L Michael Hall

Discover the hidden secrets about NLP as exposed in NLP Secrets to get free from the distorting and deceptive mythologies surrounding NLP. Secrets will give you new eyes for seeing where NLP truly came from, its actual sources, the people who have contributed to its success, and what it is truly about. As Secrets pulls back the curtains, it exposes the shallow and false propaganda. You will be able to hear the amazing Story for what it is. With an investigative reporting point of view, Secrets boldly goes where no one has gone before- as it reveals character flaws, unethical practices, and self-sabotaging activities which have given NLP its negative press. Secrets also reveals the communication power of NLP-a power for precision, clarity, for modeling expertise, and for enhancing the quality of life. In Secrets you will discover the shocking truth that NLP was not founded solely by two men, there was "a third man," and there were communities of experimenters without whom it would not have developed. You will discover that NLP was not a discovery of New Agers or 1970s hippies in southern California-it had roots in many scholars and disciplines- Bateson, Korzybski, Miller, Chomsky, etc. Ready to be surprised and let in on some revealing secrets? Then get ready for an emotional ride- surprises, excitement, discouragement, disbelief, anger, fear, love, etc. They are all a part of the secrets within the story and the truths that today forges NLP as a Professional Communication Model.

In The Collaborative Leader, L. Michael Hall and Ian McDermott answer key questions about leadership. What is collaboration? How does it relate to leadership? How do you do it effectively? How do you pull people together, inspire them with a meaningful vision, and organise them so that a team spirit emerges and peak performance is achieved? The Collaborative Leader is a practical guide to collaborating with others and leading collaboratively. That means learning how to win the hearts and minds of those who we lead. Packed with practical and immediate action points, the book will show you how to turn around a non-collaborative group or environment immediately. You will find assessment questions throughout, step-by-step processes on collaboration, and an invitation to action at the end of each chapter: a personal challenge to step up to the collaborative level of leadership. Learn the core competencies that facilitate a healthy, joyful, and productive collaboration. The foundation of collaborative leadership is self-collaboration. The leader who cannot effectively collaborate cannot effectively lead. If you are to walk your talk, you need to demonstrate collaborative skills yourself, and this book will show you the 'how to's' for developing the critical success elements of leadership. The best collaborators are those who have lots of fun collaborating. The goal can be serious. The collaboration can be fun. Learn how it's possible by understanding the structure and processes of collaboration. Whether you're responsible for team or organisational development, you'll find plenty here to inspire you to transform your leadership into collaborative leadership.

You, like all of us, were born in a Matrix. You didn't create that Matrix, but you were embedded in it and absorbed it. Now many years later, are you ready to Wake Up to the Matrix? Would you like to master your Matrix so that it enhances your life and enables you to actualize your highest visions and values in your best performances? The Matrix Model is the premier systems model of Neuro-Semantics and enables you to address the essential human questions about identity (who am I?), competence (what can I do?) direction (what can I and should I do?), meaning (what's the meaning of my life?), etc. The Matrices Model focuses on how you create and hold your frames of mind which makes you a meaning-maker par excellent. It enables you to "follow a person's energy through his system" and model the structure of his experiences. If you're ready to take the red pill and train yourself to become the master of your own Matrix, this book is for you.

Can Coaching be systematic? Is there a structure and order to the process of Coaching? In The Meta-Coaching system: Systematic Coaching at Its Best the answer is a definite "Yes!" Beginning in 2001, the Meta-Coaching System is now in twelve volumes and three training manuals. That's a lot of material for the entire system. But now, in a single volume, you can get an over-view of the whole system and discover the most systematic approach to coaching anywhere. The Meta-Coaching System provides a summary description of the eight models which make up Meta-Coaching and a full description of the Coaching Psychology that informs and governs Meta-Coaching - Self-Actualizaton Psychology. Discover the single uniqueness of Coaching, the principles of Coaching, the Art of Process Facilitation, and much, much more.

If your first thought when you heard the title was, "Are you kidding? Coach a politician?" then you will both love and hate this book and you will be shocked and surprised. You will be shocked when you discover that you too are a politician, and you will be surprised that to be human is to be political because we are political beings. You will love it because politics is about how we relate and get along with each other it is a psychological experience that we all have, and you will hate it because politics can so easily and quickly go wrong even when you have the best intentions. We can initiate Self-Actualizing Politics one conversation at a time as we use the healthy Political Coaching Conversations described here to transform the politics in our families, organizations, and government.

In 2003 Meta-Coaching introduced to the field of Coaching the only generative change model-The Axes of Change Model. This was the first and only non-therapy model based on how expert coaches actually facilitate change in self-actualizing clients.
 
 Coaches focus on the process of maximizing a client's resources in service of one's outcomes and unleashing the person's potentials. This is what puts change at the heart of coaching. As a transformative process, coaching takes a person to higher levels of performance and success. 
 
 What are the actual mechanisms of change for a psychologically healthy person? What about the generative change of coaching? What about the kind of change that people want who are ready to invent changes that takes them to their next level of development? Coaching Change answers these questions while simultaneously presenting the first and only non-therapy based change model in the field of coaching.

If Coaching isn't holistic, it is not truly coaching. True coaching is systemic by nature and design. Yet most coaches today do not coach systemically, in fact, most have not been trained to think and work systemically and do not have systemic models to work with. Systemic Coaching changes all of that. It enables a professional coach to discover what it means to think and work systemically. It describes how to use the Matrix Model as a systems model and to "follow a client's energy through his or her system." In this work, you'll learn the key variables in the human mind-body-emotion system, and how to distinguish the causes from symptoms, how to recognize the information in energy out loops, and much more. Includes transcripts of scores of coaching conversations by L. Michael Hall, Ph.D. and see them put into system diagrams by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. Systemic Coaching introduces Meta-Coaching in the field of Coaching as the most systematic approach to coaching.

This new, third edition of Meta-States takes you on a journey to the theoretical background, understandings, and constructions of the Meta-States model itself. The aim is to fully locate Meta- States in the field of the cognitive-behavioral sciences as it establishes the emergent field of Neuro-Semantics. Meta-States is not just a model about how you think, feel, relate, act and speak, it is also a different way of thinking about the way you function as a human being. Understanding your own meta-states within this model of self-reflexive consciousness is to enter into a non-linear way of thinking and feeling. The Meta-States Model opened up a new dimension to NLP and launched the field of Neuro-Semantics It is likely that this work will open up an entirely new domain in NLP and offer a new synthesis between NLP and General Semantics. The hardcover edition of this title [1890001341] is now out of print.

This volume uncovers the missing frame for unleashing the leadership and creativity based on the pioneering work of Abraham Maslow. You will learn how to create a great company where people are at their best, their potentials are being unleashed, and where people experience work as a passion. The new framework explained here makes explicit the premises about human nature---the self-actualizing drive that enables people to rise to their best. Unleashing Leadership is cutting-edge psychology for organizations who want to become effective, productive, and more humane.

Self-Actualization Psychology is the positive psychology which Abraham Maslow pioneered in his study of psychologically health people who were living a life of actualizing their highest and best. This pioneering volume brings together the works of Maslow, Rogers, May, Frankl, and other leaders in the Third Force of Psychology and the Human Potential Movement. It takes their contributions further by adding practical meaning to their theories. This book is an ideal reference for anyone who works with leaders, managers, coaches, consultants, etc. and is the definitive text on this positive kind of psychology.

The concepts presented in this book will help to identify your innate powers and then will facilitate you in participating in your own growth so you can become the architect of your own development. Imagine awaking to the realization that you will spend much of your time today in a ?flow? state of creative consciousness, that you will perform ?in the zone? completely focused and engaged in something you absolutely love.

The main purpose of this volume is to involve the reader personally in a first hand exploration and application of the NLP Model to the biblical text and biblical counseling. It offers Pastors, Counselors, Christian Coaches and Consultants effective tools for renewing the mind, transforming personality, and increasing persuasiveness. Viewing NLP as just a set of tools, neutral in themselves, the authors, both ministers and certified NLP trainers, offer a way of using the valuable facets of NLP to expand and empower your ministry.

The first edition of Figuring Out People (1997) set the standard in NLP as an encyclopedia approach to understanding all of the perceptual filters or meta-programs that we use in processing information.

Coaching Conversations is the first coaching book to provide actual transcripts of coaching conversations that invite a reader into the experience and provide descriptions about what's going on in the process for easy replication in numerous contexts. It demystifies the elitism of coaching as both a movement and as a specialized technology and makes its powerful methodologies accessible to anyone who wants to use it professionally and personally. This book offers a quality exploration into a wide variety of coaching conversations: Outcome, Resource, Matrix, Possibility, Fierce, Narrative, Time-Line, Neuro-Logical Levels, Hero Journey, Metaphorical, etc. This gives the professional coach, the new coach, the manager, leader, or individual a wide variety of choices.

In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a client. The newly revised version streamlines the patterns so that they are even more succinct and offers some new insights about how the patterns work, that is, the cognitive-behavioural mechanisms that make the neuro-linguistic and neuro-semantic approach so powerful. The Sourcebook of Magic arose in 1997 from a desire to collect in one place the basic or core NLP Patterns. Today it remains an excellent resource for coaches, therapists, psychologists, trainers, and managers. The book uniquely sorts and separates the patterns in key categories, those that deal with Self, Emotions, Languaging, Thinking Patterns, Meaning, and Strategies. This Sourcebook of Magic also provides guidelines for knowing what to do when and why. An excellent gift for those interested in the cognitive-behavioural model called NLP.

This much anticipated volume continues in the tradition of Volume I as the most comprehensive manual published to date covering the NLP Practitioner course. The authors now introduce the latest advances in the field and invite you to reach beyond Practitioner level to Master level where you will develop the very spirit of NLP. Includes exciting new work on: Meta-programs Meta-states Submodalities In addition, this volume introduces the reader to: Advanced Meta-model Distinctions Mind-lines Advanced Time-line Patterns Meta-domains Systemic Model Packed with case studies, seminar demonstrations, discussions and trance scripts, The User's Manual For The Brain Volume II will enable you to develop an attitude and spirit that allows you to apply the NLP Model powerfully. The related paperback title The User's Manual for the Brain Volume I, 39.50. The related CD-ROM title The User's Manual for the Brain Volume I CD, 99.99.

Ready for a new game to deal with food and fitness--a game that will give you the payoffs you want, a fit and slim body? Ready to ditch the old games that haven't worked? Then this is the book for you! Probably the best recommendation that can be made for a book of this type is not the number sold but the number of people who achieve their goal and let the author know of their success.

This is the latest book in the Frame Games Series, all of which are based upon the Meta-States model developed from the field of Neuro-Semantics. The intention of this series is to provide you with all the tools needed for taking charge of your life, your emotions, your choices and your fears, in a healthy balanced and ecological manner. If you have fear in your life then reading this book may well change your life. If you are a counselor, therapist, coach or business consultant then this book will provide you with the resources to assist in helping your clients manage the fear that may limit their choices.