Here are a set of questions that help build closeness and rapport for friends and couples to try. Each set of questions is at a deeper level. You can use this as an exercise – each person trying out questions in a set, or pepper the conversation with them.
Outer Conversation
3 NLP Techniques for influence
From the NLP Practitioner by Toby & Kate McCartney
Other ways we influence are by use of phrases and words. You might not be aware of people using them on you and then wondering why some people are able to get you to do things you don’t want to do. Using them to force someone else to do something they don’t want to do for your benefit – is manipulation. Knowing them gives you awareness and choice on how to react.