Charles Faulkner
Charles Faulkner in 2005
Born (1952-01-12) January 12, 1952
St. Clair Shores, Michigan
Occupation(s)Master NLP practitioner and trainer, life coach, finance trader
Known forWork in neuro-linguistic programming

Charles Faulkner (born January 12, 1952) is an American practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), life coach, motivational speaker, trader and author. He has written several books and audio tapes on NLP, which is largely considered a pseudoscience[1][2]

Biography

In 1981, Faulkner read a book about neuro-linguistic programming called The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.[3] The book's methodology described ways of affecting immediate and positive life changes by reprogramming speech, movement and thought patterns.[4] As a result, Faulkner began NLP training.[3] Faulkner began developing decision-making strategy models based on the thought-patterns and behaviors of successful people. He mapped strategies for physicians, international negotiators, and accelerated learners.[5]

In 1990 after years of observing the decision-making strategies of traders such as Richard Dennis, Jim Rogers, Paul Tudor Jones and Tom Baldwin, Faulkner became a trader, himself.[5] His first trade in 1992 was a failure, though he closed the year at a profit. Three years later, Jack D. Schwager included a profile of Faulkner in The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders.[6]

In the late 1990s, Faulkner moved to England, where he felt the economy would be more stable. He, along with other NLP trainers, has modelled strategies for industries including rehabilitation, finance, medicine, sports, and bereavement.[7]

Career

Neurolinguistic programming

Early NLP models

In 1985, Faulkner modelled the Metaphors of Identity.[8] This model states that an individual's strategies and behavior patterns are informed by deeply structured metaphors for life, self, desired outcomes and challenges. By adopting new metaphors, an individual can create new pathways to transformation.

The academic research of cognitive linguists, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson and Faulkner's experience with Metaphors support his hypothesis that cognitive processes are mostly metaphoric, and unconscious. Therefore, conscious desires with functional qualities have parallel metaphors that sustain them. Twenty years later, Faulkner would write about this phenomenon in a two-part article entitled "Outcomes, Decisions & 'Levels' of Meaning."[8] In the years that followed, Faulkner continued to develop additional models, such as Physician Decision Strategies in 1986, Futures Trading in 1987, and finally System Structure (a simultaneous strategies model) in 1990.

Modeler

In 2003, Faulkner co-wrote with Steve Andreas NLP: The New Technology of Achievement. In the book, they wrote, “Lengthy struggle without success is a sign that what we’re doing isn’t working. It’s time to do something else, anything else. It’s time to realize that pain, struggle, suffering and waiting are signs that it’s time for another approach…." The following year, he attended the NLP Conference and Festival at the University of Bristol, England. There Faulkner presented "Awakening to the Social – An Introduction to Irresistible Influence."[9] The following year he presented "Expository Cartography," an introduction to advanced mind mapping techniques that could be used to disengage habitual biases and systematically enrich any model including the more complex ones such as the four-quadrant model of Ken Wilber.[10] In 2006 at the NLP Conference in London, he presented "Training is for Dogs and Horses", a bold challenge to the limiting approach in which NLP had previously been taught.[11] In September 2007, Faulkner lectured at the London School of Economics to The Society for Organisational Learning(SOL-UK).[12]

Published works

  • Faulkner, Charles; Robert McDonald; Tim Hallbom (2003). NLP The New Technology of Achievement. Nightingale Conant. ISBN 0-7435-2905-7.
  • Faulkner, Charles (1994). Success Mastery With NLP. Nightingale Conant. ISBN 0-671-89487-0.
  • Faulkner, Charles (1999). Worlds Within A Word: The Metaphors of Movement. Genesis II. ISBN 1-884605-08-7.
  • Faulkner, Charles (2005). The Mythic Wheel of Life: Finding Your Place in the World. Genesis II Publishing. ISBN 1-884605-16-8.
  • Faulkner, Charles (2005). Metaphors of Identity: Operating Metaphors & Iconic Change. Genesis II Publishing. ISBN 1-884605-15-X.
  • Faulkner, Charles (2005). Submodalities : An Inside View of Your Mind. NLP Comprehensive. ISBN 0-9705492-3-7.
  • Faulkner, Charles (1998). The Essence of Intuition. NPL Comprehensive. ISBN 0-9705492-4-5.
  • Faulkner, Charles (2001). Creating Irresistible Influence with NLP. Nightingale Conant. ASIN B000EZQH0I.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Williams, William F. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers Inc. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-57958-207-4.
  2. ↑ Carroll, Robert Todd (2005). "The Skeptic's Dictionary". Robert Todd Carroll. Retrieved December 6, 2007.
  3. 1 2 Hartle, Thom (January 1994). "Neuro-Linguistic Programmer Charles Faulkner". Stocks & Commodities magazine. Retrieved November 5, 2007.
  4. ↑ Covel, Michael W. (2005). Trend Following. Chapter 6 Section: Financial Times Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-134550-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. 1 2 Nusbaum, David (November 1993). "Charles Faulkner: mind reader". Futures magazine. Archived from the original on March 13, 2008. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
  6. ↑ Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards: conversations with America's Top Traders. John Wiley and Sons.
  7. ↑ Drexler, Madeline (April 10, 1994). "Mind Over All?". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  8. 1 2 Faulkner, Charles (April 2005). "ReSource".
  9. ↑ NLP Development Forum. "NLP Conference and Festival". The Holigral Partnership. Archived from the original on August 21, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
  10. ↑ NLP Development Forum. "NLP Conference and Festival". The Holigral Partnership. Archived from the original on August 21, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
  11. ↑ "NLP Conference". The NLP Conference. Archived from the original on August 6, 2007. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
  12. ↑ "Decision-Making Workshop IV". Society for Organisational Learning in the UK. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Retrieved November 26, 2007.

Further reading

  • Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards. 15 pages: Wiley; New Ed edition. ISBN 0-471-13236-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Covel, Michael W. (2005). Trend Following. Chapter 6 Section: Financial Times Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-134550-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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