The author of this model is Lucas Derks (Netherlands), he is also the author of the book “The Essence of NLP” There are almost no articles and publications on the social panorama method on the Russian-language Internet - this is one of the reasons why this model in NLP is little known, although it is one of the most powerful tools for positive changes in a person’s life. During his life, a person is faced with the task of building relationships with himself, with the world around him, with the reality that is part of his life. In this regard, there arises question: “Isn’t this reality a consequence of how we build relationships with it?” Let’s assume that a person is going to go on a trip and begins to organize this event for himself. He chooses a tour operator, a country, an excursion and entertainment program, persuades or sells the idea of ​​this trip to a loved one, family, friend - in general, he finds himself a company, draws up the documents and now - finally everything is ready. Hooray!!! But suddenly - force majeure, urgent work, family circumstances or some other unforeseen reasons. This happens in life sometimes. So what happens? At this moment, very often, we update memories of what happened to us, maybe in other contexts, but it was with us that similar nonsense has already happened. “It’s always like this in this life, the more you want something, the more likely it is to fail,” we think. With such thoughts, we are gloomy, despondent, with a spoiled mood, we take on this “blow of fate”, we have a hard time experiencing the failure of our plans, everything falls out of our hands, and the motivation to do something tends to minus infinity. Meanwhile, while we are in this state, a couple of weeks or months pass; people appear and disappear around us; some events occur; Sometimes there are even opportunities to do something valuable for ourselves, but, alas, we can easily overlook all this. We are immersed in our negative trance and live in it, we are closed to external reality. But this is so - an example for a couple of weeks. Now imagine that our entire daily life is filled with small and not so force majeure, unforeseen circumstances and other utensils. It may be difficult for us to come to an agreement with loved ones, at work we may experience periods of complete mutual misunderstanding, and events may be beyond our control. And so, without even noticing how this happened, we begin to consider ourselves losers, unlucky individuals, gray mice - and someone else (nice and kind). And gradually our life begins to turn into one continuous negative trance. Getting out of it - and with our minds we understand that we feel bad - is a task that cannot be solved at the level of simple understanding. And all our past experience is already written in our memory, in the memory of our body and mind - and like a well-worn rut, it often does not allow us notice something that is not like him. Our perception is designed in such a way that when we feel good, we notice a lot of good things, when we feel bad, we notice a lot of bad things. This reality, in the end, makes no difference whether we feel good or bad. The social panorama model answers the question: where and how our past experience about relationships with people, with ourselves, with the world is recorded. Where and how is that well-trodden rut sewn, from which it is so difficult to get out. The good news is that our brain is a unique and very flexible system. It is capable of rebuilding and adapting an infinite number of times if we are ready to give it the direction of work, the direction of movement and changes . Our brain contains about 15 billion neurons, which are interconnected by more than 60 trillion!!! connections. Interconnected neurons are called neural networks. To put it simply, each neural network represents a thought, skill, etc. Each of us has our own collection of experiences, skills - our own unique map of neural networks, a mental map of this reality. The more often certain neural networks are updated, the stronger the connections between neurons in this network become. The great merit of NLP is that it has identified externalcriteria for encoding information in neural networks of the brain. It was able to bring to the level of awareness the unconscious mechanisms of constructing mental maps of our social reality. If you take a few minutes of solitude in a quiet and calm place in order to be curious about how your mental map of social reality is structured, you will have to ask yourself very unusual questions. Now, when I think about my loved one (or about my hated colleague), how does my body feel? Where does the physiological sensation from this person arise? And when there is this physiological sensation - where in space does the image of this person appear? Inside me or outside? Right or left? Front or back? How far is it from me? Is there one image or several? How tall is this image? Where is the figure's gaze directed? At what level relative to my eyes are her (his or even their) eyes? Yes, yes, think about this person in such an unusual way for yourself. Then you can explore in the same exact way where in your social panorama images of other people from your life appear. Moreover, it can be interesting to conduct such research not only for those who now make up our environment, but also for those who are no longer in our lives. These figures can also continue to exert their influence on us, being in the mental map of our reality, in our social panorama. It is important to remember that our social panorama is not a given fact once and for all. As our experience changes, as we learn something new, our social panorama also changes. I deliberately do not provide in this article specific mechanisms for changing the social panorama, since it is advisable to begin experiments on changing encodings under the supervision of an experienced operator (trainer , coach, therapist) who is observant enough to notice the physiological signs of comfort or discomfort in the client. Very often, we are so accustomed to not paying attention to feedback from our body, in which a huge amount of our experience and our values ​​are encoded, that we are ready to go ahead, without taking into account the ecology of the entire system. Let me remind you that frequently updated neural networks, say, negative experience, become deep ruts, which are also connected with other neural networks of our brain. Therefore, we must be aware that a change in one element of our social map will inevitably lead to the reaction of the rest of the operating system. Here are a few simple signs that our social operating system (our social panorama) needs to be reconfigured: In life, the same things periodically repeat: the same situations - the effect of familiar “rake” People close to us hint that we will stop living in the past There is a feeling of a “vicious circle” Our behavior in the presence of some people does not obey common sense in any way There is a feeling that “the whole world is against us” or that “ we are all alone” We are constantly being pushed into unproductive interactions with a certain type of people. We should not treat these signs as a diagnosis of something bad or wrong. These situations are normal and can happen to any of us. The question is that very often we get used to not paying conscious attention to these symptoms; we drive them into the darkest corner, from where they often commit their sabotage against us. If we talk about the applied aspects of applying the social panorama model, we can highlight the following areas: Improving self-esteem, strengthening the “I” of the individual Managing behavior in a conflict situation Changing habitual strategies for interacting with people in a given context Changing limiting attitudes and beliefs about oneself, another person, the world as a whole Getting rid of emotional dependencies associated with other people Generation of new behavioral strategies in typical repeating contexts (when the same “rake” arises) Generation of new behavioral strategies with whole people.