Neuro Linguistic Programming

Background

Neuro          : How we experience and represent the world through our five senses and our neurological processes.

Linguistic       : The way the language we use shapes and reflects our experience of the world.

Programming    : Training ourselves to think, speak and act in new and positive ways, in order to reach our maximum potential.

NLP invented by John Grinder and Richard Bandler based on the work of Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls Frogs into Princes (Real People Press) 1979.

NLP is A new approach to psychotherapy co-founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP uses language patterns and metaphor to communicate with the subconscious mind enabling the patient to recover within weeks or even days as opposed to months and years when using traditional psychoanalysis.

General Principles

•         External behavior is the result of how a person uses their representational systems.

•         If one human can do something then, Potentially, anyone can.

•         Mind and body are one part of the system.

•         If one human can do something then, Potentially, anyone can.

•         All human behavior has a structure

Core Concept 1

•         VAKOG: How we experience and represent the world.

•         Visual

•         Auditory

•         Kinesthetic- tactile, emotional, psycho-motor

•         Olfactory

•         Gustatory