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Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................10
How To Use This Book......................................................................11
Who Is This Book For? ......................................................................12
What’s 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/Don’t 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

INDEX OF APPLICATIONS ...............................................................355

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ....................................................................358

PRODUCTS BY ANDY SMITH ..........................................................359

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