''Changing the way you see the world''

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) empowers, enables and teaches us to better understand the way our brain (neuro) processes the words we use (linguistic) and how that can impact on our past, present and future (programming). It gives us strategies for observing human behaviour and learning from the best (and worst) of that!

All you need is a desire to change and a willingness to learn new ways of being...with yourself, your thoughts and with others.

NLP has been defined as the “users manual for your mind” because using NLP gives us insights into how our thinking patterns can affect every aspect of our lives.

You might have goals in mind with your personal and professional lives, but sometimes stuck in a pattern of negative thinking or unproductive behaviours that sabotage your success. NLP is a specialised area of study focusing on breaking through negativity and reprogramming the mind and body to achieve its goals. 

How NLP is used

You can use NLP for personal development and for success in business, as it helps improve your communication and influence by improving your ability to read and predict the responses of others. Great communicators understand people and know how to reach them with their message.  You will learn how to speak someone else's language, creating great relationships at home, work and during your family time.

NLP is a toolbox of skills and insights to :-

• Run your life more successfully
• Communicate with other people much more effectively
• Acquire skills to do what you cannot do right now, but would like to be able to do
• Manage your thoughts, moods and behaviours more effectively, think clearly
• Have fulfilling relationships
• Uninstall anxiety

Whether you realise it or not, you do have all the answers. I'll help guide you to find out what's best for you - both on a personal and professional level.

The History of NLP

The ideas and approach found in NLP draw from two main areas of thought. The first is cybernetics, a cross-disciplinary view of how systems are organised based on feedback that was developed in the 1940’s and 1950’s, and in which another major influence on NLP, Gregory Bateson, was a core figure. The founders of NLP, Bandler and Grinder, echo central principles of cybernetics when they say that `the basic unit of analysis in face-to-face communication is the feedback loop’ (Bandler & Grinder 1979:2).

The second area of thought is the work of the Palo Alto Mental Research Institute in the 1960s, in which Bateson again was involved. Significantly, the Palo Alto researchers emphasised the pragmatics of human communication, which also characterises NLP, and constructivism, which is the idea that people cannot know `reality’ as such, so inevitably they act according to constructions that they create.

Among other influences, the self-help movement that emerged in the USA in the mid-twentieth-century may have shaped NLP more than is usually acknowledged. NLP’s emphasis on the potential for a person to change themselves, and its promises of empowerment and personal success, reflect an ethos of self-improvement that can be traced back to Dale Carnegie’s 'How to Win Friends and Influence People’ (first published in 1936), and Norman Vincent Peale’s 'Power of Positive Thinking’ (from 1952).

The human potential movement was also significant. In the 1960s California became the centre of the growth movement, epitomised by the Esalen Institute that was founded at Big Sur in 1962, in which psychotherapists Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls were both involved.

Perls, one of the main developers of Gestalt therapy, was an author published by Robert Spitzer. Perls died in 1970, leaving behind him some unfinished work. Spitzer asked Bandler to transcribe recordings of Perls at work and edit an uncompleted manuscript, to be published posthumously. Bandler then met Virginia Satir, again through Spitzer, who asked Bandler to tape and transcribe a month-long workshop that Satir was due to lead in Canada, intending to turn this material into a book.

Following these experiences, Bandler went on to study at Kresge College, a radical experiment in communal, alternative education, at the University of Santa Cruz. There he met the co-founder of NLP, John Grinder, who joined the University of California as an assistant professor in 1970. Kresge was by no means typical of American college education, nor even of the University of Santa Cruz; Bandler, Grinder, various peers and later on Bateson himself, met while this experiment was at its height. The two volumes of `The Structure of Magic’, published in 1975 and 1976 and sporting a colourful image of a wizard on the front cover, are the results of their investigations of the patterns used by excellent communicators such as Satir and Perls.



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