My training and experience as an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer helped me to formulate a framework for enabling profound and lasting healing. My intention with this article is to provide an outline of this framework for others to keep in mind in their client work.

The key difference between this and other approaches is that there is no specific sequence or order to the process. Instead, I believe in a flexible approach to change work and healing, which involves bearing in mind key factors that need to be considered, and addressing them in whatever order is most useful for the individual client in front of you. I have found that this approach works for both therapy and coaching.

The elements that need to be addressed for complete, holistic, lasting change are:

• Healing and clearing past experiences and influences
• Gathering resources
• Honest and accurate assessment of the present
• Designing the future
• Creating the future

General notes

Wherever there is dis-ease of mind, body or spirit, it makes sense to me to include all these areas in the search for positive change and healing. However, this article, and my own work, focuses on energy work alongside “talking” approaches, such as counselling, NLP or coaching, and practical action.

Methodology

Whether my clients have come for therapy or for coaching, my intention is to facilitate their connecting to their personal power and resources, taking responsibility for their past, present and future actions and for their ability to re-create their lives.

This starts right at the first session where we discuss what result the client wants from the work, as well as how they would like to go about the process.

I like to offer clients choice in how they prefer to go about this work: eyes closed, in a relaxed state (‘hypnotherapy’), eyes open, conversationally (can include visualisation, imagining, hypnotic language patterns), physically moving (Gestalt style).

When the client chooses how they want to make the change, they have already agreed to the change happening and accepted the reality of this.

So for example, time line work can be done eyes closed, imagining, eyes open, visualising or moving to stand in different physical spaces on the floor representing different times in their life.

Healing and clearing past experiences and influences

Working in a ‘strict’ NLP framework, it is not usual or necessary to go into the pain and trauma of past hurtful experiences. But then NLP on its own is not intended as a complete therapy system. NLP is rather a modelling system, which was developed initially by Richard Bandler and John Grinder modelling successful therapists.

While it is not necessary to go into the painful detail of past events, it is necessary to heal and clear them. The structure of this involves:

• The client acknowledging and integrating whatever useful learning and experience he/she can take from these events.
• Rendering these events and the emotions related to them, neutral.
• Clearing/healing the original results from these events from the past up to the client’s present and future.

These can be accomplished by many different approaches, which have been widely covered elsewhere.

This part of the process also involves clearing any general unhelpful beliefs the client may have, that might ‘block’ the desired change. I use energy testing (Eden,2003) to check that the client:

• Wants the change
• Believes it is possible to make the change
• Believes they deserve the change
• Believes it is safe to make the change

We test for these ‘psychological reversals’ (Feinstein, Gallo, Eden, 2003) and clear them using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, Craig, 1991) tapping sequences, or NLP techniques, such as Six-Step Reframing.

Gathering resources

This part involves gathering the necessary resources for the client to make the change, and/or the positive attitude and motivation to learn and improve life skills as needed to effect the change.

• The client may have skills, qualities and abilities in one area of life that they can transfer to another area of life. For example, they are confident with friends, but not with strangers. They do know what confidence looks, feels and sounds like, and do manifest this behaviour, they just need to transfer the skills.

• Clients may need help in re-connecting to attitudes, skills and ways of being that they had before the problem or traumatic event occurred. They need re-connecting or restoring to themselves.

• Timeline and deep trance identification work enables the client to gain skills from memory, having absorbed the necessary information through observation of role models, and just needing to bring these to conscious awareness.

• Identifying where the client needs to take action to acquire or develop skills through learning and practical life experience.

• Creative exploration of other possibilities, new ways of thinking and behaving and potential new solutions.

Honest and accurate assessment of the present

Real, lasting change must be based on an honest and accurate assessment of the present situation, which often requires sensitivity and skill to uncover.

The most important element for success in any change work or coaching is the quality of the relationship between client and practitioner / coach. Rapport and trust need to be established before the work can begin.

Then the practitioner requires careful skills of reflecting back the client’s words, questioning, clarifying and challenging to arrive at an accurate picture of the client’s present situation.

Designing the future

General notes

Wherever there is dis-ease of mind, body or spirit, it makes sense to me to include all these areas in the search for positive change and healing. However, this article, and my own work, focuses on energy work alongside “talking” approaches, such as counselling, NLP or coaching, and practical action.

Methodology

Whether my clients have come for therapy or for coaching, my intention is to facilitate their connecting to their personal power and resources, taking responsibility for their past, present and future actions and for their ability to re-create their lives.

This starts right at the first session where we discuss what result the client wants from the work, as well as how they would like to go about the process.

I like to offer clients choice in how they prefer to go about this work: eyes closed, in a relaxed state (‘hypnotherapy’), eyes open, conversationally (can include visualisation, imagining, hypnotic language patterns), physically moving (Gestalt style).

When the client chooses how they want to make the change, they have already agreed to the change happening and accepted the reality of this.

So for example, time line work can be done eyes closed, imagining, eyes open, visualising or moving to stand in different physical spaces on the floor representing different times in their life.

Healing and clearing past experiences and influences

Working in a ‘strict’ NLP framework, it is not usual or necessary to go into the pain and trauma of past hurtful experiences. But then NLP on its own is not intended as a complete therapy system. NLP is rather a modelling system, which was developed initially by Richard Bandler and John Grinder modelling successful therapists.

While it is not necessary to go into the painful detail of past events, it is necessary to heal and clear them. The structure of this involves:

• The client acknowledging and integrating whatever useful learning and experience he/she can take from these events.
• Rendering these events and the emotions related to them, neutral.
• Clearing/healing the original results from these events from the past up to the client’s present and future.

These can be accomplished by many different approaches, which have been widely covered elsewhere.

This part of the process also involves clearing any general unhelpful beliefs the client may have, that might ‘block’ the desired change. I use energy testing (Eden,2003) to check that the client:

• Wants the change
• Believes it is possible to make the change
• Believes they deserve the change
• Believes it is safe to make the change

We test for these ‘psychological reversals’ (Feinstein, Gallo, Eden, 2003) and clear them using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, Craig, 1991) tapping sequences, or NLP techniques, such as Six-Step Reframing.

Gathering resources

This part involves gathering the necessary resources for the client to make the change, and/or the positive attitude and motivation to learn and improve life skills as needed to effect the change.

• The client may have skills, qualities and abilities in one area of life that they can transfer to another area of life. For example, they are confident with friends, but not with strangers. They do know what confidence looks, feels and sounds like, and do manifest this behaviour, they just need to transfer the skills.

• Clients may need help in re-connecting to attitudes, skills and ways of being that they had before the problem or traumatic event occurred. They need re-connecting or restoring to themselves.

• Timeline and deep trance identification work enables the client to gain skills from memory, having absorbed the necessary information through observation of role models, and just needing to bring these to conscious awareness.

• Identifying where the client needs to take action to acquire or develop skills through learning and practical life experience.

• Creative exploration of other possibilities, new ways of thinking and behaving and potential new solutions.

Honest and accurate assessment of the present

Real, lasting change must be based on an honest and accurate assessment of the present situation, which often requires sensitivity and skill to uncover.

The most important element for success in any change work or coaching is the quality of the relationship between client and practitioner / coach. Rapport and trust need to be established before the work can begin.

Then the practitioner requires careful skills of reflecting back the client’s words, questioning, clarifying and challenging to arrive at an accurate picture of the client’s present situation.

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Healing and clearing past experiences and influences

Working in a ‘strict’ NLP framework, it is not usual or necessary to go into the pain and trauma of past hurtful experiences. But then NLP on its own is not intended as a complete therapy system. NLP is rather a modelling system, which was developed initially by Richard Bandler and John Grinder modelling successful therapists.

While it is not necessary to go into the painful detail of past events, it is necessary to heal and clear them. The structure of this involves:

• The client acknowledging and integrating whatever useful learning and experience he/she can take from these events.
• Rendering these events and the emotions related to them, neutral.
• Clearing/healing the original results from these events from the past up to the client’s present and future.

These can be accomplished by many different approaches, which have been widely covered elsewhere.

This part of the process also involves clearing any general unhelpful beliefs the client may have, that might ‘block’ the desired change. I use energy testing (Eden,2003) to check that the client:

• Wants the change
• Believes it is possible to make the change
• Believes they deserve the change
• Believes it is safe to make the change

We test for these ‘psychological reversals’ (Feinstein, Gallo, Eden, 2003) and clear them using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, Craig, 1991) tapping sequences, or NLP techniques, such as Six-Step Reframing.

Gathering resources

This part involves gathering the necessary resources for the client to make the change, and/or the positive attitude and motivation to learn and improve life skills as needed to effect the change.

• The client may have skills, qualities and abilities in one area of life that they can transfer to another area of life. For example, they are confident with friends, but not with strangers. They do know what confidence looks, feels and sounds like, and do manifest this behaviour, they just need to transfer the skills.

• Clients may need help in re-connecting to attitudes, skills and ways of being that they had before the problem or traumatic event occurred. They need re-connecting or restoring to themselves.

• Timeline and deep trance identification work enables the client to gain skills from memory, having absorbed the necessary information through observation of role models, and just needing to bring these to conscious awareness.

• Identifying where the client needs to take action to acquire or develop skills through learning and practical life experience.

• Creative exploration of other possibilities, new ways of thinking and behaving and potential new solutions.

Honest and accurate assessment of the present

Real, lasting change must be based on an honest and accurate assessment of the present situation, which often requires sensitivity and skill to uncover.

The most important element for success in any change work or coaching is the quality of the relationship between client and practitioner / coach. Rapport and trust need to be established before the work can begin.

Then the practitioner requires careful skills of reflecting back the client’s words, questioning, clarifying and challenging to arrive at an accurate picture of the client’s present situation.

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• Wants the change
• Believes it is possible to make the change
• Believes they deserve the change
• Believes it is safe to make the change

We test for these ‘psychological reversals’ (Feinstein, Gallo, Eden, 2003) and clear them using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, Craig, 1991) tapping sequences, or NLP techniques, such as Six-Step Reframing.

Gathering resources

This part involves gathering the necessary resources for the client to make the change, and/or the positive attitude and motivation to learn and improve life skills as needed to effect the change.

• The client may have skills, qualities and abilities in one area of life that they can transfer to another area of life. For example, they are confident with friends, but not with strangers. They do know what confidence looks, feels and sounds like, and do manifest this behaviour, they just need to transfer the skills.

• Clients may need help in re-connecting to attitudes, skills and ways of being that they had before the problem or traumatic event occurred. They need re-connecting or restoring to themselves.

• Timeline and deep trance identification work enables the client to gain skills from memory, having absorbed the necessary information through observation of role models, and just needing to bring these to conscious awareness.

• Identifying where the client needs to take action to acquire or develop skills through learning and practical life experience.

• Creative exploration of other possibilities, new ways of thinking and behaving and potential new solutions.

Honest and accurate assessment of the present

Real, lasting change must be based on an honest and accurate assessment of the present situation, which often requires sensitivity and skill to uncover.

The most important element for success in any change work or coaching is the quality of the relationship between client and practitioner / coach. Rapport and trust need to be established before the work can begin.

Then the practitioner requires careful skills of reflecting back the client’s words, questioning, clarifying and challenging to arrive at an accurate picture of the client’s present situation.

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Identifying where the client needs to take action to acquire or develop skills through learning and practical life experience.

Creative exploration of other possibilities, new ways of thinking and behaving and potential new solutions.

Honest and accurate assessment of the present

Real, lasting change must be based on an honest and accurate assessment of the present situation, which often requires sensitivity and skill to uncover.

The most important element for success in any change work or coaching is the quality of the relationship between client and practitioner / coach. Rapport and trust need to be established before the work can begin.

Then the practitioner requires careful skills of reflecting back the client’s words, questioning, clarifying and challenging to arrive at an accurate picture of the client’s present situation.

Designing the future

A key part of change work and the healing process is to know where you are going, where you want to be at the end of it, and checking that this is what you really want.

Taking time to work with clients to design their future is time well spent. An important feature of this element of the work is to check that clients’ goals are well-formed:

• Framed in positive language, imagery and emotions.
• In the realm of possibility, i.e. achievable by the client.
• Specific: how will the client know when they have achieved the goal - what will they see, hear, feel, be doing etc.
• Ecological - the client needs to consider all the possible effects of making the change and to make an informed decision that this is what they want.
• Worthwhile - in line with the client’s higher values and purpose.

NLP tools to help with this stage include future pacing, timeline work and identifying values.

Creating the future

When time is taken to work through each of the four stages I have outlined, the process of putting the changes into action will be easy. The way has been cleared, the changes are ecologically sound, the client is motivated and equipped for action.

The therapist or coach now has the job of keeping the client motivated and on track to success. Again, so much has been written about coaching, that I’ll say no more here.

Finally, clients may bring problems to clear or goals to accomplish, and this will determine where you start. Whichever you explore first, I recommend moving to the opposite immediately after exploring it fully. So when the client describes a problem, I ask what the solution will be like; when the client describes a goal, I ask what has stopped them achieving it so far.

The next step is identifying and gathering resources the client would need to effect the change.

Honest, accurate assessment of the present should be ongoing throughout the work.

Follow this framework and you will succeed every time in creating lasting, sustainable, positive change with your clients.

References:

Andreas, C and Andreas, S. (1989) Heart of the Mind. Real People Press

Bandler, R. and Grinder, J. (1979) Frogs into Princes. Real People Press.

Bandler, R. and Grinder, J. (1981) Transformations. Real People Press.

Bandler, R. and Grinder, J. (1982) ReFraming. Real People Press.

Craig, Gary. http://www.emofree.com

Eden, D. (2003) Energy Medicine: How to Use Your Body's Energies for Optimum Health and Vitality. London: Piatkus Books.

Feinstein, D, Gallo F.P., Eden, D (2003). Energy Psychology Interactive: Self Help Guide. Ashland, Oregon, USA: Innersource.

James, T, Roop, R. Secret of Creating Your Future

James, T, Woodsmall, W. (1988) Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality

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