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Hi all one of my “avatars” is men suffering with mental health issues.
This has led to a CEO of a mental health charity for men inviting me to come and give a 45min talk.
The audience are volunteers who each I have mentees with mental health challenges. They are just older men who have life experiences. Not therapists or anything.
My objective is to provide insight into NLP with a view to them wanting to take my trainings.
I will share “my story” and how NLP has impacted me and my life. I then wanted ideas of what else I should talk to that will have impact?
I was thinking an overview of the communication model.
what’s the forums thoughts on what else may resonate?
Any exercises/ demos that may suit?
Thanks, James.
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Hi James, nice to meet you! Here are my thoughts.
First of all, I would say the more info you have about the values of your audience the better. What do they really want?
I could mind read that as volunteers with no mental health training, they might like to take a 7 day training that will allow them to get paid handsomely for helping people make much bigger shifts in their mental health than they are currently making. So without knowing anything else, if it were me, I would start with something like that in the “Why” section of my talk.
“Who here would like to be able to help people make MASSIVE improvement in their mental health in a matter of hours or minutes?”
“Who here would like to get paid hundreds of dollars an hour to do that? Would that be of value to you?”
I might also ask a thought-provoking question like “WHAT is Mental Health anyway?” And let it sit for a minute and let people ponder, before giving your own complex equivalence. Many people think of mental health as binary: either you’re mentally healthy or mental ill. In reality it’s a spectrum. And you could define mental health as something like being at cause/empowered, congruent, and being in positive, joyful, resourceful states most of the time.
So HOW do we achieve greater mental health? By letting go a negative emotions and limiting decisions and by integrating parts… and for that there’s NLP and TLT.
If you only have 45 minutes, then maybe just do something like having participants greet each other first like someone they really don’t like, and then like an old friend they haven’t seen in ages, and notice how different their experience is just from holding that different thought in their mind. And you mentioned talking about the NLP Model of Communication, so you can tie back into that: perception -> state -> behavior.
For any NLP demo/exercise you’ll probably need about 15 minutes which is a big chunk of your 45 min talk, but possible if you want to go that route. Personally if it were me I probably wouldn’t go that route as it would be too rushed and not much time for What If after that.
Those are my thoughts for the moment without knowing more. Good luck! Sounds like a great opportunity!
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Daannnng Adam!!! Preach it out!! Couldn’t agree with you more!
Thank you James for your post!!
Adam is correct, with the amount of time you have you’d want to scramble their thinking about the label or stigma of ‘mental health disorders’
Asking them what is mental health? Get them to interact, shouting out what defines mental health. Write it down on a flip chart.
The piece by piece, what if you showed them how each of the qualities of mental health can easily be attained by retraining the mind with NLP, TLT, Hypnosis? Break it down for them and show how everything is a process vs traditional therapy which is about content.What if you suggested (if the audience doesn’t) that a quality of mental health is the ability to focus on what you want and to have emotional resiliency and what if the demo you did was the Ring of Power group anchoring exercise, that you’ll have 8-10 mins to lead them through with some pumped up music (just a good beat or something with positive lyrics!!!).
This would be a good teaser of what 7 days with you could teach them. Plus EVERYTHING that Adam suggested about your sales pitch is solid GOLD!!
You got this!!!
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WOW the Masters have spoken.
Great valuable answers there Adam and Laura.
So James whenever you have such a short time to present its imperative you leave your audience wanting more – how do you do that. For me its about stretching out the Why section of your talk, really hitting home all the specific benefits of doing your 7 day Practitioner to that particular audience.
I love Adams idea about challenging people on their complex equivalence of what mental health actually is and their perceptions of it.
This is a great time to share some of the presuppositions of NLP ie people are not their behaviours, accept the person and change the behaviour (eg process & strategies) as well as respect peoples model of the world.
I think in the WHAT could be filled with communications model and the great little exercise Adam suggested about greeting people like they were that persons idol, someone they admire or look up too and notice how their IR’s change their State changes and their behavior changes.
Then into the great exercise which Laura suggested the ring of power group anchoring exercise. Make sure you drop motivation in there as a state.
Then this would be a great point to pitch your 7 day training whilst everyone is feeling resourceful.
You’ll be moving to get this done in 45 minutes because it would be great to have some question time – if you dont have time you will have to make yourself available and accessible to everyone at the end.
Good luck! You’ll do great!
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Wow! all the information in here is superb and I love it. definitely ring of power, sometimes when I do this with groups I bring a few bright colored hula hoops for them to actually step into and they can anchor it from there and for those on zoom they could see it and therefore make it easy to imagine. they can enhance the brightness of the ring and make it any color they want.
for the beginning if you are unable to do the meet and greet you can get everyone to slouch their shoulders and look down at the ground with their chin to their chest and say how happy they feel which they won’t feel it because the physiology doesn’t match the words then tell them to put their arms above their head turn their lips up stand up and expand their lungs and say I’m miserable and they won’t feel it because their physiology is in a resourceful state. I have done this with many audiences to explain state change can be done in an instant where goal setting takes more steps. then you can explain how would you like to anchor yourself into resourceful states and use them at any time you choose. would that be useful.
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Great question and great answers from all, love it.
I’m in the same area too. Love Comms Model, always blows them away. I had a 9 year old client yesterday who got onto this and realised she was the creator, and came over to cause. The Comms model opens up the 7+-2 idea, and groups often end up in stitches when they discover they can’t even name many types of fruit before their buffer empties, or even name their own family members! It’s so funny when they realise it’s true, but opens up the idea that it’s important to consider what they’re doing with the 7+-2 things and how that defines their experience.
I also do ring of power – easy, clean to lead people through and beneficial takeaway for all. Resource anchor is a great takeaway.
I do a variation on the theme of what Debs so well described, and its another eye opener. I get people to walk around as if having a bad day, then as if having the best day ever. Anything like that opens up discussion on the relationship between physiology, feeling and thought.
Eye accessing cues works well even in a zoom, as long as you describe it well.
Enjoy whatever you do.
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Haha I can’t wait to see the video too – wonder what I’ll say 😉
Looking forward to seeing you in Ozland in October! -
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