May 2008

Calibration is all about noticing and detecting things you see, hear, smell, taste and feel. It is about detecting patterning but more specifically it is about detecting the relationships between the things you see, smell, taste, feel and hear.

One of the first calibration exercises we do on our NLP introduction course is this.

This involves two ( or more ) people. One person (A) is going to associate into two very different states. The other people ( B ) are only going to listen to A’s counting, they will not be looking at them. So the purpose is to tune your ears up and in.

State one
Think of someone you really like and do really respect.
Count from 1-10, then break state.

State two
Think of someone your not so keen on don’t really respect.
Count from 1-10, then break state.

Now select either state one or state two, associate into it and,
Count from 1-10, then break state.

Person B, having listened to A’s counting in the last state can now note which state it was.

Finally invite, person A, to associate into the first state, so they are in a good way after the exercise.

One way to tune up a specific sense is to practice for just a short time every day and to do this repeatedly for a week. Here is a fantastic web site I have found where Nick Penny, for free and for you, shares the sounds he has recorded. An extremely delightful and original web site.

http://nickpenny.com/audio%20diary%202008.html

happy and productive listening.

nigel hetherington

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Good Morning

NLP - Introduction course in North Ease and Newcastle and Springy Steps to Relaxation

The sun is out, honestly it is even though it may be obscured by a cloud or two.

Today IntegrityNLP are running another of our excellent value and practical Introduction to NLP courses. The course is three days long and provides a thourough introduction to NLP with well structured and supervised excercises. And it is hosted in a pleasant and warm Training Environment.

If your not joining us today we plan to run another introduction in October this year

And if you have some time you would like to spend de-stressing, and that is spend time relaxing how about this wonderful article from the BBC

Putting a Spring in Your Step

kind regards
nigel hetherington

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There are plenty of Training organisations in the North East of England running various NLP trainings. Some excellent training providers, like StillPointSolutions offer excellent shorter courses and others like myself with IntegrityNLP offer longer courses.

Whichever course duration you have chosen to be best for you, we have at least one thing in common and that is the wonders and immeasurable opportunity’s developing our NLP skills opens up for us.

When I was studying for my NLP practitioner course I really enjoyed the extra opportunity to practice my NLP skills with a group of like minded people.

Our NLP Practice Group, The NLP Cafe is a structured, so you know in advance what process will be demonstrated on the night and its well supervised by experienced trainers who demonstrate the process first.

The NLP Cafe meets on the third Tuesday of the month to practice NLP and we meet on the first Wednesday of the month to practice hypnotherapy at The Trance Cafe.

Our practice groups are open to all practitioners, master practitioners and anyone who is currently studying for an NLP practitioner certificate.

nigel hetherington

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Our Newcastle Clinical Hypnotherapy Diploma training 60 hour approved training with the GHSC and our NLP Practitioner training in Newcastle and NLP Master Practitioner course in Newcastle both 120 Hour and approved training with the Professional Guild of NLP explore and place a great deal of emphasis on Calibration.

Calibration is one of the absolute core skills of NLP. Good calibration skills let you notice repeating patterns of behaviour, changes of state and comprehend the non-verbal response before the verbal one is uttered.

In short calibration is so important it can not be emphasised enough. To provide an example of very poor calibration I remember an NLP training I undertook with a particular training provider when many of the participants were so bored with the trainer talking about their house, their garden and various other completely irrelevant jobs they had 20 years ago, that they were literally yawning to stay awake AND THE TRAINER DIDNT EVEN NOTICE! they just kept on flapping their gums, droning on and on.

Using an arcaic and long winded sentence structure, can sound confusing with words like ‘herewithin’ or ‘promulgated’, but its not really NLP, because NLP is about doing and actualisation.

So Lets get down to doing some

To provide a great example of calibration, self calibration specifically, take for example Richard Bandlers explication about just one of the differences between foveal and peripheral vision.

When you move, walking forwards or even running, there is a difference in the way perception seems to speed by. The image in the periphery seems to move relatively fast compared to the image in the focus. Now this may seem obvious when you think about it BUT it is self calibration that allows these finer and finer distinctions.

Here is a little experiment I have devised which is based on some of the works of Carlos Casteneda. Its about self calibration and how you can seriously improve your visual memory.

• Close your eyes and make a picture of, say, your front room.
• Notice where the picture seems to be in your own personal space. That is is it in-front, off to the left, panoramic etc.
• Now for the important bit, notice where the image is particularly clear and by this i mean you know the details accurately ( how you know is not important here ). Also notice where the image detail is less clear.
• Now compare where your eyes are looking and focusing to where the image detail is clear. You are really wanting to experiment with the relationship between detailed/clear image and your foveal and peripheral vision.

nigel hetherington

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A little while ago, a top bloke I know mentioned that training facilitation is more about leading people through a series of states; In short, excellent facilitation is about states. I couldn’t agree more with him even if I didn’t want too. He is absolutely right.

As a training facilitator, one of the core and prime skills ( in addition to knowing your stuff and walking your talk ) is to be able to create states in yourself and of course other people.

In his extremely well presented and excellent book ‘The LITTLE BOOK of BIG STUFF ABOUT the BRAIN‘ by Andrew Curran a particularly relevant paragraph is this

“… some 30 or 40 years ago a very smart chap called Donald Hebb argued you learn things because your nerve cells join together in a way that makes them fire together. He said that ‘Nerve cells that fire together wire together’. What is also know is that this wiring together of nerve cells is predominantly under the control of your emotional system - the more emotion in a situation the more likely it is you will learn from it…“

This can be taken to mean

boring, dull uncharismatic, unemotional presenters who simply can’t be bothered, their messages will likely not be remembered very well and soon forgot.

The obverse is if you are lively, shiney, emotional, provocative and love what you do, dynamic - your messages, learning points and applications are much more likely to be remembered and acted upon and made use of in much bigger contexts.

nigel hetherington

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