NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING 

NLP - is an interpersonal communication model and an alternative approach to psychotherapy, based on the subjective study of language, communication and personal change. 

It was co-created by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in the 1970’s. 

The initial focus was pragmatic, modeling three successful psychotherapists, Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy), Virginia Satir (Family Systems Therapy), and eventually Milton H. Erikson (Clinical Hypnosis), with the aim of discovering what made these individuals more successful that their peers. 

NLP aims to increase behavioral choice by the manipulation of personal state, belief and internal representation. 

NLP is founded on two fundamental presuppositions: 

1. THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY 

As human beings, we can never know reality. We can only know our perception of reality. 

We experience and respond to the world around us primarily through our sensory representational systems. 

It is our ‘neuro-linguistic’ maps of reality that determine how we behave and that give those behaviors meaning, not reality itself. It is generally not reality that limits us or empowers us, but rather our map of reality. 

2. LIFE AND ‘MIND’ ARE SYSTEMIC PROCESSES 

The process that takes place within a human being, and between human beings and their environment are systemic. 

Our bodies, our societies, and our universe form an ecology of complex systems and sub-systems all of which interact with and mutually influence each other. 

It is not possible to completely isolate any part of the system from the rest of the system. Such systems are based on certain ’self-organizing’ principles and naturally seek optimal states of balance or homeostasis. 

ALL OF THE MODELS AND TECHNIQUES OF NLP ARE BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF THESE TWO PRINCIPLES. 

NLP is a way of enriching the choices that you have and perceive as available in the world around you. 

EXCELLENCE comes from having many choices. 

WISDOM comes from having multiple perspectives.