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Workbook Week 2

Hey there Agents of Change!

All individuals structure the way they experience the world through 6 senses; seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, tasting and smelling.

These are known as Representational Systems or as in NLP they are known as the fine distinctions or the subsets of the modalities.They are Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Auditory Digital, Olfactory and Gustatory. The main Representational systems used in NLP are known as VAK  for V, -(Visual), A- (Auditory), and K- (Kinesthetic)

They are a part of the way that the brain encodes and gives meaning to our experiences. We represent our experiences in two different ways… externally and internally. When we change the coding of our experiences we are changing the meaning of that experience.

First, lets  take a look at the difference between the external experience and the internal experience

When you say:

Visually – “I see this magazine in front of me.”

Auditorily– “I hear the sounds and noises around me.”

Kinesthetically – “I feel this magazine in my hands.”

you are describing the External senses. But what about the internal world? We use the same six senses to represent what we are thinking about internally — or subjectively.

When you think:

Visually – Imagine a picture of your mother’s face.

Auditorily – Recall a conversation you had yesterday.

Kinesthetically – Remember a time you felt powerful and motivated.

you are using your internal Representational Systems.

It is this internal world, through our Representational Systems, that creates our “mind’s eye,” the words (empowering or disempowering!) we say to ourselves, the feelings such as joy or despair that prompt our behaviour and originate our moods.

We use all of our senses all of the time and depending on the circumstances may focus on one or more of them – for example when learning to play a new piece of music or song, we may close our eyes to hear the different notes and to experience certain feelings.

In order to get the idea of something we are putting together we might want to imagine what it will look like,  we might need to close our eyes and visualize the finished project. We all use each of the senses in all the different situations and yet each of us also has a preferred representational system, one that we use most when we speak, learn or communicate in any way.

For example, when learning something new, some of us may prefer to see it or imagine it performed, others need to hear how to do it, others need to get a feeling for it, and yet others have to make sense of it.

One system is not better than another and sometimes it depends on the situation or task that we are learning, doing or experiencing as to which one or more representational systems might be more effective than another.

Depending on the preferred representational system(s), a person may exhibit certain behaviours or characteristics.

**Before exploring these behaviours, please note that depending on what is going on in each individuals life, or the context, the preferred representational system(s) may change.

** Hence, it is more powerful to be aware of the representational system a person is currently favoring, rather than pigeon-holing a person.

In Systems of Change, the importance of understanding these systems allows us to identify and use the correct Sub Modalitiy to create “Rapport” with the people we are working with.

• Rapport – a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well.

Having a firm grasp of the Sub Modalities will also allow us to identify what System is used for both the Input and the Out-put System in Systems of Change.

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I’m excited and grateful to be sharing this part of the journey with you!

Let’s Do This!

Peace,

Kim