NLP Copywriting Harlan Kilstein

What’s Wrong With NLP Training

Warning: This post is not for the faint at heart.

NLP was founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.  The two of them co-taught in seminars across the United States (and the world).  At one point, they even did a show on the Las Vegas strip.

As personalities, the two could hardly be more dissimilar.  Bandler was the PT Barnum showman.  He regaled the audience with stories during the trainings.  Grinder was the professor.  He taught techniques and was in love with the structure of change.

Bandler developed a pattern he still uses today.  He tells wild stories to induce certain emotional states.  He chains these states together.  And he uses nested loops to conceal these chains from prying eyes.

Grinder is still the professor.  He lectures the audience on the structure of change.  Currently, he is teaching the “New Code” of NLP.

The lesser lights in the NLP world included Leslie Cameron (Bandler), Judy DeLozier, David Gordon, Robert Dilts, Stephen Lankton, Stephen Gilligan, Steve and Connirea Andreas, and many more.  They were very talented teachers who created high quality trainings.

Somewhere along the line, a new model of training arose in the “Bandler camp”.

In this model, people were no long “Instructed” in NLP.  The presenter got on the stage and “did NLP” without offering any instruction.  He would tell wild stories, elicit and install states, tell nested loops and in the end, the audience “got the material” on a deep level.

The problem was, the attendees couldn’t do any of the things they learned.  That’s because they learned it on an “unconscious” level.

I’m here to tell you it’s a load of crap.

If you attend an NLP training, you need to get the skills and be able to apply them.

All of this “you got them on an unconscious level” is bunk.

Either you can do them or not.

One of the best things Dave Dobson used to teach was, “Can you empirically prove OTCC in the real world.”  If you couldn’t, you obviously didn’t have a grasp of the real world skills.

So if you plan to attend a training, ask if the trainer believes in “unconscious installation” of skills.

If they say “yes”, run the other way.

Peace,

Harlan

Using Questions In Your Copy

For years I’ve been a pioneer.

I’ve told people, don’t use questions in your copy.

Why?

Because when you use a question, you force the person to think about the answer.

And when they think about the answer, they aren’t with you on your page of copy.

For example:

“Are you really satisfied with your lifestyle? Do you wish you could do something about it?”

Now those questions force the person to go inside their head and leave your copy.

And if you ask the wrong question… they may never return to your copy.

But what if there was a right way of asking questions in copy?

And what if this was a breakthrough technique – never before revealed – that could actually
produce a change in the reader just by his answers in his head to your copy?

Let me make this clear.

The WRONG question and you lose them for good.

The RIGHT questions and you own them.

And it works in copy.

And it works in sales.

And it works in personal change work.

What I’m about to reveal will blow you away.

Stay tuned.

Milton Erickson And The Owl

Head over to http://www.unconsciouspersuasion.com and see what you are missing.

NLP And Personal Change: Before Changing Other…

Embedded Commands – Right and Wrong

My teacher Dave Dobson used to mock embedded commands and the way they were used by calling them, “In Bedded Commands.” He once said, “the only time I use In Bedded Command is In Bed With A Woman, which is where they belong.”

Nonetheless, they are a powerful technique – if you use them right.

And if you use them wrong – well let’s just say people will see right through you.

Telling Stories For A Change – Day 19

The Salami Technique – Day 10 of NLP Communications Excellence

Saying Hello To The Other Than Conscious

This could be the most important video you’ll ever view, IF… you practice what you see.

This is THE secret to how Dr. Dave Dobson got incredible results in working with people. Because he communicated to the Other Than Conscious Mind.

Once you have learned this process and integrated it into your life, you are on your way.

By the way, if you use this to manipulate someone, I promise you Dave will come out of his grave and haunt you.

Peace.

Opening Your Eyes And Really Seeing

Dr. Dave Dobson had the sensory acuity of an eagle.  He saw everything.  Perhaps since he suffered from a hearing loss like Milton Erickson, he compensated by improving his visual acuity.

Dobson believed most of us do not have our eyes fully open.  If we did, we might notice there are worlds and worlds of communication beyond our normal levels of consciousness.

I hope you find the gold in this video and apply it to your own lives.

Meeting Dr. Dave Dobson