A social services psychologist after a day introduction to the model was at a home for SEN adults. A mid-thirties man spent most of his days sitting on the stairs rocking back and forth, stimming. With head down he paid no attention to anybody just got on with his mission in life, rocking on the stairs.
The psychologist sat down beside him and without saying anything or touching him in any way she followed the instructions given at the introduction.
She reported that it took only a couple of minutes before the rocking slowed down and he started looking towards her.
At this point another member of staff came into the area and she had to stop what she was doing before she was challenged for behaving a little strangely.
Teenage rebellion reversed
After a day's training a mother of a stroppy teenage girl while sitting across from her at the tea table used the techniques she had been taught to get rapport with the girl's unconscious.
The girls asked mum why she was copying her. Mum replied with what she had been advised to say - "Was I? I'm sorry, I was miles away." Nothing more was said.
On returning home from the second day of the course mum found that her daughter had cleaned and tidied the whole house.
On the morning of the third day the daughter asked if mum wanted her to do anything while mum was at the course.
All change happens at the unconscious level. Getting rapport at that level is essential.
SEN kids learn to spell
A group of 12 sen children around 11 yrs old were being taught by a replacement teacher. No work had been set so he asked the kids if they could spell. Nobody knew how to spell school, a few could manage then, some could only manage and and at.
In the forty minute the teacher, familiar with ATP, taught them how to spell 'mechanic' . By the end of the lesson they could all spell the word.
The next day the class showed their regular teacher that they could all spell 'mechanic'. Amazed, the teacher asked the replacement teacher how he had done it? He said he would explain it later when there was more time, but the teacher never followed up.
There are many parts of mental processing that can be used to teach any child anything.
Cat allergy removed in fifteen minutes
A social worker on a course learning the science ATP is based on approached the presenter at the end of a day and asked if he could get rid of her allergy to cats.
The process took less than fifteen minutes and the next day the social worker reported that she had played with her friend's cat and the allergic response didn't happen.
The method used the ability of the brain to recover past memories which when replayed in the mind in different ways can change the outcome that past event had had.
Once more it is the therapists refined sensory acuity and skill in manipulating language that is essential for success.
Violent mental patient calmed
A care worker facing an angry, violent mental patient grabbed him in a tight hug and then used breathing rapport as she held on.
Within two minutes he had quietened down. She reported that usually two or three male carers who have held him down until he calmed.
Breathing is an extraordinary integrated part of our behaviour and is one of the key elements for getting deep rapport.
There is a story of Native Indians in the USA being blocked by a governemnt official for some quite sensible proposals on their land. The Indians were advised to take thier best tracker with them, the one who was in tune with the animals and the trees. His job was to just sit at the back and get body and breathing rapport. The result, the government official happily agreed to all their requests.
Freeze reaction to stop lights eliminated
A middle aged man suffering from anxiety found himself unable to carry on driving if he had to stop at red lights. At these times his wife had to take over the driving.
During a mandatory government course to keep recieving benefits one of the course presenters took him to one side and used a technique based on adjusting unconscious images to solve the problem. This took about ten minutes.
On returning to the course two weeks later he reported that while going through the change process he thought the presenter was an idiot but didn't like to say.
However, he also said that on the way home he had to stop at a red light. His wife immediately undid her seat belt and was about to open her door when he said - "it's OK, I'm not frozen up". He was able to drive without the problem happening again.
A sick patient's morphine overdose halucinations calmed
A middle aged ill woman had a bad reaction to a dose of morphine and she was halucinating between periods of clarity. She was terrified.
Using language she was taken to a quiet place in her mind and talked to for about forty minutes as the morphine wore off.
To get this result needed the therapist to quickly get rapport at a level so that he could choose the best action to take. The ability to notice unconscious responses giving positive signs was critical because he could then match his language for best effect. The language used, although fluffy, allowed the patient to enter a safe world alongside the hallucinations which reduced the terror the patient was experiencing.
Immediate change in confidence for dyslexic young woman
A young dyselxic professional woman in her twenties was invited by a course presenter to be taught how to spell. However, the coach very soon realised that there were root causes of the dyslexia in the woman's past. The session smoothly transferred from a spelling strategy into a past memory change process in a deeply emotional session lasting about an hour.
Later the woman reported that three specific changes occurred. It should be noted that in her daily life she did not have to do anything for the new behaviours to happen.
Firstly when strangers in the street asked for directions she happily gave them, surprised that she did not turn and run as before.
Secondly, she found that she could correctly write down telephone numbers whereas before she would muddle up the numbers.
Thirdly, when, as usual, she went down to the local pub to meet her friends she did something that made their jaws drop. Without thinking she asked what they would like to drink, pushed her way to the busy bar, ordered the drinks and returned to her friends. Their surprise was this was not the woman they knew - the one with such a lack of confidence that would never have been able to do what she now did.
SEN girl with PTSD symptons cured in ten minutes
A teacher in a school for SEN children was randomly approached after school by a mother whose eleven year old daughter was having panics, difficulty getting to sleep and nightmares. These happened when the girl saw blood. It could be on meat in the kitchen or in a fight movie on TV.
In a ten minute session the teacher trained in ATP sat quietly opposite her at a table in an empty classroom and by having her remember what it was like to have the bad feelings and anchoring that state using a touch of a finger on her hand. Then doing the same for when she had been in great control, a super hero her, state.
By combining the two states in her unconscious the good state overides the bad and removes the nuisance reaction to blood.
Eighteen months later the girl, unsolicited, reported that her bad reaction to blood had never returned.
Successful teenage schoolboy county level cricketer and footballer was failing academically
A quiet, respectful teenager was failing badly academically which his parents thought would hinder his future life even though he was very successful in his sports.
Having assessed his mental processing patterns and his state changes as he tackled examples of the school work the practitioner concluded that the boy was lacking confidence and unconsciously assessing negative states when faced with academic tasks,
Over a period of three one hour sessions, labelled private tutition in maths and english, the practitioner used the boys unconscious states of success in sports to replace the unconscious negative academic states. This was done with particular use of temperal language patterns within the verbal process used.
Two weeks after the third session the practitioner was phoned by the boy's school's head of year. He wanted to know how the boy had gone from getting C's for his work to getting As; and could the practitioner do it for the rest of the children in his year.
Teaching an SEN class of eleven year olds to understand why the earth's tides go in and out
This class which contained a mix of ten learning challenged children including two with Down's Syndrome. The children were taught by an NLP trained stand-in teacher, in forty minutes, the basics of the earth's tides which they enthusiastically shared with their regular teacher the next day.
The teacher using the fact that all the children could move, talk and play games at some level so he used the kinesthetic attribute of behaviour to have them physically model the movement of tides. They took up the positions of the earth at the centre, two were the oceans on opposite sides of the earth and two others represented the sun and the moon.
By the sun and moon moving around the earth and when they got close the seas moved slightly away from the earth, the children learnt the principles.
To test the learning the children were asked how they would describe what they had learnt to their parents when they got home. This helped the child's brains to remember, which would be in visual form, what they had kinesthetically learnt and then record the learning in the auditory system.
College student couldn't decide on her future
An art and design further education student after completing her course wasn't sure what to do next. She took a job at the local Lidl supermarket and then went to university - the training school for Subway called 'Subway University'.
A relative trained in TimeLine took her though a TimeLine induction to help her barin organise her pasta nd future memories. This process had to be content free because of the close family connection. The relative took her through the TimeLine process as smoothly and as simply as possible. Close consideration was given to his voice tone and temporal language. The process seemed to go ok but as no content was shared by the girl it was difficult to tell what effect it had had.
In the third week after the process the girl, out of the blue, declared to her parents that she had applied to University and been given a place.
In June 2024 she expects to be awarded a first class honours degree in 'Visual Culture'.
Young woman with learning difficulties communicated with stranger in seconds not the usual weeks.
Invited to a day centre for about 100 people with learning difficulties it was suggested by the staff that the writer had a chat with Lisa. Lisa was a woman in her mid twenties with speech difficulties and bodily movements similar to cerebral palsy. Her exact medical conditions were never disclosed.
At a long dining table in a large dining hall filled with people the writer sat across from Lisa with three staff standing by observing. After a three minute talk with Lisa in which the staff had to translate some of her words but paying attention to the writer, telling him things and answering his questions, Lisa left the table.
The staff asked how the writer had been able to get Lisa's attention as new people in her life usually needed to be around for a few weeks before she would interact with them.
On returning two weeks later a member of staff wanted to know what the writer's secret was as for a few days after the first visit Lisa had been interacting with other people at a new level. Saying good morning to them first and asking for salt, bread etc at the lunch table; a new level of liberated behaviour for Lisa.
Medical salesman gets sub-conscious rapport with famous heart surgeon while he operates
A young salesman wanted to talk to world famous heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub. Yacoub was known for his abrupt attitude to medical salesmen.
He said he hadn't time to talk right then as he was about to go into surgery but he did invite the salesman to scrub up and watch the operation in the theatre.
During the operation the salesman used special rapport skills to influence the surgeons unconscious. The result was that after the operation Yacoub said to the salesman as they changed back into normal clothes 'I don't know why but I like you, I'll give you ten minutes to tell me about your instruments'.
The rapport skills are the same as used in all the other examples on this page. They are fundamental to how humans communicate.
They were first noticed in three world leading therapists who didn't even know that they were using them. They had unconscious competence.
Young nurse has to give a presentation on keyhole surgery to over one hundred doctors at a conference.
This young nurse felt intimidated about the idea of presenting to this large audience of highly qualified and experienced doctors.
Rather than teaching her how to present the coach helped her access times in the past when she had behaved without any concern for who was looking at her, when she had talked about something she knew and was completely comfortable in her knowledge.
These resource states didn't need to be in a medical context ar even when she was an adult. The important thing was that the feeling she had at the time was one of complete confidence even if it was not talked about at the time or afterwards. Her unconscious had these resources in its memory.
The resources were then accessed as she thought about the coming presentation. By using an assortment of processes her unconscious rewrote her fears into positive outcomes.
The outcome was that she was able to present successfully without having to think about it. She gave a confident and natural performance.
This change took one meeting of a little longer than an hour.
