Social Panoramas: Changing the Unconscious Landscape with NLP and Psychotherapy

This is really an interesting book. It seems to make use of submodalities, perceptual positions and mapping out the relationships in a person's life. It's a very interesting model that I had never seen before. The author himself is very nice too. I had him sign my book and he not only signed it for me but drew a picture for me in the front of the book. So he is obviously the guy that did all of the art inside of the book.I love that he gives the reader so many different exercises for this model. I have played with what he has taught in this book when working with clients and have found it of immense usefulness. His section on dealing with auhority figures is worth it's weight in gold. Do check out this book!

As chief innovator Lucas Derks says, [Internal] family representations dominate [external] family interaction patterns.We have a 'habit body.' It is our human operating system, making possible; and in many cases carrying out, 90% or more, of our total daily behavioral output.Conventional language calls this our 'immune system' and if you converge this merely mechanical model with the 'inner child,' you have a pretty clear beginning picture of your own habit body. Many people have no or a very tenuous relationship with their habit body and this is why Social Panoramas are significant and therapeutic.[...]Your Habit Body: An Owner's ManualMapping the Social Panorama of an individual is a tool to uncover gaps, voids and empty spaces are in all the places we wish to feel connected to and loved by others.'Intimacy' is primarily an inside job. One Best Practice in Self-Healing is to define 'intimacy' as 'into-me-see.' Therefore exercises in your own Social Panorama is useful for mapping where and with whom we allow-promote-create the feeling ofsafety > connection > trust > intimacy > love.Everyone in our life up to now has been represented somewhere in our Social Panorama. This mechanism in our habit body is primarily UNconscious. We can bring it up towards awareness by 'out-picturing' our unconscious map in 3D space in real time, with stand-ins for these "personifications" or even with post-its on the floor.All of the above appears to apply equally well to ALL the following strongly related modalities:- Moreno: Psychodrama- Satir: Family Sculptures- Bert Hellinger: Constellation work.ALL these therapeutic modes empower individuals to out-picture their family myths and stories--both functional and dysfunctional stories.Out-picturing Social Panoramas--by other names--has also been done in Gestalt Therapy (Perls for sure), NLP (any nameable champions of this in NLP?); and further afield in late-phase Transactional Analysis, in Scripts People Live by Claude Steiner and Redecision Therapy by Goulding & Goulding.SP employs the wisdom of sensory channels from NLP, permitting detailed analysis of unresolved disturbances in our stories, the scripts we live by, as needed.The reason Constellation work and Social Panoramas seems to be taking off since about 2005(? and not in the US except in the form of Constellation work) is unlike other personal-spiritual growth work, this activity is VERY SOCIAL and COLLABORATIVE in real time.Social Panoramas as community-building toolProbably the biggest missing piece of intentional community building of the 1970s and early 1980s was absence of explicit strategy and tactics for resolving routine interpersonal conflict. Compassionate (nonviolent) Communication (cnvc.org) fills this gap admirably but perhaps not yet sufficiently. The self-healing and social activity aspects of NVC remain a bit undeveloped, when compared to very successful communities like Findhorn.org.Of all the above strongly related modes above 'using groups to out-picture family constellations,' SP may have an edge in its incorporation of NLP strategies and tactics, likely to make sessions more effective per hour of work.Incorporating the idea of a 'habit body' above and 'clock-face' below will likely increase effectiveness of sessions.Creating opportunity for healthy social interaction and collaboration suggests SP has great potential to bring people together; therefore, a tool for communities to renew, keep evolving and remain vibrant. The formation of the next round of intentional communities is likely to be highly engaged in just such healthy cultural activity, self-healing activity and training, of all kinds. Communitarians require such 'social glue' to give meaning and purpose to the long hours of labor building and sustaining new communities.Using a clock-face to map Social PanoramasAn innovation I learned from Bertrand Babinet (babinetics.com) is directly applicable to SP at all levels. It is the simple tactic of visualizing the SP of our self as arranged on a clock-face, with us standing in the center.Start by identifying where you are, where the "self" is. Make sure you the self is in the center of the clock-face and you are standing in the self. If this is NOT the case, work on that. Individuals can have their own Self represented outside their own body. This is the beginning of 'over-giving,' 'over-responding' and 'looking for love in all the wrong places.' The 'self' for some individuals can be located behind them or to the right or left. Using a clock-face can uncover such disturbances.Ideally you want the Self to be converged with your spine, which can be visualized as a 'column of Light." Find full discussion of your self as a column of Light this HERE:[...]Using a clock face image thru Social Panorama, Constellation, Family Sculpture work. into the presentPeople represent people in their minds, and in the submodalities of these representations, they encode the quality of their relationships. By the same means they picture their family members, and by doing so they also define their family ties.

Really enjoyed this book. Quality written and researched

Excellent modality and a great book to consolodate the training by Dr Lucs Derks.

This book has inspired some great techniques which has changed the way I work with clients forever. If you are a therapist and want to help clients manage their thoughts and feelings in a realistic and empowering way then I would heartily recommend this.

Wonderful book, if you are any kind of therapist, you will find this book both useful and thought provoking. You will be glad you''ve got it, so do please get a copy. You owe it to yourself and your clients!

Taking nlp forward into the 21st century. Very good, fascinating. Will interest anyone working with clients using nlp, clean language and psychotherapists with open minds.