The virtual Kuala Lumpur Engineering Science Fair (KLESF) continued to stimulate interest in STEM among participants with the recent webinar on “A Workout on Your Worldviews”, conducted on 18 December 2022, via Zoom and Facebook, by Qualified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach Soong Chokmun.

His webinar enlightened participants on NLPs, understanding ways the mind processes information with one’s own various filters, and understanding one’s behaviour and attitudes towards different situations.

Soong explained, “Your worldview as an individual dictates the way you react or respond to situations, the way you interact with people, and the way you organise yourself. So NLP is a model used to explain the way we process information that comes from the outside. It is commonly termed as “the map is not the territory”. It is the language of the mind; patterns of thinking and behaving. In other words, NLP is a series of techniques, communication tools, approaches, and attitudes used to help people change their behaviours and communication, so they can have more of their own and less of what they do not want. It is also considered as a study of subjective human experience.”

Participants learnt that the benefits of NLP included improving one’s communication, changing one’s beliefs, changing one’s behaviour, and modelling excellence. They also learnt that worldviews are formed from external events that lead to internal representation, which then creates an emotional state.
The speaker elucidated, “External events come from our senses, namely our sight (visual), sounds (auditory), external feelings (kinaesthetic), olfactory (smell), and gustatory (taste). Internal filters give meaning to the event. When we give meaning to the event, it forms our internal representation. Internal filters are created by upbringing, environment, significant emotional experience, family, friends, school, geography, economics, religion, and media.”

Towards the end, he advised participants, “Our reality reflects the absolute truth, but the truth is always subjective, therefore, it is important that you understand that the things you focus on will become your reality, and it is where you start forming your worldviews. You need to identify the things you are focusing on because, your focus becomes your worldviews, which then becomes your beliefs, and finally, it becomes your thoughts and behaviours. So, you need to be aware of the things you are focused on and the way you view and process information.”

Apart from Soong’s webinar, participants also benefitted from the “High Supersonic Flight – How the Engineers Did It?” webinar, conducted by speaker, Corporate Jet MRO Head of Engineering Ir Liew Chee Leong. Other virtual workshops held in collaboration with Multimedia University (MMU) were “Usage of IoT in Modern World”, “Future of AI: Symbiosis”, and “University Life as Software Engineering Student”, conducted by alumni and students.