SLEIGHT OF MOUTH TE MAGIC OF CONVERSATIONAL BELIEF CHANGE

Dilts, Robert,
Sleight of Mouth the magic of conversational belief change,
ISBN 0-916990-43-5, Meta Publications

Sleight of Mouth the magic of conversational belief change Sleight of Mouth patterns come from the study of how language has been, and can be, used to make an impact on people's lives and emotions. Many of the Sleight of Mouth patterns were formulated as a result of modeling the language patterns of people such as Socrates, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Adolph Hitler, Milton Erickson and Jesus of Nazareth. Sleight of Mouth patterns are made up of verbal categories and distinctions by which key beliefs can be established, shifted or transformed through language. Generally, Sleight of Mouth patterns can be characterized as "verbal reframes" which influence beliefs, and the mental maps from which beliefs have been formed. These patterns provide a powerful tool for persuasion and conversational belief change. This book is about the power of words to be either helpful or harmful, the distinctions that determine the type of impact words will have, and the language patterns through which we can transform harmjul statements into helpful ones.