CorporateCoach eNewsletter
Issue No. 76, 25th October 2004
CONTENTS
- Editorial:
A matter of time
- Coaching
notes: The Alphabet Game
1.
Editorial: A matter of time
 We
were invited this week to a major conference of the water industry, for
whom we have been leading a scenario planning exercise. One of the speakers
asked "What is the difference between a good farmer and a bad farmer?"
The answer: "About a week."
NLP was originally
developed by modelling therapists like Milton Erikson, Fritz Perls and
Virginia Satir. As a result many therapy strategies were discovered. I
remember a question "What is the difference between NLP and therapy?"
The answer: "About six months."
Certainly,
one of our objectives in our business is to achieve speedy results. After
all, in business time is money. Sometimes, however, it can rebound on
us. Dependency is good for business - it leads to long term customers.
But it is not our objective!
There is
an ongoing debate in the coaching world as to whether the first session
should be "on approval". This is an excellent way of building
a client relationship - but what if all the issues are successfully addressed
in the first session? NLP Coaching is a powerful intervention. When the
time is right it can be startlingly fast. When we respond to our clients
expectations we can forget the power of what we offer.
This weekend
I have been attending a course "An introduction to New Code NLP"
with NLP Academy. It was a revelation in so far as I discovered that I
was given new code NLP in my very first course, with John Seymour. But
I haven't been aware of it since. But the universe speaks. I was reintroduced
to it by Kathleen Alexander of Clever Fox in Melbourne, and then one of
the delegates at a workshop with Robert Dilts was reporting a New Code
course with great enthusiasm. I thought I should take action.
The first
thing that I did was to follow up Kathleen's lead that John Grinder is
teaching coaching in the UK; then I discovered that there was an introductory
New Code day. Hence my time this weekend.
The basis
of New Code as opposed to the original Classic Code is the use of content-free
processes and a reliance on the subconscious. As a result the impact can
be very fast.
I was delighted
to be reintroduced to the New Code game "The Alphabet Game".
I used to have a wall poster of this and have memories of using it many
years ago. But somewhere I lost it. So I am delighted to be able to introduce
it to you below.
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LETTER
TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor
Thanks, these
are gems (CorporateCoach No 75).
I struck
me that again the Kolb, Honey/Mumford cycle applies to the Disney/Dilts
structure.
- Dreamer,
Reflector
- Realist,
Pragmatists
- Critic,
Theorist
It also struck
me that they are not in the same order? And the reason is clear; Kolb
and H/M were theorists and put theory before pragmatism because theory
was their goal.
Your process
obviously leaves out action and I think this is what we are working hard
on to get into our processes in SkillNet.
Keep it going
chum, this is great mind food.
Cliff Edwards
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2.
Coaching notes: The Alphabet Game
Here is the
template for the Alphabet Game, first taught to me by John Seymour, then
by NLP Academy, and featured in the comprehensive NLP Field Guide
that I have just brought back from Australia.
The concept
of the Alphabet Game is that it entirely focuses the conscious mind while
the subconscious gets on with its work. The client works through the alphabet
in any order defined by the coach; shouting out the letter name and at
the same time extending the appropriate arm: 'l' for left, 'r' for right
and 't' for both arms above the head. When the client is proficient at
this the game can be extended by changing the order or by adding legs;
extend the left arm and the right leg, or the right arm and the left leg,
or raise both arms and jump. This achieves "cross lateral processing",
when both sides of the brain are in action together.
Before the
game, get the client to associate into a 'problem' state related to an
issue and anchor this position; then move to third position (another part
of the room) and identify the resources needed, moving back to the first
position to experience having those resources.
Then play
the game.
When the
client is proficient and has achieved a fluency and congruence with the
exercise, the coach should move them back into the physical first position
for them to experience a new state for the issue being considered. The
quality of the player's state during play will determine the quality of
the changes that the player will subsequently experience when they step
back into the context where they wanted to make the change.
Here is the
structure of the chart.
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Draw the
chart on a flip chart and have some generative fun.
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