Going Beyond Sleight of Mouth

A lot has changed since 1999. The world we live in today is in many ways so remarkably different the world 22 years ago.

But sometimes when you look at the field of NLP you’d be forgiven for thinking “nothing much has changed.”

People are still teaching the ‘6 step reframe’. The Meta Model is still at the heart of NLP. And novice NLPers are still wondering “where’s the best place to start?” … while seasoned students are asking – “how do all the models connect?”

People have less time to focus on things and want better ways to do more. On the surface, while NLP can appear to be the same, a lot has changed in how NLP is used by those in the know today vs decades past.

Take Sleight of Mouth for example.

If you don’t know, Sleight of Mouth refers to a group of patterns coded by Robert Dilts for doing conversational belief change. Used effectively, they are very powerful. Robert did a great job capturing some of the best ways we have in NLP for changing people’s beliefs.

In 1999 there were 14 Sleight of Mouth patterns. And for the past 23 years that's all NLPers learned.

But now, because of innovations that occurred in NLP after that time and known only to a small select group of NLPers, there are many more patterns.

There aren't just 14.

As Master Trainer Michael Breen reveals, there are many, many more.

By combining the Framing Tool and Meta Model - there’s a predictable way of generating conversational belief change patterns that doesn’t require any arm-twisting, confrontations or trying to dominate others into changing their beliefs.

In other words, finally there is a more complete toolkit that allows you to lead, influence and change people’s beliefs that they will happily follow and avoids any resistance.

And most importantly, when you use Sleight of Mouth in this enhanced way you can change people’s beliefs elegantly and so deftly that the person(s) you are speaking with doesn’t even notice the process is happening at all.

This approach goes beyond Sleight of Mouth.

And can be very, very useful for anyone who works in a professional contexts where being able to use ordinary everyday language is vital so that the person you are speaking with is willing to:

• Listen to you without any resistance
• Take on new ideas easily
• Quickly move from thought to action

Over to Michael Breen to show you what that sounds like:

Up until recently Sleight of Mouth patterns have been typically taught as a series of ‘reframing’ boxes one should memorise. Students are encouraged to practice them without context and so struggle to understand how the patterns function and relate to one another.

They don’t know how to generate new ones or how to use the client’s own mental model to generate unique patterns that fit perfectly and transform the client’s beliefs.

But that all changes tomorrow. I’ve got a special opportunity for you to learn these advanced conversational change skills for yourself.

Talk soon,

Tom