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Pacing and leading

by Joanna on May 2, 2007

Pacing and leading are closely related to the concept of rapport.  Pacing involves ‘matching’ someone for a while (going at their pace) until you have gained enough rapport that when you slowly start to change what you are doing (leading) the individual will follow. Pacing and leading depend on the quality of rapport that you [...]

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Walking around the Old Town of Edinburgh is a powerful reminder of the limitations of maps. There’s no way that any map can do justice to the criss-crossing streets, the rabbit’s warren of narrow closes, the dizzying effect as you look over a bridge and see the dark chasm of another road running deep beneath [...]

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What is NLP? The 18th Camel

by Joanna on March 5, 2007

There are many definitions of NLP.  None of them capture it perfectly.  I think NLP must be a bit like a jelly that is hard to pin down (but good to eat….and you’ll know it when you see it!).  It is based on a set of presuppositions which are the central principles of NLP.  They [...]

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The map is not the territory

by Joanna on February 10, 2007

“The map is not the territory” is one of the presuppositions of NLP. The words we use are not the event or the item they represent. Although the words we use to describe an event are chosen to represent it, the words themselves are not the event itself. We create our own version of reality [...]

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The presuppositions of NLP

by Joanna on February 5, 2007

Here are some of the main presuppositions of NLP. You might see slightly different variations of these and the ones I’ve included here come from the ANLP. I like the clear, simple language they’ve used to explain a little more about each one. As an NLP practitioner it is part of my code of ethics [...]

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