour (for him or her), then observing an 'brief therapy' style intervention and writing about what we notice here.
If you've ever thought about using NLP for changework or therapy, this might be a fantastic chance to learn. I'll be providing some input and feedback as well, as it goes, and suggesting various possibilities, as well as throwing out a few opinions based on my own experience, for what that's worth.
If these prove popular, I'll do them periodically, so if you want more content like this, please participate if you can or, if not, msg me and let me know you like it!
There are some limitations. The video is edited, therefore observations will be limited. And it's also only for those in the UK this time around(due to restrictions on BBC's iPlayer). Finally, the video will only be available until March 7th, 2008, so you'll have to be timely!
Now, some
simple ground rules for this thread.
- I'd ask that those who participate already have NLP training (Prac or equivalent). I'll trust you to know yourself there.
- Let's keep the initial discussion (reasonably) well confined to answering the questions in this post. I might respond from a trainer's perspective, and let's reserve the general discussion for a bit. As of the 8th and the video's gone, more general discussion can begin.
- Also,let's agree to use an NLP framework here, at least for a bit. After the NLP discussion, if people want to suggest non-NLP perspectives, that will be fine. But at least until until March 8th, let's keep this NLP centric, OK?
- Finally, there are no wrong answers and this isn't about being nasty or critical. Since I'm asking people to venture forth and participate here, it's not about right or wrong, it's about learning.
I'll delete any bits I personally deem not to be constructive and respectful on this thread post haste. So let's not write anything that might cause me to respond like that, OK?
Now,
ready to begin? Good!
First of all, visit
this link ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=freaky+eaters&go=Find+Programmes ) and find (and watch) the episode of
Freaky Eaters entitled '
Addicted to Meat'.
Once you've watched the episode, I wonder what you might say to these questions?
- How does the client seem to do the behaviour? Stick to observable behaviours, no mind reads or guesses here please.
- Based on what you can observe from the client's behaviour in the context of the issue at hand, what might you suggest as an intervention? Show your reasoning, i.e., what are you doing in response to what and how do you think it might change things?
- Observe the intervention. What bits do you think provoked responses from the client that seemed to you to be moving him towards a more useful behaviour? Site the client responses here that lead you to draw these conclusions.
- What bits did the opposite and, again, how do you know that based on sensory data?
That's it! Get to watching and I hope everyone will be looking forward to reading the responses here and learning from the experience!
Be Well,
Michael Perez
PS: I'm sorry this one's only for our UK members, but if anyone knows of a similar, reasonably high quality source of material to evaluate that is more universally available, message me about it and I'll see about using it in the future.
