DEFINITIONS:
Anchoring: Referred to in NLP as a pattern. A picture, sound, touch or movement suggested to self or others that elicits a desired response or state. Psychologists recognize the patterns of anchoring as stimulus response conditioning.
Associated: Having an experience, reliving an experience or imagining an experience – looking through your own eyes and seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking and processing it in first position – as yourself. You would be unable to see yourself in the experience, for example from behind, above or below.
Attention: Where or what one is focusing on, either consciously, unconsciously or both and involves internally processing the information being focused on.
Auditory: Where one processes sounds, words, music etc. through hearing. Also remembering information previously heard and imagining hearing information. Also includes internal dialogue and internal sounds, words and soundtracks.
Behaviour: Something a person does or a manner in which they behave in a particular context which involves processing internally through the senses.
Beliefs: Human beings have beliefs about what is true, right, correct or not true, wrong and incorrect. These are formed from the experiences they have had in the world, things they have heard and can come from other people of influence. They may or may not be useful to the individual and they may be holding beliefs that are in fact other people’s beliefs.
Calibration: Being able to read another person’s responses through visual, auditory and kinesthetic processing. This involves recognizing that each individual responds differently and you must have previously observed that persons expressions and responses to calibrate them without adding your own interpretation or mind reading.
Congruence: When internal processing of an individual matches what they exhibit externally. When they agree internally, something is suitable for them and appropriate.
Conscious mind: An individual’s conscious mind refers to what we knowingly use to take in information that we experience through their senses. Our conscious mind can only hold a limited amount of information at anyone time.
Conscious Awareness: This is the information represented in sensory terms made available through ones conscious mind. The information we are consciously aware of at any one time. Commonly referred to as bringing it to ones attention.
Content: The details contained in another’s representations and experiences. This may include pictures, sounds, feelings and other sensitive or personal information about a person or their life. This information has been filtered through the individuals beliefs and representations of the world.
Content Free: The omission of content. An approach to NLP that ensures the processes and patterns remain pure and free from interpretation, mind reading, presuppositions and assumptions. The content belongs to, and remains with, the individual.
Context: The details surrounding a particular event, situation, or interaction.
Cybernetics: The science of control and communication in humans, animals and machines.
Dissociated: Having an experience, reliving an experience or imagining an experience looking from outside ones own perspective. You would be able to see yourself or part of yourself within the situation watching yourself in that context.
Ecology: Ecology for an individual is when one ensures that changes, choices, events, interactions, society and other people are in keeping with ones own beliefs and values and model of the world. This also addresses personal safety.
Eliciting: The ability to obtain a particular response, state, shift, resource or information from another person through specific communication.
Emergent Learning: A phrased coined by Chris Collingwood of Inspiritive Pty Ltd. Refers to an approach to learning in NLP by having the learning experience first without need for conscious understanding at the time. By experiencing patterns or processes in this fashion, one then fully embodies the learning’s and conscious understanding can take place at an indeterminate time after the experience.
Emotion: The label placed on a sensory based experience. This may include representations visually, auditory and/or kinesthetically. One may experience a light and uneven sensation within the torso area and label it anxiety, another may label it excitement.
Emotional State: The experience of an emotion either in the extreme, enhanced or limiting. You are able to unpack the way a person represents an emotional state and by choice, can re-pack it in a more useful way. This gives re-definition to the sensory experience of the emotion.
Epistemology: The study of how we know what we know and how we think, behave, respond, and function as a living system. Feedback: Information gathered from others and from the world that indicate if you have reached your outcome and/or fulfilled your intention. This is useful and gives us information on how else to respond to obtain the desired result, creating flexibility.
First Position: Experiencing and representing information through ones own senses, that is, looking through ones own eyes, hearing through ones own ears, feeling through ones own touch, taking in information through ones taste and sense of smell.
Flexibility: Having the ability to draw upon a wide range of resources, skills, techniques, processes and patterns in ones behaviour, responses and communications.
Framing: The detail and information given prior to, during, or after an event, interaction, behaviour or communication that purposely prepares and gives meaning to another.
Future Pace: An NLP process that allows one to experience and place changes or possible changes in their behaviour, states, communications, abilities, resources, beliefs and/or values, in their own future. A way of trying on a change for a particular time in the future, in a particular context.
Generative: A limitless approach to learning, change and self improvement that creates opportunities for further learning, changing and self improvement as a result.
Hypnosis: The art of altering another persons state, usually applied to deliberate trance induction and utilization.
Identity: The way in which we represent our selves in sensory terms. Often we have an ideal or desired self image of ourselves in which we call our identity. This is how we see ourselves, hear and feel about ourselves combined with our beliefs, values and perceptual filters.
Information: The telling of or knowledge of something. In NLP it is referred to as news of difference. We respond to information in the world by difference.
Incongruence: When internal processing of an individual does not match what they are externally exhibiting. This occurs when they do not agree internally, or something is not suitable or appropriate.
Integration: Is when learned NLP processes and patterns become embodied – to take the learning on board, to have and to utilize.
Intention: The purpose or intent behind ones action or behaviour. Many people believe their intention is positive according to how they represent their information. Ask the same person 2 similar questions and observe the different responses they elicit;
Q). Why do you want that?
A). Usually starts with because..then,
Q). What do you want that for?
A). Usually refers to fulfilling an intent of some sort.
Internal Representation: How we represent to ourselves, information from the world. Our inner thoughts made up of pictures, sounds and feelings. Our processing behind what we do.
Kinaesthetic: Our sense of touch/feeling both internally and externally.
Linguistics: The formal study of language.
Logical levels: A system for organizing information into classes and sub classes for taking in information and useful organization and storage for memory.
Logical types: The distinction/difference within the classes and sub-classes of information.
Metaphor: Descriptive term to relate something that is not literally applicable. Often applied in NLP through story and description directly to the unconscious mind allowing learning’s to occur without the immediate awareness of the conscious mind.
Modelling: Refers to the ability to have an unconscious uptake of a particular pattern, process, quality or skill of another who performs with excellence, in its purest form. Also to describe, replicate and transfer that pattern or process, quality or skill to another.
Model of the World: How we each perceive our subjective experiences of the world. This includes our own beliefs and values, interactions, perceptual filters, education, outcomes and desires.
New Code: The teaching and demonstrating of NLP patterns and processes in a generative and systemic approach, considering ecology.
Outcomes: What one desires and how they represent that in sensory terms.
Pattern: Any sequence of features that repeats over time.
Perceptual Filters: Our individual perceptions of the world and how we exist within it. We filter information from the outside world through our perceptual filters, including our beliefs and values, social and personal biases, reference to previous experiences, and our imagination.
Physiology: Relates to ones physical body, posture, and breathing. A persons physiology can change according to the state they are in at any one time. State changes can occur by changing physiology, from un-resourceful to resourceful.
Present state: Refers to any current emotional and/or state of mind that someone experiences.
Presuppositions: What must be true for a sentence to make sense? The assumptions, deletions, distortions and generalizations made in a sentence. This includes peoples beliefs and values, biases and models of the world.
Rapport: Engaging the willing unconscious attention of another through verbal and/or non verbal communication. This is distinctly different to like someone or getting along well with someone.
Second Position: The ability to experience a situation or encounter from the other persons perspective, as if you were in their shoes.
Sensory acuity: Refers to the information one takes in through what they see, hear, feel, taste and smell and the ability to make the distinctions without interpretations or mind reading. When in an interaction with another person, sensory acuity will detect changes in the other person, such as eye movements, voice tone changes or skin colour shifts.
Sensory terms: Being able to describe in sensory terms relates to specifically what was seen, heard and felt, rather than using non-sensory specific language. Example; I remember a picture of yellow light, no sound, and a light even feeling in my stomach. Compared to; I remember a sunset and felt happy.
State: As in state of mind. Refers to the emotions, beliefs, values, behaviour, response and abilities one experiences at one particular time. Identifying how you experience a particular state creates the ability to change any or all variables to a more resourceful state in any particular context.
Systemic Thinking: Thinking in terms of patterns, processes and systems and their relationships.
Synaesthesias: When an experience of something in one of the sense instantaneously reacts in another sense. This is done through internal representations. Example; When I see a spider, I experience an uneven feeling in my stomach.
Third position: Experiencing a situation or encounter from a dissociated position. That is, as if you were an observer of yourself and the other person(s) in the encounter.
Time lines: How an individual experiences time. How they represent time in any context. How an individual internally organizes the past, present and future.
Triple Description: Three different perspectives or positions on any one situation or encounter. This can be through perceptual positions and/or a description through three difference senses.
Unconscious Mind: An individual’s unconscious mind refers to where the processing and store of large chunks of information. What we know that is outside of our conscious awareness at any one time.
Values: Ones values are beliefs and ideals developed from their personal subjective experiences in the world. This includes cultures they have experienced, the family as a child, people of influence, biases and what they desire. A value is what is important to the individual.
Visual: When one processes through the sense of sight – includes internal pictures or mini movies in black & white or colour constructed through seeing. Also remembering information previously seen and imagining seeing information in the future.
Well Formedness: Ensures consideration has been taken in regards to intentions, costs and consequences, personal ecology and is under the control of the individual (not relying upon someone else to do or be something).When referring to well formed outcomes, also ensures the outcome is stated in positive terms. Example; I want a new yellow car. This is stated in positive terms. I don’t want an old banger. This is stated in negated terms.
