WHAT IS NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING?

Perhaps the most succinct method of defining the broad body of skills and insights contained within NLP is to expand on the words used within the name. Neuro - explores the relationship and interaction between our body and our minds. Linguistic – how we communicate and are communicated with both verbally and non-verbally. Programming – refers to the patterns and codes with which we live out our lives through our reactions, behaviours, emotions and habits.

The purpose of NLP is to study, describe and transfer models of human excellence. As a meta-discipline, it focuses on the discovery and coding of those patterns of human behaviour that distinguish excellent performance from average performance in any human endeavour. It is these distinguishing patterns that combine to form the practical, reliable and learnable techniques and methodologies called NLP.

Using these patterns it is possible to replicate an expert's intuitive application of their skill or their unique formula for achieving excellence. This replication can transfer from one discipline or skill set to another unrelated discipline or skill set. (ie transferring skills sets from say the performing arts to say a business application) Replication can also be successfully applied from applications within disciplines - such as from one successful company to another.

Importantly, NLP also allows people to adapt the skills of others who they recognise as role models in their area of expertise. These people have excelled through naturally created patterns of excellence and repeated and refined them with consistent positive results. NLP allows people to define and contextualise the strategies, techniques and physiology used by their role models to achieve excellence.

NLP also provides the master keys to give people the capacity to understand, control and if necessary change what it is that defines them as a person such as their thinking, reactions, emotions, beliefs, habits and even their identity and destiny.