What is Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP?

NLP or Neuro-linguistic Programming was co-developed by Dr John Grinder PhD and Richard Bandler to model and replicate the patterns of exceptional performance in any field of human endeavour.

Neuro is how the brain works to take in more information and make the best use of it. Linguistics is how we use language to structure and enrich our experience. Programming is how we build useful habits to achieve success.

Since modelling is the heart of NLP modelling methodology is used to detect, codify, and replicate the patterns of how selected individuals accumulate and use information, which linguistic patterns these individuals use to structure their experience, and the habits these individuals use which make them successful.

Individuals selected for modelling can be oneself or others. Modelling patterns of excellence is the activity which comprises the processes involved in studying NLP during NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification trainings.

NLP is also an epistemology. Epistemology is the philosophy of how we mentally structure our knowledge of what we know. NLP codifies mental structure so it can be replicated and this is why NLP is regarded as an epistemology.

The usefulness of NLP as an epistemology is that the codes can be replicated and transferred between people. They can also be modified and improved upon. Knowledge can be categorised as content knowledge or what we know, or process knowledge, that is, how we know what we know. NLP can be used to codify both types of knowledge Not only can knowledge be increased more easily, skills can be acquired more easily also. Any skill that can be modelled can be acquired by this means, including the skill of developing greater emotional choice.

What use is NLP to me?

NLP is intensely practical. On the first page of their foreword to ‘Neuro-Linguistic Programming Volume 1 The Study Of The Structure Of Subjective Experience” John Grinder and Richard Bandler wrote:

"NLP presents specific tools which can be applied effectively in any human interaction. It offers specific techniques by which a practitioner may usefully organise or re-organise his or her subjective experience or the experiences of a client in order to define and subsequently secure any behavioural outcome”

Each model of skill created by NLP can be applied to make to make change occur effectively. This makes the applications of the NLP process extremely useful and they can be used to improve communication, become more creative, change your ways of thinking, enhance your relationships, and can in various ways, change your life.

How can I access NLP skills in my life?

One way to access NLP skills for yourself is to do an NLP Practitioner Certification Training. During an NLP Practitioner Certification Programme or an NLP Master Practitioner Certification Programme the verbal and non-verbal communication patterns, the habits, and mental strategies of highly successful people are demonstrated and trained by a living trainer. This means that the skills taught in this format can be more easily transferred to other people who are present at the training than by any other method.

Another way of acquiring NLP skills is by attending an NLP consultation with a duly certified NLP Practitioner, NLP Master practitioner or NLP Trainer. Duly certified practitioners or trainers are traditionally enjoined to make their clients independent in the newly acquired skill the client has come to gain as speedily as possible.

Knowledge about NLP can be obtained from books and there is now a multi-million dollar industry in writing, publishing and selling the more than one hundred books that have been written about the field since its inception in 1972. Some books in the field are better than others and there is a recommended reading list for intending student of practitioner programmes which can provide a useful introduction to NLP.

One helpful strategy is to read for inspiration about what’s possible prior to experiencing NLP in a training or a consultation, then read for deeper insight after having experienced NLP.

What is the difference between the process of NLP and applications of NLP?

NLP is pure process and does not concern itself with content. This has important corollaries for NLP consultations and NLP Practitioner Certification Programmes. It means that neither the content of a client’s issue, nor the content of a client’s life is the concern of a certified practitioner, rather the practitioner is concerned to discover ways the client may change the process whereby they represent that reality, or content, to themselves. This is swifter than changing content and once a client has learnt to change process they may generate alternative ways of changing process for themselves, thereby becoming independent of the consultant. It also means that NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner Certification Programmes be about process not content. This is an important distinction because there are, in sundry places, practitioner programmes taught, which contain content elements such as content beliefs and personality typologies which are taught as if they were NLP.

In this regard the reader may be assured that The Accredited Course in Practitioner of NLP is free from any content elements and consists in only pure NLP process.

Is The Accredited Course in Practitioner of NLP recognised internationally?

The Accredited Course in Practitioner of NLP fulfils the standards of major NLP association such as the association of NLP in the UK and the National Association of NLP in the United States.

There are in various places NLP associations which appear to be broad in accepting NLP qualifications of international standard but in practice restrict their membership to students of particular training organizations. Frequently such organizations espouse short NLP practitioner programmes, often of only seven days duration. Some NLP practitioner programmes also include content from outside the field of NLP and do not maintain the purity of NLP process. Both these varieties of NLP practitioner programme do not fulfil the quality standards of The Accredited Course in Practitioner of NLP.