Friday, December 21, 2007

INTRODUCTION

What is NLP?

Neuro-linguistic Programming is a model for understanding and utilizing communications that produces positive change and personal growth. As an applied science, NLP offers specific procedures for education, training, business and therapy. The field of NLP has developed out of the modeling of the behaviors and thinking processes of exceptional people from many fields. Modeling is the process of taking a complex event or phenomenon and breaking it into small enough pieces so that it can be recapitulated or applied in some way.What does the name NLP stand for and mean?

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This complex sounding name is made of three simple parts:

Neuro - refers to the ways we use our senses of sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell. In NLP our senses are considered to be the basic building blocks of all our behaviour.

Linguistic - refers to how we use language (both verbal and non-verbal) and how it affects our perceptions.

Programming - refers to the way we organize our senses and language to produce results. Taking control of our own programs is one of the many things you learn to do with NLP.

NLP has been used for the presentation of excellence in many fields, from sport to business, and musical performance to education. The structure of any excellent behaviour can be modeled and shared. At the heart of NLP is a wide range of methods and models it offers for understanding how people think, behave and change. NLP processes / strategies are a result of discovering how experts or excellent leaders do what they do so well; it is then possible to teach these skills to others.