NLP Heuristic Maps
A complementary tool and approach to keep traces and have your clients participate and consolidate their inner transformation during and after coaching sessions.What are NLP HEURISTIC MAPS?
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The result of almost 10 years research…
NLP Heuristic Mapping iis the result of almost ten years of research, experimentation and training. It is a change accelerator that promotes the autonomy of clients and enables them to consolidate within themselves the result of their coaching sessions.
This tool has been created by Monique Demers, M.Ed., International NLP Coach and Master Trainer, mBIT Master Coach and Trainer, Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor, and founder of Didactia Training.
Passionate about neuroscience and supported by her over 45 years’ experience in education, Monique Demers has developed this tool she calls NLP Heuristic Maps to enable clients to collaborate in keeping traces of their coaching sessions. A tool that will therefore allow clients to become even more involved in their coaching sessions in order to keep track of them so that they can consolidate their long term-effects.
Using this approach with people from all over the world, Monique was astonished to find out that there are universal similarities in the way people draw their own heuristic maps or world view! You can find out for yourself by visiting our photo gallery of Heuristic Maps.
A Change Accelerator
Clients can easily review the outcome of their coaching and move forward towards their desired goal.
Aproved by Robert Dilts
After introducing NLP Heuristic Maps at NLPU (Santa Cruz) in 2014, Monique went back to NLPU, in 2016, to consolidate this project and obtain the approval of Robert Dilts.
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Spoken words fly away, written words remain!
12 BENEFITS OF USING
HEURISTIC MAPPING IN A COACHING CONTEXT
Brings internal images outward
Sensations, feelings, blurred pictures, metaphors…
Reinforces the VAKOG and promotes the synchronisation between the two brain hemispheres.
Reveals the metaprogrammes, limiting beliefs, recurring behaviors, perception of self, aspects of their life the clients tend to focus on, etc.
Makes it easier to maintain rapport
Respect the world view and reuse the words of the clients without projecting our own and even keep visible traces of reframing.
Enables us to be more present with the clients
And accompany them to explore their inner map trying not to forget things because everything is there, in front of our eyes.
Enhances the possibility to make links and establish a dialogue with the unconscious mind.
Proper questions will bring clients to find answers, gain insights and literally trace connections on their maps. At the same time, we now know that the same connections are being traced on a neurobiological level!
Stimulates eye movements...
When the client can see at a distance what is going on in his mind, it creates a dissociation from limiting beliefs, thoughts or emotions: when these have been addressed, it becomes easier to orient the client towards solutions.
Brings clients to be aware...
of their mental processes, their decision-making mechanisms, the field of possibilities and options available to them, etc.
Makes the client’s goal concrete.
The map can be looked at many times, shown, worked on, shared…
Memory is strengthened...
When looking at the Heuristic Map regularly, memory is strengthened, the desired state reactivated and sometimes the clients find new ways to perceive the messages that it conceals.
Enables clients to be more responsible
Of the outcome of their coaching sessions.
Empowers our clients and promotes their autonomy!
This tool is a real change accelerator.
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What Heuristic Maps Students say
Another way to confirm that a picture is worth a thousand words!
CONCEIVING NLP HEURISTIC MAPS,
ALMOST A HERO’S JOURNEY!
2010
Is it possible that the effects of an outstanding coaching done by an NLP internationally recognized trainer during a demo did not last?
The answer is «YES»!
The client told me he had forgotten…
At first, I was destabilized after hearing that, but I rapidly said to myself: «Being a learning and memory specialist, I can certainly do something about that! At least, try! »
I then embarked into a Hero’s Journey looking through all the references I had collected over 35 years of teaching at different levels, including university, starting with Mind Mapping and other references on learning and memory.
After exploiting Mind Mapping, I searched for new strategies so my clients could keep traces of the processes of transformation and the insights that occurred during their coaching: something they could look at, as often as needed, to get back the inner state they were in when they left my office. I reread many authors and discovered new ones. At a certain moment, Korzybski’s third General Semantics’ predicate grabs my attention: « a map is self-reflexive… an ideal map would include a map of the map »…
Yes! That’s it!
Leaving more space to the clients in drawing their maps enables them to reveal their inner territory and gives them ground for their self-reflexiveness. After a few months of work, NLP Heuristic Mapping was born!
2011
Discovery of a missing link
2012
Birth of NLP Heuristic Maps
From Mind Mapping to Heuristic Mapping
2012 to 2014
Trainings of NLP Heuristic Maps are increasing
The work goes on!
The owner of an International NLP school, Nicolas Beffort from Coaching Québec (Canada), finds out about my work and invites me to teach what I had discovered, in different countries. I went on refining my work and finding new ways to have the clients collaborate in the creation of their own map.
Introducing Heuristic Maps at NLPU
At NLPU, In Santa Cruz
At NLPU (Neuro-Linguistic Programming University), in Santa Cruz, I first introduced my project on Heuristic Mapping at the end of the NLP Master Trainer Program and got the encouragement of Robert Dilts to pursue my work.
He confirmed that it was the client’s responsibility to remember the outcome of a coaching session. I didn’t need more to go on with my research on Heuristic Maps.
What do Heuristic Maps look like?
The two following pictures will give you an example of the transformation that can be observed from present state to desired state during a coaching.
This first picture represents the inner state of a gentleman, Khalid, who had unexpectedly lost his job because the company he was working for closed. He was studying to become an NLP coach to reinvest his long-time knowledge in accompanying others. Just by looking at this picture, I, as a coach, can easily recall, in a few seconds, all aspects of that part of the coaching session.
This second picture illustrates the transformation that took place within Khalid during the coaching. Since he could bring this Heuristic Map with him, and look at it as often as he needed, the inner state he was in while drawing it could be reactivated as often as needed. What is amusing is that, a year or so later, when he launched his website, Khalid sent me a link so I could look at it. What was not my surprise when, on the welcome page, I saw the picture of an alley lined with beautiful tall trees!
August 2016
Back to NLPU
Wondering about the name…
At NLPU, in Santa Cruz, I enrolled in the Independent Studies Program, presented the state of my research to Robert Dilts, Judith Delozier, NLPU students and accompanied five future NLP teachers in developing their project with Heuristic Maps.
Again, Robert Dilts supported me and recognized that Heuristic Maps were a way to promote self-reflexiveness and memory.
Suddenly, at that time, I doubted if the expression Heuristic Mapping was well chosen… Many people don’t know the meaning of the word heuristic. That is why, for my presentation at NLPU, that year, I used the title Mind Mapping and NLP… Soon after, though, I went back to Heuristic Mapping not to lose the discovery aspect that it contains and that is so characteristic of the underlying process.
And then… after mastering the vocabulary of NLP, my colleagues are certainly able to say Heuristic Maps and learn how to use them in their coaching practice!
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Owned and directed by Monique Demers, certified NLP Coach and Master Trainer with 45 years’ experience in education, DIDACTIA Training is an International School for Coaches and Trainers in NLP, Coaching mBraining, Heuristic Mapping, and much more.