PO Box 8, Clifton, CO 81520, USA; (970) 523-7877
(Michael@neurosemantics.com, NLPMetaStates@OnLineCol.com)
Dr. Michael Hall, psychologist and entrepreneur, lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. For twenty years he had a private psychotherapeutic practice and then began teaching and training—first in communication training (assertiveness, negotiations) then in NLP.
He studied NLP with its co-founder, Richard Bandler, in the late 1980s, when he became a master practitioner and trainer. From that came The Spirit of NLP and Becoming More Ferocious as a Presenter. He also edited Time For a Change. As a prolific author, he has written and published more than two dozen books including The Spirit of NLP, Dragon Slaying, Meta-States, Mind-Lines, Figuring Out People, The Structure of Excellence, and Frame Games.
Hall’s earned doctorate is in cognitive-behavioral psychology with an emphasis on psycholinguistics. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the languaging of four psychotherapies (NLP, RET, reality therapy, and logotherapy) using the formulations of general semantics. He addressed the Interdisciplinary International Conference on General Semantics (1995) presenting an integration of NLP and general semantics.
In 1994, Hall developed the Meta-States Model while modeling resilience and presenting the findings at the International NLP Conference in Denver. He has hundreds of articles published in NLP World, Anchor Point, Rapport, Connection, and Meta-States Journal.
Hall is the co-developer, along with Dr. Bob Bodenhamer, of Neuro-Semantics having co-authored a unified field model using the three Meta-Domains of NLP. They initiated the Society of Neuro-Semantics, and have begun to establish Institutes of Neuro-Semantics in the USA and around the world. Elvis Keith Lester joined the team in 1998, and then established the LEARN Institute of Neuro-Semantics in Tampa, Florida.
Today Hall spends his time researching and modeling, training internationally, and writing. Recent modeling projects have included modeling excellence in sales, persuasion, accelerated learning, state management, wealth building, women in leadership, and fitness and health. These are now Meta-State Gateway Trainings.
Defusing Strategies (1987).
Languaging: The Linguistics of Psychotherapy (1996).
The Spirit of NLP: The Process, Meaning & Criteria for Mastering NLP (1996).
Figuring Out People: Design Engineering with Meta-Programs (with Bodenhamer) (1997).
Mind Lines: Lines For Changing Minds (with Bodenhamer) (2002).
NLP: Going Meta—Advanced Modeling Using Meta-Levels (1997).
Patterns for “Renewing the Mind” (with Bodenhamer) (1997).
Time-Lining: Advance Time-Line Processes (with Bodenhamer) (1997).
The Secrets of Magic: Communicational Magic for the 21st Century (1998).
Instant Relaxation (1999, with Debra Lederer).
A Sourcebook of Magic, formerly, How to Do What When (with Belnap) (1999).
The Structure of Excellence: Unmasking the Meta-Levels of Sub-Modalities (with Bodenhamer, 1999).
The User’s Manual for the Brain (1999, with Bodenhamer).
Dragon Slaying: Dragons to Princes (2000, 2nd edition).
Frame Games: Persuasion Elegance (2000).
Meta-States: Managing the Higher States of Your Mind (Self-Reflexiveness) (2000, 2nd edition).
Secrets of Personal Mastery (2000).
The Structure of Personality: Modeling “Personality” Using NLP and Neuro-Semantics (with Bodenhamer, Bolstad, and Harmblett, 2001).
Games Slim People Play (2001).
Games Business Experts Play (2002).
1516 Cecelia Dr. Gastonia, NC 28054, USA; (704) 864-3585; fax: (704) 8641545
Bob@neurosemantics.com, www.neurosemantics.com
Dr. Bob G. Bodenhamer first trained for the ministry, earned a doctorate in ministry, and served several churches as pastor. He began NLP training in 1990, studying with Dr. Tad James and receiving master practitioner and trainer certifications. Since then, he has taught and certified NLP trainings at Gastona College.
Beginning in 1996, Bodenhamer began studying the Meta-States model and then teamed up with Michael Hall to begin co-authoring several books. Since that he has turned out many works as he and Hall have applied the NLP and Meta-States Models to various facets of human experience.
In 1996 also, Bodenhamer co-founded with Hall the Society of Neuro-Semantics. This has taken his work to a new level, taken him into international trainings, and set in motion many Institutes of Neuro-Semantics around the world.
Figuring Out People: Design Engineering With Meta-Programs (with Hall, 1997).
Mind Lines: Lines for Changing Minds (2002).
Patterns for “Renewing the Mind” (with Hall, 1997).
Time-Lining: Advance Time-Line Processes (with Hall, 1997).
The Structure of Excellence: Unmasking the Meta-Levels of Sub-modalities (with Hall, 1999).
The User’s Manual of the Brain (1999, with Hall).
Hypnotic Language (2000, with Burton).
Games for Mastering Fears (2001, with Hall).
The Structure of Personality: Modeling “Personality” Using NLP and Neuro-Semantics (with Hall, Bolstad, and Harmblett, 2001).
The Institutes of Neuro-Semantics
Meta-NLP Practitioner: An intensive seven-day training in the essential NLP skills. This training introduces NLP as a model for discovering the structure of human functioning with a focus on how to run your own brain and to manage your own states. Learn the basic rapport-building, listening, and influence skills of NLP, as well as how to access and manage states through anchoring, reframing, and using dozens of NLP patterns. Discover how to use language both for precision and hypnotic influence. Required reading: The User’s Manual for the Brain and The Sourcebook of Magic.
Meta-Masters NLP Practitioner: An intensive thirteen-day training in mastering all three of the meta-domains of NLP: language (Meta-Model), perception (Meta-Programs) and states and levels (Meta-States). This training focuses on the pathway to mastery and how to develop the very spirit of NLP, including curiosity, accelerated learning, flexibility, confidence, passion, playfulness.
Accessing Personal Genius: Introduction to Meta-States as an advanced NLP model (three days). This training introduces and teaches the Meta-States Model and is ideal for NLP practitioners. It presupposes knowledge of the NLP model and builds the training around accessing the kinds of states that will access and support “personal genius”.
Advanced Modeling Using Meta-Levels: Advanced use of meta-states by focusing on the domain of modeling excellence. This training typically occurs as the last four days of the seven-day Meta-States Certification. Based upon the modeling experiences of Michael Hall and his book, NLP: Going Meta—Advanced Modeling Using Meta-Levels, this training looks at the formatting and structuring of the meta-levels in resilience, uninsultability, and seeing opportunities. The training touches on, among other things, modeling of wealth building, fitness, women in leadership, and persuasion.
Secrets of Personal Mastery: Awakening Your Inner Executive: This training presents the power of Meta-States without directly teaching the model as such. the focus instead shifts to personal mastery and the executive powers of the participants. Formatted so that it can take the form of one, two or three days, this training presents a simpler form of Meta-States, especially good for those without NLP background or those who are more focused on meta-states applications than the model.
Frame Games: Persuasion Elegance: The first truly user-friendly version of Meta-States. Frame Games provides practice and use of meta-states in terms of frame detecting, setting, and changing. As a model of frames, Frame Games focuses on the power of persuasion via frames and so presents how to influence or persuade yourself and others using the levels of thought or mind that lie at the heart of MetaStates. It is designed as a three-day program, and the first two days presents the model of Frame Games and lots of exercises. Day Three is for becoming a true Frame Game Master and working with frames conversationally and covertly.
Wealth-Building Excellence (Meta-Wealth): The focus of this training is on learning how to think like a millionaire, to develop the mind and meta-mind of someone who is structured and programmed to create wealth economically, personally, mentally, emotionally, and relationally. As a Meta-States application training, Wealth-Building Excellence began as a modeling project and seeks to facilitate the replication of that excellence in participants.
Selling & Persuasion Excellence (Meta-Selling): Another Meta-States application training, modeled after experts in the fields of selling and persuasion and designed to replicate these skills in participants. An excellent follow-up training to Wealth-Building Excellence, since most people who build wealth have to sell their ideas and dreams to others. This training goes way beyond mere persuasion engineering, as it uses the Strategic Selling model of Steven Heiman, also known, among other things, as relational selling and facilitation selling.
Mind-Lines: Lines for Changing Minds: Based upon the book by Michael Hall and Bob Bodenhamer (1997), now in its third edition, Mind-Line Training is a training about conversational reframing and persuasion. The Mind-Lines model began as a rigorous update of the old NLP “sleight-of-mouth” patterns and has grown to become the persuasion language of the Meta-State moves. This advanced training is a highly, and mainly, linguistic model, excellent as a follow-up training for Wealth-Building Excellence and Selling Excellence. Generally a two-day format, although sometimes three and four days.
Accelerated Learning Using NLP & Meta-States (Meta-Learning): A Meta-States application training based upon the NLP model for “running your own brain” and the Neuro-Semantic (Meta-States) model of managing your higher executive states of consciousness. Modeled after leading experts in the fields of education and cognitive psychologies, this training provides extensive insight into the learning states and how to access your personal learning genius. It provides specific strategies for various learning tasks as well as processes for research and writing.
Defusing Hotheads: A Meta-States and NLP application training for handling hot, stressed-out, and irrational people in fight/flight states. Designed to “talk someone down from a hot angry state,” this training provides instruction in state management, first for the skilled negotiator or manager, and then for eliciting another into a more resourceful state. Based upon the book by Michael Hall, Defusing Strategies (1987), this training has been presented to managers and supervisors for greater skill in conflict management, and to police departments for coping with domestic violence.
Advanced NLP Flexibility Training Using General Semantics: An advanced Neuro-Semantics training that explores the riches and treasures in Alfred Korzybski’s work, Science and Sanity. Originally presented in London (1998, 1999) as “The Merging of the Models: NLP and General Semantics”, this training now focuses almost exclusively on developing advanced flexibility using tools, patterns, and models in general semantics. Recommend for the advanced student of NLP and Meta-States.
Neuro-Semantics Trainers Training: An advanced training for those who have been certified in Meta-States and Neuro-Semantics (the seven-day program). This application training focuses the power and magic of Meta-States on the training experience itself-both public and individual training. It focuses first on the trainer, to access one’s own “top training states”, and then on how to meta-state or set the frames when working with others in coaching or facilitating greater resourcefulness.
Instant Relaxation: Another practical NLP and Meta-States application training designed to facilitate the advanced ability to quickly “fly into a calm”. Based in part upon the book by Lederer and Hall (Instant Relaxation, 1999), this training does not teach NLP or Meta-States, but coaches the relaxation skills for greater “presence of mind”, control over mind and neurology, and empowerment in handling stressful situations. An excellent training in conjunction with Defusing Hotheads.