Shelle Rose Charvet - Innovations in NLP : for challenging times

Introduction
Whats New in NLP for Challenging Times?
L. Michael Hall and Shelle Rose Charvet

1 Meta-States: Modeling Self-Reflexive Consciousness
L. Michael Hall

2 LAB Profile: Decoding Language and Behavior to Improve Communication between People
Shelle Rose Charvet

3 Social Panoramas: How to Change Unconscious Landscapes to Improve Relationships
Lucas Derks

4 Symbolic Modelling: Emergent Change through Metaphor and Clean Language
James Lawley and Penny Tompkins

5 The RESOLVE Model: Facilitating Generative Change
Richard Bolstad

6 Behavioral Remodeling: Advancing NLPs Linguistic Model
John McWhirter

7 NLP Coaching: How to Develop a Coaching Mindset
Ian McDermott

9 Provocative Change Works: Improvisation and Humor in Therapy and Coaching
Nick Kemp

10 Modeling Market Wizards: Revealing the Methods of Outstanding Traders and Investors
Charles Faulkner

11 Overcoming Addiction: A New Model for Working with Drug and Alcohol Abusers
Richard M. Gray

12 NLP and Money: How to Create Empowering Beliefs about Money and Wealth
Kris Hallbom and Tim Hallbom

13 Medical Applications of NLP: Using NLP in the Holistic Treatment of Cancer
Kimiko Bokura-Shaf, Masaki Kono, and Hiromi Tamaki

14 The Well-Formed Problem: A New Model for Managing Change in Business
Martin Roberts

15 What Triggers Stuttering? A Model for Achieving Fluency
Bobby G. Bodenhamer

16 The Identity Compass: Mapping Meta-Programs for Business Success
Arne Maus

17 MPA MindSonar: An NLP Tool for Coaching, Team Building, Personnel Management, and Marketing
Jaap Hollander

18 jobEQ: Profiling Meta-Programs to Improve Emotional Intelligence
Patrick Merlevede

19 The Clean Community
James Lawley and Penny Tompkins

20 The LAB Profile Community
Shelle Rose Charvet

21 The Neuro-Semantic Community
L. Michael Hall

22 The NLP Research and Recognition Project
Richard Liotta and Frank Bourke

23 The International NLP Research Conference
Lisa Wake and Karen Moxom

Whats New in NLP for Challenging Times?

L. Michael Hall and Shelle Rose Charvet

We live in a world where there are a great many challenges! Writing this in early 2011 it seems to both of us that life on planet earth today offers us tremendous challenges. What are we talking about? We are talking about climatic catastrophes, the rise of violent extremism in so many forms, incompetent or corrupt governments , widespread economic volatility that directly affects many millions of people, millions of people unemployed (the estimate is 200 million worldwide in February, 2011), entrenched armed conflict, along with the issues that continue to plague our planethungry people, oppression, and lack of access to basic necessities, including education.

And thats just the beginning. So with all of these troubles and challenges, many of us are wondering: What can I do? What can we together do? What can anyone do? Are there solutions at the individual level? Are there solutions at the community level? How can we in the field of neurolinguistic programming offer some answers and resources to these challenges?

As we all know, when NLP was first developed in the 1970s, it was created in a therapeutic context and the purpose was to help people overcome personal issues, to communicate more effectively, and to access further personal resources. Since that time, the field has been changing and evolving. It has been expanding the original modeling strategies to areas such as education, health, business applications, and sports achievement. And many contributors have developed new ways of thinking, new models, new applications, and new tools.

Over the past thirty-eight years, through the skillful and ethical efforts of practitioners , NLP has made a dramatic difference to the way in which many people lead their lives and their achievement of success. If there is anything that connects and unifies the worldwide NLP community, it is the singular desire of tens of thousands of people to make a difference in our world and to respond to the challenges before us.

NLP has also been moving out beyond dealing only with individuals. As it has moved into areas such as business, education, marketing, and sales, it has been developing models for groups, for communities, for leadership, for management. NLP has been expanding its realm of influence to empower the movers and shakers of our world. And NLP, as a model of subjective experiences, has been modeling organizations, cultures, and the variables that make a community of people operate effectively. As modelers, NLP thinkers and trainers have taken the foundational work of people modeling good to great companies, self-actualizing leaders and companies, as well as the tipping point phenomena of how societies grow, develop, change, and transform . The result? We now know a whole lot more about how to influence our world for good.