Exercise 1: Creating Presuppositions
In groups of 3 (a triad), person A generates 5 simple statements. B and C tease out the presuppositions that the statements contain. Then rotate roles.
Exercise 2: Stacking Presuppositions
In a triad, A now creates a complex statement stacked with as many presuppositions as possible. B and C unpack it. Repeat 5 times, then rotate roles.
Exercise 3: Predicates and Linguistic Bridging
a. In a triad, A makes a statement using visual language. He includes a link (like the ones in the Language Pattern Cards) and looks at B meaningfully.
B then completes the sentence using visual language and generates his own visual sentence for C to complete.
A: “I see your shoes AND…”
B: “… the colour is nice BECAUSE…”
After a few cycles, change to auditory and then kinaesthetic predicates.
b. In a triad, repeat exercise a. only this time A will make TWO sentences.
The first sentence will be visual, the second auditory. Everyone cycles through as before.
A: “AS I look at the clock, I hear it ticking AND…”
c. Repeat exercise c. above, only this time making THREE sentences: visual, auditory and kinaesthetic before handing over to the next person.
A: “WHEN I saw his face, I heard the anger in his voice AND felt very afraid BECAUSE…”
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Exercise 4: Meta Model
In a triad, person A checks the Meta Model Table and creates a “problem” statement in each of the categories. A presents these to the others in a random order. B
identifies the pattern. Then B and C then take turns challenging the “problem”. A gives feedback on the impact that each challenge makes (harsh, respectful, insightful, funny etc). Rotate roles.
Exercise 5: Milton Model
a. Individually generate 10 examples of each of the Milton Model Patterns around the themes of relaxation and learning. Write these down:
1. Cause - Effect
2. Complex Equivalence 3. Mind Reading 4. Lost Performative
5. Modal Operators of Necessity/Possibility 6. Universal Quantifiers (Generalisations) 7. Nominalisations
8. Unspecified Verbs 9. Lack of Referential Index 10. Comparative Deletions 11. Tag Questions
12. Pacing Current Experience 13. Conversational Postulate 14. Double Binds
15. Extended Quotes (Stacking Realities)
16. Ambiguities (Phonological, Punctuational, Syntactic, Scope) b. In a group of 4 or 5, A reads a few to B making sure to include LINKS. B
then carries on with a few of her own before passing things down the circle.
You do NOT have to present the Milton Model patterns in any particular order!
A: “Blinking will make you feel more relaxed WHICH means you can feel more comfortable AND…”
B: “I know you are thinking about all the things you learned here today…
AND it is a good thing to learn… JUST NOTICE…” etc
c. Write down all the Milton Model patterns the other people in your group thought of. Write each pattern on a separate sheet of paper. You should have 30-50 examples of each pattern now.
Exercise 6: Meta Model Challenge
In a new triad, take each of the Milton Model patterns created in Exercise 5 and systematically challenge each statement using the Meta Model.
Exercise 7: Deconstructing and Induction
Read the following hypnotic induction. In groups of 3-4 analyse the patterns that you find in it. Then have one person read the whole thing out loud and simply listen:
I would like to invite you… to close your eyes and relax… because.. with your eyes closed… you can awaken to… an internal awareness that is of great importance…
right now… you are sitting down… hearing the sound of my voice… and feeling more and more relaxed… and my voice can travel right along with you… wherever your mind decides to wander (wonder)… and it does not matter where your
attention goes… because your unconscious mind continues to hear my voice…just as it continues to make sure your heart keeps beating…and your breathing… how is your breathing?... more comfortable, is it not?... I know that you’re curious about trance… forming your life… in a very important kind of way… we each have something of importance… that we wish to achieve… in life… or at particular stages in life… so we can later look back at them… and feel good about what we achieved… and so… I’d like your unconscious mind… to pay careful attention… as you simply go deeper and deeper into the trance… experience… -ing yourself getting more and more comfortable… more and more relaxed… and the sound of my voice… going with you… wherever you wonder… about all the possibilities… that your unconscious has yet to explore… in your life… out there… in here… the sound of my voice… and go deeper and deeper into that very pleasant… hypnotic state…
of relaxation… like travelling on life’s highway… your mind can pass this scene…
or that scene… charming memories from the past… pleasant… and how long was it since you last thought of remembering something like that?... so pleasant to look back… and remember… remembering something pleasant from the past… a sense of achievement… a wonderful experience… to feel the satisfaction… of having done something well… everyone deserves to feel that way… at least a few times… every week… every day… doing the things that must be done… and enjoying the
rewarding experience of completing them… the pleasure of a task well done… pride and satisfaction… NOW… I’d like you to take these feelings… and travel into the future… the future you… and you can experience yourself now… in this future…
feeling a sense of pride… satisfaction… achievement… only you don’t know what it is you have achieved yet… and you really shouldn’t concern yourself about that…
because your unconscious knows.. better than you do… the things that are of greatest importance.. that thing you really should have achieved by this future point… and your unconscious can take great delight… in hiding from your conscious mind… exactly what marvellous thing.. it is you have achieved… so that as you return to the present… you will have to wonder… about what the good thing will be… that your unconscious will be achieving… and you’ll keep right on wondering… as the days and the weeks go by… and good things happen to you…
always more to come… now its time to come out of trance… in your own way.. take
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Exercise 8: Polishing Presuppositions
The following exercises will polish your ability to presuppose things elegantly:
1. Time
Design 3-5 sentences that presuppose the acceptance of an idea:
a. Use tenses and tense based nouns to imply learning in the:
• Past: old, yesterday, was, did, had, again
• Present: now, am, have, today, new
• Future: will, shall, might, tomorrow, new, forwards b. Use Tag Questions to imply a temporal shift from:
• Past <–> Present: “You used to feel good, aren’t you now?”
• Present <–> Future: “You can do this, won’t you?”
• Future <–> Past: “You will enjoy that, haven’t you?”
2. Space
Design 3-5 presuppositions playing with the idea of space, and move things around:
• Location Proximity: Here/There. This/That.
• Relative Positioning: Above/Below. In/Out. On/Off. Left/Right.
• Quantifiers: Some/Many/Few. More/Less. Better/Worse.
3. Awareness
Design 5-10 presuppositions directing someone’s awareness:
• Sensory Based Terms: see, hear feel, look, touch, taste.
• Abstract Terms: realise, think, notice, aware, know, sense.
4. Importance
Design 5 sentences shifting the importance of what you say:
• But, And, Even Though:
I love you BUT I have to go – negates what came before it.
I love you AND I have to go – equal value given to both.
I love you EVEN THOUGH I have to go – negates what comes after it.
• Old, New: can suggest time, value or a sequence.
• Try and If: both these words imply failure.
Exercise 9: Meta Model Challenge of a Limiting Belief In a triad, A states a simple limiting belief like “I can not understand X”.
a. B and C question A using the Meta Model with charm and elegance. B and C calibrate changes in A’s BMIRs.
b. B and C see if they can alter A’s belief purely by asking Met Model questions and feeding back the missing information they received. A reports back his experience.
c. B and C generate presuppositions that imply the belief is changing/has changed. Intersperse these whilst asking (or in the form of) further questions.
d. B and C now generate hypnotic language patterns (Milton Model) to suggest a change of belief. B and C do a double induction on A which include: hypnotic language, presuppositions and any information gained from the Met Model questions above.
Rotate roles.
Exercise 10: Transformational Language
a. In a group of 5, each person creates 10 sentences stacked with
presuppositions and Milton Model language about relaxation and learning.
A reads a few sentence to B, using a hypnotic tonality and linking the sentences as you did with the Language Pattern Cards. B then continues using the same rhythm, pace and tone. C takes over and the whole thing continues around several laps of the circle.
b. In a triad, repeat Exercise 10, only this time A and B will be speaking simultaneously and use all of the patterns they have generated. Remember to us: a hypnotic tonality, slow pitch and rhythm, Linking words, presuppositions and Milton Model hypnotic language patterns.
Exercise 12: Trance Forming Abilities
a. Write 10 inductions using every pattern you have learned to suggest, presuppose, imply, hint, insinuate, intimate, evoke, assume or state directly that someone is learning more and discovering wonderful things that give them a thoroughly rewarding life.
b. Record the inductions on tape, MP3, minidisk – whatever you can find.
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