In the last blog post we showed how the Movie Theater Technique is an example of therapeutic reconsolidation by applying the three criteria of verification from the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process (TRP) proposed by Ecker, et. al. (2012). This time, we’ll use the same video to track the second phase of TRP, the transformation process.
In the video below you can watch Steve Andreas working with Laurie, a woman who has suffered from a bee phobia for twenty years after being swarmed and stung repeatedly as a child. In less than ten minutes, following a simple NLP process, the woman goes from being completely reactive to Steve’s hint at a bee by making a gesture and saying, “Imagine ...