Alje van Hoorn - business and life coach - master NLP practitioner

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Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP)

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Bandler and John Grinder studied three of the top therapists in the world— Virginia Satir (Family Therapist), Fritz Pearls (Psychologist) and Milton Erickson (Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist). Their goal was to find out what made these three therapists so extraordinary in their respective professions. This study gave birth to Neuro-Lingistic programming (NLP) a behavior science that describes how the brain codes learning and experiences.

NLP provides a series of techniques and a methodology to model, influence, enhance and change the use of these patterns and codes in yourself and others, and has become an attitude of thinking in terms of possibilities instead of problems. It has created new ways of understanding how verbal and non-verbal communication affects the human brain.

The Presuppositions of NLP

  • The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is often more valuable than changing the content of our experience.
  • The meaning of communication is the response you elicit.
  • The resources and individual needs to affect change are already within.
  • If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. Therefore, if something is not working, try something new!
  • The map is not the territory it depicts.
  • The positive intention of the individual is held constant while the value and appropriateness of the internal and/or external behavior is questioned.
  • People are not their behaviors.
  • There is a positive intention motivating every behavior; and a context in which every behavior has value.
  • Successful communicators accept and utilize all communication / behavior presented to them. You can not not communicate.
  • There is no failure, only feedback.
  • All procedures should be designed to increase choice.
  • Behavior and change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology.
  • Calibrate on behavior: the most important information about a person is that person’s behavior.
  • If you want to understand— act! Action leads to clarity.

Power of the Mind

When a desire has been newly conceptualized it needs to pass through several steps which capture its essence, thus turning it into a reality. The process of ‘Multiple Creation’ uses the power of our conscious and subconscious minds to attract possibilities and opportunities for you to realize and own your desires. This can be done by thinking new thoughts, seeding these thoughts in optimal conditions and then nurturing them through the use of affirmations and visualization. The final step is then to take action to make these new thoughts reality.

Spiral Dynamics

The Spiral Dynamics workshop, as taught by Chris Cowan and Natasha Todorovic, brings together ways of thinking and making connections about the complexities of human existence and understanding the order and chaos in human affairs. It explains the deep forces in human nature which shape our values.

Spiral Dynamics is concerned with why we cooperate, collaborate and conflict over differences in values and the value systems that form them. It concentrates on human thinking systems—deep structures—instead of the surface attitudes and beliefs that form their contents. It's a theory of how people frame the reality they experience—how people see their worlds, why they choose to do what they do from a set of distinct 'logics' and what others can do because of that diversity of systems.

Life Zone Analysis

Life zone analysis provides you with the knowledge of the differing rules to the ‘games’ of life. It gives you insight into what is expected of you as you perform the varying roles you take on in your life. It allows you to keep a player attitude, and make the most out of every situation that you find yourself in.

Life Wheel

The life wheel is a fast and effective tool to indicate which area of your life is out of sync. It allows you to focus your attention on this area and then return your life to balance, creating a more flowing shape.

Psychophonetics

Psychophonetics is a tool used for self-development, based on Rudolf Steiner’s Psychosophy. It extends the art of conversational counseling to embrace direct experience through body awareness, movement, visualization and sound. It transforms life challenges into opportunities for unfolding our human potential.

Psychophonetics encourages people to take responsibility for their own healing, transformation and development.

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