The Second NLP Leadership Summit — Nov. 2013
From: L. Michael Hall
Welcome to the first email from the new Egroup — NLP Leadership Summit! From what I have heard from everyone— we had an excellent Summit and accomplished a lot.
Projects:
During the NLP Leadership Summit — we came up with 7 projects. And with Shelle’s great co-facilitation we got names and dates as we set things up to truly collaborate (work together). Below is the list that Shelle made of the assignments and the content of the Flip Charts that Bob Janes transcribed. If you were not at the Summit –the lists that follow are the working lists that we all wrote … and the names of the individuals with the group will be creating a summary that we will put out to this group and then use to put a statement on the website.
Orientation:
The vision for this group is that we have something in common — we are all deeply invested in making NLP more credible, more professional, and more valued. We are also associating in this Summit — not to create another association, but simply to associate collaboratively with each other in this common adventure. Our objective is simply to connect, communicate, support, understand, and learn to appreciate each other.
Frank Pucelik and I have introduced the language of “the elders of the tribe” as a way to think about the role that those of us who have been in this field for 15 or more years have. We are the older ones and leadership is up to us! Our aim is to tap into the tremendous intellectual, creative, and social capital that we all have and see if we can provide a more collaborative leadership for the field of NLP.
We all come from many different associations of NLP and for 40 years, we have tried again and again to create a Super-Association to govern the whole field. Yet if we follow our own NLP advice: “If what we are doing is not working, do something else” (do anything else!), then it is time not to create another association, but to simple associate as the leaders and see what we can create relationally and inter-personally.
Egroup:
I have created an Egroup for NLP Leadership Summit; well, I didn’t, I had my IT guy do it! I then entered all of your email addresses. The system is automatized so that the first day of every month you will receive a notice whereby you can unsubscribe. You will also receive an automatized welcoming letter.
The Egroup system is moderated … so if someone writes something and you happen to hit “reply” and thought you were only writing to that person rather than to the whole group, it will be caught. This has saved me many embarrassments! 🙂 This will provide a forum in addition to the LinkedIn one.
To post on this group, hit “Reply” and put your Name and Email address at the top left. Warning: When you hit “reply,” your email will go to the whole group. So do be careful! Putting your Name & Email allows us also to write to each other privately. If you write to an individual, the moderator will reject you’re email; that helps so our email boxes will not be filled with emails that are not directly relevant to all of us.
Reference:
For a blog on Misconceptions about NLP, Karen Moxom has a statement. There’s also links to the aim, vision, community interest and history of ANLP.
http://www.anlp.org/blog/2013/11/misconceptions-about-anlp.htm
PROJECTS — (Shelle Rose Charvet) Activities we agreed on to achieve:
1) Create draft website: www.nlpleadershipsummit.org
Persons: Shelle, Bob Janes and Rich Liotta
Date: by Dec 31, 2013
2) Common NLP Vocabulary pages in Russian, Ukrainian and English
Persons: Frank Pucelik, send to Shelle
Date: by Jan 1, 2014
3) What are we here for? Text
Persons: Joe Cheal, Karen Moxom and Lisa Wakeby
Date: Dec 30th, send to Shelle
4) Our Values
Persons: Jeremy Lazarus, Melody Cheal, Bruce Grimley
Date: by Dec 30th, send to Shelle
5) What is NLP?
Persons: Rich Liotta, Rick Gray (serves you right for not being here!! J), Bruce Grimley.
Date: send to Shelle by Dec 30th
6) What we stand for
Persons: Wyatt Woodsmall, Eva Hols and Frank Pucelik
Date: by Dec 30 to Shelle
7) NLP Misconceptions
Persons: Dianne Lowther, Bob Janes, Judith Lowe & John
Date: by Dec 30th to Shelle
8) Define Criteria on who need to be here, draft manifesto
Persons: Gilles Roy & Michael Hall.
Date: by Jan 20, 2014 to Shelle
3) What’s the Purpose/Function of this Group i.e. What am I signing up for?
Collaboration
Inspiring – living examples
Raise the professionalism of NLP
To promote the development of high quality NLP worldwide
To collaborate with people who live and care about high quality NLP
To pass on heritage/transmission
To set up communications worldwide to educate what is happening that is enhancing advancing NLP
To add credibility to the name ‘NLP’
To support the development of NLP
To clarify the meaning of the qualification
Supervision of the field (wisdom)
Demonstration of collaborative practice among ourselves (to be an example of what we are aiming to achieve)
Be models of excellence – that is externally validated
Produce something practical and useable
4) Our Values with Each Other
Jeremy
Practical
Successful
Education
Clarity
Credibility
Professionalism
Cooperation/Collaboration
Ethical
Ecology
Respectful
Supportive
Accountability
Well- being of our students (supervision)
Research/testing
Integrity
Kind (something ‘kindness’ like Dalai Lama? warm-heartedness?)
Compassionate
Global (understanding/appreciating differences
Robust/rigorous
Contribution to humanity
Effective
Congruent
Reality Based
5) What NLP Is?
A humanistic psychological model
Structure of subjective experience
Behavioural science change technology born in the 1990s by G.B.P. that has spread worldwide with applications in business, health, psychotherapy, etc.
Methodology that utilises high quality processes, tools and techniques
Specialises in the structures of learning and change *growth
A set of tools, techniques, and attitudes with three key benefits: improves communication; changes attitudes behaviours and beliefs; replicate excellence. Can lead to better results faster.
A modelling process
Patterning – identify/detecting patterns
Includes collection of tools to facilitate change
6) What We Stand For
Integrity -> to be congruent and live what we talk
Ethics and ecology
High standard -> quality of clarity of standards in knowledge and skills
Development
No short (4-7) day PT programs
No training so that do not meet international standards
Professionalism
The presupps in action thought/delivery
Contribution at global levels to the evolution of intelligence and wisdom
Better communication at all levels of society
Development of the human race
7) Common misconceptions that we discourage
About everything
Magic wand
Quasi-religious
– house- pet
– giraffe
Too short trainings
Used without NLP presupposition
A cure for disease
A panacea for all -> over promising ‘Speed Seduction, etc.’
Finished or complete
Appropriate for certain psychological/physical conditions
May not be X – but application for . . .
Covert manipulation
Unethical
Dangerous when used effectively professionally
Not one simple generalisation
Money making brand
Cult with dogma creed
Online training/distance learning
Pyramid selling
Bandler’s property > public domain
