[Neurons] 2012 Meta Reflections #35

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2012 Meta Reflections #35

July 16, 2012

 

RESEARCH

AND THE FIELD OF NLP

 

 

 

Whenever I'm interviewed by media people (journalists, writers for
specialized magazines and journals, radio and television) about NLP or
Neuro-Semantics, there are inevitably questions about research:

           What research has been done on this?

           Does research prove the validity of NLP?

           Have you personally conducted research to determine if this
really works?

 

And if a reporter or journalist takes his job seriously and does his or her
homework, the interviewer probably knows that while there has been some
research done on NLP, there's been very little and the research that has
been done is mixed, some offers some validation and some indicates that some
things are invalid.  A recent example was sent to me this week by Denis
Bridoux in the UK.  This comes from the BBC website:

 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburg-east-fife-18871072>
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburg-east-fife-18871072 

 

It is about "eye accessing cues and lying."  Now in the original NLP books
Bandler and Grinder repeatedly when asked, "Can you catch someone lying
because their eyes go to 'construct' rather than memory?" they always said,
"No."  But many people have been poorly and inadequately trained in NLP and
were either told that "NLP can detect lying," or came to believe that on
their own. [After all, it is a seductive idea that you could "see" people
lying by one single indicator!]  So some researcher decided to test it and,
surprise of surprise, they found that the hypothesis did not prove valid.
Then they falsely (and inadequately) concluded that "research does not
support NLP."(!)  And the fact is that there has been a lot of this kind of
shallow and inadequate "research" about NLP.

 

But now things are changing and changing in a big way.  Today we have -

            The NLP Research Conference - held in the UK every other year.

                        www.nlpresearchconference.com 

 <http://www.anlp.org/the-international-nlp-research-conference>
www.anlp.org/the-international-nlp-research-conference               




            The NLP Research Journal edited by Dr. Paul Tosey- two volumes
already completed.

p.tosey at surrey.ac.uk 

            The NLP Research and Recognition Project - led by Dr. Frank J.
Bourke

                       fpmc1000 at hotmail.com]
<http://nlprandr.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d8d256448345c3bbe52305e
7&id=74480ed3bd&e=e43f823945> www.NLPRandR.com 

 

I write all of this because we have just completed the Third NLP Research
Conference.  The conference occur on July 6 and 7 at the University of
Hertfordshire, in the UK.  This year I had the privilege of giving the
keynote presentation on The Qualitative Problem.  30 papers were presented
about research projects that people had conducted in many different
countries and languages although all of the presentations were made in
English.  Researchers, Trainers, and Academicians came from at least 10
different countries.  I was really, really delighted that we had two of our
people there delivering papers.

 

           Dr. Susie Linder-Pelz from Sydney Australia presented a study of
the effect of benchmarking on participants and did a fabulous job!  I sat in
and when she mentioned the title- "The effect of Benchmarking on
participants" I sudden experienced a vision of a rush of faces of many, many
participants which I've seen in many, many countries when the benchmarking
of their skills didn't support their own sense of competence (!!).  In spite
of my personal anticipation of horror (!), Susie had a great presentation in
terms of research design, quality, and reflection.

 

           Scott Pochron from Ohio, USA, similarly did an excellent job in
presenting a synthesis between Developmental Psychology and NLP (including
Meta-States and Neuro-Semantics) : he referred to the excellent book of John
Burton, States of Equilibrium where Dr. Burton put the Meta-States Model of
self-reflexivity together with the higher levels of adult development. Scott
put all of that together with many, many models from the field of
Developmental Psychology and is in the process of creating a website for
Developmental NLP.

 

Today there are a lot of people in a lot of places doing research on the
validity of nearly every aspect of the NLP Model.  And there are a lot of
exciting things that are currently in the works about research.
Increasingly men and women in places of academic influence ate using NLP
books, models, and methodologies.  For years, The Structure of Personality:
Ordering and Disordering of Personality (2001, Crown House Publications) has
been used as a textbook in courses on personality.

 

So if research is important to you and you want to stay up with the research
that has bene occurring and is occurring in NLP, check out the Research
Journals and the websites.  Also I have attached a file of descriptions of
the papers presented at this current Conference.  And if you haven't
noticed, we have a "Research" button on  <http://www.meta-coaching.org/>
www.meta-coaching.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D. ---  Neuro-Semantics International

Neuro-Semantics Executive Director  ----  www.neurosemantics.com
<http://www.neurosemantics.com/> 

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