East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

Mind Reading On one evening in the Santa Cruz mountains, Richard and John began developing some techniques for what was later called "mind reading" a technique not often referred to in NLP workshops. The mind reading workshops were held at Richard's house at Acorn Hollow. Virginia Satir was present on the opening night which thrilled us to no end. The idea of mind reading is a pretty weird topic to teach mostly because it is so difficult to verify. Richard and John were introduced to the idea thru doing different workshops and groups in the San Francisco Bay area. They were doing some interesting mind reading on the group participants, commenting on ages, dates and places people had been, in the normal course of their presentation. They were commenting accurately on individuals' personal history, their ages and their partners, without prior knowledge. They decided to do some experiments which could possibly reveal the structure of mind reading which would then give them a model from which to teach it. To mind read was to be able to pick up internal dialogue, sounds, pictures and words which are generated inside someone, or to be able to see a visual representation of something a person is thinking about ...»