Design Human Engineering®
What is Design Human Engineering?
I'm Chris Meaden, a hypnotherapist. Design Human Engineering®, or DHE®, was created by Dr Richard Bandler, co-creator of NLP. He describes it as creation, where NLP was replication. I use it inside The Meaden Method®.
What it is
Dr Bandler's work of designing.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming was based on replication. Design Human Engineering® is based on creation. NLP was based on taking information in one step at a time. DHE® is based on processing it all at once.
Dr Richard Bandler created it. He co-created NLP. I learned Design Human Engineering with him and with John La Valle, at NLP Seminars Group International in Orlando. I also trained with the same two people in Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning®. That is different work, and it has its own page.
Designing, where NLP copied.
NLP studies what someone already does, and learns to reproduce it. DHE starts from designing a strategy or a state that was not there to copy.
Processed in the same moment.
He contrasts a sequence, one piece of information after another, with processing that happens together. DHE is the second of those.
What you can reach already.
However many good feelings a person has, he treats that number as too small. He starts from the view that what someone can already reach falls far short of what they are capable of. That is his premise. It is not a result I can promise.
Plain English
How he describes the work.
This is Dr Bandler's account, from the official site, in my words. It is the model I was taught. It is a way of practising, and it comes with no promise of a result.
For years he studied how people he regarded as geniuses used their minds, and he could reproduce what they produced. Then he noticed that those same people still got out of bed because they needed the bathroom. He decided that was not a good enough reason to start the day. From there, the work takes as given the chance to design inner strategies and states that feel dynamic and compelling.
The difference has to be obvious.
To design a skill, the looking has to be precise. What you want and what you don't want have to stand so far apart that you cannot confuse them. He says that gap is made in your own processing. Rapport is his example. With someone you know well, tone of voice already tells you the mood: happy and sad are unmistakable. The distinction you can perceive is what changes what you do. Where you cannot yet perceive one, you learn to use your senses until you can.
The whole context, at once.
A strategy sits next to other strategies. He names the timelines in use at that moment, and the meta-programmes that are active. Designing a shift in all of those together, so it fits the situation, is what he calls the realm of Design Human Engineering®.
New skills, and a reason to use them.
NLP's models give distinctions for communicating, and for replicating behaviour someone else can produce. DHE, in his account, is also for creating new strategies and skills, and better motivation strategies, so the useful ones get carried out.
Three questions he asks.
The official page closes on three questions. This is his meaning, in plainer words. They are questions, not targets I set for you.
- How far is the best feeling you have known from the best feeling your body can produce?
- How much say do you have over the feelings you produce, how strong they are, and when they arrive?
- Have you ever gone looking for the most pleasure you can stand?
A session with me
Hypnotherapy, with DHE inside it.
Design Human Engineering is part of how I work. It sits inside The Meaden Method®, with clinical hypnotherapy. Havening Techniques® and NLP join the same plan when they fit what you came for.
We talk first. I want to understand what is happening, and what you would like instead. If we use DHE, we use his model: a difference you can actually perceive, and a strategy and a state designed for that context. I can guide the session. I can't design it for you, and I can't tell you how far it will go.
You stay awake. We go at your pace. I will not promise a result, or a number of sessions. If I am not the right hypnotherapist for you, I will say so on the consultation call.
- You stay awake throughout.
- You won't be asked to relive anything you don't need to.
- The Meaden Method® is the plan. DHE is one tool inside it.
Who I see
Anxiety, panic or trauma.
I work with adults. People who come to me are often living with anxiety, panic or trauma. They can explain the problem. They want a different way of going on.
A different state, on purpose.
A racing body. A sense of threat. Panic that arrives on its own. Hypnotherapy is how I work with that. DHE is one tool I may use, when the work is to design a different state.
Something designed for this context.
His model looks at the strategy you are already running, and at designing another, with a motivation strategy that gives it a chance of being used. I will not tell you that it will.
This sits alongside your care.
Keep any care you already have. See your doctor or consultant as you usually would. This is hypnotherapy. It is not a medical treatment, and it is not a cure.
Where I learned it
Trained with Bandler and La Valle.
I trained in Design Human Engineer™ (DHE™) with Dr Richard Bandler and John La Valle, at NLP Seminars Group International in Orlando.
The official site for this work gives that same organisation as the contact. Design Human Engineering® and DHE® are registered trademarks of John La Valle.
The training, as I record it
- Design Human Engineer™ (DHE™)
- NLP Seminars Group International, Orlando
- Dr Richard Bandler and John La Valle
The same list, with the rest of my training, is on the qualifications page.
Related approaches
NLP and NHR.
These are the two companion pages. I trained in all three. Design Human Engineering is this page.
Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning
I trained in this with Dr Richard Bandler and John La Valle, the same two people I learned DHE with. It is different work.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
NLP was based on replication, and on taking information one step at a time. Design Human Engineering was based on creation. Dr Bandler co-created NLP. I trained in it with him.
Questions
Questions I get asked.
What does DHE stand for?
Design Human Engineering. The short form is DHE®. Both names are registered trademarks of John La Valle.
Who created it?
Dr Richard Bandler. He co-created NLP, and he created Design Human Engineering. I learned this work with him and with John La Valle. John La Valle holds the trademarks.
How is it different from NLP?
NLP was based on replication, and on taking information in one step at a time. Design Human Engineering was based on creation, and on processing information all at once. NLP's models help you communicate, and copy behaviour someone else can produce. DHE, as he describes it, is for designing new strategies and skills, and the motivation to use them. There is a separate page on what NLP is.
How is it different from Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning?
They are different trainings. I learned both from Dr Richard Bandler and John La Valle, at NLP Seminars Group International in Orlando. Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning has its own page, written in the same way.
Is a session hypnotherapy?
A session with me is hypnotherapy. I am a clinical hypnotherapist, and DHE sits inside The Meaden Method®, with the other approaches I am trained in. Dr Bandler's description of Design Human Engineering is about designing strategies and states.
Do I have to go back over the story?
I need enough to know what we are working with. I will not ask you to relive anything you don't need to.
How many hypnotherapy sessions will it take?
I can't say until we have talked, and I won't guess. People differ. I can't guarantee a result, or a timescale.
Can this replace my doctor?
No. Please keep seeing your doctor or consultant. This works alongside that care. It is hypnotherapy, not medicine, and it is not a cure.
Where did you train in DHE?
With Dr Richard Bandler and John La Valle, at NLP Seminars Group International in Orlando. The qualification, as I record it, is Design Human Engineer™ (DHE™). The full list is on my qualifications page.
A first conversation
Book a consultation call
We can talk about what you want to change, and whether this kind of hypnotherapy is a fit. If I can't help, I will tell you.
Design Human Engineering® and DHE® are registered trademarks of John La Valle. Design Human Engineer™ (DHE™) is the name of the training, as I record it.