What is NLP? (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
Neuro - how we process information and store past experiences in our minds.
Linguistic - the language we use to communicate our experience.
Programming - the patterns of thought and behaviour that either help or hinder us.
It is the practical application of specific techniques developed from our understanding of how the neurological system functions, and skillfully using Language to change or enhance the patterns or Programmes that control our behaviours.
NLP is the study of excellence - a systematic way of identifying and repeating personal excellence. It presupposes that all behaviour has a structure, and that structure can be modelled, learned and changed. People are capable of doing both positive and negative behaviours excellently. This means that NLP is immensely powerful in remedial contexts such as therapy when people may want to change limiting or harmful behaviours, as well as in those areas where we utilise its precise ways to identify how someone who is successful is achieving results. For instance, how excellent sports people win competitions, how high achieving managers create winning teams, how healthy people heal from illnesses quickly. A key element in NLP methods is how rather than why.
NLP is an offshoot of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. It originated in the 1970s from the work of Dr Richard Bandler - a Mathematician, and John Grinder - a linguist. They studied the work of three highly successful but very different therapists: Fritz Perls, the originator of Gestalt Therapy, Virginia Satir, the brilliant family therapist and Milton Erickson MD, the phenomenally successful Medical hypnotherapist. Bandler and Grinder wanted to know how to do what these three acknowledged geniuses did so successfully, even though their work appeared to be magically intuitive and the therapists themselves were unable to adequately explain what they did.
The achievement of Bandler and Grinder is that they were able to identify and break down the common language and behaviour patterns used by their therapeutic wizards in such a way that anybody interested could learn to do it too.
Today NLP is a proven tool for getting results and creating success in the world. Its powerful but simple techniques are used in business, sales, training, coaching, health, therapy, and resource development. It will help you achieve excellence in all areas of your life.
What research supports NLP?
Robert Crampton’s “Age of Enlightenment”
NLP Resource links:
http://www.nlp.org
http://www.nlpanchorpoint.com
For more information or to make an appointment, please
telephone Sue Beer on 020 8348 5305 – or email here
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