Which message is true

Which message is true
Rapport Issue

20

Publication Date

June 28th 2010

Authors

Terri Ann Laws

They tried to teach us on our Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner course that only 7% of communication is in the actual words people speak. The trainer couldn’t tell us where she or NLP found that model. The statement seemed false to me immediately and I set about finding as many counter examples as possible. Starting with text messages and emails then on to the evangelist preacher bellowing at the podium and the hypnotherapist talking consistently, softly in a monotone voice to a patient with closed eyes, I came up with no less than 103, and I imagine there are probably hundreds of examples even more convincing than those I found....

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