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Resetting the Bar

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, October 08, 2006

Knowing where you are will always be just as important as knowing where you are going in terms of getting to where you want to be ...

Howdy everyone,

I've intentionally stepped away from posting for a couple of weeks. Both here on BlogNostra and also I've resisted putting out an edition of Authentically Living(tm) my newsletter as well. There are a couple of reasons for this and I'll share just a few ...

Years ago I was listening to Richard Bandler, developer of Neurolinguistic Programming/NLP speaking. There was an audience question about something Richard had been doing and teaching years before that he was no longer doing. In fact not only wasn't he doing it or teaching it ... he was actively refuting it! This was something I had been on about myself for a few years at the time ... the infamous NLP Parts Model - most notably represented by the Six-Step Reframing technique.

Just so there we're clear ... I HATE SIX-STEP REFRAMING! ... it represents what I least like about the NLP model in every way. However, at the time Richard was also on about it in this particular workshop ... "OLD TECHNOLOGY ... blah, blah, blah ..." ... tearing into pieces that would remain rent and unrepairable. This was after writing a book years before (Reframing with John Grinder) that positioned this technology at the center of the work he was doing at the time.

Anyway updating to the moment in the program where all this happened, this participant asks Richard how he could speak this way about this process, the Six-Step Reframe using the parts model, after having written a book that touted the very same process. Richard's response was absolutely classic Richard ... "I call that changing my mind." Now if you "grok" the NLP experience at all you'll get the marvelous double entendre built into that comment.

So I've been working though my own updating ... some of which I've been sharing with you all right here in BlogNostra. Without making it painful (for you or me ...) what's been going on has been what I began to refer to years ago as "a seismic shift" in the way I'm approaching what I've been calling the Mythogenic Self Process work for years.

Way back when (in the early 1990's ... over ten years ago now ...) while I was studying the Generative Imprint(tm) Model with Roye I designed the first presentation of the Mythogenic Self Process for an NLP conference where I was speaking ... and the name stuck. Initially what I presented could be called "an application of the Generative Imprint Model." Literally what I did was design six exercises to be delivered over a few days in a program that allowed participants to experience Roye's Generative Imprint Model. Later I added a seventh exercise based on an extrapolation of Robert Dilt's "S.C.O.R.E. Model" that I call the "Soma-Swish(tm)". Eventually these seven exercises became the Mythogenic Self Experience(tm), a program that only Licensed MythoSelf Facilitators and Trainers are certified to present internationally.

Well ... that was then and it has become very, very clear to me that the time has come for me to update ... both the models I'm working out of and on and myself as well. I can assure you that updating the models is much, much easier to do! So I've been at this task for a while now and really turning the corner especially over the last few weeks. This will begin coming through in the work I'm presenting in a number of ways ...

  • The precision of the focus of my work on issues of performance - both personal and professional
  • This focus has been present for me from the beginning ... and now it has really crystallized for me in terms of "how-to" be doing this work as well as "what" work to be doing.

  • The tightening of the target audience that I will be working with myself in terms of what I call "private clients" and also folks whom I'll be training and mentoring
  • More and more the focus of work in this area will be with professionals who are "expert advisors" themselves ... people who coach, counsel and consult with others themselves

  • The presentation of my materials in an increasingly accessible way ... including written, audio and visual materials ... to make the models I've developed more accessible to a larger audience then ever before
  • You may have already noticed the increased output of these materials already like my EPC Series One - Exquisite Performance Coaching four CD audio training program

  • The benefits of the work I'm developing have begun more and more to organize around two or three primary areas of activity
  • Personal/Professional Performance - getting results on one's own, this includes creating remarkably well-defined outcomes, excellent processes for their attainment and the intrinsic motivation to sustain the commitment necessary to realize them.
  • Social Performance - getting results with and through others, this includes establishing the common ground, setting the outcomes that are mutually desirable, priming the system to achieve the outcome, building the context to produce the outcome and designing the interactional dynamics to sustain the system throughout the realization of the intended outcome(s)
  • Personal/Professional/Organizational Fulfillment - defining and integrating the organizing paradigm with individuals, groups and organizations that will allow them to achieve a sense of balance and fulfillment as they attain their outcomes, this will include a massive heightening of the awareness of the social systems architecture that they are operating within.

  • The specific orientation of the work I'll be doing will be demonstrating an even keener precision than before - both in terms of aim and execution, first and foremost I'll be
  • 1) re-defining the NLP model as I have come to understand and utilize it myself (and in how I present it to others)
  • 2) re-defining the MythoSelf Process work and models to encompass a much broader consideration, namely a "social ontological approach" and a process I've begun referring to as "behavioral aesthetics" over the last couple of years
  • 3) re-defining coaching as it has been presented and developed over the last ten years or so, incorporating much more of the ground-breaking work on cognition and embodiment that I've already been including in my work in and around the MythoSelf Process models

    • This last point will be the bastion of virtually all my intended work in the near future ... re-defining coaching as it has come to know today. And, as I've stated this will include a massive overhaul and updating of the NLP Model and my own MythoSelf Process Model as well.

    I wanted to share this with you as my readers so that you have some sense of what's been going on with this blog and why I've been away from it for the last couple of weeks. So now you know where I've been and what's been going on ... as well as where I'll be going. I hope you have the information you need to decide if you want to take this ride ... and that I've made it interesting enough for you at least to jump aboard for the time being ...

    Best regardss,

    Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
    Princeton, NJ

    To catch up and take advantage of my offer take a look at the EPC Series One - Exquisite Performance Coaching four CD audio training program ... you can still purchase it at the early release pricing (until 31 October 2006) and you'll have a full thirty-days to decide if you want to keep it or return it for a full refund.

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    Knowing where you are will always be just as important as knowing where you are going in terms of getting to where you want to be ...

    I made this realization, seven years ago.  My girlfriend and I were driving in circles in the French town of Aix en Provence.  We were looking for the way back to our hotel.  Not being a great navigator, she pointed to the map, and said, “Here, the hotel is here on the map.”

    I leaned over as she pointed, and saw that she had found it.  I then looked at her, and said, “Fine, but I have no clue where we are, so although finding our destination is helpful, we are still lost until I know where we are.”

    At that moment the whole paradigm hit me.  There is no way to find your destination, until you know where it is that you are, in that moment.

    MarkS on Sunday, October 08, 2006

    Joseph……

    Reading your blog tonight….I couldn’t help but to think about my own commitment to bringing out the best in me….and to bring out the best in everyone I came in contact with.

    I remember contacting you…..back in late 2003 when I saw on your Applied NLP site of a class that you and John LaValle were possibly going to teach (but didn’t) called the IBLEA/IBLEC – NLP Advisor Coaching Training.

    When I saw this I said “ Yes….this is what I want to be doing. Finally a model to coaching in business. A way to incorporate NLP in business for personal and professional development.

    Why? If I could bring out the best in many…many Therapist……..doing this by taking the next step of starting my own health care company…….I can then have the impact on thousands of patients…..by bring out the best in many therapist…....one person……..can wonderfully affect many lives.

    Also, to coach young entrepreneurs to new levels of achievement ……..
    ……….To be a doer…..
    …………….To be an example....
    ……………….......And to bring others to new and ever greater levels of possibility.

    Sharing the stories on the Mythosphere is my way of giving back to you….my teacher…… of how I am creatively using the skills I’ve learned.

    And by sharing those stories…..my hope is…….others will not only go for it, when it comes to trying the new skills they have learned……..but come up with new ideas and ways to use the skills they learned.

    Thank you for being such an Outstanding Teacher.

    Respectfully,
    John J. Suhar

    John J. on Sunday, October 08, 2006

    Hello Joseph. 

    What you have described is totally congruent with what you have been teaching...you are allowing your future to pull you and are letting go or transitioning the things that are not in alignment with the direction of the trajectory of your intent, even when they have been so dearly held and associated with who you are and what you do.

    You are living by example what you teach!  I respect and admire you more than I have the capacity to express!  I relish witnessing and participating in the transformations!  Bravo!

    Alethea Jacob on Monday, October 09, 2006

    Joseph,

    I love it...and I’m excited about the prospect of new adventures in the ever expanding and unfolding labyrinth of the mythosphere..and I am honoured to be part of the ripple creating those seismic shifts...you spoke of then..way into the future..now and beyond..

    I sensed something all those years back in 1995 or so when you were just starting to put your work out there.. and I first encountered you on one of only two NLP lists in the world..

    I knew that this was a path that was calling meand yet I had NO WAY of knowing how this would turn out.  And it’s been a bumpy ride but worth every second… AND now.. through thick and thin.. here we all are - nearly ten years later for me… already in the future that was germinating all those years back...new pathways, new roadsigns… new methods of transport…

    It is thanks to your developing this body of work that I have been so successful in what I set out to do… you and the work have inspired and infused my life, my books, my courses and the work I do with my clients…

    Salute Maestro !
    peta

    Peta on Monday, October 09, 2006

    Mouthwatering...sweet as honey. As always, thanks for sharing, Joseph.

    Allison

    abriggs on Monday, October 09, 2006

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