Neuro-linguistic programming is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States, in the 1970. I was lucky enough to be trained by one of the direct students of these men and it changed my life, my approach to my team as a manager, and developed my skills as a coach.
NLP is used as a method of personal development through promoting skills, such as self-reflection, confidence, and communication. It helps you to see your patterns, where you’re stuck and explores various mind based conscious activities that help you to shift and move forward in life.
In this talk we will have a look at the below, as well as sampling one or two very different techniques to experience them for yourself. We will be running a daily free challenge based on NLP in our Tribe group 2 weeks later, which will also be uploaded on the website.
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 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 behavioural response that occurs as a result of neurological filtering processes and the subsequent linguistic map.