NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) began in the early 1970s when two Americans, a mathematician called Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, asked themselves a simple but fascinating question: “What is it that makes the difference between somebody who is merely competent at any given skill, and somebody who excels at the same skill?”
Several extraordinary therapists that Bandler and Grinder studied had amazing success with their clients. They decided to build formal models of the linguistic and behavioral patterns of three of them. Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls.
Bandler and Grinder named the process that they developed in the course of their work modelling, and it was the foundation of the body of knowledge that became NLP.
People who are masters of their field often cannot explain just how they achieve such excellent results. They are operating at the level of unconscious competence – they perform without thinking about what they’re doing. As a result, it’s very difficult for them to teach their skills to someone else.
Modelling provides tools and techniques to “break down” masterful performance into its component elements: strategies, beliefs, physiology and more. With this information, it’s much easier to teach that skill to another person and enable them to produce the very same excellent results.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming presupposes that the behavior of an individual can be changed by use of the specific language and by constantly updating and upgrading an individuals “mental software”.
NLP allows you to change, adopt, or eliminate behaviors as you desire. It provides you with skills and ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well being at any time. You learn how to improve your communication skills, internally and externally. This transforms your relationships and outcomes.
With NLP, you learn to grow from every life experience, thus increasing your capacity to create a better quality of life. NLP provides you with a profound set of tools for personal and professional development.
NLP is a synthesis of a number of disciplines and offers a systematic means of achieving consistently outstanding results across a broad spectrum of human experience. It has been successfully applied in a wide range of fields including business, health care, sport, therapy education and the performing arts.