What is NLP?
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) began in the early 1970s when 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?"
This simple question lead them to develop a model to understand how we as human beings perceive the world, how we organise our thinking and feeling and how that drives our skills and behaviours.
NLP is essentially a practical, effective "how to" technology for personal change, a model of excellence and achievement, or 'what works'. It is a philosophy, a set of guiding principles, attitudes, knowledge, skills and techniques that enable individuals, groups and organisations to release their full potential through generating energy, motivation and direction.
It is a field that is continually innovating and developing, and is now recognised and accepted as one of the most powerful programmes for personal development within education, health, management, creativity, strategic development and leadership.
How Can it Benefit You?
NLP offers you some of the most powerful communication skills available. Much of our success in life depends on our ability to communicate effectively - NLP will show you how.
NLP offers the tools and opportunity to make excellence more easily attainable because it works on the premise that if someone is achieving excellence in any field it can be modelled and taught to others.
NLP can be used at a personal level so that if you are not getting what you want out of life, it can enable you to uncover, change or transform what is holding you back and enable you to make far-reaching positive changes beyond the initial problem.
NLP works in organisations because understanding and developing skills in advanced communication cannot not enhance business relationships. In order to improve systems and processes in business, we need to be adaptable and responsive to change. NLP will skill individuals within your organisation to develop the behavioural flexibility to facilitate these improvements with excellence in their leadership approach.
So can everyone really benefit from NLP?
In our experience, yes.
NLP is not reserved for experts, it is not a field that comes from a position of superiority. It is a model of excellence that is accessible to all. It offers fresh insights, and fresh approaches, whatever your background and experience. Think not of it as a professional coat you put on when you are working, but a way of being. NLP is a way of understanding and behaving that is integrated into thought and action, precisely because it was derived from thought and action.
That’s what makes it so easy to use
In particular, NLP shows you how to:
- Become a more effective communicator, with your partner, your children, your work colleagues and your friends
- Understand how your mind works and how to run your mind more effectively - thereby giving you more control over how you feel and how to deal with stressful situations
- Design your life. Knowing what you want in any area of your life and becoming clear about your goals is a fundamental life-skill shared by all effective people. NLP offers you these skills in a simple but highly effective form
- Be able to choose how you feel rather than being the victim of events
- Establish rapport - one of the keys to effective communication
- Deal effectively with the past by learning and moving on from events which happened long ago but which may still be holding you back
- Become more successful in key areas in your life, by modelling your own and others’ success strategies and discovering how to duplicate them more often
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