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= Lucas Derks =

Lucas Derks (Oosterbeek, 19 November1950) is a Dutch social psychologist and visual artist. Derks is known as an author and trainer in the field of NLP in the Netherlands and abroad. Artistic background

Artistic background

Derks successfully completed graphics school in 1968 and then went on to the Art Academy, where he graduated in fine arts in 1973. After this, he first went to work as an art teacher from 1973 to 1976 in painting and drawing at the Werkschuit[1] in Zeist. In 1980 and 1983, he held painting exhibitions of his own work. In his later career as a trainer, his creative background can still be seen in, for example, his overhead sheets.

Between 1980 and 1986, he carried out research into visitor behaviour at the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.

During his studies, Derks was active in mountaineering and running, and spent six months in Africa. Social psychology and NLP

Social psychology and NLP

After his brief career in the art world, Lucas Derks began his studies in social psychology in 1976, which he completed in 1982 with a PhD in pragmatism.

In the field of pragmatic methodology, he wrote two books a few years later: The Feedforward Conception of Consciousness with R. Goldblatt in 1985 and ''Psychotherapy. A Matter of Getting Used to it ''in 1986.

He came into contact with NLP while studying in March 1977. In 1983, he did an NLP Practitioner Training at the New York Training Institute for NLP, this training was organised in Nijmegen.[3] organised by the Institute for Eclectic Psychology, as was the NLP Master Training that Lucas completed in 1985.

Personal identity is seen by Derks as a structure in Mental Space. Here, the kinaesthetic self (I feeling) is central, and is usually located in the body. Connected to this feeling are self-images, which are linked to contexts. When the person enters a particular context, the self-image relevant to it appears right in front of the person in space. This image lets the person know who she/he is in this context. In the sense of what his/her role and position among the others is. Both the I-feeling and the self-images are subliminal activities, probably of the right hemisphere of the brain. However dimly they can be perceived, these feelings and images determine personal identity in the background and also regulate the degree of self-awareness by where and how large they appear in mental space.

Derks has worked as a therapist in NLP since 1982 and as a trainer since 1986 at SETH[4] and SON Opleidingen[5] and from 1988 also for the IEP[6] and has since trained in dozens of other countries. He trains coaches, mediators, negotiators, managers, psychotherapists and various other professional groups. The Social Panorama

The Social Panorama

From 1993, Derks developed several new methods that brought social psychology back into his work. In Social Thinking Patterns (now translated into several languages), he describes and analyses how the subjective social experience, within family, teams and relationships is spatially organised in our consciousness. This spatial way of viewing things, quite revolutionary in psychotherapy, was very successful. Derks called it the Social Panorama and gained an ever-growing international reputation for it. He was, and is, increasingly asked from all kinds of countries to give workshops and courses on the Social Panorama, including the Social Panorama Counsellor training.

The Social Panorama was developed by Derks from those parts of NLP in which space plays an important role. As mentioned, this method works with the place our representations of people have in our mental space. Under the right guidance, a person can enter a state of consciousness, dream-like or trance-like, such that he feels or sees, as in a dream or fantasy, where a familiar person is in his mental space. For example, a mother may see her deceased infant son diagonally to the upper left about 3 metres away, and her infant daughter close to her right. Or she may feel that the baby is there, but not see it or see it very vaguely.

Through countless experiences with Social Panorama, it became increasingly clear that all our mental content is catalogued in the space inside our body and especially around our body: All knowledge and experience has its place and, of course, that place can move and change place and form.

The great thing is that modern psychological and neurological research increasingly shows that this is indeed the case. For a sample of this, see the bibliography, admittedly books only, as it is impractical to choose from the plethora of research papers for this article. Mental Space Psychology (MSP)

Mental Space Psychology (MSP)

The numerous excellent experiences of working from the Social Panorama paradigm invited its further development, which led Derks to what he came to call the paradigm of Mental Space Psychology (MSP). The approach to mental problems as it was already happening in the Social Panorama is now, quite naturally as Mental Space Psychology, increasingly focusing on all possible mental problems. This cannot be otherwise, as all mental processes are spatially organised.

Following in the footsteps of the international spread of Social Panorama, Mental Space Psychology has already reached more than 20 countries.

A recent highlight was the Congress in April 2021, via ZOOM, because of Corona, but no less lively. The many international attendees were able to lecture, attend and participate in workshops by international luminaries (including Professor Barbara Tversky) in the field of MSP or related areas.

After his 1992 literary debut, his new novel Inner Solar System was published in 2009, in which Lucas Derks imaginatively shifted his social panorama to a period 18,000 years ago. Bibliography

Bibliography


 * •Beenhakker, C., (2016). Black Matter; Depression and mental space. An experimental pilot study of the psychological methodology 'Depression in Awareness Space' as a treatment method for depression in a therapeutic context. Final thesis HBO Bachelor of Applied Psychology
 * •Beenhakker, C. & Manea, A. I., (2017). Dark matter: mental space and depression - a pilot investigation of an experimental psychotherapeutic method based on mental space psychology to reduce the distress of moderate depression. Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy, 20, 21 - 26.
 * •Chilton, P. (2014) Language, Space and Mind. The Conceptual Geometry of Linguistic Meaning. Cambridge University Press
 * •Derks, L. (1984), Secret Psychology. A theoretical basis for the therapy method of Bandler and Grinder, William James Foundation, Amsterdam
 * •Derks, L. & Goldblatt, R. (1985), The Feedforward Conception of Consciousness. A Bridge between Therapeutic Practice and Experimental Psychology, The William James Foundation, Amsterdam
 * •Derks ,L. (1986), Creativity management, a practical manual for guiding creative work
 * •Derks, L. (1989), Psychotherapy. A matter of getting used to, William James Foundation, Amsterdam, ISBN9072907019
 * •Derks, L.,& Sinclair, J.D. (1990), Racing the Turbo Brain, William James Foundation, Amsterdam
 * •Derks, L. & Hollander, J. & Meijer, A. (1990), Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the Netherlands, Servire, Utrecht
 * •Derks, L. (1992), The posthumous lectures of Herman Blaas, in Knipselscheer, Amsterdam
 * •Derks, L. (November 1995), 'Exploring the Social Panorama' In: NLP World, vol. 2, no. 3 28-42
 * •Derks, L. (November 1996), 'Team building with the Social Panorama', in Information Bulletin NVNLP
 * •Derks, L. & Hollander, J. (July 1996), Exploring the Spiritual Panorama, in NLP World, vol. 3, no. 2
 * •Derks, L. (February 1997), 'Personifikaatio ihmisten keskeisessa kanssakaymisessa', in NLP Mielilehti, N:0, Finland
 * •Derks, L. (March 1997), 'Family Systems in the Social Panorama', in NLP World, vol 4, no 1.
 * •Derks, L. (1998), Mind samples. Conversations on the perception of soil contamination, Reports on Integrated Soil Research, volume 18, Wageningen
 * •Derks, L. (1998), 'Families in the Social Panorama', in Anchorpiont, vol. 12, no. 2,
 * •Derks, L., & Hollander, J. (March 1998), 'Systemic Voodoo', in Anchorpoint, vol. 12, no. 3, ISBN1907388893
 * •Derks, L. (1998), The Lifeline, Son IJssel Group
 * •Derks, L., & Sinclair, J. D. (2000), 'Expanding the Neuro' in NLP World, vol. 7, no. 2
 * •Derks, L. (2000), 'The exploration of the spiritual panorama', in Insight, no. 5
 * •Derks, L. (August 2000), 'Everyone is for a clean soil', in Soil, Journal for sustainable soil management, no. 4, Samson bv, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands
 * •Derks, L. (1998), The Social Panorama Model: Social Psychology meets NLP Also German (2000), Polish (2002), Finnish (1999), English and French translations.
 * •Derks, L. & Hollander, J. (9th edition in 2005), Essenties van NLP. Keys to personal change, Servire, Utrecht, ISBN 9021598213 (1996) Also Russian translation
 * •Derks, L. (1999), Ghosts in the head; the social panorama guide
 * •Derks, L., Social Thinking Patterns; NLP and changing unconscious social behaviour(2005), Servire, Utrecht, ISBN 9021537435 (2002), also English translation
 * •Derks, L.A.C., (2005). Social Panoramas; Changing the unconscious landscape with NLP and psychotherapy. Camarthen, Wales: Crown House Publishing.
 * •Derks(2009), L. Inner Solar System, Publisher Debutto: Leidschendam, ISBN 978-9490230104, the first Dutch paleopsychological science fiction novel, where the author 'wraps' many of his ideas about his social panorama in an adventure novel, set 18,000 years ago.
 * •Derks, L. (2016), Clinical Experiments in Mental Space (dissertation),
 * •Derks, L. A. C., Oetsch, W. O., & Walker, W., (2016). Relationships are Constructed from Generalized Unconscious Social Images Kept in Steady Locations in Mental Space. Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy, 19(1), March: 3-16.
 * •Derks, L. (2018), Mental Space Psychology, Psychotherapeutic Evidence for a New Paradigm, Coppelaer BV, Nijmegen This is the trade version of Clinical Experiments in Mental Space.
 * •Derks, L. (2019), Mental Spatial Diagnosis, MSD-1, Society for Mental Space Psychology
 * •Derks, L., Masselink R., Beenhakker C., Heemskerk J., van Wijngaarden, D., Willimsig C. (2019), The treatment of depression in a mental spatial paradigm, SOMSP: Society for Mental Space Psychology. This is the report of their study on the effectiveness of the treatment of depression in the Mental Space paradigm (MSP-D). The results will also be published in a collection work, edited by the Guilford Press, on the clinical effectiveness of NLP (volume 2)
 * •Fauconnier, G. (1994). Mental spaces: Aspects of meaning construction in natural language. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
 * •Gallese, V., (2015). Embodied simulation and the space around us: The perspective of cognitive neuroscience. Keynote at the ICSC Rome, September 9, 2015
 * •Gattis, M. (Ed.). (2003). Spatial schemas and abstract thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 * •Graziano, M. S. A., (2018). The spaces between us. A story of neuroscience, evolution, and human nature. New York: Oxford University Press.
 * •Groh J.M. (2014) Making Space How the Brain Knows Where Things Are. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
 * •Heemskerk J., Investigating the effectiveness of eating disorder treatment in the Mental Space paradigm, Society for Mental Space Psychology (2019).
 * •Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking fast and slow. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 * •Kolk, van der, B., (2015). The Body Keeps the Score : Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
 * •Kosslyn, S. M., Shephard, J. M., & Thompson, W. L., (2007). Spatial processing during mental imagery: a neurofunctional theory. In F. Mast & L. Jäncke (Eds.), Spatial processing in navigation, imagery and perception (pp. 1 - 15). Berlin: Springer.
 * •Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2008). Metaphors we live by. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
 * •Levinson, S. (2003). Space in language and cognition: explorations in cognitive diversity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
 * •Mix, K. S., Smith, L.B. & Gasser, M., eds. (2009). The Spatial Foundation of Cognition and Language: Thinking Trough Space. Oxford University Press, Academic.
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 * •Thomas, M. & Tsai, C. I., (2011). Psychological distance and subjective experience: How distancing reduces the feeling of difficulty. Journal of Consumer Research, 39, 324 - 340
 * •Tversky, B., (1991). Spatial mental models. In: Bower, G.H. (ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory 27. New York: Academic Press: 109-145.
 * •Tversky, B., (1997). Spatial constructions. In: Stein, N., Ornstein, Tversky, B. & Brainerd, C. (eds.). Memory for emotion and everyday events. Mahwah, N. J.: Erlbaum: 181-208.
 * •Tversky, B., (1999). Talking about space. Contemporary Psychology, 44: 39-40.
 * •Tversky, B., J. Heiser, L. P., & Daniel. M. P., (2009). Explanations in gesture, diagram, and word. In: Coventry, K. R., Tenbrink, T. & BatemanJ. A. (eds.). Spatial language and dialogue. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 119-131.
 * •Tversky, Barbara (2019). Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought. Basic Books
 * •Seth, A. (2021) Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. Faber & Faber
 * •Walker, W. (2014). In L.A.C. Derks, W. Walker & W. O. Oetsch, Mental space psychology. On www.mentalspaceresearch.com

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 * 1) (nl) Derks worked as an art teacher at Werkschuit in Zeist / De Bilt
 * 2) en) Derks obtained his NLP Practitioner at the New York Training Institute for NLP
 * 3) (nl) Derks obtained his NLP Master at the Institute for Eclectic Psychology in Nijmegen.
 * 4) (nl) SETH, or full name Foundation for Educational and Therapeutic Hypnosis
 * 5) (nl) SON, or Social Emotional Development Training in full, Eindhoven.
 * 6) (nl) IEP, or full name Institute for Eclectic Psychology in Nijmegen.