L. Michael Hall is a Cognitive Psychologist who through research into NLP and Self-Actualization Psychology is now a modeler of human excellence; he has completed 15 modeling projects from Resilience, Women in Leadership, Self-Actualization, Coaching, Self-Actualizing Leaders, Managers, and Companies, Selling, Defusing, Wealth Creation, etc. He has authored 50 NLP books and a series on Meta-Coaching. Michael co-founded the ISNS (International Society of Neuro-Semantics) and the MCF (Meta-Coaching Foundation) and is an internationally renowned trainer.
A second edition of The Sourcebook of Magic has recently been
issued. It offers an opportunity to have an overview of the many
basic patterns NLP has produced for transformation and excellence.
Seventy-seven patterns are described with questions that are key
questions to guide a client. aNLP is frequently referred to as a
technology and, in part, it is. Those sci-ence fiction dystopias
that depict a world where technology has gone out of con-trol
remind us that while technology can make a good servant, it makes a
very bad master. The same could be said of any advanced technology,
including NLP.a quotes Ian Mc Dermott, an experienced NLP trainer
in the UK (Pages IX & X). Introducing the book, he insists on the
cautions we have to take in using such a technology, which can be
extremely powerful when appropriately used. He has been pleased and
surprised by the uses that have been made by some trainees in the
domains of justice and politics. He focuses our attention on the
possible misunderstandings, misuses, or derived uses of this
technology. This guide is first devoted to the therapist, as a
person, because the most important relationship in anyone's life is
your relationship to yourself. And what makes NLP efficient at a
most basic level is that it can enable practitioners to become
aware of the presuppositions that underlie their thinking, emotions
and behavior, and to be more influential with themselves. One must
put his own house in order to be in a state to help others achieve
a successful outcome. Coaches, therapists, psychologists, trainers,
and managers can make good use of this guide in different areas of
their lives, such as dealing with emotions, with language,
thinking, meaning and strategies In what ways, can there be amagica
in this sourcebook? aThe term rather refers to the seemingly wild
and wonderful and magical effects (the changes and transformations)
that occur when we know the structure of experiencea says Hall
(page vii). And this hidden magic is in the language we speak. The
magic is what happens in the mind-body-emotion system when words
and processes lead peo-ple to alter their maps and create a
different reality. This guide offers a wide range of patterns,
including: patterns for running other patterns; patterns for
building empowering self-images; patterns for man-aging emotional
states; patterns for communicating with precision, clarity and
empowerment; Sorting patterns for enhancing neuro-semantic reality;
patterns for building empowering action plans. The collection of
NLP patterns are succinctly presented with new insights into the
cognitive-behavioral mechanisms that make the neuro-linguistic and
neuro-semantic approach so powerful. For those who aren't that
familiar with NLP, there is a presentation of the NLP model. This
book is mainly addressed to professionals who already know NLP. The
Sourcebook of Magic is a reference book I highly recommend for
developing better resources in one's self and in others.Christine
Guilloux PhD, DESS
Michael Hall is the most interesting current writer in NLP. In all
his books his approach is fresh, modern and insightful. He seems to
be the only current writer pushing the boundaries of NLP forward.
This encyclopaedia of NLP techniques is no exception is highly
recommended for all NLP Practitioners. 77 NLP patterns are
collected together in one easy reference and described in a
practical ahow-toa manner. Many of these I had not encountered
before a The Magical Parents Pattern, the Spinning Icons Pattern,
the Allergy Cure Pattern!. The book also contains a number of short
but excellent essays on different aspects of NLP. If I could only
keep two NLP books on my shelf, both would be by Michael Hall a
this one and The User's Manual for the Brain Volume I.Ross Maynard,
FCMA MCIM, Psychological Business Services Ltd
This is the second edition of the book originally written in 1997
when the author determined to gather together in one easily
accessible place, all the basic or core Patterns of NLP. This
updated version is once again an excellent source book for all who
desire to know more about the practicalities of NLP. The patterns
of NLP are sorted and separated by the author into various key
categories: Self, Emotions, Languaging, Thinking Patterns, Meaning,
Strategies. It also sets out to enable us to readily discover what
we need to do, when we need to do it as well as how and why. It is
a valuable resource for all who have an interest in cognitive
behavioural therapy that we call NLP The book states that the best
way to actually start changing the world is by actually putting
your own house in order first. We are taught to realise that
starting with oneself is perhaps the most effective place to being
working with NLP. NLP makes it possible to become aware of many of
not all of the presuppositions that rule our live and run our
thinking and our behaviour and, as a result, direct our lives.You
can use NLP to change them if they are not working for you. The
book describes how NLP is an excellent was to clarify thoughts and
what you really want and need. It even helps you to form a more
meaningful and better relationship with yourself. The book helps
you to guide yourself and others into a way where you can live life
rather than just exist. This book is well worth reading, it is
clearly written and well presented so that the material is easily
digested. I found it useful as a working manual of NLP and am sure
that it has given me the confidence to use NLP techniques more than
I actually have done to date. It is a book worthy of a place on the
bookshelf where it can be regularly dipped into as the need
arises.The Hypnotherapist David Slater
Those of you who missed the 1st edition of this excellent book,
there is now a second chance to pick up this modern classic. The
premise of the work is that many NLP books are available that
contain, within extensive apaddinga, only a few patterns, some
books just one or two. Hall achieves his goal of separating the
wheat from the chaff admirably with all the objectivity of a Haynes
car manual leaving this pragmatic work refreshingly academic yet
accessible. Like a cookbook it is reference driven allowing the
practitioner access to these powerful patterns without the
contingency of having to wade into battle against the author's
literary aspirations. What are these patterns? Most of these
patterns are primarily action orientated, simple exercises to be
run through step by step with regard to specific ends. The other
few are, more fundamentally, explanations of NLP assumptions, such
as the principle of well formed outcomes. Hall begins by
introducing the reader to an overview of NLP and
levels-of-processing that is indispensable, as within the
instructions to the patterns he falls back on a few technical
concepts with out further explanation, such as atest and future
pacea. Then we come the patterns themselves, organised roughly
according to their level of processing, the book allows you to
easily select a pattern for your goal. Included patterns are;
collapsing anchors, resolving internal conflict, chaining states,
becoming intentionally compelled, responding to criticism, healthy
eating, spinning iconsa.. The second edition adds to the first;
some simplification of the procedures and a little more detail as
to the cognitive / behavioural mechanisms used in the patterns, and
a deserved revision of the introduction. In the first (and second)
edition Hall asserts that there may be as many as 200 distinct
patterns and surely some that haven't been invented (or should that
be discovered?) yet. So I was expecting some new patterns in the
2nd ed. but it's the original 77. I don't know how I would start to
define the distinction of a unique pattern (as opposed to a
variant) anyway. I find it unlikely that at a computational a
cognitive level there are 200 modes of action, so it's safe to
assume the all of the building blocks are here for you. Hall hints
that, a list of patterns touted as aexhaustivea, would promote
dogma and stagnate inventive development, through his legitimate
assertion that all the patterns are largely prototypical and are
easily extended and adapted. Without being overly complex, this
book is dense.Paul Jones BSc, Clinical Hypnotherapist
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