| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Timelines as a metaphor |
| Posted by: | Lewis Walker |
| Date/Time: | 30/06/2003 11:01:53 |
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Hi Michael, A comprehensive posting! A couple of points. I have found that many NLPers, when eliciting a timeline actually install their own version of what they think it should be, without knowing they are doing so. I see timelines as an anchored state. During conversation, if you have established rapport, you can easily covertly anchor past, present and future anywhere you want in space around them. You can do much useful changework conversationally in this way. You wrote: "Note the New Code games does it all in the present and places little value on past representation of memory." As I see and use these processes it seems to me that although all change happens in the "here and now", New code games etc are either acting on a past representation or a future imagination of a specific context. To truly do it all in the present would involve making the change in a real life example of the context happening now, much akin to in-vivo exposure therapy. Regards, Lewis. |