NLP is the practice of understanding how people organize their thinking, feeling, language and behavior.
It provides people with a methodology to model outstanding performances achieved by geniuses and leaders in their field. NLP is also used for personal development and success in business.
A key element of NLP
It is that we form our unique internal mental maps of the world as a product of the way we filter and perceive information absorbed through our five senses from the world around us
Neuro
Each individual has established their own unique mental filtering system for processing the millions of bits of data being absorbed through the senses. Our first mental map of the world is constituted of internal images, sounds, tactile awareness, internal sensations, tastes and smells that form as a result of the neurological filtering process. The first mental map is called ‘First Access’ in NLP.
Linguistic
We then assign personal meaning to the information being received from the world outside. We form our second mental map by assigning language to the internal images, sounds and feelings, tastes, and smells, thus forming everyday conscious awareness. The second mental map is called the Linguistic Map (sometimes known as Linguistic Representation)
Programming
The behavioral response occurs as a result of neurological filtering processes and the subsequent linguistic map.
Origins
Neuro-Linguistic Programming began in the 1970s when an Associate Professor from the University of California, Santa Cruz, John Grinder, teamed up with an undergraduate Richard Bandler.
Modeling is the core activity in NLP and the process of extricating and replicating the language structure and behavioral patterns of an individual.
Grinder and Bandler began their NLP quest by modeling three people, Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton Erickson. These geniuses were outstanding as professional agents of change, working in the domain of therapy. All three geniuses, Perls, Satir, and Erickson performed their magic from a perspective of unconscious excellence. The geniuses did not present Grinder and Bandler with a conscious description of their behavior. The modelers (Grinder and Bandler) unconsciously absorbed the patterning inherent in the geniuses and then provided a description.
With little direct knowledge of each of the geniuses’ specialty and little knowledge of the field of psychotherapy, on the whole, Grinder and Bandler over a two-year period set out with enthusiasm bordering on fervor, to explicate selected portions of the geniuses’ behavior. They coded the results of their work in language-based models using the patterns of transformational grammar as the descriptive vocabulary. Through NLP Modelling Grinder and Bandler made explicit the tacit skills of the geniuses and NLP was born.
In 1975 Grinder and Bandler presented the first two NLP models to the world in the volumes “Structure of Magic I and II.” The volumes published by the respected publishing house “Science and Behaviour Books inc” put NLP on the map and interest in the new field of NLP spread quickly. People in fields related to communication, behavior, and change sought to learn how they too could get amazing results when doing change work. Grinder and Bandler willingly offered training courses in the application of their models.
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