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NLP Products: Knowledge Engineering Home-Study-Course
Do you want to improve the way you...
Model the Expertise of others?
Reproduce whole Areas of Behavior?
Work with people's -extensive- Belief Systems?
Ask yourself these questions first:
- Have you not yet been able to develop sufficient Skills & Knowledge in these areas?
- Have you enough skills but not the depth of intuition you think you need?
Our KE Home-Study-Course will help enable you to...
Model other people's Belief & Decision Systems with More Depth, Breadth & Accuracy than you would believe today, and help you to Intuitively Identify ways to Optimize those Systems.
Dear Advanced NLP Student & Modeling Enthusiast,
Jonathan Altfeld here.
Before I founded the Mastery InSight Institute, and before I immersed myself in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, I was a professional in the field of Artificial Intelligence. I did expertise-modeling professionally, almost exclusively for Fortune 500 companies. I was paid to interview business experts, find out what they knew, how they knew it, how they made the decisions they made, and then build software systems to reproduce those experts' decision making processes.
I can just hear some of you thinking... "What? You mean the field of NLP doesn't hold the only claim to modeling expertise? Blasphemy!"
The field of Knowledge Engineering closely parallels some of the skills taught through NLP. There are obvious differences, but certainly at the core of what constitutes the NLP technology & skillset is a set of tools to model human knowledge & subjectivity. That very description would sound highly familiar to those who do professional Knowledge Engineering. In many ways they are two parallel fields. Knowledge Engineering is about building software systems to behave & 'think' like human experts. In such a project, core software development team members would be tasked with acquiring knowledge from the experts, and then encoding that knowledge in a fashion that allows computers to reproduce the expert's behavior consistently and fast! We can list more "similarities" between these two approaches to modeling than we can "differences." But rest assured, both exist.
The Knowledge Engineer (KE) spends time interviewing & studying the experts, and learning directly from them. There are a variety of different methods which can be used to accomplish this, all grouped loosely under the term "Knowledge Acquisition." Once a sufficient initial knowledge-base of modeled knowledge has been amassed, the KE then determines ways of storing/structuring/representing the expert's knowledge, and then proceeds to build a software application known as an expert system.
NLP practitioners & master practitioners may recognize the above process as being highly similar to what is known as Modeling in NLP. This goes beyond strategy elicitation and is used to logically reproduce behavior in a given domain of expertise. Occasionally we hear people thinking of 'reproducing a tennis swing' or 'matching/mirroring' someone else's behavior as 'modeling.' It isn't, don't let them oversimplify things. If they're suggesting such things, they categorically don't know what modeling is.
Do not allow others who suggest that if you (for example) learn to identify when someone's in a particular Sensory Mode (like "Visual"), that you're modeling. Such would be an injustice to you and to the process of modeling; that example is just a bit of "strategy elicitation" on a very small scale.
One (fallible but useful) rule of thumb might be that if it takes you at least several full-time AND efficient weeks or months, to acquire an area of expertise, then maybe you're modeling. If it takes months for you to acquire the knowledge, integrate it into your unconscious mind, organize & optimize it, and then use it to reproduce expert behavior, then maybe you're modeling. If you thought learning how to create rapport with "colored mental bubbles" was modeling, think again. It ain't. At best that's strategy elicitation. I once watched a trainer step into an "expert circle," in which he said he imagined all the skills he wanted (but hadn't actually elicited) into that circle, and he could feel what it was like to be the expert. As though if he said he was modeling a surgeon I would let him within a 3 mile distance of my friends or family needing medical assistance.
Give me a break!!! Modeling gets a "bad rap"
because of distortions & examples like that.
The question then becomes, would REAL modeling skills actually be useful to you?
So let's look at some examples of real models at work.
- Have you heard of the "Mega-Math" or "Mega-Memory" courses often advertised on television, as collections of genius strategies in particular areas of skill (math & memory skills)? Kevin Trudeau made a boatload of money from sales of these (& other related) courses.
- Most of the "Real Estate" home-study-courses advertised through infomercials are examples of people who modeled their own skill (or someone else's) at acquiring real estate with no-money-down. Someone helped them package that model in a way that makes it easy to learn.
- The website http://www.sportsmind.com.au is an example of an NLP-trained person who modeled sports performance optimization, and now trains those skills to facilitators of his system.
- The "Persuasion Tactics Power Summit" course (& home-study package) was a Persuasion Tactics 'model' acquired by myself, from someone who is naturally a very persuasive individual, named Chris Tomasulo. (Please note: this product is no longer available for sale).
Find out for yourself what the 9 CD's in the course sound like.
Listen to these audio samples from the Knowledge Engineering Home Study Course. The seminar from which this course was developed was recorded in Los Angeles in January 2001.
| From CD-2, 6 minutes, 24 sec. | |
| From CD-5, 5 minutes, 36 sec. | |
| From CD-6, 3 minutes, 33 sec. |
Let's look more closely at some of the things you'll learn how to do more effectively by working with our home-study course:
- Eliciting Strategies
- Recognizing Patterns
- Hearing Presuppositions
- Tracking Reasoning
- Optimizing Expertise
- Deciding Effectively
- Multiprocessing
| Testimonial Excerpts (about this training!) | |
| Silke Scheidereiter, Germany | Thanks for a wonderful & mind altering weekend - it was worth every single penny! [...] my brain just can't stop generating new ideas & solutions, identifying patterns, going through the huge pile of new information. [...] I still don't have a clue as to how you managed to get that much data into these few inches of my brain in such a short time!!! NLP seems to be much more effective & powerful than I ever dared to dream of..... [ Back to Top ] |
| Ted VanderNoot, London, UK | Your presentation of AI & Knowledge Engineering & how computer software systems can learn & decide was quite interesting. But using these models to then explore modelling in the NLP context was mind-blowing! It was really cool how well we were tracking beliefs by only the second day. [...] Not only could we track beliefs & language patterns "on the fly" but we could unravel their interconnections & their interactions conversationally. I thoroughly recommend your course to anyone who wants to improve their skills at tracking language patterns & modelling. [ Back to Top ] |
| Discover & Use "Knowledge Engineering" Skills | |
| Boolean/Fuzzy Logic Decision & Rule Chaining Backward-Chaining vs Conflict Resolution Trimming Redundant Reasoning | Trainer Jonathan Altfeld focuses in this home study material on training the structure of knowledge and decision-making strategies. This course is where Jonathan folds into his NLP training process years of Knowledge Engineering experience in developing Expert Systems. After you've learned more about the structure of how "rules/decisions" operate independently, concurrently, and sequentially, we'll then be ready to fold in some practical use of that information! The integration of Knowledge Engineering strategies with NLP tools and patterns provides a rational framework for a variety of possible shifts in thought patterns, even for dealing with kinesthetic experience (which many people attempt to logically, verbally explain). Jonathan frames each process and skill in terms of some of the connections and relationships to NLP. This course will also be useful for professional Knowledge Engineers who wish to understand more how others think, so as to know more effectively how to trim out less-relevant decision criteria. In a more prepared state of mind, we can then utilize the modified knowledge engineering tools to rapidly model the expertise of others and then apply it. |
| Ordering Details: | |
| Includes: | Almost 9 hours of content, 9 CD's converted to MP3's. Only available via download now. Includes our KE manual, & a transcript of the CD's that you receive, so that you can read along as you listen. |
| How to Order Your Home Study Course: | |
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Inbox Insights
- Knowledge Engineering (& Belief Craft) have evolved, into GeniusMapping™
- As of September 2020, we're in the process of moving from Tampa, Florida, to the Youngstown Ohio area. Currently, during the Coronavirus era, we're mostly focusing on Zoom-based Coaching, and aligning resources to run online courses.
- How "Civil Engineering" totally reframes the word "Stress," redefines the phrase "Stress Management," and leads us to embrace Stress!
- Many NLP Practitioners are more sloppy with their thinking patterns, than they'd like to admit, or... would even notice.
- Watch NLP Co-Founder Richard Bandler use NLP to eliminate Michael Strahan's phobic response to snakes -- in minutes (with Kelly Ripa bringing over a BIG snake at the end to test Michael's response). Spoiler alert: It worked ridiculously well.
- No matter what skill you want to learn, no matter what fears or concerns or hesitation you may have, there are and will always be a wide range of approaches, to learning that skill. It's important to keep that in mind when making learning choices.
- Many more famous people have been trained in Ericksonian (indirect) Hypnosis and NLP than you might guess. There are certainly far more who have strong interests here than have publically admitted so.
- On January 1, 2015, Jonathan Altfeld and 20 other co-authors released a digital book entitled "Creating Business Growth."
- What are the Four Stages of Learning?
- Jim BlackPhiladelphia, PAAttended Course : Belief Craft MP3 Set
Out of the many seminars and trainings I've participated in over the years, Belief Craft tops them all. If you make the decision to take this course, you'll not only get everything you wanted, but also things you never imagined."
- Claudio SennhauserDemo Coach and Author of "Giving Memorable Product Demos", ThailandBought Audio : Automatic Yes CD-set
In this program, Jonathan teaches how to elicit and influence emotional states in elegant and natural ways. Although the program focuses on one-on-one communication, all of the skills and knowledge taught can be applied to product demonstrations and group presentations as well. In the Sample Track from CD 1, Jonathan says: "Lead your audience to an Action State in a way that aligns with their values and beliefs." That sums up what you will get from the program: the ability to elicit and influence emotional states in your audience. You will learn how to lead someone from an Encounter State to an Action State through the chaining of smaller state changes in between. This is a skill that will set you apart from other presenters. Thinking about how your audience will feel will most certainly help you add great stories, and sequence them for maximum impact. For me, this program is a keeper! I recommend it to any product demonstrator as a secret weapon. Armed with it, you will be able to elicit and change the emotional states of your audience with elegance. I consider this the main ingredient that will lead to truly memorable demos.
http://sennhauser.com/2009 - John SchertzerVice President, Securities, & NLP Master Practitioner, New York, NYAttended Course : Linguistic Wizardry
"Right after coming back from his training in Boston, I was cooking! A few weeks after the training I did what many people said was my best poetry performance ever -- actually had people calling be up, asking me to email poems to them, and to put them on my mailing list (but I don't have a mailing list) -- and since then I've been a very useful to my friends, family and clients, helping them deal with emotional and mental obstacles, and make creative breakthroughs and achieve their goals. Jonathan sets a great example, and blasts through beliefs that are holding you back from being your best. But I'll let YOU find out how."
2005 - Jorge A. ColonAttorney, Miami, FLAttended Course : NLP Practitioner Training
Jonathan Altfeld is truly dedicated to each of his students' growth and effectiveness. His integrity, patience, and kindness are a good model for trainers, managers, and parents.
1998 - Mayra RiveraAttorney, Miami, FLAttended Course : NLP Practitioner Training
I recommend Jonathan's NLP Course to anyone who is interested in dramatically improving his or her rapport and communication skills. I am very impressed with Jonathan's quick and practical approach to the questions posed by his students. I have accepted the challenge to continue practicing these skills in the future, and strive to achieve Jonathan's elegance and mastery.
1998 - Matthew NewnhamChange Management Consultant, Edinburgh, UKAttended Course :
From my perspective, context and meaning are, if not everything, a very big slice of the cake. Jonathan Altfeld's 'Knowledge Engineering' has provided me with the tools and understanding to create contextual maps of any problem, with cause, effect AND meaning. This approach is very powerful, and allowed me to create breakthrough strategies immediately, with clarity and certainty of purpose. Beyond this, Jonathan is exceptionally wise and articulate about NLP and how to use it to effect meaningful, lasting change. He is also very approachable and generous, and a pleasure to work with.
1997 - Nick KempLeeds UKBought Video : “Building Hypnotic Rapport”
A great introduction to the many facets of building rapport. Jonathan is extremely fluid in his presentation of this subject perfectly pacing the assembled delegates with his relaxed and fun approach to the material. His explanations of rhythm, mismatching, non verbal communication and frames of learning are excellent and its clear from watching that Jonathan has genuine enthusiasm in presenting seminars and is fully aware of how each of the delegates is responding both consciously and unconsciously as well as the dynamics of the group as a whole. As someone who avidly collects all kinds of NLP and hypnosis materials, (in CD, video and DVD formats), what I really liked about this DVD set is that Jonathan breaks the subject down into logical sections, which makes it extremely engaging and memorable for the viewer. His use of metaphors demonstrates someone who is in my opinion a natural presenter and I consider this DVD set invaluable and great value for money for anyone training in NLP, hypnosis or simply interested in improving their communication skills! In fact, I am sufficiently impressed by the quality of this set that I am going to seek out the other DVDs in Jonathan's "Skill-Builders Series".
2005 - Michael RoachCoach, London, UKAttended Course : Knowledge Engineering
I used to think modelling was strategy elicitation and from that I could never figure out how people like Richard Bandler so successfully modelled Erickson etc. I thought that maybe it was innate genius or maybe its something they don't teach explicitly now. In this training Jonathan brings his expertise from the domain of Knowledge Engineering (modelling experts and encoding that knowledge in software) together with his expertise in NLP. [...] What I had no idea of how to do before was how to code the information that I elicited. A Knowledge Engineer writes the rules that enable an expert system to make decisions, and while Cyberspace may be an overused word, its interesting to think of having a dataspace to represent the matrix of information you construct to build your model. [...] I recommend this training to those who want to learn how to model the excellence in other people and make it their own.
http://michaelwilliamroach.com/2000 - Maureen StevensonCafe Manager, Nottingham, UKAttended Course : Belief Craft MP3 Set
"As a person who has never attended any NLP or KE Sessions before, I have found the whole experience useful to me and feel that I am going away with a wealth of knowledge I believe will guide me through many areas of my life. I am excited about attending more trainings in the future."
2005 - Chris FialaMarketing Consultant, Clearwater, FLAttended Course : Speaking Ingeniously
"I very much enjoyed your seminar. Having more comfort when I talk with people makes the rapport deeper. Even though my demo is only 90 seconds, I hold longer eye contact with more potential customers, building a sense of connection. Result? Sales of my juicer product increased 30%." -