Tools for the transformation of behavior
rooted in pseudo-orientations in time

Imagined futures can become the center of personal change and transformation. Participants will learn to create dynamic links between present resources and their future expressions to create foundations for change. They will explore the use of these experiences to shape present behavior and evaluate new resource states.

The session will focus on tools for the transformation of behavior rooted in feeling-level pseudo-orientations in time (future pacing). The session will explain the value of future orientations in change work and the logic of beginning with felt resources. It emphasizes the felt sense of the future as a guide to change as opposed to content-based ideas of the future. Attendees will learn to set up self-referential, generative loops between a present positive state and an imagined, future enhancement of the state to increase present time access to new felt resources. They will learn to use the anticipated future state to evaluate and access resource states from the past. The presentation will focus on techniques taken from the Brooklyn Program where they have been applied specifically to the problems of addiction and lack of personal direction. The techniques will be related to mainline techniques including the Miracle Question and the Stages of Change Model. The session will provide experiential exercises and scripted handouts.

Richard M Gray, Ph.D. is an author and lecturer who presents regularly on NLP, addictions and spirituality. He received the 2004 Neuro-linguistic Programming World Community Award for his work in addictions. Gray is a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP and a Certified Ericksonian Hypnotist. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickenson University.