GRAY MATTERS

The Brooklyn Program

is a program of neuro-affective training designed to enhance and awaken human potentials.

The program consists of a series of exercises taken from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) designed to create positive feelings, mood control, enhance choice and build positive self regard.

The program is rooted in the theories of Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow. Its techniques are continually upgraded in light of current neuro-science and user feedback.

The Brooklyn Program is a dynamic, personal enhancement tool with solid results in substance use disorders, anger management, performance enhancement, mood control and spiritual exploration.

It has been used for more than five years to treat substance abusers in the Federal Criminal Justice System and is now being piloted for use as a pre-release program.

The Brooklyn Program is not therapy. It is a system of educational exercises designed to create continuing experiences of personal well being, self efficacy, self control and a positive future orientation.

The Program is an affective and cognitive skills training program in which you can expect yourself and your clients to learn the following practical, experiential skills:

• Memory enhancement
• Emotional enrichment
• Emotional control
• Mood enhancement
• Self control
• Body awareness
• Outcome design
• Future orientation

The program can be provided in the following formats:

• 16 weeks, one two hour session per week
• 8 weeks, two 90-minute sessions per week
• 4 weeks, two three-hour sessions per week

In each format we recommend two one-on-one sessions with each participant to ensure that the skills have been fully mastered. Facilitator trainings can be arranged as four-day intensives or to meet your schedule.

The Structure of the Program:

1. The submodality structure of memory and emotion.
2. Emotion as skill, memories as resources.
3. Creating anchors, the keys to emotional control.
4. New enhancements; gaining more depth in felt experience.
5. Constellating the deep Self; using the tools created to find a deep sense of Self and center.
6. Spreading the wealth; extending these new tools to real life circumstances.
7. On your own; creating new anchors to meet your personal needs.
8. Awakening positive history; finding more resources and connecting with your positive past.
9. Deeper depths, integrating the new elements of personal history into the felt sense of Self.
10. Defining Futures; using the felt sense of Self to create relevant, attainable futures.
11. Stabilizing futures, using Win Wenger's ImageStreaming to clarify the future.
12. Visiting the future; the initiatic final exercise created by Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan.

Email richardmgray@comcast.net for further information.

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