Explaining NLP

One of the challenges of being an NLP trainer is explaining what NLP is. A definition which came to me recently during a presentation is this.

NLP is a flexible framework that allows the exploration and integration of many different aspects of human experience.

NLP creates a language of experience that allows poetry to converse with business, art with science, values with profit, dance with Descartes, and spirit with matter.

Since individual humans, and human societies are full of contradictions and divisions, I think it is a pretty good thing to practise the capacity for integration. When we can’t yet find a means of integration to have a means to hold our contradictions in a sane way.

NLP is not the only discipline which is attempting this, but I think it does a pretty good job. Whether your interests are business, therapy, creativity, sports, coaching or health people have successfully used in NLP that field.

Given this flexibility it is not surprising that different practitioners and teachers have widely divergent styles – though linked by some key principles.

Readers also arrive here with a variety of interests, desires and preconceptions.

Articles in this section go some way to catering to these different needs. If they pique your interest then live practise will probably be even more interesting for you.

What I have written here contains a mix of metaphors, examples, ideas and methods. It is not so far a comprehensive introduction or explanation to NLP. These are my views and opinions that may add to the understanding of people already acquainted with the subject. I have included links to explain technical terms that I use.

On to the articles….

NLP manipulation, psychic attack and the 42nd Rolls Royce

presenting NLP,I knew someone who...

Only for people of a certain development

Pass this on to any boring coaches you know (but don't tell them why...)

Three kinds of questions