NLP Coaching

The science behind Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is hotly debated by many, but there are many schools of thought supporting the logic behind the basics of NLP therapy and training. The underlying principle is that people’s minds and overall thinking patterns become conditioned over time due to various internal and external influences, and this leads to behavioural patterns and decision-making outcomes that may, or many not, achieve the results they desire. With an understanding of how to make a difference to these ingrained patterns, and a variety of techniques ranging from interrupting established thought patterns to hypnosis and visualization strategies, advocates of NLP believe that people can break long-held habits and make different choices in their lives.

About the Company

NLP techniques have been used to help people overcome common problems like conquering a weight problem, or to give up smoking, gambling or drinking. These techniques and tools are said to yield some of the highest satisfaction ratings among people that choose to undertake it.

NLP as a coaching and training technique has become closely aligned with the personal growth industry over recent years. Many organizations, like The Tad James Company, train individuals in NLP techniques so they can “re-program” themselves6. There is a newer trend however in the world of NLP, involving training courses for trainers and many companies have started offering this kind of service. Most of these kinds of organizations choose to brand existing NLP processes with their own names and variations, creating a multitude of techniques being offered in the NLP marketplace, often with a level of ‘certification’ attached and encouraged. It should be note that, while many companies offer a level of certification around their courses and coaches, there is not central body or certifying agency overseeing NLP practitioners or coaches.

Today, NLP Coaching is an accepted teaching and coaching tool around the world, and has achieved level of acceptance in a variety of fields, including education, personal growth, business, and finance.

About NLP Training

NLP training has never been without controversy. However, NLP Coaching seeks not only to educate the public about the power of Neuro Linguistic Programming, but also to encourage individuals to learn, and implement, the techniques for them. People interested in learning the practice of NLP do so for various reasons, and those who complete the practitioner courses are able to claim status as qualified Practitioners, Master Practitioners, Trainers and Master Trainers themselves.

NLP Coaching claims to unlock better opportunities and further cultivate professional development and there are certainly a range of results. The coaching is designed to enable graduates to deal more effectively and more successfully with an increasingly complex business environment.

Observable Results of NLP

Proponents of NLP also report outstanding results among children – whose minds are still evolving and are therefore easier to mould in a more positive direction. Teachers who advocate for NLP coaching in schools report that children learn better9, and show an improvement in memory and the fundamentals of recall.

In the workplace, adults who have undergone NLP processes are substantially more motivated and resourceful. They have better relationships with co-workers, bosses, and their family. NLP coaching strategies have even been credited with fostering whole career changes for some, with extremely successful results.

The training provides advanced knowledge and skills in NLP techniques like Quantum Linguistics, Values, Metaprogramming, Advanced Sub-modalities and Advanced Strategies.NLP coaching programs often incorporate the work of Dr.Clare W. Graves’ Values System.

References

  1. NLP Coaching - http://www.nlpcoaching.com/general-info/
  2. Jump up^ Tosey, P. & Mathison, J., (2006) "Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming Centre for Management Learning & Development, School of Management, University of Surrey.
  3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_W._Graves
  4. Jump up^ Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Delozier, J., and Bandler, R. (1980). Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume I: The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience. Cupertino, CA: Meta Publications. p. 2. ISBN 978-0916990077.
  5. Jump up^ Bandler, Richard; John (1975). The Structure of Magic I: A Book about Language and Therapy. Science and Behavior Books Inc. pp. 5–6. ISBN 0831400447.
  6. Jump up^ Grinder, John; Carmen (2001). "Chapter 2: Terminology". Whispering In The Wind. J & C Enterprises. ISBN 0971722307. NLP is a modeling technology whose specific subject matter is the set of differences that make the difference between the performance of geniuses and that of average performers in the same field or activity. In this sense, the objective of modeling studies in NLP is to explicate in a transferable and learnable code these sets of differences.1 The core activity, then, is the mapping of tacit knowledge onto an explicit model. This meta-discipline was created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in the early 70's.
  7. Jump up^ Bandler, Richard (1993). Time for a Change. Meta Pubns. p. vii. ISBN 9780916990282.Two decades ago, the founders of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) sought to answer that "why" usefully. With a functional answer to that question, we could train people to perform like geniuses.
  8. Jump up^ Pickersgill, Gina. "Dr Richard Bandler On Healing - A Special Interview - by Gina Pickersgill". NLP Life Training. The Best You Corporation. Archived from the originalon 1 March 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2013.

GINA: I have seen you demonstrate a technique that some people refer to as Dr. Bandler's Beauty treatment? Please tell us about that. RICHARD [BANDLER]: Basically what happened is that I noticed that when I hypnotically regress people repeatedly they looked younger. So I started first thinking, well isn't there a way to maintain that. I noticed when I hypnotically regressed people to before the age of 5, who currently wore glasses, didn't need them to see. So I started leaving people's eyes young and growing the rest of them up to the present and it would change the prescription of their glasses radically to the point where they could see better. And done enough times, some of them could see without glasses. So I went a little step further, and did a DHE (Design Human Engineering™) treatment where we set up a mechanism in the back of their mind that repeatedly age regresses them hypnotically; when they sleep, when they blink, all kinds of things and in a state of time distortion. And it can take years off the way people look, it also ups their energy level and in some cases the bi product (sic) has been they recovered spontaneously from very serious diseases. Because they were aged regressed to where before the disease started. Now I cannot prove that but I've seen it enough times that I'm impressed with it.

  1. Jump up^ In a seminar, Bandler & Grinder (1981, p. 166) claimed that a single session of NLP combined with hypnosis could eliminate certain eyesight problems such as myopia and cure the common cold (op.cit., p. 174)...(Also, op.cit., p.

169) Bandler and Grinder believed that, by combining NLP with hypnotic regression, one not only cured a problem, but became amnesic for the fact that it even existed at all. Thus, after a session of "therapy," a smoker denied smoking before, even when family and friends insisted otherwise, becoming unable to account for such evidence as nicotine stains. Grinder, John.; Richard Bandler; Connirae Andreas (ed.) (1981). Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis. Moab, UT: Real People Press. ISBN 0-911226-23-0.

  1. Jump up^ Bandler, Richard (1993). Time for a Change. Meta Pubns. p. vii. ISBN 9780916990282.In single sessions, they can accelerate learning, neutralize phobias, enhance creativity, improve relationships, eliminate allergies, and lead firewalks without roasting toes. NLP achieves the goal of its inception. We have ways to do what only a genius could have done a decade ago.
  2. Jump up^ Dowlen, Ashley (1 January 1996). "NLP - help or hype? Investigating the uses of neuro-linguistic programming in management learning". Career Development International 1 (1): 27–34. doi:10.1108/13620439610111408.

Bibliography

  1. Bandler, R., Grinder, J. (1975), The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy, Science and Behavior Books. ISBN 0-8314-0044-7
  2. Bandler, R., Grinder, J. (1976), The Structure of Magic II. A Book About Communication and Change, Science and Behavior Books. ISBN 978-0831400491
  3. Bandler, R., Grinder, J. (1981), Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, Real People Press. ISBN 0-911226-25-7

Further Reading

Books

  1. Andreas, Steve & Charles Faulkner (eds.) (1996). NLP: the new technology of achievement. New York, NY: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-688-14619-8.
  2. Austin, A. (2007). The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal. UK: Real People Press. ISBN 0-911226-44-3.
  3. Bandler, R., Grinder, J. (1979), Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. Real People Press. 149 pages. ISBN 0-911226-19-2.
  4. Bandler, R., Andreas, S. (ed.) and Andreas, C. (ed.) (1985), Using Your Brain-for a Change. ISBN 0-911226-27-3.
  5. Bradbury, A (2008). "Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Time for an Informed Review". Skeptical Intelligencer 11.
  6. Burn, Gillian (2005). NLP Pocketbook. Alresford, Hants SO24 9JH, United Kingdom: Management Pocketbooks Ltd. ISBN 978-1-903776-31-5.
  7. Carroll R. (2003), The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions, p. 253.
  8. Della Sala (ed.) (2007), Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain: Separating Fact from Fiction, Oxford University Press, p. xxii. ISBN 0198568770.
  9. Dilts, R., Hallbom, Tim, Smith, Suzi (1990), Beliefs: Pathways to Health & Well-being, Crown House Publishing, ISBN 9781845908027.
  10. Dilts, R. (1990), Changing Belief Systems with NLP, Meta Publications. ISBN 9780916990244.
  11. Dilts, Robert B & Judith A DeLozier (2000). Encyclopaedia of Systemic Neuro-Linguistic Programming and NLP New Coding. NLP University Press. ISBN 0-9701540-0-3.
  12. Druckman, Daniel & John A Swets (eds), (1988). Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques. Washington DC: National Academy Press. ISBN 9780309037921.
  13. Ellerton, CMC, Roger (2005). Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You. Ottawa, Canada: Trafford Publishing. ISBN 1-4120-4709-9.
  14. Grinder, J., Bandler, R. (1976), Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I. ISBN 0-916990-01-X.
  15. Grinder, John & Judith DeLozier (1987). Turtles All the Way Down: Prerequisites to Personal Genius. Scotts Valley, CA: Grinder & Associates. ISBN 9780929514017.
  16. Grinder, M., Lori Stephens (ed.) (1991), Righting the Educational Conveyor Belt. ISBN 1-55552-036-7
  17. Genie Z. Laborde, Ph.D. (1987), Influencing with Integrity: Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation.
  18. O'Connor, Joseph (2007), Not Pulling Strings: Application of Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Teaching and Learning Music. Kahn & Averill, London ISBN 1-871-08290-0
  19. Satir, V., Grinder, J., Bandler, R. (1976), Changing with Families: A Book about Further Education for Being Human, Science and Behavior Books. ISBN 0-8314-0051-X
  20. Lum, C. (2001). Scientific Thinking in Speech and Language Therapy. Mahwah, New Jersey; London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 16.
  21. Singer, Margaret & Janja Lalich (1997). Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? Jossey Bass, pp. 167–195 (169). ISBN 0-7879-0278-0. Crazy Therapies (book).
  22. Wake, Lisa (2008). Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy: A Postmodern Perspective. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415425414.
  23. William F. Williams, ed. (2000), Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy, Fitzory Dearborn Publishers, ISBN 978-1-57958-207-4 p. 235.

Journal articles

  1. Platt, Garry (2001). "NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming or No Longer Plausible?". Training Journal. May 2001: 10–15.
  2. Morgan, Dylan A (1993). "Scientific Assessment of NLP". Journal of the National Council for Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy Register. Spring 1993.
  3. Von Bergen, C. W.; Gary, B. S.; Rosenthal, T.; Wilkinson, L. V. (1997). "Selected alternative training techniques in HRD". Human Resource Development Quarterly 8 (4): 281.doi:10.1002/hrdq.3920080403.