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February Exercise of the Month Based on one of John McWhirter's DBM models. Adapted by Fran Burgess February 2005

This is another development on John McWhirter's Performance, Management, Direction, Supervision Model, with a touch of Co-Alignment and the Contrast Frame. It evolved in a coaching context with a client, coming after some belief changework, and some spatial exploration of the operating system, which was generating the problem.

Scenario
The explorer hasn't got a current reference experience of the desired peformance, or even something that closely resembles it. Therefore we can't use this as our starting point. However, she does know how she would like it to be. So we can start the process further up the time line to a time when she knows she wants this performance.

OPENING FRAME

• What would you rather have? - Part 1 Check ecology.
• How have you been contributing to keeping the situation the same? What have you been doing?
• What have you been fearing might happen if you stop doing what you have been doing? - Part 2

Set out your space as follows:

PART 1

1 PERFORMANCE: At Future 1, stand in your Performance space. Here you are, being the way you want to be.

• What are you doing? What are others around you doing?
• What are you feeling? What are you thinking?

Make any adjustments to your Performance to create improvements.

2 MANAGEMENT: When you are satisfied with your Performance, step back into your Management space.

• How do you know to do these things?
• What are you responding to? What are you not responding to?

• Why are these things important?
• How are these things connected to who you want to be?

4 SUPERVISION: When you are satisfied with the overall direction of the management of your Performance, step back into your Supervision space.

• What do you notice about each of these spaces? What are the submodalities, metaphors of each?
• What are the relationships between each of them?
• Are there any adjustments that need to be made?

5 Make any adjustments to any of the spaces to create the necessary improvements.

6 Now return from Supervision through to Performance, experiencing the connection between all four spaces.

PART 2

Repeat the process, this time taking as your Performance the scenario that you have been fearing would happen. Go through each of the stages, in the same manner, and then return to your performance.

PART 3

1 Now stand between the two Direction spaces, and draw from each their respective strengths. You might notice that there are some aspects in common. Gain a sense of how you could represent these impressions.

2 Now move down to between the two Management spaces, and draw from each of their respective strengths. Once more gain a sense of how you could represent these.

3 Finally arrive at the space between the two Performance spaces and draw from each of these spaces.

4 FUTURE 2 Step further into the future to and ask youself:

• What do you now know about what is important?
• What do you now know about your ability to create a world that affirms who you are as well as those around you?

5 Finally in whatever way works for you, merge FUTURE 2 with TODAY. You could slide the two together, roll them up, walk Future 2 into Today, lift this Future 2 and place it onto Today.

I would be delighted to hear from you regarding your experiences of working with this model. Do email me on admin@nlpand.co.uk

All the best

Fran Burgess
Director of Training