Sure, here’s a bullet point list of core NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) skills:
- Rapport Building – Establishing connection and trust with others.
- Sensory Acuity – Being observant and sensitive to verbal and non-verbal cues.
- Outcome Identification – Clarifying and setting specific goals.
- Meta Model – Using questions to explore and clarify language and thoughts.
- Milton Model – Utilizing hypnotic and persuasive language patterns.
- Anchoring – Creating and triggering associations with emotional states.
- Reframing – Changing the meaning or perspective of a situation or experience.
- Submodalities – Manipulating the finer qualities of internal representations (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).
- Strategy Elicitation and Utilization – Identifying and employing mental strategies for specific outcomes.
- Parts Integration – Resolving internal conflicts by integrating opposing parts of personality.
- Perceptual Positions – Viewing situations from different perspectives for better understanding and empathy.
- Belief Change Techniques – Identifying and altering limiting beliefs.
- Modeling – Replicating the patterns of excellence in others.
- Calibration – Accurately reading people’s states through their physical cues.
- Timeline Techniques – Working with the concept of time in mental processes for therapeutic change.
- Pattern Interruption – Disrupting unhelpful behavioral or thought patterns.
- State Elicitation and Management – Inducing and managing emotional and mental states.
- Swish Patterns – Replacing an unwanted behavior or response with a desired one.
- Chunking – Breaking down or building up information to understand and communicate more effectively.
- Ecological Check – Ensuring that desired changes respect the person’s values and the wider system they belong to.
These skills form the foundation of NLP practice, aimed at improving communication, personal development, and psychotherapeutic processes.
