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This venture has sprung from one of our Practice evenings, which was looking at working with submodalities.

To recap, Submodalities are a range of distinctions within each of the representation systems which allow us to describe the structure of our internal representations. 

Just being able to gather the information at submodality level, without the desire to change any of it, gives us the possibility of detecting our individual personal patterns of how we construct our well being, or lack of it.  In turn, this self-modelling process reveals our internal systems and so can lead to us possibly anticipating our responses in different contexts.  This way we can give ourselves the opportunity to construct or reconstruct our representations in advance.

We brainstormed a range of aspects/issues that we would like to explore and what emerged was a range of nominalisations – those frozen verbs locked in a noun!  For example:

anger, judgement, conflict, body image, addiction: alcohol, work, food, self abuse, inferiority, resentment, change, ageing, boredom, control

We also looked at smaller chunk levels for some of these, which were represent the nominalisation in action.  For example:

thighs,  specific types of people: young, good looking, authoritative, moving house, reading manuals, being vulnerable

We looked at exploring the changes in submodalities by gathering the distinctions from multiple perspectives, which in turn generated the attached worksheet.

If you want to be part of this modelling exploration, feel free to take on any of the above topics, or any of your own, and record your findings.  These can then be posted back on the discussion group www.nlpand.co.uk

SUBMODALITIES WORKSHEET

Fran Burgess May 2004