Monthly Archives: March 2014

Deep Structure is the sensory map (both conscious and unconscious) that people use to organize and direct their behavior.

Matching a person’s body language with a different type of behavior or movement, such as tapping your foot in time to their speech rhythm.

Conscious Competence is the third stage of the learning cycle in that full conscious attention is still required to carry out an activity. The skill is not yet fully integrated, intuitive or habitual.

Conscious Incompetence is the second stage of the learning cycle in that conscious attention is on the task and the results are variable.

In NLP, Congruence is when all of a person’s internal beliefs, strategies, and behaviors are fully in agreement and oriented toward securing a desired outcome. Words, voice and body language all are aligned and conveying the same message.

Mastery over an entire group of behaviors. Capabilities form the development of a mental map allowing people to select and organize groups of individual behaviors. In NLP, these mental maps take the form of cognitive strategies and Meta-Programs.

When someone ‘breaks state’, they interrupt their current state to move into a different state. Often, a break state is used to remove someone from an un-resourceful state to place into a neutral or resourceful one.

The generalizations we make about ourselves, others and the world and our operating principles in it. Beliefs can be broad and encompassing and can influence behaviors in all aspects of a persons life. A belief is persons feeling of certainty and conviction about something. Behavior is organized around belief structures. If a specific idea or […]

Behavioral Flexibility is the ability to modify one’s own behavior in order to elicit a desired response from another person. It can refer to the development of an entire range of responses to any given stimulus as opposed to having habitual, and therefore limiting, responses that would inhibit performance potential.

The specific physical actions and reactions that occur when interacting with the people and environment around us.