About NLP

About NLP

For many people, the words Neuro Linguistic Programming may appear quite “jargony” and unnecessarily complicated. What you’ll begin to realise is that from day 1 of the training, you’ll recognise the principles and practices of NLP as being very natural, human and humane. Neuro Linguistic Programming is an attempt to encapsulate the practical applications and effective methodologies of personal and professional excellence.

At its most practical, it offers participants differing models within which to explore and understand ‘what works’ and ‘what is the difference that makes the difference?’ This synthesis of knowledge is drawn from areas as diverse as social science, philosophy and anthropology also utilises the fields of cognitive psychology, linguistics, cybernetics and systems theory. At it’s heart are some emerging, important and useful themes which underpin successful, sustainable and ecological change. These include:

recognising the importance of knowing your outcome, what you are wanting for yourself and where you would like to be so that you can steer yourself in the direction that gives you more of what you want and shifts your thinking to engage with and evaluate possibilities
engaging with our own natural curiosity and utilising internal and external feedback mechanisms via our senses that let us know that we are on track or need to change direction.
developing our own flexibility so that we can have more choice and greater influence.

These themes are supported by a range of principles that are sometimes called the presuppositions of NLP. Here are a few that we think are important:

We all have our own unique map of the world and each person’s map is likely to be different. Our maps are not right or wrong, they are just different and each person’s map deserves respect.

Having more choice is better than no choice and can lead to having greater personal influence.
Sustainable change results from utilising the resources of both the conscious and the unconscious minds and utilises our own values.
All our behaviour has a positive intention – that is to achieve something that we value even though the behaviour itself may appear unsupportive or even destructive.
People make the best choices available at the time, sometimes we are unable to access all our resources to help us achieve what we want to.
Modelling successful performance leads to greater excellence.

These presuppositions, which were largely modelled from sages such as Milton Erickson, Fritz Pearls and Virginia Satir and considered radical back in the early 70’s, have been and continue to be embraced in everyday thinking giving us the opportunity to create different results for ourselves and those around us.

Truly systemic NLP continues to broaden and deepen and is widely recognised in the fields of management and leadership, effective communication, education and mental health.

Benefits of NLP