Techniques
The reference layer for NLP techniques: what each one is, where it came from, how it runs, and where it honestly stops working.
- Reframing in NLPReframing is the deliberate act of changing the frame around an experience so its meaning changes. It is the most quietly powerful idea in NLP — and the most ab…
- The Swish PatternThe swish is NLP's best-known pattern for interrupting an unwanted automatic response — a cue that reliably triggers an old reaction gets retrained to trigger a…
- The Meta ModelThe Meta Model was the first product of NLP — the questioning system Bandler and Grinder reverse-engineered from Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir. It remains the …
- The Milton ModelThe Milton Model is the inverse of the Meta Model: instead of asking vague language to become specific, it uses deliberately vague, evocative language so the li…
- Pacing and LeadingPacing and leading is NLP's most practical influence pattern: establish that you accurately perceive someone's current reality, then invite movement from that g…
- Well-Formed OutcomesMost goals fail as goals: "be more confident", "grow the business", "stop procrastinating" are directions, not destinations. The well-formed outcome conditions …
- Perceptual PositionsPerceptual positions is NLP's structured version of perspective-taking: first position (your own view), second position (the other person's), third position (th…
- Parts Work in NLP"Part of me wants the promotion, part of me wants to disappear for six months." Parts language is how people naturally describe internal conflict, and NLP has s…
- Strategies in NLPA strategy in NLP is the internal sequence — see something, say something to yourself, feel something, check a criterion, act — that produces consistent behavio…
- Sleight of MouthSleight of Mouth is Robert Dilts' codification of 14 verbal reframing patterns — the belief-level toolkit modelled loosely from how skilled communicators disman…
- Meta ProgramsMeta programs are habitual sorting styles — the "how" of thinking rather than the "what". They show up in language, hiring mismatches, and sales conversations. …
- Logical Levels (Dilts)Dilts' neuro-logical levels is NLP's most-used diagnostic pyramid — and one of its most contested "borrowings". Both facts are true; here is the working version…
- The Fast Phobia Cure (VKD)The "fast phobia cure" is NLP's most famous claim — a single-session dissolve of long-standing phobias. The procedure is real (VK/Dissociation); the marketing d…
- Values ElicitationAsk people their values and you get a poster; elicit them and you get the hierarchy actually running their decisions. The procedure is simple; the discipline is…
- Chaining AnchorsWhen the distance between a stuck state and a target state is too wide for a single jump, you build a staircase — anchors chained from procrastination through c…
- Association and DissociationRemember your last beach holiday from inside your own eyes — the heat, the sound. Now watch yourself on that beach from above. Same memory, radically different …
- Mapping AcrossBelief, doubt, motivation and dread each have an internal "shape" — brighter or dimmer, closer or further, still or moving. Mapping across copies the shape of o…
- The SCORE ModelSCORE — Symptoms, Causes, Outcomes, Resources, Effects — is NLP's five-part canvas for thinking a change through before touching it. Dilts and DeLozier's most p…
- The New Behaviour GeneratorYou cannot delete an old response; you can out-train it. The new behaviour generator is NLP's structured rehearsal protocol for installing a specific better res…
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