Our Collaborative Intelligence Tools: Modeling Excellence

 

The skills and models you learn with us are based on current neuroscience; our trainers and associates have solid experience in science, as well as tested skills in advanced communications.

What do we mean by "modeling"?


Models can be used to explain how something works. Models can also be used to explain how someone behaves. For example, you can find out why "he" is motivated to go to the gym every day and you aren't.

To model is to discover WHICH elements in a certain situation are crucial for better functioning.  Once you understand this, you can transfer to a new situation or person.

How this works: if someone has a skill in leadership or is excellent in social situations, you can "model" what they do, learn how they do it, and apply this.

Most human learning involves modeling -- copying something useful. It's a natural process, but sometimes slow, and not very conscious. At PSI we teach SPECIFIC MODELING skills so you can speed up the process and learn what you want easily and efficiently. Knowing how to model also helps you decide to cut out steps that don't get you to your goals. You eliminate things that are blocking you from your best.

Our Collaborative Intelligence tools help you learn from the best, most effective people in any field, with immediate measurable results.

What NLP does best is ask "what works" and then seeks the answer. In our NLP certifications we emphasize how to model and apply useful skills.

At PSI, our trainings are constantly evolving to stay fresh, relevant and practical. We use the most effective methods -- tested in a cross cultural environment. What you learn has been updated to include new understandings from neuroanatomy, psycholinguistics and other scientific research. Here are some of our approaches:

 

 

1) Our trainings are like a dojo.

Learning how to read body-language and signals requires a safe place to test your new skills. Are you reading them correctly? You don't become a mentalist by reading a book or watching TV. As Kristin learned when she studied with Paul Ekman, facial recognition techniques take practice.
 
Insight feels magical and instantaneous -- but developing reliable new reflexes and responses takes time and practice. Some of the world's best mind/body integration techniques come from martial arts training systems. Our approach links perception, intention, practice and new behaviors. Effective PQ + EQ + IQ trainings develop great reflexes to respond well to unexpected challenges.
 
Our methods are similar to a ‘dojo’ in the Japanese sense. "Do" means the way. "Jo" means a place. Our Dojo is a place where you practice new ways to perceive the world and manage your responses differently. You gain energy through playing/training with others. An ongoing group gives you feedback that contributes to faster learning. Trying to gain these techniques in isolation slows you down. Your practice partners bring valuable insights and offer new opportunities.
 
Our teachers have trained in physical and mental disciplines, in Eastern as well as Western methods of mind/body integrations that respect continuity of practice. Aikido, yoga, meditation, body and breath work take time to learn and integrate, as does Feldenkrais, body language reading and facial recognition. The real techniques they use in the TV program "Lie to me" require refined practice and real time feedback.  

The Chinese word gongfu (kungfu) translates as "skill that comes through constant application or work". We want you to have good gongfu for the mind!

 

2) A playground for learning - just like "real" life

Human beings, like other mammals, learn best through play -- curiosity, enthusiasm, absorption and eagerness. So we use play -- improv comedy, games, and scenarios -- to explore new skills and speed up learning.

Improv principles enable new players to join together and create meaningful and humorous dialogue, with no fixed script … just like real life! In real life, someone is always doing something unexpected -- then you respond. No script, no rehearsal. There is always an opportunity to create better responses.

NLP cultivates flexibility and so does improv. Both are excellent ways to learn how to listen, stay in the present, and collaborate to make something valuable happen. We work with professional Improvisers who teach that any ‘mistake’ can be incorporated and turned into something wonderful. This practical wisdom not only frees up learning but works in real life!

For many people, learning is a whole body activity. We won’t ask you to sit still or to memorize jargon. You learn by doing. We provide you with notes, references and a thorough glossary. We will even help you decode NLP books.

 

3) We like science

Early NLP was empirical and experimental, seeking practical techniques from widely divergent sources. Early developers collected (and created) a basket of tools that worked. There was, however, not much focus on formal theory. Since then, we've learned a vast amount about how the brain behaves.

We recognize that science provides a solid framework to advance our understanding of how the mind works. Science is probably the best remedy we have for superstition and dogma.

Besides, science has some very cool toys which we want in our playground and which have direct relevance to NLP. One example: when NLP started, brain imaging was in its infancy. Now it is possible to track brain activity in real time, with live subjects. As a result we can update our functional models of how best to change our subjective realities. Scientists can now "see" inside the brain to correlate external events with internal ones. It's an exciting time.

 

4) The emphasis is on values and ethics

People who work together and thrive incorporate certain key values. In our cross-cultural trainings, we invite you to default to curiosity and wonder at the amazing diversity of skills and perspectives that each individual brings with them. We emphasize that the values of respect and compassion are as important as learning a new communications technique.

Our graduates learn to first understand themselves, and their own subjectivity, and then to apply their knowledge in communicating with others. Lasting changes start at home!

 

NLP-Modeling Practitioner training: THE PARIS SUMMER INSTITUTE

Our NLP-Modeling Practitioner training provides the foundation for applying NLP in daily life. We encourage our graduates to integrate the essential principles and apply them first in their own lives. When you complete this level of training you will understand your own values and beliefs, your preferred learning system, and how you organize your perceptions to get results. You will communicate more effectively with the important people in your life.

In the Practitioner certification we focus on the skills to:


  • Observe subtle differences/changes in body and language use in yourself and others
  • Use these observations to model and predict the thinking, learning styles, and actions of others
  • Set goals that respect other people and include the advantages and ecology in any situation
  • Develop the ability to create small changes in existing patterns that have far-reaching effects

While it is up to you to decide exactly where and how you will apply your new skills, some results that previous students have enjoyed include:


  • Improved relationships at home and work
  • Access to creative, restful, and productive states
  • A strong sense of purpose
  • The capacity to know and ask for what you really want
  • Improved health and changes in body shape
  • Enhanced presence and charisma
  • New habits that support your chosen goals


You engage in constant practice with people from many different cultures. You receive individual guidance as to the best ways to progress, and to grow your skills and confidence. Your graduation includes a practical demonstration of your skills as you interview someone to discover and appreciate their values, beliefs, and their best ways to learn.

Just like real life!

 

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Masters Program: MODELING EXCELLENCE

The Masters Program "Modeling Excellence" is an opportunity to apply the skills you've developed in a professional manner. In our Practitioner Certification, the focus is on your own patterns of communication. In the Masters, you learn how to apply these understandings with others. You refine your skills in observation, pattern recognition, and modeling.

Master Certification demands a greater integration of the principles, techniques and values within yourself, so you can safely and effectively engage with others in more challenging situations. It's also a necessary step to Teacher Training and certification.

In Masters Certification, you deepen your abilities in Coaching, Wellness, Business, Creativity, and Genius. You build your repertoire of techniques and strengthen your skills in metaphor, interview and trance techniques.

The areas you practice include:

  • Modeling belief systems and changing them
  • Creating change through choosing new criteria and more effective decision making
  • Multi level communications and embedded presuppositions
  • Shadow play, projection and how to tap deep sources of inspiration


The Masters Program "Modeling Excellence" enables you to develop your NLP skills to a professional level and create elegant and lasting change.

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Which goals do you really want? Which goals truly motivate you? Who decided they were important? Today, thanks to current brain science, we have new information about goal setting. Find out why you procrastinate about certain goals!

 

We teach these new tools and methods at business schools, corporations, and foundations. And we share them in our regular community programs.

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