NLP

Development of NLP

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was developed in the mid-seventies by Richard Bandler, then a mathematician, computer expert and psychotherapist, and John Grinder, an associate professor of linguistics, through their work as 'behavioural modellers'. They were concerned with how things worked rather than theoretical explanations of them.

The name reflects the synthesis of the many fields they integrated:

• Neuro from neurology - how the brain processes the five senses
• Linguistic - how our thinking structures and is structured by language
• Programming - from cybernetics and mathematics - how behaviour can be structured and sequenced for ease of learning.

Operational Presuppositions

There are a number of Operational Presuppositions that are recommended as the basis for applying NLP. They are drawn from the wide range of sources that were integrated in the formation of NLP.

Benefits of NLP

NLP emphasises the importance of meeting clients at their model of the world. It provides skills and models, rather than theories, to improve the quality and effectiveness of communication.

NLP can be applied in all areas of communication and offers a wide range of specific behavioural skills for interacting with clients to improve the effectiveness of our communication. Through NLP we can become more flexible in our responses and therefore more able to deal with situations which in the past may have proven difficult or overly challenging.

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