BREAKTHROUGH COACHING NLP PRACTITIONER TRAINING MODULE 8

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

21st MARCH 2023

MAIN TOPICS COVERED:

1. What is the difference between Breakthrough NLP Practitioner Training and traditional
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) course?

The difference between Breakthrough NLP Practitioner Training and traditional NLP course is
that you are going through 7 steps. This involves building rapport and connection soften the
model of the world, to ask the right kind of questions, to soften the model of the world, and
then do the change work.

2. Is Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) okay for trauma work?

Every client is unique in their therapeutic needs. Some clients prefer emotional work, while
others prefer more cognitive work that involves changing their thoughts, beliefs, and
understanding or the unconscious mind.

Generally, there are three types of clients:

A. Clients who are comfortable with emotional work and prefer non-traditional methods such as
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping to address emotional issues related to health,
money, or relationships. Some clients may prefer traditional counselling or therapy, while others
prefer EFT.

B. Clients who are seeking coaching services and may or may not have experienced deep
trauma. They are looking to improve their lives and may want help with issues such as financial
security or property ownership. NLP coaching can help them identify patterns and explore
beliefs, and memories associated with these patterns.

C. For clients with deep trauma, Breakthrough NLP, Inner Child Matrix, or Emotional Freedom
Technique can be done.

The important thing is to listen to your clients' needs and offer the appropriate services to help
them heal.

3. What makes a great coach?

A key trait of a great coach is being open to being coached themselves. As a coach, you should
be willing to work with clients who may be easy or difficult, recognising that they can learn and
grow from any situation. It's important to understand that clients may become controlling if
they feel unsafe, and it's not your job to take on their story as your own. Instead, remain
grounded and resourceful, and ask the client how they can best be supported. Also pay
attention to their tone and energy in the session, and match the client's pace and energy. Use
discernment and avoid trying too hard or overdoing it. By remaining coachable and attuned to
your clients' needs, you can create a supportive and productive coaching relationship.
4. What is Change Past Trauma process?

Trauma is a painful past memory that causes you distress. But what is traumatic to one person
may not be traumatic to another person. For example, some children could be very sensitive to
being punished while others may not be. How an event is perceived less or more traumatic
depends on your beliefs, events, needs, desires, wounds, identity, metaprograms, and purpose.
With trauma work, the most common way to dissociate is by putting the incident on a movie
screen and keeping a distance from it. Dissociation is important so that you don’t collapse your
identity into the trauma and get emotional.

Change Past Trauma process involves visualising the traumatic event as a movie playing on a
screen in a cinema hall. You imagine yourself in a projection booth with a remote control and
watch the movie from three different perspectives, invite your past self to join you in the booth
and offer them safety and support. The past self identifies positive qualities they needed at the
time of the trauma and anchors them in their fist. They then play the movie with the new
resources and imagine a safe and comfortable future. This technique can be used to help you
process past traumatic events and change the way you remember them, promoting healing and
growth.

5. What can you do if a person is feeling physical sensations during the Change Past Trauma
process?

Sometimes, anxiety or fear sets in before replaying a memory and that’s normal when you are
about to relive a past traumatic memory. During the Change Trauma Process, if a person is
feeling pain in the body or any physical sensation, say, “That’s okay. Just come back to the
projection booth.” This is done when you are preparing to watch the movie (event/memory)
and haven’t started yet, that is, in the moment before you start watching the movie. This is
done to make a person feel safe before revisiting a traumatic memory.

6. What is the Change Past Trauma script?

The Change Past Trauma process is used to work on traumatic memories while using protective
dissociative techniques to keep the client safe.

Here’s a sample script to facilitate the Change Past Trauma process with a client:

A. Place the old event onto a movie screen in a cinema hall and sit in a projection booth with the
remote control in your hand.

B. As you sit in the projection booth know that you are in charge and you get to decide when
you are ready to watch that old movie.

C. Watch the movie through the eyes of the You in the back of the movie theatre and then
through the eyes of the You in the middle of the movie theatre and then through the eyes of the
You in front of the movie theatre.

D. Ask the Past You to come off the screen and join you in the projection booth. Hold their hand
and give them safety in their hand.

E. Ask the Past You if they need anything else to feel safe and give it to them.
F. When you are ready open the curtains and play the movie from start to finish (if traumatic,
you can send safety in, for example angels or protection or make the movie black and white)

G. Ask the Past You what positive qualities they needed at the time to have handled the
situation better.

H. Anchor each resource one by one in the fist and test each time.

I. Send the Past You back on the screen and play the old movie with all the new resources and
notice how it is different.

J. Future pace and cartesian co-ordinates.

K. Congratulate the client

Example: In this example, the client worked on a memory with the Change Past Trauma process.

A. Bring an event in your mind.

B. Use a keyword for the event.

C. Place this memory on a movie screen in a cinema hall. Draw the curtains if you want.

D. Notice yourself sitting in the projection booth with a remote control in your hand. In a
moment, you’re going to get ready to watch this movie from the eyes of the You in the
projection booth from different positions (back, middle, and front of the movie theatre).

E. Check the intensity of this memory.

F. Then check if there is any additional safety you need to send into this movie. Get the Past You
from the movie to come and sit with you in the projection booth. Hold their hand. Check how
old they are and what they want from you now. Find out what resources they need to feel safe,
tangible or intangible (for example a hug or an emotion like security).

G. Put the resource in their hand and let them breathe it in. Call them by the name they had
then. Give them everything they need.

H. Let the Past You keep connecting with you. Check how the Past You is feeling now and
whether they feel safe enough for you to press play on the movie. Sometimes, people need
angels, safety blankets, or any other resource for extra safety. Check if there is anything like that
the Past You needs and give them that resource.

I. Check how they’re feeling.

J. When they are ready, open the curtains and press play. If the Past You feels uncomfortable,
pause it. Watch the entire movie.

K. Ask the Past You what positive resources they needed at the time of the memory. Thank
them for sharing.

L. Place each resource in their hand and let the Past You and yourself breathe them in.

M. Send the Past You back in the movie with all these resources.

N. Play the movie from start to finish.

O. Now do future pacing and cartesian co-ordinates.

7. What is Triple Dissociation process?

Triple Dissociation is a technique to help you process traumatic events. It involves imagining the
event as a movie on a movie screen and viewing it from three different perspectives.

First, imagine yourself sitting in the projection booth at the back of a movie theatre with a
remote control in your hand and watching the movie (event) on the movie screen from the back
of the movie theatre.

Next, you imagine yourself sitting in the middle of the theatre watching the movie from the eyes
of the You in the middle of the movie theatre.

Finally, imagine yourself standing in the front of the movie theatre, watching the movie through
the eyes of the You in front of the movie theatre.

By viewing the event from multiple perspectives, you can gain a better understanding of the
experience and how it has affected you. It can also help to reduce the emotional intensity of the
event and promote healing.

8. What is a sharing circle?

A sharing circle is where individuals share their personal experiences and emotions in a
supportive and safe environment. In a sharing circle, participants take turns to share their
feelings, thoughts, and experiences related to a particular topic or theme. The other group
members listen without judgment or asking questions. The purpose of smaller sharing circles is
to allow every participant to share and close the learning loop. Sharing your reflections can
reinforce your learning and facilitate deeper understanding.

9. What are the four ways in which people learn?

The four ways in which people learn are:

A. Why do I have to learn these techniques?

B. What are the steps?

C. How do I do it?

D. What are my reflections?

10. What is the Emotional Blowout process?

The Emotional Blowout process can be used to work on negative emotions or uncomfortable
physical tension and lessen them.

Here are the steps for the Emotional Blowout process:

A. Get an image for the emotion.

C. Make it bigger, make it bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger,

bigger, bigger, so big, so big, so big.

D. Notice yourself in relation to the image. Make yourself

smaller, so small, so small, so small, so small.

E. Make the image of the emotion bigger. Even bigger, so

big, so big, so big, as big as the stars the galaxies and

cosmos.

F. And …. Pop

Example: In the following example, the Emotional Blowout process was done to help a client
work on her anxiety.

Say, for example, you are feeling anxious. Give the feeling of anxiety a number and check the
intensity. Give it an image. Then give the image a colour, size, texture, shape or a sensation. This
is not an image of you but an image that represents the emotion, not you. Make the image (s)
bigger and bigger and bigger. Notice how your size compared the image and make yourself
smaller and smaller until you become a dot. Now, make the image of the emotion bigger and
bigger until it looks like a balloon that’s about to burst and then let it pop. Check how you’re
feeling.

11. What are the success strategies for the Emotional Blowout process?

The Emotional Blowout process can be used to work on negative emotions or physical tension,
and lessen the intensity. The following are important points to bear in mind during the
Emotional Blowout process:

A. You must get an image because the image is in the dissociated position.

B. Changing the frame is especially helpful for those who are not visual and need time to come
up with an image for their emotions, because stored in the image is the emotion.

C. You also have to show sensitivity to match the tone and pace appropriate for the client and
the emotion they are feeling. For example, it could be aggressive and faster for anger, whereas
for anxiety, it could be gentler and slower.

12. What is the Pain Relief Exercise?

The Pain Relief Exercise is a process by which you can change the pain state to a healing state.

The steps are as follows:

A. Check where in the body is the pain.

B. Give it a number on a scale of 1 to 10?

C. Notice the colour, shape, size, texture, sensation or sound (identify submodalities of the pain
state).

D. Bring into your awareness a healing state. And notice if you were to bring a healing state in
your awareness, what would the colour, texture, size, shape, sound, be of a healing state
(identify submodalities of the healing state).
E. Come back to the image and sound of pain state and put the new image and sound of the
healing state into the image and sound of the pain state. Change the pain state to the healing
state.

F. Test how you feel now.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS:

1. Can you do the Emotional Blowout process with children?

You can do the Emotional Blowout process with children.

2. When doing the Change Past Trauma process, is it necessary to make the Past You watch
the movie (event/memory)?

During the Change Past Trauma process, it is not necessary to make the Past You watch the
movie (event/memory) if they don’t want to. Just ask the Past You what they need to feel safe.
Even if the Adult You does not want to watch the movie, there’s no need to do so. What’s
important is getting the resources.

3. What is the significance of the seating positions in the Triple Dissociation Technique?

The significance of the seating positions in the Triple Dissociation Technique is to distance
yourself from the emotion and view the movie (event/memory) from different perspectives. But
if any of the positions become too much to handle, you can chuck that position.

4. What is the significance of becoming smaller in the Emotional Blowout process?

The significance of becoming smaller in the Emotional Blowout process is to distance yourself
from the emotion. By making yourself smaller, you are creating a sense of safety and
containment that can help you manage the intense emotions that are brought up.

5. Can you do the Emotional Blowout process for frozen shoulder?

You can do the Emotional Blowout process to lessen any physical tension or emotions. So, go
ahead and try it for frozen shoulder.