What is NLP?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a highly effective methodology for creating change in yourself and others. It employs tools and techniques specifically designed to interrupt existing thought and behavioral patterns to then create new responses and choices that work towards getting you the results you want in your life.

• NLP teaches you to communicate more successfully and create the right climate for success.
• NLP increases your sensitivity towards others body language and signals, and teaches you to maintain good relationships with those close and not so close to you.
• NLP opens doors to hidden resources, improves your ability to concentrate, your ability to learn and paves the way for new possibilities.
• NLP changes your behaviour positively so that you can handle negative experiences and eliminate phobias, stress, guilty feelings and depression
• NLP is revolutionizing the way people evolve, communicate and interact. It systematizes change to accelerate what individuals are able to accomplish without having to go through years of trial and error.

Neuro Linguistic Programming is a hybrid science that was developed in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s by computer scientist, Richard Bandler, and linguist, John Grinder. From the combined perspectives of their respective sciences, they began the study of three therapists. These therapists were producing excellent results, transforming their clients’ way of thinking, feeling and behaving. They modeled Family therapist, Virginia Satir; Gestalt therapist, Fritz Perls; and hypnotherapist, Milton Erickson, who legitimised hypnotherapy as a healing treatment modality accepted by the A.M.A (American Medical Association). Bandler and Grinder were looking to discover exactly what transpired in the minds and bodies of patients at the moment change occured. They asked what specifically caused the change and how they could replicate it more quickly and efficiently, without years of therapy.

In addition, Bandler and Grinder examined what was occuring in the minds and behaviours of the therapists who achieved such great successes with their patients. Bandler and Grinder wanted to describe the steps of the therapeutic process itself to teach others step-by-step how to achieve the exact same results in less time. The techniques Bandler and Grinder developed by modeling Satir, Perls and Erickson are so concise and effective that the behavioural changes that used to take years can now occur within a matter of hours or minutes. In the decades since its inception, NLP has proved a reliable and fast way for people to gain control of their minds and, and therefore, their results.