- Client: What is NLP?
Coach: Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the knowledge of how human beings programme their minds to create their behaviour. Our behaviour; language, body language, habits, emotional expressions strongly affect the path of our life and our relationships with other people.
Client: How could NLP help me?
Coach: NLP is based on how people actually think and behave. It is grounded in reality, not theory or speculation. And because of this “reality foundation” in what works, the techniques that NLP uses deliver effective results. Therefore, if you’ve got problems in your life, and who hasn’t, NLP is likely to help you.
Client: In what way would NLP make a difference to me?
Coach: Once you realise that you have the ability to manage your thinking, habits and conflicts and you master the techniques that enable you to use that ability you will see a real difference between your life now and the fulfilling life that can be yours.
Client: Where did NLP come from?
Coach: Back in the mid seventies a linguist called John Grinder and mathematician Richard Bandler started to study the communication techniques being used by some of the most effective people in the world of professional healing. They studied Virginia Satir, Fritz Pearls and, perhaps most importantly, the psychologist and medical hypnotist Milton Erickson.
What they were looking for were the patterns in their behaviour and speech which they used to influenced their patients.
Bandler and Grinder soon discovered that they could model the actions of the subjects they studied to recreate similar, and sometimes even better, results.
They started to formulate their now famous body of tools for enabling people to make changes in their lives.
Client: I still don’t get how NLP will help me?
Coach: It is the coaching, using NLP techniques that will provide you with a framework that will enable you to make important changes in your life.
The best way to assess whether NLP coaching could help you is to click the link to the Clients’ Stories on this website to see how others have benefited. If they convince you then use the Contact Me form to request a chat with me so we can see whether I think I can help you. Just enter “NLP” in the Subject line.
“Unless you take personal responsibility for your mind other people and events will do it for you .” Duncan McColl
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