Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns

Very useful NLP change pattern resource

I found this book to be an extremely useful resource and reference book. It contains a very good detailed history of NLP, although it excludes Frank Pucelik, and provides the original NLP Presuppositions.

The main purpose of this book is to provide a detailed description of the concept and process of 77 NLP Patterns for change work.
If you are working with clients or students and want to remind yourself how a specific NLP pattern is used or what the idea behind it is; then this book is invaluable.

I specifically enjoyed the concepts of each pattern because it is here, in the concepts that you get a good handle of exactly what the pattern does. I found the pattern descriptions to be quite prescriptive and they are laid out in easy to follow steps which help to prevent confusion.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone that is working with clients for change work using NLP. I would suggest that it is a must-have for Master Practitioners and Trainers.

I would not recommend this book to anyone starting to learn NLP; this is not a "My first NLP" type book because it is not written as a tutorial and instead more like a reference manual which you can use to refresh your knowledge of a specific pattern.

By studying this book, you can enhance your toolkit further and increase the options of patterns that you can use in any situation.
Personally, I believe that having several patterns is a good idea because some clients will understand one pattern better than another one.

As a trainer, I have included some of these patterns into my courses because they are useful, easy to follow and make good exercises.