L. Michael Hall is a Cognitive Psychologist who through research into NLP and Self-Actualization Psychology is now a modeler of human excellence; he has completed 15 modeling projects from Resilience, Women in Leadership, Self-Actualization, Coaching, Self-Actualizing Leaders, Managers, and Companies, Selling, Defusing, Wealth Creation, etc. He has authored 50 NLP books and a series on Meta-Coaching. Michael co-founded the ISNS (International Society of Neuro-Semantics) and the MCF (Meta-Coaching Foundation) and is an internationally renowned trainer. Dr. Bodenhamer's under-graduate degree (BA) is from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC (1972). His major at Appalachian State University was Philosophy and Religion with a minor in Psychology. He received the Master of Divinity (1976) and the Doctor of Ministry Degree (1978) from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. The Master of Divinity Degree included training in Pastoral Care with both classroom and clinical work. Dr. Bodenhamer received one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education from Wake Medical Center in Raleigh, N. C. while working on his doctorate. His marriage to Linda now spans 43 years.His NLP Practitioner's Certification comes from L.E.A.D.'s Consultants in Reynoldsburg, OH, Dr. Gene Rooney, Trainer. Dr. Bodenhamer's NLP Master Certification and Master Time Line TherapyTMPractitioner Certification came from Tad James, Ph.D. of Advanced Neuro-Dynamics of Honolulu, HI. Additional training has been received from NLP conferences. Dr. Bodenhamer has approximately 1500 hours of formal NLP training. He taught NLP for 10 years in the Corporate/Community Education program at Gaston College. Dr. Bodenhamer received his certification as a Trainer of NLP from Tad James, Ph.D., Advance Neuro Dynamics, Honolulu, Hawaii and Wyatt Woodsmall, Ph.D. of Advanced Behavioral Modeling, Inc., Arlington, VA.As an International Master NLP Trainer, he offers both certified training for Practitioners and Master Practitioners of NLP. He has a private NLP Therapy practice. Dr. Bodenhamer has served four Southern Baptist churches as pastor. He is presently serving as pastor of a mission church called Christ Fellowship Community Church. His time in the pastorate spans 44 years. All of his pastorates have been in North Carolina. Bob has had the privilege of being married to Linda for the past 45 years (10/17/1965).He has co-authored 10 NLP books and is the sole author of I Have a Voice: How to Stop Stuttering.The NLP in Healthcare Award was presented to Bob G Bodenhamer at the NLP award ceremony 2017.
A welcome addition to the growing body of literature that
differentiates Systemmic NLP from the (now in decline) trend to
present NLP as a model of procedural techniques. Michael Hall
presents a work which bravely confronts the meaning of the word
aMastera and embraces the task of learning NLP in its delightfully
complex simplicity. This is a very generous offering of theory,
model and practical application and there is a good mix of
traditional Systemmic NLP and Hall's original take on these subject
areas. As usual, the reader is given work to do in translating some
of the more obscure labelling, but well worth the trouble. Hall
presents NLP as the rich subject that it is. If you got your NLP
training through a quick installation package and would like to
know what it really is that the rest of us are working with and
talking about then this book will take you quite some way into
appreciating the on-going process of NLP Mastery.Beeleaf Training
Pamel Gawler-Wright,
As a sequel to Volume I, Hall and Bodenhamer's User's Manual for
the Brain, Volume II is a Master's level curriculum for NLP
Practitioners. It takes a systemic approach to integrating NLP
skills, presuppositions, models, processes, and applications within
the four meta-domains, Meta States, Meta Modalities, Meta Programs,
and the Meta Model, to arrive at the gestalt that is NLP. Moreover,
the course content is conveyed in such a way as to install the
attitudes of mastery and the apower of wizardrya that combines
passion, motivation, and dedication. Readers will get a fresh new
look at the presuppositions of NLP for shaping the prerequisite
attitudes of NLP mastery. Those who own several of Hall and
Bodenhamer's previous books will enjoy this one because it is the
Grand Tour of their thinking and writing over the past decade,
covering topics such as adragon slayinga (banishing negative
states), the relationship between Meta Programs and Meta
Modalities, time lining, mind lines (with a delightfully astute
foray into presuppositional language patterns), Frame Games, Meta
Model magic, Hall's Strategy Model, and Hall's recently-developed
Matrix Model of the mind. Through writing that is clear, concise,
crisp and engaging, Hall and Bodenhamer have drawn expertly on the
work of other major developers of NLP, such as Bandler and Grinder,
Cameron-Bandler, James, Woodsmall, Bateson, and their own
contributions, to produce a unified field theory and the
quintessential self-study course on advanced NLP.Judith E Pearson
PhD
As the title suggests, this second volume of The User's Manual for
the Brain builds upon the skills of NLP outlined in Volume I,
introducing some of the newer advances in the field that take the
reader from the level of Practitioner to Master Practitioner. There
is a wealth of information bringing advanced skills to the NLP
Practitioner and as such is not a beginner's guide. Rather, Volume
II offers a comprehensive manual covering many aspects of advanced
NLP practice. Some of the new material introduced in this volume
includes: Meta-Programmes, Meta-States, aSub-modalitesa as
meta-level framing, Advanced Meta-Model distinctions, Mind-Lines as
conversational reframing patterns, Advanced Time Line Patterns, The
Meta-Domains systemic model. The book is further enhanced by the
inclusion of some of the new advances in the concepts of meta
programmes, meta states and submodalities. The User's Manual for
the Brain Volume II is essentially a step by step guide to
systematically integrating advanced NLP skills, presuppositions,
models, processes and applications within the four meta domains:
Meta-States, Meta-Modalities, Meta-Programmes and the Meta-Model.
To this end, a wealth of exercises, scripts and comprehensive
discussions are included that allow the NLP practitioner to further
enhance and refine their therapeutic techniques. At the start of
each chapter a particular skill or concept is introduced. This
theme is then developed to an advanced level before concluding with
a summary that encapsulates the main points of learning. Diagrams,
flow charts and tables included throughout the text are occasional.
One criticism could be applied that there should be more of these
to cater for those readers who process more in a avisual' modality.
Written clearly and concisely, this textbook is by no means
alightweight', and the authors' genuine passion for NLP shines
throughout. Bodenhammer and Hall have thankfully avoided using an
academic tone, managing to aspeak' through their writing pretty
much in the same way as they would aspeak' those ideas when
teaching on a training course. This very much increases the whole
auser friendly' tone that is evident upon reading this book. The
authors state that they wish to invite the reader to experience
athe adventure of mastery of NLPa. This they say does not come
about through the mere acquisition of skills but also requires the
development of an attitude, to develop the very spirit of NLP and
to become aa master in running your own brain'. In my opinion Bob
Bodenhammer and Michael Hall have written a book that most
certainly lives up to this premise. The User's Manual for the Brain
Volume II is an incredibly informative read, and one may be tempted
to fall into the trap of thinking that it could replace attendance
at a professional training course. However, it should be remembered
that theoretical learning alone does not replace practice, and that
a combination of both under professional supervision is required
for the development of both skill and experience. Even though the
book contains many practical exercises, in order to bring all these
fascinating tools to life a partner or study group is most
certainly required. I found the chapter on aPractical NLP' a
particularly enjoyable read. The authors ask: aWhen you finally
reach a place of mastery, then what? What will that do for you?a To
answer these questions they present an excellent overview
demonstrating how NLP can be used to create significant and
beneficial changes within a variety of areas that include
psychotherapy, education, and business, and, of course, within the
field of personal growth. The book does have a comprehensive
bibliography. However, it noticeably lacks index that would enable
readers who wish to pull together all the relevant strands of
information on a given topic to do so. Similarly a glossary of
terms, such as is available in Volume I, is missing and would also
be greatly welcomed. From the outset, the authors advise that if
the reader wishes to fully master the material contained within The
User's Manual for the Brain Volume II they awill need a good dose
of courage, boldness and passion, for these patterns will not work
their full magic if you attempt to use them while you are
hesitating, fearful or unmotivateda. This is certainly not a book
for the fainthearted and for anyone new to NLP it will not be an
easy read. It is an advanced manual dealing with complex topics and
as such assumes that the reader is already familiar with Volume I
or has completed an NLP Practitioner course. With this in mind the
book is a goldmine of useful information and is to be highly
recommended.LCCH News Anne Marshall,
For those who use NLP extensively and would like a greater
understanding of the aHow' and the aWhy' of the process, this is
the book to read! It is a very comprehensive guide to the methods
and the uses of NLP including its modalities and sub modalities and
all the MetaStates etc and will increase your knowledge and
understanding of the subject up to Master Practitioner level. If
you read and enjoyed the first volume of The User's Manual for the
Brain and wish to carry the subject further then Volume II is for
you.Pat Doohan, National Council of Psychotherapists
Having a background in psychology and (more importantly here)
philosophy, I liked this book yet I suspect the masses will find it
a little arid. Whilst volume 1 (I would say a prerequisite read for
this book) dealt with the practice of NLP in it's on-the-ground
form, volume 2 seeks to deal with the spirit of NLP, leading to
aNLP Masterya (not entirely sure I appreciate the hegemony of this
internal nomenclature*). Volume 1 encourages us to ask and answer
the ajournalists questions'; awhat, how, who, when, wherea. Volume
2 asks the question the novice and the aNLP Master' will seek quite
different answers to; awhy?a Why do some techniques work only some
of the time? Why do some techniques work at all? Why practice NLP?
In my review of volume 1, I likened the book to the owner's manual
for a car, and as any fellow car enthusiast will tell you when it
comes to car manuals, there is the owner's (user's) manual then
there is the workshop (engineer's / mechanic's) manual. So perhaps
volume 2 is the workshop manual, and likewise it also follows that
this book will not have the (relatively) popular appeal of the
first volume. Much as the home mechanic may take little account of
how changes in one system can affect the whole vehicle because it
already built, but the engineer / designer must view the vehicle as
a whole gestalt, so this book deals with all the NLP systems
(models) concurrently. The concept of aecology' (opportunity cost /
fit) has been something I had been thinking about a lot recently in
response to personal change challenges my clients face in my
practices. Sure the aecology' of a goal is simple practitioner's
stuff, but the real ecology of the gestalt, of the real changes
made using the techniques and how the techniques interact upon one
another, this had got me thinking. The User's Manual for the Brain
Volume 2 was offering some answers, allowing me to delve deeper in
my practice, if a particular technique or pattern was not operating
as I had hoped, why? And just as importantly, how could I go about
improving the dynamic? One over-arching theme the authors work
towards is a aunified theory of NLP', and plentiful use of the
concept of ameta'. It was a revelation, to find that the; 1
Meta-States, 2 Meta-Programs, 3 Meta-Model distinctions and the 4
Sub- Modalities (re-designated ameta-modalities' for good reasons
you will find out) - all relate to the same underlying processes.
Redundancy and simplification in the methods, great! Had I not
learnt this, I would still have been carrying around, in my head,
an unwieldy and disconnected mental model of these different (yet
same) facets of the NLP method. Suddenly instead of using rote
descriptions and applications of these facets, my mind is
developing a compact, flexible, algorithmic perception of this
knowledge. When you read the book and the same happens, you'll reap
the benefits of the vast applicability of instantly generated
techniques. Another element I enjoyed whilst reading this c.450
page book is that the concept of ameta' is so prominent. During my
time studying psychology at university I became very interested in
the concepts of paradox, and self reference (reflexivity).
Consistent-inconsistency, the rejection of the grand narrative as a
grand narrative itself and that sort of thing, all very post
modern. Although at this time my interest was purely academic, I
always had a niggling feeling that this area of though must have
some profound and practical implications a upon reading this book I
found I was right. Language, meta programmes and meta states create
paradox and conflict, not the world at large -in-and-of-it's-self.
I knew this yet had not perceived the practical implications
before, but in the world there is no paradox, no axiomatic
authority, prominence, or hierarchy of levels of meaning. With due
respect to the primacy of Bertrand Russel's asets of categories',
Albert Ellis's acompound emotions' and Sartre, but here is a true
revelation, an epiphany even, about the position and imposition of
meaning in a cold and category-less world. Wow! People's perceived
problems are not absolute or even ones of subjective assessment,
but are problems of category and hierarchy alone. Suddenly sitting
before me in my practice were not people with a set problem in and
of itself. Instead I found before me people whose arbitrary
assignment of pre-eminence of one category (whose delineations are
just as arbitrary) over another was operating as a problem within
their perceived world. It was as if I was suddenly watching a steam
of green numbers cascading downwards against a black
background.Paul Jones, Hypnotherapist, LCCH Book Reviewer
This sequel to Vol 1 is excellent. Vol 2 is the Masters book a and,
as such, has a wealth of new techniques and ideas on how to use NLP
effectively and efficiently. This is an all-enhancing, easy to use
manual that takes an NLP Practitioner to the next level. Included
in the volume are the 4 meta-domains with very clear explanations
and instructions on how to use these with pure mastery. If you want
to improve and excel at NLP, I would recommend this work a it is
pure genius. 5 starsTerri Bodell NACHP
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