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Power & Language draws its ideas and inspirations from several sources. What Joseph always intends to do in the Power & Language presentations is to share with you in an applied way the massive amount of information that is known about how humans interact, specifically making it directly and immediately applicable to getting outcomes both with and through others. He also goes further and often presents what is being learned about the nature, function and effect of human interaction right now - sharing information with you from insiders' leading, cutting-edge sources - ideas you're unlikely to find easily on your own. In addition, Joseph reveals the techniques used by masters of Power & Language to influence, persuade, coerce and intimidate others ... so that you can become "manipulation proof."
One of the deep sources that Power & Language draws from is the rich and powerful model of Neurolinguistic Programming - NLPTM. Many of the sources that Joseph draws from in Power & Language can in fact be traced back through the lineage of NLPTM.
For instance going relatively far back in that line we come across the ideas of the seminal thinker, Alfred Korzybski - the founder of General Semantics. This model has often been summed up by one of its aphorisms: "The Map Is Not The Territory." Specifically what the General Semantics model addresses is the map of language as it represents reality. In essence what could be said about this model is that it claims that the "description of reality" is never what reality actually "IS." Within this model there is contained the idea of surface structure and deep structure. These are representations of direct experience stored as descriptions held in the form of language (words) and sensory representations. Essentially it's saying that language describes only the surface structure of direct experience leaving out much of the detail and richness that is contained in the deep structure where the representations are stored as sensory representations and therefore much closer to direct experience itself.
Building on the General Semanitics model the founders of NLPTM - Richard Bandler and Dr. John Grinder - first developed what they referred to as the Meta-ModelTM. This model addressed the surface structure of the descriptions of experience contained in language in terms of Generalizations, Deletions and Distortions. By accepting that language generalizes, deletes and distorts information about direct experience from the sensory representation of it, they proposed that significant portions of the direct experience could be added back into the description making it richer and more complete - and therefore more accurate to fact. This process, meta-modeling language would potentially generate a therapeutic effect by reorganizing the individual's perceptions of their experience, therefore allowing them to build more appropriate responses in producing their results in relation to the actual data present in the environment.
Building on their work in developing the Meta-ModelTM Bandler and Grinder went on to develop what became known as Neurolinguistic Programming. This was essentially a way of modeling human experience and performance as a sensory-based process and representing the process in terms of rich descriptions of the sensory experience of the individual. NLPTM has been referred to by one of the early developers, Rober Dilts, as "The Structure of Subjective Experience" in one of his books about the model. Over the years of Neurolinguistic Programming's development and refinement there have been many sources that have been tapped for material to be incorporated into the model. Examples of this include some of the material from Gestalt Therapy as developed by Dr. Fritz Perls, M.D., Hypnotic Protocols as developed by Dr. Milton H. Erickson, M.D. and concepts and techniques from Family Systems Therapy as developed by Virgina Satir, among many other sources. What this has amounted to is that over it's history NLPTM has become a complete and rich model for describing human experience and intervening to improve the performance of individuals and groups using the technology and applications developed using the model.
Joseph's also spent seven years in an intimate and intense personal apprenticeship with his own teacher and mentor, Roye Fraser, the developer of the Generative ImprintTM model. From this experience Joseph draws from a rich tradition of apprenticeship and learning directly with a master of the form. Roye's most obvious contributions to Joseph's work that show up in the Power & Language presentations include his frequently referencing the idea of a positive bias or the excitatory state, and the idea of whole-form and wellformedness. These ideas refer to the concept that the human system is exquisitely designed to operate in the particular environment we find ourselves in, both on our own and among others. Specifically, that we are most capable of opearating well when we are open to taking in data, organizing to a particular desired outcome experience and in relation to the entire greater context. Roye's most essential premise is that we are naturally organized in a very particular way when we are indeed at our best - and this way of being can be elicited, explicated, codified and utilzed deliberately by the individual. This way of being is directly referential to the individual's generative imprint, an iconic, symbolic representation that the individual references whenever they are at their best.
In addition Joseph presents material from many other sources as well including, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, neurocognition ... what he refers to under the umbrella of social ontology ... and these tend to show up often in his Power & Language presentations.
What Joseph has taken to saying about his approach is that it's more and more become about inter-subjective human experience as opposed to subjective experience. He's so much moved to this position that he questions if there is any such thing as subjective experience, instead proposing that all human experience is in fact inter-subjective. This forms the basis of what he's referring to as social ontology and is at the root of how humans organize to create exquisite performances in relation to one another and also what interferes with them achieving these kinds of performances, social systems design and human systems design, two topics that Joseph spends a lot of time discussing in the Power & Language presentations.
So if you're ready to go beyond what you don't know you don't know and begin to become a master in the domain of human interaction, then allow yourself the opportunity to experience the profound impact of Power & Language directly in your own life.
If you want to read some of Joseph's ideas on Power & Language go to: Power & Language | Articles