1. How to find our zone of
excellence
USING THE POWER OF NLP
February 10, 2013
Presented by Simo Bennis

2. Why playing in the zone of excellence?
• The zone of excellence is the key for the best
performances
• Outside the “zone”, we only experience stress, fear,
mental paralysis, low energy level and lack of
confidence
Zone of excellence
Environment

3. Being in the zone can make miracles (1)
• Chesley Sullenburger, the pilot of US Airways,
saved all the passengers lives by landing safely his
plane after an unexpected reactor accident

4. Being in the zone can make miracles (2)
• Alain Robert, the french Spiderman, climbed more
than 100 sky-scrapers and mythical monuments
around the world using no climbing equipment

5. State Management
• In NLP, an internal State is a mental state such as
relaxed, focused, motivated or any combination of
those states
• Controlling our states is the basis of State
Management
• A simple Physiology shift can affect our state (such
as breathing, get into a vertical axis etc.)
• Taking control of our Mental Representation
(pictures, sounds, feelings etc.) can help us manage
our state in exactly the way we want to achieve our
goals

6. A famous NLP author, consultant and trainer
Robert Dilts
• His personal contributions to the field of NLP: NLP
techniques of Strategies and Belief Systems, and the
development of the “Systemic” NLP
• Robert is the creator of the COACH State

7. Train our brain to manage our state
Centred
Contraction
Open Reaction
Aware Analysis Paralysis
Separation
Connected Hurt and Hatred
Hospitality