New Code of NLP
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New code of Neuro-linguistic programming
(New code of NLP) is a revised framework for the teaching and delivery of NLP patterns. It was developed by John Grinder
in the early and mid-80's. Grinder is credited as the co-founder (with Richard Bandler
) of the original ("classic") NLP. Grinder has described the new code as an attempt to address several design flaws that were observed in the classic coding. Judith DeLozier
, Grinder's associate at the time, is also credited as a co-creator of the new code in some of its aspects.
surveyed the terrain of the field he co-created and was somewhat disappointed at the level of personal incongruence in NLP Practitioners. Grinder saw NLP-trained people who were able to weave spells of magic for their clients and yet these people who had access to powerful patterning of change were failing miserably in applying NLP in their own lives. Grinder states:
John Grinder freely admits that currently there is no full congruency through self-application of NLP to people trained in NLP. As a result of John Grinder and Carmen Bostic’s continued quest to bring excellence to the field, the New Code has been developed to significantly advance the quality of change work in NLP.
As the New Code emerged it became clear that something different was present. What was different was designer models which occurred as a natural consequence of deep extended modelling and training activities of experts, and partially explicated design variables underlying the classic code. The re-coding of NLP offered Grinder an opportunity to correct what he deemed to be flaws in the classic code patterning. The New Code takes the design variables of classic code formats to the extreme- for example the resource states in the New Code are created by a game or task that activates a content-free high performance state which has no historical experiences attached. One of the key aspects of New Code change formats is the verification and selection of behavioural changes by calibrating with the unconscious mind using explicit kinaesthetic signals.
Grinder and Bostic name the following most substantial patterns contained in the new code:
Neuro-linguistic programming
Neuro-linguistic programming is an approach to psychotherapy, self-help and organizational change. Founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder say that NLP is a model of interpersonal communication and a system of alternative therapy which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective...
(New code of NLP) is a revised framework for the teaching and delivery of NLP patterns. It was developed by John Grinder
John Grinder
John Grinder, Ph.D., is an American linguist, author, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with the co-creation with Richard Bandler of the field of Neuro-linguistic programming. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his partner...
in the early and mid-80's. Grinder is credited as the co-founder (with Richard Bandler
Richard Bandler
Richard Wayne Bandler is an American author and trainer in the field of self-help. He is best known as the co-inventor of Neuro-linguistic programming , a collection of concepts and techniques intended to understand and change human behavior-patterns...
) of the original ("classic") NLP. Grinder has described the new code as an attempt to address several design flaws that were observed in the classic coding. Judith DeLozier
Judith DeLozier
Judith DeLozier is a trainer and author in Neuro-linguistic programming. Her interests are in culture, anthropology and Gregory Bateson's epistemology....
, Grinder's associate at the time, is also credited as a co-creator of the new code in some of its aspects.
Principles
Early in the 1980s John GrinderJohn Grinder
John Grinder, Ph.D., is an American linguist, author, management consultant, trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with the co-creation with Richard Bandler of the field of Neuro-linguistic programming. He is co-director of Quantum Leap Inc., a management consulting firm founded by his partner...
surveyed the terrain of the field he co-created and was somewhat disappointed at the level of personal incongruence in NLP Practitioners. Grinder saw NLP-trained people who were able to weave spells of magic for their clients and yet these people who had access to powerful patterning of change were failing miserably in applying NLP in their own lives. Grinder states:
John Grinder freely admits that currently there is no full congruency through self-application of NLP to people trained in NLP. As a result of John Grinder and Carmen Bostic’s continued quest to bring excellence to the field, the New Code has been developed to significantly advance the quality of change work in NLP.
As the New Code emerged it became clear that something different was present. What was different was designer models which occurred as a natural consequence of deep extended modelling and training activities of experts, and partially explicated design variables underlying the classic code. The re-coding of NLP offered Grinder an opportunity to correct what he deemed to be flaws in the classic code patterning. The New Code takes the design variables of classic code formats to the extreme- for example the resource states in the New Code are created by a game or task that activates a content-free high performance state which has no historical experiences attached. One of the key aspects of New Code change formats is the verification and selection of behavioural changes by calibrating with the unconscious mind using explicit kinaesthetic signals.
Properties / design goals of the New Code
- Explicit involvement of the client's unconscious mind for selecting desired states, resources and new behaviors.
- The new behavior must satisfy the original positive intention(s).
- The change occurs at the level of state and/or intention, rather than the level of behavior.
Grinder and Bostic name the following most substantial patterns contained in the new code:
- Multiple Perceptual positionsPerceptual positionsPerceptual positions is a neuro-linguistic programming and psychology term denoting that a complex system may look very different, and different information will be available, depending how one perceives it and one's point of view...
, especially triple description (1st, 2nd and 3rd position). - Explicit FramingFramingFraming or enframing may refer to:* Framing , the most common carpentry work* Framing or Framing effect , terminology used in communication theory, sociology, and other disciplines where it relates to the construction and presentation of a fact or issue "framed" from a particular perspective*...
(outcomeOutcomeOutcome may refer to:* Outcome , a concept in game theory* The Outcome, a Swedish punk rock band* outcome measure in a clinical trial...
, intentionIntentionIntention is an agent's specific purpose in performing an action or series of actions, the end or goal that is aimed at. Outcomes that are unanticipated or unforeseen are known as unintended consequences....
, consequenceConsequenceConsequence may refer to:* In logic, consequence relation, also known as logical consequence, or entailment* In operant conditioning, a result of some behavior...
s with relevancyRelevance-Introduction:The concept of relevance is studied in many different fields, including cognitive sciences, logic and library and information science. Most fundamentally, however, it is studied in epistemology...
challenges). - Ordering relationships including hierarchies such as the model of logical levels (not to be confused with Robert Dilts' Neurological levels).
- Timelines (which, according to Grinder, were developed initially as an exercise in a joint seminar presented by Grinder and Dilts in the early '80s.
- The Verbal Package (a streamlined version of Meta model (NLP)Meta model (NLP)The meta-model is a pragmatic communications model used to specify information in a speaker's language. It is often contrasted with the intentionally ambiguous Milton Erickson inspired-Milton model...
) with reduced questions, explicit framing and the more refined verbal distinctions such as those named by the terms description, interpretation and evaluation. - A single four-steps format for change with a variable 3rd step. The 3rd step usually includes new code games, designed to induce the high performance state. These games include: the Alphabet game, the NASA game and variants of Roger Tabb's trampoline exercises.
- Sanctuary: A process for working with an unwanted state that either creeps up on you so slowly that you are not aware of it until you are experiencing it deeply or so quickly you lose control
- Multiple forms of involuntary signals for unconscious communicationUnconscious communicationUnconscious communication is the transfer of information unconsciously.It is sometimes intrapersonal, like dreaming or cognition under the effects of hypnosis, and is not necessarily nonverbal communication....
. - Characterological adjectives.