Anchoring for better preparation for an interview

One of my colleagues is an Indian national. As part of his job, he is now going to the US to work in a different office of my employer.

In order to do so, he needs to have a visa for the US, and the visa is only granted after an interview with the US embassy. The objective of the interview is to see if he is a "suitable candidate" for the US, and to determine that he doesn't want to stay (he doesn't, but he needs to convey that message).

The "scary part" is that they might send him back to India to apply with the embassy in his hometown. There is a huge waiting list in India for this interview and we are working on the premises that he goes to the US in early January.
So yeah, he is nervous, very nervous. And he wants to be calm and confident. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is very much made for this "kind of things" (or any other "state). It helps you to develop a great mindset, a State, that allows one to be calm and confident at the time when it is required.

I had a coaching session with him yesterday. Something very easy, and it only took 45 minutes. It is called resource anchoring in NLP, but whatever it is, the work is done by him. He needed to find the resources inside of him to know that he is confident and calm. All I have to do is leading the process, asking the questions and be there.

It is all inside of us, remember? It doesn't bring you much to hear a lecture from others on how they would do it!)

My boss, just before we went for the session, saw him and also talked to him - about being calm and confident. She said, there is nothing to worry about (already the wrong words), that he is calm and confident anyway (but well, that is in "normal situations") and all. It is easy to talk to people like this, but how many can hold onto this when it is required? That is the downside of motivational talks - it only holds for so long, until you are in the situation.

So yes - we went through the process. As said, it took 45 minutes. he anchored the feelings in his fiest, and now, repeats the feeling or state of confidence and calmness every now and then.
Today, we are going for the next session - to set the state even deeper into him - to enable him to carry the feeling with him, and get it, whenever he needs it. And tomorrow we have another session. And before he goes for the interview, I just use hypnosis to really get the state of confidence and calmness into his subconsciousness.

This is fun, and real beneficial for him as well.

(NLP in Asia)
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