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Contents INTRODUCTION................................................................................10 How To Use This Book......................................................................11 Who Is This Book For? ......................................................................12 What’s Not In The Book....................................................................17 Designing Your Content Delivery ..................................................19 How To Frame NLP Exercises..........................................................22 Exercise Pairs Or Triads? .................................................................24 How To Set Up The Room................................................................28 Choosing And Briefing Your Assistants ......................................30 Terms and Conditions For Your Course?....................................34

EXERCISES ........................................................................................38 BEGINNINGS AND WARM-UPS ......................................................................39 Mutual Introductions ........................................................................40 Recrossing Arms ................................................................................41 Looking Down/Looking Up .............................................................43 Pointing Exercise................................................................................45 Peripheral Vision................................................................................49 Quick Peripheral Vision....................................................................54 Problems/Resources Exercise.........................................................57 Clarifying Outcomes for Training .................................................59 "Bushy Brain" Exercise ......................................................................60 Present State to Desired State ........................................................62 NLP in a Nutshell................................................................................65 MAPS OF THE WORLD ..................................................................................66 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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Drawing From Words Alone............................................................67 Drawing My Living Room.................................................................69 "The Elephant In The Room"...........................................................71 Ambiguous Words .............................................................................73 PHYSIOLOGY AND EMBODIED EXERCISES ......................................................75 Centering To Reduce Internal Dialogue.......................................76 Centering With Memory of Challenging Situation.....................80 “Weak Arm/Strong Arm" Exercise.................................................82 Group Weak Arm/Strong Arm Exercise .......................................84 The "Walk of Grace and Power"......................................................86 SENSORY ACUITY, CALIBRATION AND RAPPORT .........................................89 Visual Acuity Exercise.......................................................................90 Auditory Acuity: Like/Don’t Like Exercise ..................................92 Auditory Acuity: Clapping Exercise ..............................................94 Kinaesthetic Acuity: Like/Don't Like Exercise............................96 Calibrating States...............................................................................99 Finding The Boundaries Of Personal Space .............................102 Lie Detection Exercise.................................................................... 104 Tracking Two Minds Exercise ......................................................107 "Sticky Fingers" Exercise ...............................................................110 Listening/Not Listening................................................................. 113 Quick Listening/Not Listening ....................................................115 Matching/Mismatching.................................................................. 117 Voice Matching ................................................................................ 119 Pacing and Leading Exercise ........................................................121 I/You/We Exercise .......................................................................... 123 LANGUAGE EXERCISES............................................................................... 126 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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"Don't Think Of A..."....................................................................... 127 This/That ..........................................................................................129 Meta Model Exercise....................................................................... 132 One-Word Reframing ..................................................................... 134 One-Word Reframing on the fly ..................................................137 Reframing Exercise......................................................................... 139 Agreement Frame Exercise ...........................................................141 Generating Metaphors ................................................................... 144 REP SYSTEMS AND EYE ACCESSING CUES..................................................146 Rep Systems: Generating Predicates.......................................... 147 Rep Systems Preference Test.......................................................149 Rep System Translation Exercise................................................ 154 Representational System Exercise 1........................................... 157 Representational System Exercise 2........................................... 160 Rep System Storytelling Exercise................................................ 162 Overlapping Rep Systems .............................................................164 Generating Rep System Questions ............................................. 167 Eliciting Eye Accessing Cues ........................................................169 Emotional Awareness With Eye Accessing Cues.....................172 Preferred Sensory System for Love ............................................ 174 SUBMODALITY EXERCISES ......................................................................... 176 Bad Experience / Good Experience Exercise ............................177 Compulsion to Indifference Exercise......................................... 181 Submodality Belief Change...........................................................183 Unconfident/Confident State Differences................................186 Dealing With A Critical Inner Voice ........................................... 188 Amplifying Motivation................................................................... 190 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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Swish Pattern ...................................................................................193 Re-Contextualising Bad Experiences.......................................... 195 The Confidence Chorus ...............................................................198 New Behaviour Generator.............................................................200 ANCHORING AND ELICITING STATES ........................................................203 State Elicitation Exercise ...............................................................204 Self-Anchoring .................................................................................206 Circle of Excellence......................................................................... 210 Collapsing a Negative Anchor......................................................213 New Orleans Flexibility Drill ........................................................215 Walking The Energy Scale .............................................................217 Alphabet Editing.............................................................................. 219 Peripheral Vision Desensitisation............................................... 223 TIME ......................................................................................................... 225 Back And Forward In Time...........................................................226 Elicit the Time Line......................................................................... 228 Test-Drive The Time Line..............................................................230 Trying On A Different Timeline ..................................................233 Verb Tenses......................................................................................237 VALUES AND GOAL SETTING .................................................................... 240 Eliciting Values ................................................................................ 241 Prioritising Values .......................................................................... 243 Checking for Values Conflicts.....................................................245 Eliciting Motivation Direction......................................................247 Defining Goals in Positive Language.......................................... 249 P.O.W.E.R. Goal-Setting .................................................................. 250 The ‘Compass’ Well-Formed Outcome Process .......................252 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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Reasons vs Excuses Exercise........................................................256 Goal Installation Exercise .............................................................258 EMOTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS ...............................................................259 Recognising Emotion - Left and Right Brains..........................260 Making Finer Distinctions In Emotions..................................... 262 Understanding Your Own Emotions .......................................... 264 Learning From "Difficult" People ................................................ 266 Meta-Mirror Exercise ...................................................................... 268 Quick 'Eyes Of Love' Exercise ......................................................270 Accessing Heart Intelligence........................................................273 Problem-Solving With Heart And Gut........................................ 274 EXPLORATION ...........................................................................................276 Exploring NLP Presuppositions ...................................................277 Exploring Frames ............................................................................ 279 Neuro-Logical Levels Review ........................................................281 Neuro-Logical Levels Compliments............................................ 283 Coaching With Neuro-Logical Levels.......................................... 285 Neuro-Logical Levels of Teams....................................................287 Whose Meta Program Is It Anyway? ........................................... 289 Meta Program Influencing Language ......................................... 291 S.C.O.R.E. Process............................................................................ 292 Satir Categories Exercise...............................................................294 Time and Perceptual Positions Exercise ................................... 297 STRATEGIES AND MODELLING ................................................................... 299 "Teach Me How To Do It" ..............................................................300 Eliciting Relaxation Strategy ........................................................302 "Disney Strategy" For Creativity..................................................304 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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Walking In Another's Shoes .........................................................306 Walking In Another's Shoes (with coach) ................................. 308 Deep Physical Rapport................................................................... 310 "Speed Modelling" 1........................................................................ 313 "Speed Modelling" 2........................................................................ 315 Modelling The Timeline................................................................. 317 Who Are You When You're At Your Best? ................................319 Modelling Your Future Self...........................................................321 PRESENTATION SKILLS .............................................................................. 323 Outcome Focus................................................................................ 324 Qualities of a Compelling and Credible Presenter.................327 Energy Bubble 1............................................................................... 330 Energy Bubble 2............................................................................... 332 Awareness Of The Group..............................................................334 Rapport With The Group...............................................................336 HYPNOSIS AND MILTON MODEL ...............................................................338 Uptime and downtime ................................................................... 339 Simple Self-Hypnosis Using Breathing ...................................... 341 "That's Right" ...................................................................................346 Pacing Current Experience............................................................348 Generate Embedded Suggestion Settings ................................. 350 Embedded Suggestion Practice....................................................352

HANDOUTS ....................................................................................355 WHAT IS NLP?.........................................................................................356 THE THREE PILLARS OF NLP .................................................................... 357 14 PRESUPPOSITIONS OF NLP.................................................................. 358 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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PRESENT STATE AND DESIRED STATE .......................................................359 THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY ...........................................................360 SENSORY ACUITY - (V.I.B.E.S.)...............................................................361 RAPPORT .................................................................................................. 362 How Do We Establish Rapport?...................................................363 How Do You Recognise Rapport? ............................................... 364 Is Pacing And Leading Manipulative? ........................................ 364 Practising Rapport .......................................................................... 365 PERIPHERAL VISION ANNOTATED SCRIPT .................................................366 PERIPHERAL VISION DESENSITISATION......................................................370 THE HIERARCHY OF IDEAS........................................................................ 371 REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEMS ................................................................... 372 SENSORY-SPECIFIC PHRASES ..................................................................... 373 REP SYSTEMS PREFERENCE TEST ...............................................................374 SCORING YOUR REP SYSTEM PREFERENCES............................................... 375 SUBMODALITIES ........................................................................................376 BASIC SUBMODALITIES CHANGE - “MAPPING ACROSS” ............................377 SUBMODALITY BELIEF CHANGE PROCESS ..................................................378 Key Success Factors In Submodality Work:..............................379 META MODEL ...........................................................................................380 Considerations For Using The Meta Model ..............................381 ANCHORING .............................................................................................382 THE CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE .................................................................... 383

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FRAMES..................................................................................................... 384 THE AGREEMENT FRAME .......................................................................... 386 ONE-WORD REFRAMING (“EMOTIVE CONJUGATION”) ..............................387 CONSTRUCTING A METAPHOR .................................................................. 388 “NEURO-LOGICAL LEVELS OF CHANGE” ...................................................389 Neuro-Logical Levels Of Teams...................................................390 THE “DISNEY STRATEGY” FOR CREATIVITY ............................................. 391 THE S.C.O.R.E. MODEL ........................................................................... 392 Sample questions to clarify each component..........................393 Using the S.C.O.R.E. in practice - with individuals .................394 Using the S.C.O.R.E. in practice - with teams...........................395 THE ‘SATIR CATEGORIES’ ......................................................................... 396 VALUES ..................................................................................................... 398 POWERFUL GOALS ..................................................................................399 WALKING A GOAL INTO YOUR FUTURE TIMELINE.................................... 400

WALL CHARTS ...............................................................................401 PRESENT STATE AND DESIRED STATE ......................................................402 THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY ...........................................................403 ALPHABET EDIT ........................................................................................405 COMPASS FOR A WELL-FORMED OUTCOME............................................... 406 INDEX OF APPLICATIONS ........................................................................... 407

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ....................................................................410 Products by Andy Smith ...............................................................411 The Trainer’s Book of NLP Exercises

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