NLP was devised in
the early 1970s by John Grinder and Richard Bandler after watching eminent psychotherapists such as Fritz Perls and
Virginia Satir working with clients. They reasoned that excellent therapists share similar skills and behaviours to
be so successful and they observed these in a process known as “modelling” to identify how the language, behaviour
and internal states of the subject affected their ability to achieve. Neuro-Linguistic Programming offers many
different tools and techniques for understanding how the human mind works and has many applications in therapy,
education, business management and leadership, and sports psychology.