NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming): Exercises for coaches and mentors

Exercises from our eBook 'A Useful Guide to NLP as a coach and Mentor'

NLP Framework

1) Beginning Frame

The beginning frame incorporates rules for the coaching session, expectations of the coach and client, boundaries and anything which the coach and client may define as an over-arching aspect of the relationship.

Exercise: Beginning Frame

2) State

Ensuring your state is appropriate for coaching will make a huge difference to the goals you set and achieve and the personal resources that you can call upon.

Exercise: State

3) Outcome

Outcomes motivate you to move in a particular direction rather than being a specific end result as in SMART objectives.

Exercise: Outcomes

4) Rapport

Rapport is a state of honest, open communication between two or more people and is very important in establishing the client's situation and way forward.

Exercise: Rapport

5) Current strategy

By accurately understanding how you are currently moving in relation to your goals, you can make any changes necessary to move further, faster.

Exercise: Current Strategy

6) Technique or task

What will take you from where you are now to where you want to get to? The coach will have a number of tools and suggested tasks for helping a client fill in any internal and external resources required to achieve his or her outcome.

Exercise: Technique or Task

7) End Frame

The end frame connects to the beginning frame; it allows the coach to reinforce the positive elements of the session and the coach and client to step back from the session and manage the longer term coaching relationship.

Exercise: End Frame

Additional Elements

1) Values and value rules

A value is a label for what is important to you at a core level. This may be very different to corporate values which can tend to be rather generalised.

value rules define how your needs are met in the outside world and how you know when your values are and are not being achieved.

Exercise: Values and Value Rules

2) Beliefs

A belief is an underlying assumption about the world which either helps or hinders you in achieving some outcome.

Exercise: Beliefs

3) Senses and Sub Modalities

All of our knowledge and experiences are acquired and organised through our senses. Understanding how we structure those experiences is key for change.

Exercise: Senses and Submodalities

4) Hypnotic Language

You can unlock creativity and gently influence with the use of language borrowed from the world of hypnotherapy. Hypnotic language enables the coach and client together to create the foundation for transformational change and development.

Exercise: Hypnotic Language

5) Time

By looking at events and experiences from different points in time you can gain multiple points of view which will be very valuable.

Exercise: Time

6) Stories

Stories have a unique structure which conveys complex information very effectively.

Exercise: Stories

7) Profiles (Metaprogrammes)

In NLP, Meta Programs are used to understand and profile a person's general preferences for relationships to people and events.

Exercise: Profiles

8) Modelling

The heart of NLP is modelling; the process of systematically coding and transferring knowledge from one person to another, combining both logical and intuitive approaches.

Exercise: Modelling

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