Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

Reverse Reframing was suggested to me by Sean Kearney in 1993, and is based on the 6 Step Reframing procedure from NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). This would be used with someone who is rigid, doesn't really want to change, or in general for personal evolution.

This process is a bit longer than standard 6 Step Reframing. We begin in the Reverse Reframing protocol by expanding the solution space. We create the opening to change before beginning to change. The starting place is removing objections to changing anything before starting to work. Then removing objections to making a specific change prior to actually attempting to make a change.

This process goes very very deep. It is a very powerful intervention, and in many cases will result in the client expanding their identity.

Phase 1. General Readiness for Change

1. Does any part of you have any objections to making some positive changes today? - if so handle with 6 step reframing, EFT, Timeline Therapy, Visual Squash, sleight of mouth, or whatever is indicated.

2. Are you willing to actually take full responsibility for making these changes now? Are you willing to actually use the new alternatives and choices you create today in the appropriate situations to find out how well they work?

2a Create a fantasy of being someone who easily makes important changes

3. Find 3 new choices each for
a. Making changes,
b. Taking responsibility,
c. Using your new choices.

4. For what purpose will you make these changes today? What will you gain?

5. Set up communication with your unconscious mind
a. Apologize for not appreciating self and unconscious in past
b. Rapport with self
c. Appreciate willingness to change
d. Signal demonstrating parts willingness to learn and create new alternatives choices
e. Appreciation all around

6. Make an Inventory of behavior and feelings that you might want to change, and select one to transform now.

Phase 2 - Making Changes

1. Any objections to changing (goal for the remainder of the session from Phase 1 Step 6 above)?

2. Are you willing to create and use new choices for satisfying your deepest needs and intentions?

3. Find new ways to create choices

4. What are your deepest, and highest intentions as a person? (Be sure these are positive, if not, continue to move to meta-outcome by asking "What is the intention of (last intention expressed?) "

5. Appreciation of self, and your inner mind for having these intentions.

6. Is there anything you wish to communicate (say) to your inner mind? Is there anything your inner mind wants to communicate (say) to you?

7. Intention - Recognizing and appreciating how it supports other intentions, and how your other intentions support it, and are aligned with it.

8. Create 3 or more new ways to achieve all your positive and valuable intentions.

9. Are you willing to use these new choices and ways of being in the appropriate situations to find out how well they actually work?

9a. Enjoy watching a fantasy of the new you with your new choices, in the situations that in the past would have been difficult in those old ways.

10. Does any part of your inner mind have any objections to any of the new alternatives? (if so recycle to Phase 2, step 1.)