Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is defined as the
study of the structure of subjective experience and what can be
calculated from that and is predicated upon the belief that all
behaviour has structure. People such as Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson
and Fritz Perls had amazing results with their clients. They were
some of the people who's linguistic and behavioural patterns Richard
Bandler built formal models of. He then applied these models
to his work.
Because these models are formal they also allow for prediction
and calculation. Patterns that may not have been available in any
of these people's work could be calculated from the formal representations
he had created. New techniques and models were (and still are being)
developed.
Since the models that constitute NLP describe how the human
brain functions they are used in order to teach them. NLPis
not a diagnostic tool. It can only be applied and can therefore
only be taught experientially.
Well trained Neuro-Linguistic Programmers will always teach
by installation, not by teaching technique after technique. Techniques
outdate themselves too quickly to base the field of NLP on
a set of techniques. It is based upon the attitude, the models and
the skills which allow for constant generation of new techniques
which are more effective and work faster.
Although many providers make certain courses prerequisite to the
attendance of other courses, Dr.
Bandler has no such prerequisites for any of his seminars. Learning
does not come in levels. Once the underlying pattern, by which something
can be learned has been taught, the material becomes not only easily
accessible but a logical extension. For example, once somebody has
learned how to read it no longer matters whether a book is five
pages or two-hundred pages long. Similarly, once someone has been
taught the spelling strategy it does not matter whether the word
is two or five letters long, you just have to look at the picture.
Each seminar is based upon different sets of knowledge. Therefore,
it is not necessary to do them in any specific order.
Each seminar
that Dr.
Bandler teaches is different. Once someone has attended one
practitioner
course it does not mean that the practitioner material has been
learned and that person should therefore go to a different course.
You have to remember that the names and certificates are only names
and certificates not the material nor the knowledge!
Neuro-Linguistic Programming was specifically created in
order to allow us to do magic by creating new ways of understanding
how verbal and non-verbal communication affect the human brain.
As such it presents us all with the opportunity to not only communicate
better with others, but also learn how to gain more control over
what we considered to be automatic functions of our own neurology.
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