What will I gain from an NLP training course?

Learning NLP can be one of the most rewarding adventures you undertake. Typically NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner training courses will help you to achieve more and gain an increasingly confident approach in several areas of relationship:

With yourself by:

identifying the important things in your life and setting compelling outcomes to achieve them.
recognising and responding to unhelpful feelings and patterns of behaviour turning them to your advantage.
increasing your understanding and confidence in your ability to learn from life.
discovering the useful assumptions to make about situations so that you can gain most from them.

With others through:

establishing relationships at the right level for what you wish to achieve.
using and responding to behaviours that are useful.
using artful and precise questions to more fully understand your own and others points of view.
identifying the skills of others and being able to make them your own.

With the world at large when:

you are clear about your purpose and can maintain a focus on your outcomes.
you act ethically and consistently with your values.
you understand and can respond appropriately to the assumptions people make about the situations they find themselves in.
you can see the connections between events and take appropriate action to influence them.

So What is NLP?

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is effectively the study of how people are able to do things. How they determine what is reality and how they organise themselves to make sense of the world.

This information is useful whether the person demonstrates excellence in their lives, and it would be useful to have a description of exactly how they do what they do. Or if they present themselves with problems and would like more choices in responding to events.

Neuro refers to our mind residing within the neurology of our entire nervous system, not solely centred in our brain. To transmit instructions to the body, messages are sent through our neurology to the target areas. Chemicals are released into our cells which generate the desired response. Where does mind end and body begin?

Linguistic refers to our behaviours and responses, both verbally and through shifts in our physiology from large gestures to small muscle movements. These forms of language indicate how we are experiencing our world at that moment. Most of this 'language' is outside of our conscious awareness.

Programming refers to our instinctive knee jerk patterns of behaviour which are wired in, for example responding to our 'Sunday name.' Since all behaviour has a structure, then if our response is one we don't want, we can restructure it.

What is NLP?

NLP is an ATTITUDE, characterised by

a sense of curiosity
a sense of adventure
and a desire to learn how to find out what kinds of communication influences somebody, and the kind of things worth knowing ... to look at life as a rare and unprecedented opportunity to learn.

NLP is a METHODOLOGY based on the overall operational presupposition that all behaviour has a structure ... and that structure can be modelled, learned, taught and changed (re-programmed). The way to know what will be useful and effective are the perceptual skills.

NLP has evolved an innovative TECHNOLOGY enabling the practitioner to organise information and perceptions in ways that allow them to achieve results that were once inconceivable.

Richard Bandler - NLP Co Founder

Who uses NLP?

NLP is particularly useful when it is applied in an area of life. People from a range of professions make effective use of NLP both in the context of their work and their personal lives.

artists, actors, barristers, consultants, counsellors, doctors, interviewers, lawyers, lecturers, managers, nurses, police, salespeople, school pupils, social workers, solicitors, sports people, supervisors, teachers, therapists, trainers, writers ...

How does NLP work?

If we are capable of structuring one response to an event, we are equally capable of structuring another one - preferably a more useful one!
We naturally offer instinctive clues about how we experience something which can be the key to responding differently
The story we give of our lives is only a smokescreen and not a very useful source of information
Our unconscious mind - which controls our emotions and affects our body - obeys instructions, rapidly
We already have, waiting to be accessed, all the resources and answers we need resting within us

What can NLP give you? … a tremendous amount.

an opportunity to gain control over your own decisions and to bring choice and flexibility into your life
a way of getting the best out of yourself and others
a way of deeply knowing what you would rather have and how to get there
a way of developing a long lasting friendship with your unconscious mind
a way of being rid of unsatisfactory, ingrained ways of being
a possibility of a future that really enhances the you inside