The Trainers Book of

NLP Exercises
by Andy Smith

Copyright 2010 Andy Smith

 Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................10
How To Use This Book......................................................................11
Who Is This Book For? ......................................................................12
Whats Not In The Book....................................................................17
Designing Your Content Delivery ..................................................19
How To Frame NLP Exercises..........................................................22
Exercise Pairs Or Triads? .................................................................24
How To Set Up The Room................................................................28
Choosing And Briefing Your Assistants ......................................30
Terms and Conditions For Your Course?....................................34

EXERCISES ........................................................................................38

BEGINNINGS AND WARM-UPS ......................................................................39

Mutual Introductions ........................................................................40
Recrossing Arms ................................................................................41
Looking Down/Looking Up .............................................................43
Pointing Exercise................................................................................45
Peripheral Vision................................................................................49
Quick Peripheral Vision....................................................................54
Problems/Resources Exercise.........................................................57
Clarifying Outcomes for Training .................................................59
"Bushy Brain" Exercise ......................................................................60
Present State to Desired State ........................................................62
NLP in a Nutshell................................................................................65

MAPS OF THE WORLD ..................................................................................66

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 Drawing From Words Alone............................................................67
Drawing My Living Room.................................................................69
"The Elephant In The Room"...........................................................71
Ambiguous Words .............................................................................73

PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBODIED EXERCISES ......................................................75

Centering To Reduce Internal Dialogue.......................................76
Centering With Memory of Challenging Situation.....................80
Weak Arm/Strong Arm" Exercise.................................................82
Group Weak Arm/Strong Arm Exercise .......................................84
The "Walk of Grace and Power"......................................................86

SENSORY ACUITY, CALIBRATION AND RAPPORT .........................................89

Visual Acuity Exercise.......................................................................90
Auditory Acuity: Like/Dont Like Exercise ..................................92
Auditory Acuity: Clapping Exercise ..............................................94
Kinaesthetic Acuity: Like/Don't Like Exercise............................96
Calibrating States...............................................................................99
Finding The Boundaries Of Personal Space .............................102
Lie Detection Exercise.................................................................... 104
Tracking Two Minds Exercise ......................................................107
"Sticky Fingers" Exercise ...............................................................110
Listening/Not Listening................................................................. 113
Quick Listening/Not Listening ....................................................115
Matching/Mismatching.................................................................. 117
Voice Matching ................................................................................ 119
Pacing and Leading Exercise ........................................................121
I/You/We Exercise .......................................................................... 123

LANGUAGE EXERCISES............................................................................... 126

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 "Don't Think Of A..."....................................................................... 127
This/That ..........................................................................................129
Meta Model Exercise....................................................................... 132
One-Word Reframing ..................................................................... 134
One-Word Reframing on the fly ..................................................137
Reframing Exercise......................................................................... 139
Agreement Frame Exercise ...........................................................141
Generating Metaphors ................................................................... 144

REP SYSTEMS AND EYE ACCESSING CUES..................................................146

Rep Systems: Generating Predicates.......................................... 147
Rep Systems Preference Test.......................................................149
Rep System Translation Exercise................................................ 154
Representational System Exercise 1........................................... 157
Representational System Exercise 2........................................... 160
Rep System Storytelling Exercise................................................ 162
Overlapping Rep Systems .............................................................164
Generating Rep System Questions ............................................. 167
Eliciting Eye Accessing Cues ........................................................169
Emotional Awareness With Eye Accessing Cues.....................172
Preferred Sensory System for Love ............................................ 174

SUBMODALITY EXERCISES ......................................................................... 176

Bad Experience / Good Experience Exercise ............................177
Compulsion to Indifference Exercise......................................... 181
Submodality Belief Change...........................................................183
Unconfident/Confident State Differences................................186
Dealing With A Critical Inner Voice ........................................... 188
Amplifying Motivation................................................................... 190

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 Swish Pattern ...................................................................................193
Re-Contextualising Bad Experiences.......................................... 195
The Confidence Chorus ...............................................................198
New Behaviour Generator.............................................................200

ANCHORING AND ELICITING STATES ........................................................203

State Elicitation Exercise ...............................................................204
Self-Anchoring .................................................................................206
Circle of Excellence......................................................................... 210
Collapsing a Negative Anchor......................................................213
New Orleans Flexibility Drill ........................................................215
Walking The Energy Scale .............................................................217
Alphabet Editing.............................................................................. 219
Peripheral Vision Desensitisation............................................... 223

TIME ......................................................................................................... 225

Back And Forward In Time...........................................................226
Elicit the Time Line......................................................................... 228
Test-Drive The Time Line..............................................................230
Trying On A Different Timeline ..................................................233
Verb Tenses......................................................................................237

VALUES AND GOAL SETTING .................................................................... 240

Eliciting Values ................................................................................ 241
Prioritising Values .......................................................................... 243
Checking for Values Conflicts.....................................................245
Eliciting Motivation Direction......................................................247
Defining Goals in Positive Language.......................................... 249
P.O.W.E.R. Goal-Setting .................................................................. 250
The Compass Well-Formed Outcome Process .......................252

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 Reasons vs Excuses Exercise........................................................256
Goal Installation Exercise .............................................................258

EMOTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS ...............................................................259

Recognising Emotion - Left and Right Brains..........................260
Making Finer Distinctions In Emotions..................................... 262
Understanding Your Own Emotions .......................................... 264
Learning From "Difficult" People ................................................ 266
Meta-Mirror Exercise ...................................................................... 268
Quick 'Eyes Of Love' Exercise ......................................................270
Accessing Heart Intelligence........................................................273
Problem-Solving With Heart And Gut........................................ 274

EXPLORATION ...........................................................................................276
Exploring NLP Presuppositions ...................................................277
Exploring Frames ............................................................................ 279
Neuro-Logical Levels Review ........................................................281
Neuro-Logical Levels Compliments............................................ 283
Coaching With Neuro-Logical Levels.......................................... 285
Neuro-Logical Levels of Teams....................................................287
Whose Meta Program Is It Anyway? ........................................... 289
Meta Program Influencing Language ......................................... 291
S.C.O.R.E. Process............................................................................ 292
Satir Categories Exercise...............................................................294
Time and Perceptual Positions Exercise ................................... 297

STRATEGIES AND MODELLING ................................................................... 299

"Teach Me How To Do It" ..............................................................300
Eliciting Relaxation Strategy ........................................................302
"Disney Strategy" For Creativity..................................................304

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 Walking In Another's Shoes .........................................................306
Walking In Another's Shoes (with coach) ................................. 308
Deep Physical Rapport................................................................... 310
"Speed Modelling" 1........................................................................ 313
"Speed Modelling" 2........................................................................ 315
Modelling The Timeline................................................................. 317
Who Are You When You're At Your Best? ................................319
Modelling Your Future Self...........................................................321

PRESENTATION SKILLS .............................................................................. 323

Outcome Focus................................................................................ 324
Qualities of a Compelling and Credible Presenter.................327
Energy Bubble 1............................................................................... 330
Energy Bubble 2............................................................................... 332
Awareness Of The Group..............................................................334
Rapport With The Group...............................................................336

HYPNOSIS AND MILTON MODEL ...............................................................338

Uptime and downtime ................................................................... 339
Simple Self-Hypnosis Using Breathing ...................................... 341
"That's Right" ...................................................................................346
Pacing Current Experience............................................................348
Generate Embedded Suggestion Settings ................................. 350
Embedded Suggestion Practice....................................................352

HANDOUTS ....................................................................................355

WHAT IS NLP?.........................................................................................356

THE THREE PILLARS OF NLP .................................................................... 357

14 PRESUPPOSITIONS OF NLP.................................................................. 358

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 PRESENT STATE AND DESIRED STATE .......................................................359

THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY ...........................................................360

SENSORY ACUITY - (V.I.B.E.S.)...............................................................361

RAPPORT .................................................................................................. 362

How Do We Establish Rapport?...................................................363
How Do You Recognise Rapport? ............................................... 364
Is Pacing And Leading Manipulative? ........................................ 364
Practising Rapport .......................................................................... 365

PERIPHERAL VISION ANNOTATED SCRIPT .................................................366

PERIPHERAL VISION DESENSITISATION......................................................370

THE HIERARCHY OF IDEAS........................................................................ 371

REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEMS ................................................................... 372

SENSORY-SPECIFIC PHRASES ..................................................................... 373

REP SYSTEMS PREFERENCE TEST ...............................................................374

SCORING YOUR REP SYSTEM PREFERENCES............................................... 375

SUBMODALITIES ........................................................................................376

BASIC SUBMODALITIES CHANGE - MAPPING ACROSS ............................377

SUBMODALITY BELIEF CHANGE PROCESS ..................................................378

Key Success Factors In Submodality Work:..............................379

META MODEL ...........................................................................................380

Considerations For Using The Meta Model ..............................381

ANCHORING .............................................................................................382

THE CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE .................................................................... 383

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 FRAMES..................................................................................................... 384

THE AGREEMENT FRAME .......................................................................... 386

ONE-WORD REFRAMING (EMOTIVE CONJUGATION) ..............................387

CONSTRUCTING A METAPHOR .................................................................. 388

NEURO-LOGICAL LEVELS OF CHANGE ...................................................389

Neuro-Logical Levels Of Teams...................................................390

THE DISNEY STRATEGY FOR CREATIVITY ............................................. 391

THE S.C.O.R.E. MODEL ........................................................................... 392

Sample questions to clarify each component..........................393
Using the S.C.O.R.E. in practice - with individuals .................394
Using the S.C.O.R.E. in practice - with teams...........................395

THE SATIR CATEGORIES ......................................................................... 396

VALUES ..................................................................................................... 398

POWERFUL GOALS ..................................................................................399

WALKING A GOAL INTO YOUR FUTURE TIMELINE.................................... 400

WALL CHARTS ...............................................................................401

PRESENT STATE AND DESIRED STATE ......................................................402

THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY ...........................................................403

ALPHABET EDIT ........................................................................................405

COMPASS FOR A WELL-FORMED OUTCOME............................................... 406

INDEX OF APPLICATIONS ........................................................................... 407

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ....................................................................410

Products by Andy Smith ...............................................................411

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