Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121222 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-07
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 330 pages

Customer Reviews

Solid Content - But Over Complicated For Its Own Sake
When I ordered this book I thought I'd be treated to the secrets of covert change work in what others would see as seemingly mundane conversations.

And to a degree the book delivers solid content based on NLP.

The problem is, the model, presented as a schematic in this book is one of the most unwieldy things I've ever seen. It's just too complicated and too detailed to be any use in helping someone using it to be able to access it unconscioulsy while simultaneously trying to be present in the conversation.

It seems, in an attempt to ensure no part of a communication is left out, the author felt it necessary to include everthing (big chunks and small chunks) so that by the end of the book, you feel even less confident of being able to do the stuff.

So in summary:

If you like talking about how these powerful patterns all may link together then you'll probably still love this book.

If you're actually interested in getting out there and using the patterns then this book will probably be more effective in confusing you.

An excellent comprehensive review of Sleight of Mouth patter
An excellent and well written book from the person who invented the Sleight of Mouth patterns.They are dealt with in a grouped and logical way. Robert also includes illustrative material from his seminars. This is not a book for beginners, but for readers with some knowledge of NLP.On reading this book, you will have an excellent understanding of the patterns and be in a position to apply and use them.

Carole Kinsey (NLP trainer)

Information is better than the writing
Sleight of Mouth works with language patterns and, most particularly, with spoken language patterns. Meanwhile, Robert Dilts is a sublime practitioner of his own techniques mostly because of his own personal warmth and his direct and uncomplicated interactions with people. This book, therefore, is to Dilts’ practice of NLP as any recipe book is to the practice of cooking, serving and eating delicious food. Certainly, the recipe is there, and all of the ingredients are described, but there is nothing of the flavour, the aroma, the atmosphere or the human vitality that lie at the heart of these skills. When sleight of mouth works best, it is because the internal logic of the subject’s statements are working against their own self interest, and I have seen and heard Robert Dilts respond to such statements by the inverting the logic to operate FOR the subjects self-interest and returning it as a question (an offering) to the subject. What is striking about such an interaction is not so much the linguistic skill of the man (which is impressive) but his compassion; his ability to recognise, in a very short sentence, how someone can be helped to help themselves. You don’t find that in the book.