This paper was written in preparation for the facilitation by the Clean Team* of a Large Group Metaphor Process at The Findhorn Community during 13-16 January, 2003. The paper's aim was to raise the Team's awareness of:

• the key features of self-organising systems
• how these might manifest in a community setting
• how this knowledge can inform the way we facilitate.

* James Lawley, Penny Tompkins, Steve Callaghan, Wendy Sullivan, Phil Swallow, Caitlin Walker and Marian Way.

This is the second part of a two-part article:

Part 1 explained that underlying every theory of management or organisation is a metaphor. It described eight commonly used metaphors and Gareth Morgan's method for analysing and facilitating organisations to change.

Part 2 shows how Symbolic Modelling uses client-generated metaphors to facilitate individuals to understand and change themselves and their organisations.

A report in English on a French NLP Congress in 2001

How is it that sometimes people want to change, try to change, and may even make changes, yet they end up repeating the same old patterns? They are in a bind. This article describes four prototypical binds; defines double binds; and summarises how to transform binds. PLUS, newly added: Guidelines for working with binding patterns.

"What is NLP modelling?"  This article contains a brief overview of the five stages of a modelling project. It includes a 'checklist' of items and questions to consider when you decide to embark on a modelling project in an organisation, as well as an annotated reading list.

Cet article explique comment l’espace psychoactif se crée et comment il peut être utilisé en Modélisation Symbolique. Dès que l’espace est devenu psychoactif pour une personne, cette dernière, « vit effectivement dans sa métaphore ». Ensuite, quand quelque chose change dans cet espace perceptuel (souvent spontanément)  son corps-esprit est plus impliqué. Ceci produit habituellement un changement plus  incarné et systémique que  si l’on se contentait de « parler de changer ». Cette expérience n’est pas nécessairement accompagnée d’une grande démonstration d’émotions ou d’une catharsis – l’affect n’implique pas l’effet -- mais le client sait que quelque chose a changé, même s’il ne peut le verbaliser sur le moment.

Traduction de Noémie Dehouck et Nadine Lecamus.

The article which follows was presented to the Teacher Development Special Interest Group Conference of the International Association for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) in November 1995. While the focus of the article is teaching it should be fairly easy to adapt the information for other contexts such as business, therapy etc.

While reading Oliver Sacks' latest book, An Anthropologist on Mars, I was excited to discover how many of the conclusions from his lifelong study of people with unusual neurological conditions could be mapped directly onto an NLP framework.

This article gives a brief description of Sacks' research with one particular patient. It describes how Sacks' findings can be used to enrich the NLP model and how an NLP perspective can make sense of the functioning of the brain.

NLP Psychotherapy and Counselling has made great strides in becoming accepted, and even respected in Great Britain. Five years ago the Association for NLP (ANLP) decided to follow the route of accreditation for its psychotherpists. This article is a report on the progress made to date. It covers the background, the validation process, and the factors underlying the success of the Association in gaining recognition.