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Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling at the First NLP Online Conference

Host

NLP Planet

Presenter

James Lawley and Penny Tompkins

Venue

Internet

Entry

Open to All

Website

http://www.nlpplanet.com/firstnlponlineconference/

Contact

NLP Planet

Single or Regular

SINGLE

Start Time

9pm

End Time

11pm London time

Just about everyone uses metaphor all the time—often six times a minute! We are surprised by this figure because most metaphors are constructed, spoken, and received out of awareness. Research over thirty years has shown that we not only speak and gesture in metaphor; we think and act on the basis of our metaphors. Your clients, colleagues, customers, friends, and enemies will all use metaphor—and not just occasionally, but much of the time.

Metaphors can be a source of creativity but they can also constrain ways of thinking, thereby maintaining unproductive and self-destructive patterns of behaviour. Knowing how to listen, observe and communicate with people's metaphorical words and gestures gives them great insight into how their inner world works. Symbolic Modelling and Clean Language are tailor-made for modelling the process and structure of that world, and for encouraging the conditions for evolutionary change.

For nearly 20 years, Penny and James have been facilitating individuals and groups to self-model their metaphors – especially those involving core beliefs, sense of identity, life purpose and the spiritual, as well as complex and seemingly intractable issues that are not amenable to traditional techniques. Their book, Metaphors in Mind: Transformation through Symbolic Modelling, established the process as a radically new approach.
Event runs from 9pm to 11pm London time.