Linden Anne - Mindworks: an introduction to NLP

Praise for Mindworks

I have followed Ann Lindens work with interest for more than twenty years now and know her as a skilled and experienced NLP trainer. Im delighted that she has at last found a way to share her knowledge and thinking with a wider audience. If you are not yet familiar with NLP then Mindworks is a gentle yet thorough introduction covering everything that you would wish to know now. Ann writes clearly and her experience shows through.

Julian Russell, Senior Executive Coach, PPD Consulting Ltd

Ann Linden is a master teacher, a model of excellence, and her writing is wonderfully simple and crystal clear, offering readers empowering principles of transformation. She makes NLP very accessible, and I am most happy and eager to highly recommend her book to all my students , colleagues, and friends. We certainly will carry her book in our Learning Alliance bookstore!

Rev. Joyce Liechenstein, Ph.D.
Associate Director, One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit
Interfaith Seminary, New York City, www.joyceliechenstein.com

I welcome this re-issue of Ann Lindens Mindworks which is written as an enthusiastic, conversational and personal guide to experiencing NLP and discovering more about yourself.

She utilises both her actors and teachers skills in offering the reader many rich choices of practical exercises, suggestions, questions, stories, metaphors and even scripted scenarios to bring NLP vividly to life.

Its a well-contructed and interesting introduction to NLP and, importantly too, there is an emphasis on exploring and learning NLP in a framework of personal integrity and wisdom. The writers thirty years of experience with NLP certainly shines through with an undiminishedsincerity, creativity and passion.

A great book for people, new to NLP, who are curious about NLP as a pathway to self-development and who enjoy colourful and lively real-life examples of how it worksand who also like to be warmly encouraged to try it out for themselves!

Judith Lowe, PPD Learning, London

This is a beautiful book. Not only is it full of delightful insights. It is written in the most elegant absorbing way. Only someone who has mastered a topic can write with such fluency and style. Ann Linden is undoubtedly one such master. Mindworks is a delight to read if only for the absorbing style with which it is written. For me this is what NLP Is all about being an example of excellence and this book is most certainly that.

Sue Knight, Author of NLP at Work,
International Consultant, Trainer and Coach.
www.sueknight.co.uk

Often, when I try to explain the intricacies of NLP to others who are not psychologically-inclined, I get one of two responses. One response is the eyes glazing over expression of the person who finds my explanation far too complicated. The other response is the enthusiasm of a novice who sees in NLP a path toward personal growth. Both people need an easy-to-understand approach to NLP that shows them how to use NLP for superb communication, accessing resourceful states, getting results, turning failure into feedback, and having more choice and flexibility in everyday situations. Mindworks by Ann Linden (with Kathrin Perutz) is the answer.

Mindworks is an owners manual for the mind that allows readers to make maximum use of the strengths and resources you already have. The book is divided into seven sections, each presenting a basic NLP presupposition:

• The meaning of your communication is the response you get. This section covers how to create quality communication in interpersonal relationships: rapport, observation skills, calibration, representational systems and how they are expressed (verbally and non-verbally), uptime and downtime, sameness and differences , and pacing and leading.
• You have all the resources you need. This section tells readers how to access their resources and develop their strengths and talents. The NLP tools are submodalities, anchoring, future conditioning, and body language.
• Success is the ability to achieve intended results. Here, the book delves into goal-setting, values, outcomes, motivation, ecological considerations, and strategies.
• You can turn failure into feedback. This section is a philosophical guide to understanding how to reframe failureto discover the learnings, the see the new opportunities presented by failure, and to recognize that good that exists, alongside, or in spite of, the bad.
• The map is not the territory. In this exploration of language patterns , Linden teaches the Meta Modela method of questioning that facilitates specificity and understanding of meaning.
• There is a positive intention behind every behavior. At this point, the text addresses our unconscious behaviors and how to manage them with an understanding of parts, positive intentions, and reframing.
• There are always more choices. Flexibility is the topic. Linden presents tools for change: perceptual shifts and pattern interrupts.

Conclusion
Mindworks makes NLP palatable for the non-practitionersomeone who simply wants to know how to use NLP in daily life. Linden weaves the instruction into an upbeat, conversational delivery, with sample dialog, examples, and metaphors. Mindworks is a first-rate beginners guide to NLP.

Judith E. Pearson, Ph.D. is a Licensed Professional Counselor, certified hypnotherapist, and certified NLP trainer, with a private practice in Springfield, Virginia. She has recently published The Weight, Hypnotherapy and You Weight Reduction Program: An NLP and Hypnotherapy Practitioners Manual. Her website is www.engagethepower.com.