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© 1992 Steve Andreas I – The Elements of NLP Just over 200 years ago, when the first chemists began to understand matter, their simple model of the chemical world described only how different elements combined in consistent and predictable mathematical ratios. Their major search was simply an application of this model: to determine how […]

© 1999 Steve Andreas A few months ago someone asked me a very interesting question, one that I have thought about many times since then: “What is the difference between someone who uses NLP with an average degree of skill and someone who uses it with much greater skill?” I think that there are many

by Steve Andreas©2003  Introduction          Virginia Satir was one of the pioneers of family therapy, and probably the greatest family therapist who ever lived. She was also a major source of NLP patterns (1), and in 1985 she presented a keynote address to the National Association for NLP in Denver, Colorado. At the end of

Steve AndreasPsychotherapy Networker, March/April 2012 “People don’t come to therapy for explanations; they come for experience.”                —Frieda Fromm-Reichmann We’ve all seen clients who suffer from debilitating and obstructive feelings of uncertainty: “I don’t know what to do with my life,” “I don’t know whether to stay or go,” “I can’t motivate myself.” But sometimes the problem

by Steve Andreas ©2000                One powerful aspect of NLP is to discover what kind of internal experience is elicited by the use of specific language. This enables us to use language in a very directed way in order to get the results that we want. Often the careful examination of a single word yields great

By Scott McCloud Review by Steve Andreas ©2001              Warren McCulloch was one of the first, and one of the best, to apply the rigor of logic and mathematics to understanding the functioning of neural nets in the first half of the 20th century. He laid much of the foundation of understanding upon which the field

by Steve Andreas Q: I’ve had very limited success treating court-referred clients. They’re often hostile and have little use for me. What do you recommend that I do differently?    A: If you see court-referred clients, you know that they’re usually furious about being coerced into therapy, appear to despise you, and totally resist any of

 by Steve Andreas         ©2002          Up to this point I have asked you to explore a quality that you know is true of yourself, and that you like. That specifies that it is a quality that is solid, and is in alignment with your values, so you already have a fairly extensive and effective database of

by Steve Andreas About eight years ago, Virginia gave a workshop in San Francisco with Richard Bandler and John Grinder, two men who had closely studied her work and made it a central element in a model called Neuro-Linguistic Programming. On the morning of the first day, Virginia conducted a moving and very effective interview

©2004  Overall this workshop will explore in detail how Perceptual Scope, therange of our Sensory-based Experience, and how we Categorize that experience, are the two fundamental building blocks of both our greatest skills and most troublesome limitations. This allows us to reexamine all the skills and methods of NLP to understand them in more depth,