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Haven’t tried it yet but Happy by Pharrell just came to mind as a fun one ? Because I’m happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. That’s a lack of referential index btw… I think ? And a cause and effect. And so you can, and you will. I know it ??
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Thanks Kallum and Laura! Honored to be able to contribute to this series and excited to share my experience and learnings. The breakthroughs I had as assistant were possibly bigger than what I experienced as a student at Prac and Master Prac, so I highly recommend assisting. Will get chunked down on the experience and benefits tomorrow. See you there!
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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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Great points, Kallum. Thanks for engaging. Glad we can finally follow up the open loop from December when we briefly started discussing NLP and technology. I need closure! ?
Totally agree about taking action and not waiting for tech to fix things. Tech just amplifies what we are, so we need to make better people to develop and use the tech for sure.
As for access to advanced tech, the Have Mores will always have more than the Have Lesses, by definition. But I think even the trickle down tech available to the masses is going to be quite powerful. I mean what if you could buy a robot for $15 that can take care of your home, grow your own organic food, cook for you, etc? When AI and robots really kick in, especially if/when fusion energy finally happens, the price of goods can go down at the speed of Moore’s Law… exponentially. Do you think anyone would need Universal Basic Income in that scenario? What if we don’t need to work because we earn enough in a few hours to pay for our way of life for a month? What would we do then? Life might not revolve around economics anymore. So then we have more time to focus on our personal and spiritual development.
There are a lot of voices taking about how things can go wrong. I hear very few voices talking about what do we want to create instead?
Transform the Planet… into what, specifically?
I bet we can come up with some pretty cool ideas on this forum with the high level of thinking here. Would love to hear more people’s thoughts on what an empowered, humanistic, life-affirming future might look like on this planet and beyond.
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Just watched this and wow… even after already knowing a lot about surveillance capitalism, this was an eye opener.
From one angle, you can actually see this development as the enhancement of human perception, through technological rather than conscious means. It’s also the dark side of this perceptual capability… much like people who misuse NLP in un-ecological ways.
NLP actually gives us as individuals many similar “superpowers” of perception to what the technologists are achieving via AI algorithms. We can spot the hidden trends in human behavior and use that insight to redirect human behavior. The difference is that we’re doing it with ecology and respect for the free will of the individual.
What if these same technological superpowers were used to redirect people toward choices that enhance their consciousness and well-being? Only with the person’s consent and conscious awareness, of course. In this end this is all about free will and choice.
In a strange way, this “evil” activity is actually expanding human consciousness because it is increasing awareness. These AI algorithms help us spot previously unseen connections and relationships between things… ultimately leading to the conclusion that all things are connected. The key is to make sure that this expanded awareness respects free will, and that it goes both ways instead of being a one-way mirror.
But eventually it will. Eventually you will have open source software to look at publicly available videos and photos of public figures and world leaders and determine more about them that they know themselves… including how honest they are… even if they’re lying in real time. Think an AI sensory acuity version of Milton Erickson… “I knew she went into a trance because I saw the pulse on her ankle quicken from across the room.” Soon anyone will be able to do the same with AI. Everyone will have the equivalent of a real-time polygraph.
This type of radical transparency has the potential to really transform the planet for good, by making the unseen seen and allowing us to hold business and political leaders more accountable for their behavior. So it’s another example of the way our universe is diverging as it expands: things are becoming more secret and more transparent simultaneously.
As we find ourselves more exposed by this technology, our flaws and foibles are magnified and reflected back at us more quickly, creating a massive feedback loop for personal growth and development. When our every move is scrutinized, we all have to be on our best behavior, but that also means we have to grow faster. Because no one can keep up an act like that forever… sooner or later you have to just let go of the darkness within… which is our specialty by the way.
I’m excited to see how we redirect this seemingly dark development to the enhancement of human prosperity and the prosperity of all life.
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¡Muchas gracias, Laurita! Got them back from the printer after a couple more visual tweaks. Printed on a paper made of recycled cotton t-shirts, so it’s eco-friendly, 17 or 18 pt thickness + cotton = great kinesthetic. Plus infused with human energy from the people who wore those t-shirts! Win win win ??????
And yes that is genuine Texas crude on my finger! We like to get our hands dirty on this forum, right? Greetings from the oil fields of West Texas! ?
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