How to Demonstrate Parts Integration

Choosing a volunteer

The key to a great demonstration of this pattern is a volunteer who has a clear conflict that is easy to recognise.  Remember Richard Bandler said that, ‘a great NLP intervention is 99% working out what intervention to do and 1% actually doing it’.

I completely agree with that, but since I’ve already selected the intervention I want to demonstrate it’s more a matter of finding a volunteer who clearly has a problem with a structure that lends itself to this pattern.

The video demonstrations in this module show the time it can take to get clear about the intervention needed.  They are both examples where I didn’t know what technique or pattern I was going to use before the volunteer came up.

My preference for this demo is to use someone who will really benefit from the experience of unconscious processing.  It will be a really significant experience, to sit and watch their own hands moving without any conscious control, for someone who tends to be dissociated/digital and is not in the habit of trusting the unconscious.

Doing the demonstration

Bring your volunteer out to the front of the room so that everyone can see you and your volunteer.

I usually suggest that the rest of the group leaves note-taking for later when we go through the process step-by-step and concentrate on watching the process unfold.

As the movement of the hands begins, point out to the group the slightly jerky, erratic character of the movement that indicates catalepsy.

Take your time with this demo.  It’s not one to rush, and the volunteer’s trance will be deeper if the atmosphere in the room is calm and quiet.  Use your best Milton Erikson-style voice and remember that to you this might just be another NLP technique but to people seeing it for the first time it’s pretty close to magic!