Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) 

Principle: Finding elegant solutions, mapping them and notating them to create 'NLP Models'                      and using these models to generate behavioural change

 

Let's chunk this principle down into the various steps so that we can see how this works.

 

1. Finding elegant solutions:

    An NLP Practitioner finds someone who is brilliant at doing something for example being happy, staying

    slim in a healthy way, or is confident when doing public speaking. 

 

2.  Mapping and notating how this person does this successfully:

     The internal and external processes of this person's solutions  are brought into awareness, examined and            notated (in particular ways).  In this manner an ‘NLP Model’ is created and notated. This model or models              contain only exactly what is required. The process of doing this is called Modeling'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Using NLP models to generate behavioural change

 

Stage One

• Someone wishes to make behavioural change, such as excelling or stopping doing something (examples include excelling in sport, public speaking, creativity, management challenges, parenting or overcoming problems such as overeating, being depressed, being afraid to speak, dyslexia, phobias, or anxiety).

• The NLP practitioner selects a model which is most likely to be extremely effective for them. For example if the person has highly developed visual and auditory senses then a model from a person who also had a highly developed visual and auditory senses would be a sensible choice. The practitioner will generally use an existing model (found by Dr Bandler for example) or may model to find a relevant solution to help that person or that group (for example Paul McKenna PhD worked on helping people be slim and healthy).

• The practitioner both assists the person as they use this NLP model and assesses whether the model is effective for this person. * It is possible to work on oneself and models can be learned from books, videos, apps and from watching others. For example and to use the example from above, literally millions of people have benefitted from following the information in Paul McKenna's books.

 

 

     Gaining the skills to generate models and use them: becoming an NLP Practitioner

 

 

 

To bring this genius concept into life the NLP practitioner must have develop skills for both the creation of models and the successful application of models

 

• select people with successful behaviours to model

• be highly flexible

• be able to use all their senses evenly in diferent sequences

• observe

• calibrate

• gain rapport

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• be able to shift perceptual position

• be able to tune in very accurately

• undertsand language

• create metaphors

• be creative and fluid

• ask good questions

• listen and understand submodalities

• use language effectively

• map how the person is thinking (submodality mapping)

• select the key information

• be able to assess when enough work has been done

• be non-judgemental

• have an undertsanding of behaviours

• have an undertsanding of secondary gain

• able to read eye movements

• able to note shifts

• able to lead

• able to create state changes

• undertsanding of persuasion

• undertsanding and ability to use hypnotic states

• undertsanding and ability to use word patterns 

• undertsanding of chemistry of the brain and body

• knowledge of the importance and use of humour

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These skills are taught on an NLP training and the practitioner practises them in daily life and hones them with further fine practice until they can both model, apply modelsand assess effectiveness successfully. NLP is both a highly skilled and creative practice. 

 

These skills can be utilised to create change and for happier everyday life, in sport, art, business, love and health.