Last year, during an NLP introduction training, I learned about representational systems and how people give signals at different levels, such as in body posture, eye movement, as well the use of predicates. At that time, with my linguistic background, I was especially interested in predicates and I started studying everything there was to study …
Author: marijntulp
How NLP can give new insights…
We've all been there: days and days of intensive training and everything makes complete sense to you. But then you get back to work and everything gets back to normal, nothing has changed, until... One day, you get into a situation where suddenly you remember something you have learned during the training and it starts …
Becoming aware
With all the research I have done about the concept of 'Rapport' until now, I am sure I have a good understanding of what it is. But understanding is not enough: "only if you practice, you will be a practitioner." First thing I focused on was identifying when I automatically have rapport. Since I started …
Building the rapport building skills
Rapport is not something unnatural to us. Research on monkeys led to the conclusion that before humans were able to talk, mirror neurons were important people to understand each other. Now that we can talk, the spoken word comprises only 7% of our communication. This means that matching and mirroring body language and the use …
And so it begins…
Where to start? NLP has so much to offer and there are so many skills I would like to master... creating rapport, pacing and leading, the Meta Model, the Milton Model etc. After discussing the NLP presuppositions, many courses start with building rapport. As Tony Robbins says: "Rapport is power!" Let's focus on that: How do …