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NLP contains a set of very practical techniques based on an ability to remove any limiting beliefs and then produce your desired results, thus allowing you to become proficient at creating your future. With NLP, you learn how to grow from every single life experience, thus increasing your ability to create a better quality of life with new, flexible resources.
The title, `Neuro-Linguistic Programming’, refers to the view that a person is a whole mind-body system, and that there are assumed to be systematic, patterned connections between neurological processes (`neuro’), language (`linguistic’) and learned behavioural strategies (`programming’) (Dilts, Bandler, & DeLozier 1980 p.2)
Here’s the breakdown of the words ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’:
- Neuro – The nervous system (the mind), through which our experience is processed via the five senses
Linguistic – Language and other non verbal communication systems through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning
Programming – The ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run (our communication to ourselves and others) in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes
NLP itself has many different definitions with a common theme of the notion of excellence in communication. A definition that we think tells you the most about the ethos and origins of NLP is from the co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, who said:
‘NLP is An Attitude and a Methodology leading to a Trail of Techniques’
NLP wants to know “What makes it all ‘tick’?”
Unpicking this definition, the attitude of NLP is one of intense and excited curiosity. It involves a desire to want to know what goes on behind the scenes. What makes the human mind work. An attitude of experimentation, trying new and different things in order to achieve outcomes. The methodology involves modelling others and that modelling led to the discovery of a trail of techniques.
NLP is essentially about modeling what works, that is how Bandler and Grindler originally created NLP, looking at what was the difference that created the difference in the work of great therapists. The objective of NLP is not to end up with one right way to do anything it is about increasing choice in how to deal with situations using the technology of NLP.
The context of NLP concerns accessing the mindset, state and skills necessary for understanding and bringing about successful communication and personal change. As such it concerns how processes work with the focus on what does work and how we can model it.
NLP places a strong emphasis on understanding the structure and process of, rather than the content of, experience.
In other words NLP is interested in how people construct their experiences through cognitive processes, rather than in seeking causal explanations in the past for why they experience the world as they do, or in the contents of a particular experience. For example, in their original study Bandler and Grinder suggested that effective therapists appeared to match certain language patterns used by their clients. Bandler and Grinder concluded that, `One of the systematic things that Erickson and Satir and a lot of other effective therapists do is to notice unconsciously how the person they are talking to thinks, and make use of that information in lots of different ways’ (Bandler & Grinder 1979 p.10).
NLP can be said to be a field of practice and innovation with a wide range of tools and techniques that learners can apply within both formal and informal settings. This means that NLP can be utilised in many different areas of people’s lives, in fact anywhere that requires effective communication skills or personal change.
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