While there are volumes of books, articles and websites dedicated to NLP, you will find very little about the MythoSelf™ model. 

In short, NLP is the study of subjective experience, more specifically, the study of successful people and what makes them successful. It began in the 1970s with the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder and their study of a handful of Psychotherapists who were doing consistently effective change work. Whereas many therapists saw (and still do see!) their clients for years often with little or no change, these particular practitioners would see clients often for as little as one session and produce life changing results. The three most closely studied were Milton Ericson (considered the foremost expert on Hypnosis as therapy), Virginia Satir (the founder of Family Systems Therapy) and Fritz Perls (the founded of Gestalt Therapy). 

Doing a search for NLP on the web will lead you to many of the variations of this work and those who are practitioners of it, but only a few of them (see “links”) have – in my opinion – the credibility, integrity and power to consistently influence and change lives in a positive direction. Those listed here are ones I know personally and do not reflect others who may be out there.  
Much of what is in print and in the media at this point regarding NLP is either its application in the domain of persuasion and influence (most highly trained Sales professionals have a background in NLP) or in an outdated model of doing linear, step by step processes to influence symptomological psychological change in people who are seeking help. 

My own training began with this basic study of NLP, however in the last three years has shifted into an entirely different domain, into something that is being called the next generation of applied NLP. 

 The MythoSelf™ Model

This model of work was created by Joseph Riggio and evolved from his own study of the Generative Imprint™ work of Roye Frasier. Rather than ask the standard therapeutic question of “What is your problem?”, in this work we ask “What are you like when you don’t have problems…? When you are at your best?” 

Amazing things begin to happen as a person is guided into a deep and satisfying sense of himself or herself, as they know themselves to be at their very best where all things become possible. Then they begin to learn that there is a way they organize themselves neurologically – literally in their bodies, where they fixate their attention, how they hold themselves – that they can have this experience in an ongoing way, moment to moment through time. How this is done is a much more sophisticated question to answer and is only known through experiencing it. I do teach the beginning level of skills to do this in my three day Advanced Counseling Training for Child Care Professionals –  The key to how it effects my work is in the emphasis on always operating off of a positive, resourceful bias. 

 As this is a dynamic model, always operated in time, the only writing that is done about it aside from the handful of us who are trained and authorized to promote ourselves as practitioners of it, can be found through Joseph Riggio’s web site: www.Mythoself.com

Most of the people who come to me for intensive private work in this model, come for the same reasons they might have in the past gone to therapy. I will get inquiries from people who want to cure a phobia, to people struggling to make life choices and mostly, people struggling with trying to get their life back on track… trying to find their own path and their real voice. I also work with many kids and with many parents. Most of my work is generated through word of mouth as, aside from this website, I put nothing out there as general marketing. Plenty of satisfied clients – myself being one of them – will attest that this work, often more than any other work they have encountered, changes lives.

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Learn more about the MythoSelf™ model by experiencing first hand for yourself the power of the MythoSelf™ model. Contact Jeffrey about doing a Private session. While Jeffrey has many clients he sees nationwide, sometimes he will offer referrals to several of the other practitioners of this work around the US and in Europe. Also inquire about opportunities to attend a three day MythoSelf™ workshop and training in the US or England. They happen periodically and are hosted by Joseph Riggio.