NLP Core Principles & Techniques 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The NLP 'six-step reframe' technique is designed to:
- Change a client's timeline structure
- Negotiate with the part responsible for an unwanted behavior to find alternative ways to meet its positive intention (Correct answer)
- Collapse a chain of negative anchors
- Identify and challenge complex equivalents
Correct answer: Negotiate with the part responsible for an unwanted behavior to find alternative ways to meet its positive intention
The six-step reframe communicates with the unconscious part driving an unwanted behavior, separates the behavior from its positive intention, and generates new behaviors that satisfy that intention.
Question 2: Which of the following is an example of a 'complex equivalent' in the Meta-Model?
- 'No one cares about me' (universal quantifier)
- 'He looked away, which means he's lying' (equating two separate experiences) (Correct answer)
- 'I can't do that' (modal operator of necessity)
- 'They always do this' (deletion of who 'they' is)
Correct answer: 'He looked away, which means he's lying' (equating two separate experiences)
A complex equivalent assigns meaning to an observable behavior, equating two separate experiences as if they were the same (e.g., 'looking away = lying').
Question 3: In NLP Coaching, 'ecology' refers to:
- The environmental context where sessions are held
- Checking that a desired change is appropriate and beneficial across all areas of a client's life (Correct answer)
- The client's relationship with nature as a resource
- Ensuring the coaching follows ethical guidelines
Correct answer: Checking that a desired change is appropriate and beneficial across all areas of a client's life
Ecology in NLP means checking that a proposed change serves not just the immediate outcome but also the client's other relationships, values, and life contexts.
Question 4: A client says 'I just can't be confident.' The Meta-Model pattern being used is:
- Distortion — cause and effect
- Generalization — modal operator of impossibility (Correct answer)
- Deletion — unspecified referential index
- Distortion — mind reading
Correct answer: Generalization — modal operator of impossibility
Modal operators of impossibility ('can't,' 'impossible,' 'never') generalize a limit onto an entire capability, signaling a fixed and untested belief.
Question 5: The NLP 'circle of excellence' technique primarily serves to:
- Help a client identify their core values
- Create a spatial anchor that a client can step into to access a resourceful state (Correct answer)
- Dissociate a client from a painful memory
- Elicit the structure of a peak performance experience
Correct answer: Create a spatial anchor that a client can step into to access a resourceful state
The circle of excellence is a spatial anchoring technique where an imagined circle on the floor is charged with resourceful states that the client can activate by physically stepping into it.
Question 6: In NLP, 'leading' during pacing and leading means:
- Matching the client's current state before introducing a new direction (Correct answer)
- The coach talks first to establish dominance in the session
- Identifying the client's primary representational system
- Guiding the client's eye movements to access resources
Correct answer: Matching the client's current state before introducing a new direction
Leading follows successful pacing — once rapport is established by matching the client, the coach introduces new behaviors or states and the client naturally follows.
Question 7: Which NLP technique is specifically designed to help a client resolve traumatic memories with minimal re-traumatization?
- The swish pattern
- Visual/kinesthetic dissociation (the fast phobia cure) (Correct answer)
- Collapsing anchors
- The belief change pattern
Correct answer: Visual/kinesthetic dissociation (the fast phobia cure)
The fast phobia cure (V/K dissociation) uses dissociation and double dissociation to allow a client to process traumatic memories from a safe, observer position.
NLP Core Principles & Techniques 5
The NLP 'six-step reframe' technique is designed to: