Complete List of Articles (Alphabetical)

©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, …

The Hidden Curriculum of Everyday Life:
the details of how we generalize Read More »

by Steve and Connirae Andreas ©2000      There are many, many aspects of skillful anchoring. The elicitation, the timing, the smoothness and naturalness of introducing the anchor, the skill with which the anchored state is integrated or sequenced with the target state, etc. In this article, we want to focus on only one aspect of anchoring, …

Selecting a Resource to Anchor* Read More »

by Steve & Connirae Andreas          Over ten years ago my wife Connirae and I modeled people who had resourcefully dealt with the loss of a loved person. Out of this we developed a pattern for helping people resolve grief quickly, and experience a joyful and resourceful re-union with the lost person, so that they no …

Practical Spirituality* Read More »

Steve AndreasTrainer and Consultant, Boulder CO© 1999 Sage Publications, Inc. Changing the point of view from which a memory is viewed has a profound impact on a person’s understanding and emotional response to the content of the image. A variety of specific ways of changing visual perspective are presented, including the important distinction between associated …

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP):
Changing Points of View Read More »

© 1982 Connirae Andreas & Steve Andreas Introduction by Frank Clement, Department Editor, New Technologies and Instruction. Neuro-Linguistic Programming*, or NLP, is an empirical body of knowledge that describes patterns of personal communication and mental processes. These patterns reveal inherent individual characteristics which can be exploited to produce change. The concepts are both exciting and …

Neuro-Linguistic Programming:
A New Technology for Training Read More »

by Steve Andreas ©2000          With the multitude of specific patterns and general understandings that have been developed in the field of NLP over the past 25 years, it is useful to recall that the root and foundation of it all is in the Meta-model. I have often heard Richard Bandler say that those who who …

Modal Operators* Read More »

by Steve Andreas©2001  Recently I wanted  to give the teenaged daughter of a family friend a small birthday gift. At a yard sale I had recently gotten a piggy bank with a very large snout stopped with a big cork. I decided to rename it and write up some instructions to go with it. It made …

Memory Bank* Read More »

by Steve Andreas In everyday conversation, people exchange messages at different logical levels, and often this is entirely appropriate. I say that I enjoyed a good meal, and my wife responds with “I’m glad,” including my experience in a more general category of things that she is glad about. She asks me, “How was the …

Logical Level Confusion Read More »

Steve Andreas Psychotherapy Networker, July/August 2014 Most people come to therapy for help with emotional or behavioral responses that aren’t under their conscious control: destructive habits, troublesome emotional moods, outbursts, addictions, and so forth. These responses are generated by processes that clients are mostly unaware of — which is clear when they say things like …

Letting Go of Hate:
How to help clients change unconscious responses Read More »

Steve Andreas “In Heaven, they tell jokes; In Hell they explain them.”*(Argentinian proverb) When someone has a “problem,” they usually get intently serious about it, and may resent anyone who says anything humorous about it. I’ve watched a lot of therapy sessions, with therapists of many very different orientations. One of the things I have …

Humor, the Brain, and Personal Change Read More »