WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED THROUGH THE INTERNET BY OWEN FITZPATRICK OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF NLP IN MARCH 2002.

SUNDAY 10th MARCH, 2002.

Owen: How would you describe NLP?
Judy: I would describe NLP as a technology for modeling excellence in the world.

Owen: Ok, in what areas of life can you use NLP?
Judy: I think you can use NLP in all areas of life which is pretty well demonstrated by the numbers of applications and the particular kinds of applications being made in education, in health and well-being, in leadership, in management, in creativity, in the arts…

Owen: Why does NLP work?
Judy: NLP works because it's based on the fact that we as human beings have a neurology and we as human beings have eyes, ears, nose, skin, a mouth and we all speak and we all have language and there's just certain patterns of perception and neurology and language that are parts of being a human being and it works with the formal construction of those patterns as a human being.

Owen: What's your favorite part of NLP?

Judy: Oh, my favorite part of NLP? What is my favorite part? Well, gosh I love all of it so much. Well one of my most favorite parts of NLP right now is.. well from the very beginning of NLP they talked about the three major representational systems and then the olfactory and the taste which is used more in hypnosis than in the every day sort of NLP world.

But I never felt like the kinesthetic system was ever given the honor due that it deserved. What I mean by that is that in the early days there was a lot of talk about visualization and a lot of talk about Internal Dialogue and then when it came to the Kinesthetic system there was more talk about emotions, what was the emotion… and it didn't relate to the system as a system that codes information and has memory, that holds memory, that thinks in and of itself.

It just has a different way of thinking so when I started developing Somatic Syntax and then Robert got involved and we sorted of expanded that as a reference system and it codes information, it remembers information, it knows more than I know cognitively because it is it, it is the system. I mean when people say where are the beliefs I go Kinesthetic is the belief, you know, it is the deeper neurology that makes your cheeks burn, and you can't do that, it's the one that makes your heart beat. Those are the deeper structures and that IS the Kinesthetic system.

Owen: Is that Somatic Syntax?

Judy: That's Somatic Syntax. And then I love the arts and I would love to see NLP more applied in the arts and the artistry of NLP

Owen: For example?

Judy: Well, for example, working with a cartoonist. Or at a movie. Or with dancers.

Owen: What's the difference between NLP and New Code NLP?

Judy: Very easy, from my perspective and I think that John grinder would say the same thing and that is: it was another stage of modeling. In the early days it was more as if we were focused on the individual and when we go inside the world of that individual what's the landscape of that reality for that person.

In that particular strategy can I understand how those particular things are put together in such a way to create this effect in our lives. The New Coding of NLP was kind a like Let's go back and remember different multiple description metaphors and lets focus our attention onto the different relationships between systems.

MORE TO COME...

JUDY DELOZIER IS AN INTERNATIONAL TRAINER OF NLP. SHE WORKS WITH ROBERT DILTS.