Using NLP Language Conversationally for Getting Your Clients Unstuck
Fiona Campbell
2026 Conference
In this session you will explore using NLP conversational techniques to help your clients’ overcome obstacles.
We'll discuss state change, which involves shifting your client's emotional or mental state for positive outcomes.
Modal operators like "can," "must," and "should" which reveal limiting beliefs and motivations.
Learn to identify and challenge nominalisations by turning abstract concepts into actionable tasks.
And finally, by using the Milton Model's hypnotic language patterns, learn to guide your clients toward new perspectives.
Understanding these elements, along with NLP presuppositions like the map is not the territory, empowers you to facilitate profound and lasting change in your clients' lives.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1. Apply strategies for conversationally shifting your clients' emotional and mental states towards positive outcomes.
2. Identify and interpret the use of modal operators ("can," "must," "should") in your clients' language to reveal underlying motivations and constraints.
3. Identify nominalisations (abstract concepts) in your client conversations and change them into actionable, concrete tasks.
4. Use Milton Model techniques for guiding your clients toward new, empowering perspectives through subtle and effective language patterns.
5. Understand and apply NLP presuppositions, such as "the map is not the territory," to enhance your client interactions and outcomes.
6. Combine all discussed NLP techniques to create a cohesive approach that supports your clients in overcoming obstacles and achieving lasting change.
7. Leave with practical tools for using conversational change in your client facing sessions.