
What does modelling actually help you achieve and where might you want to focus your efforts? Whether it is a better game of golf you're looking to achieve or indeed exploring how to live the good life.
John looks at what skills are appropriate to model and explores how to get clear on what you're trying to achieve, in order to have the best chance of developing an effective modelling project. Some projects are too complicated and need further refinement so John works with the group to help them frame projects with the best chance of success.
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Having got to this stage of the programme, John suggests you set a holding question to imagine where modelling could make the biggest difference in your life.
Neil talks about the NLP technique Well-Formed Outcomes in order to give a foundation of knowledge to support the classroom clip which follows. Well-formed outcomes, through the acronym PESEO, help to build rich modelling objectives that drive learning and change.
John talks about the importance of having a well-formed outcome for you modelling project.
John works with the group to help them consider who might be the best exemplar of the skill they hope to model. This video helps you consider how best to find a person who you can model with the appropriate proficiency.
Having decided who you would like to model this video explores where, when and how you can approach them for the best chance of success. How do you best get people to say yes to you when you approach them with a request to model?
John talks about the two key types of modelling - implicit and explicit - and why it is so important to be able to do both.
Neil gives a brief introduction to TOTEs in the context of modelling. Modelling projects are a form of TOTE that you need to keep cycling through.
John reviews TOTEs and introduces TOTE questions and their impact in modelling. TOTE questions allow you to keep asking until you get a mental 'aha' and can see how things work for them.
In this section John sets up an exercise to grow your modelling skills. The skills is demonstrated by Neil along with Martin, one of the 91 Untold coaches. They explore the physical aspects of modelling as well as demonstrating the TOTE questions in action.
John facilitates an integration session to explore the learning from the previous exercise.
Neil explains the concept of layered learning and encourages students to review their learning so far. Knowing what you know now, is there an even more impactful project that you could attempt.
John reviews some of the skills that are worth modelling. He also adds some refinements that are worth considering in relation to your project.
In this video Neil explains neurological levels in the context of modelling. Understanding neurological levels is key to unpacking and codifying both the conscious and unconscious processes involved in modelling.
John explains how the neurological levels of behaviour can be used to breakdown the way people do things, so that you can effectively model them and codify their skills.
John takes feedback from the studio audience to help embed the learning of how neurological levels can be used for effective modelling. This also aims to deepen your understanding of modelling as a process.
Neil explains the concept of mental rehearsal and how important it is to a modelling project. Mental rehearsal allows you to play the project in your mind in order to have the best chance of success in the real world.
John takes you and the group through a review process to set up your projects and to make sure the key elements are in place.
In this video John explores how to build on your modelling skills to become truly proficient at this.
John talks about his experience of modelling how to write non-fiction books, which ultimately led to his best-selling NLP book Introducing NLP, and how the process of modelling can become unconscious.
John talks about the ecology frame - 'if I could have this would I take it?' He highlights the challenges of not being clear on the useful stuff you want to pick up.
John talks about when it is appropriate to adapt what you've learnt from a model to make sure it fits your map, and when it is better to be more precise and stick more rigorously to their way of doing things.
John explains the challenges of modelling yourself whilst discussing how best to set yourself up for success if you want to bring an unconscious process into the conscious domain.
Neil brings the course to a close and challenges students to apply these skills in the real world. NLP Modelling skills can make a real difference and can massively accelerate learning and change. Good luck with your project. We wish you the very best in your endeavours.
Here's my question for you. Have you ever looked at a friend or colleague and marvelled at a specific behavioural skill that they've mastered? And just for a moment, wondered what it must be like to be able to do something so well and with such ease? What difference could such a skill or ability make to your career, family, relationships, well-being, happiness, success, business, finances? Well, if even for a moment you've thought something like this, then please stick around, because I've got a secret to tell you.
Here it is... lean in close... so I can whisper... we don't want everyone to know just how simple it is... you can learn any skill from anybody and, with a little effort, consistently replicate their success!
You just need a secret key to be able to unlock exactly how they do what they do, and then the ability to codify the 'difference that makes the difference' so that you can try on your version of it to get similar spectacular results.
So what is this secret key? We call it modelling. And this course has been designed to help you unlock and master the skills and principles that enable people just like you to emulate the success of the most successful people in their lives.
How does this work? Well you see, people who do things really well have developed systems, processes and strategies that allow them to be really successful in a given area. It doesn't just happen, they have developed their strategies over time through study and application. It often takes years of trial and error for them to become really good. But now they've done the hard work and have found a system that works consistently, if you have the ability, desire and access, you can learn direct from them at lightning speed.
So why doesn't everyone do this? That's simple too, because most people who do something really well have no idea how they do it, it's not a conscious process, its an unconscious competence for them, so just asking them doesn't work. That's where modelling comes in. Modelling skills help you tease out and codify how an exemplar does what they do - even down to a beliefs and values level. This enables you to share your results with them, which they often find fascinating - part of the pay back for allowing you to model them - and then you get to try it on for yourself in order to share in their success.
It sounds easy, and it is. But of course, you also need to be willing to be proactive and have the drive to take control of your own learning and development. This isn't some get rich quick thing or an empty promise that only works for a small percentage of people. 100% of the people we train leave with the ability to model the exceptional skills that could lead to a transformation in whatever area of their life they choose. But just having the skills doesn't necessarily mean you'll use them. We strongly suggest you don't take this programme unless you have enough drive, curiosity and proactivity to take your development into your own hands and reshape the way you learn.
If you think this is of interest to you, then welcome to NLP Modelling Skills with John Seymour.
But first let me tell you a little more about John Seymour, your trainer for this course. He is perhaps most know for his best selling book Introducing NLP, which has now sold over one million copies, and is still one of the best selling NLP books in the world today. But it has actually been around for over 30 years. And that's part of the special magic John brings to this programme - his legacy. He's been studying NLP and teaching NLP for all that time and so he's got highly developed nuances and distinctions that can really help you to develop sublime modelling skills with speed and elegance. This is a chance to learn from one of the foremost masters in the field.
Why is John's background in NLP so important to this course? NLP is often thought of as the source-code for change, a set of psychological skills for understanding and influencing people and the world around you. But what you may not realise is that NLP was initially developed through modelling some of the most successful therapists and change agents and then codifying their success so that other people could be trained to get similar results with their clients. Since then the field has grown massively and the modelling has continued to roll out genuine results in areas, such as, business, sports, finance and social change, to name a few.
John was around in those early days and worked directly with the founders of NLP in Santa Cruz. These days, other than the odd masterclass for 91 Untold, he is mostly retired so this course offers a rare opportunity to work with him. The footage on this course was filmed in front of a live audience in Bristol (2019), so you get a feel for what it would be like to be in the audience with such a gifted trainer and educator.
But please, don't just take our word for it. We've unlocked the first couple of videos so you can really get a feel for whether the programme will add value to you. We hope it will, and like so many others who've been through John's courses that you get closer to your dreams as a result of working with one of the leading lights of NLP and modelling.