What is NLP?
Neuro Linguistic Programing (NLP) is the primary modality we use in our sessions. It is one of the most powerful tools to instigate change and healing. NLP was used and still in use to treat more than eight hundred 9/11 survivors to change the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and proven to be more effective and rapid than any other treatments. It is also described as the “tool of replicating talents” to actualise our potentials and create success in life.
NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. In a nut shell - what we believe, think, feel and other internal processes (either aware consciously or unconsciously), is communicated through verbal and non verbal behaviours, in a sequential manner.
NLP studies how our brain code learning and experiences in our life — our internal map of the world. We demonstrate our unique mental map in the way we think, feel, communicate (language) and behave.
NLP was developed in the 1970’s by Dr John Grinder and Richard Bandler. They studied some of the most exceptional therapists at the time and many other successful individuals in their perspective areas of expertise, aiming to find the secret of these people’s success. What they had identified was a series of behavioural patterns that can be modelled or replicated to produce similar if not the same kind of result as these exceptional individuals.
NLP founders identified and coded
- A series of behavioural patterns that demonstrates excellence, which can be taught and learned or replicated by everyone to create their own personal success.
- A series of processes that allows trained individuals to apply to others and themselves to yield the same level of result as the expert therapist whom they modelled.
An NLP therapist can effectively help their client to:
- Resolve past emotional pain
- Learn and apply powerful tools to live life to the fullest NOW!
- Apply your personal power to build the future of your dreams
- Build strong and nurturing relationships with your self, loved ones & others
- Bring effective and lasting changes
- Develop your potential, gain emotional intelligence and increase your competitiveness
- Realise the power within
- Create choices in life
Therapy, Coaching and Counseling - The NLP Way
As a form of Brief psychotherapy, in NLP therapy, therapist and client co-create a resolution by working together and establishing desired outcomes as well as methods for gauging and measuring movement towards such. In this approach, the therapist does not adopt the expert role, but rather the role of facilitator and coach. The client fully participates in the process and owns it. This avoids most of the “resistance” issues that plagues other approaches.
This inter-active style also involves the therapist playing an active and director role, rather than a passive one. Once the client has identified his or her desired outcome, the therapist assists the client in moving toward the solution state. Therapy itself becomes a matter of structuring, a question about how to bridge from present state to solution state. Questions about resources and processes become increasingly important. Brief psychotherapy using NLP is effective, efficient and totally holistic.
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The map is not the territory. Behind every behavior there is a positive intention. Even a seemingly negative thought or behavior has a positive function at some level or in some other context. There is no failure, only feedback. The meaning of the communication is the response it produces, not the intended communication.
One cannot not communicate - Every behaviour is a kind of communication. Because behaviour does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behaviour), it is not possible not to communicate. Choice is better than no choice. An idea from cybernetics that holds the most flexible element in a system will have the most influence or choice in that system.
People already have all the internal resources they need to succeed. Multiple descriptions are better than one.
NLP, neurolinguistic programming, presuppositions, hypnotherapy, self-improvement, learning, change, therapy, genuis, healing,
Neuro-Linguistisches Programmieren, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, pnl, practice group, rapport, skills
Personal development media
Verbal Reflection Share, Relive, Challenge, Reconstrue
discussion Pair work Psychotherapy, Counselling, Co-counselling
Small group Group therapy, Family therapy, Co-dependency
Large group EST, Insight, Life training
Reflective Narrative Autobiography, Journal, Story-telling, Myth
writing Reporting Activity log, Mood rating, Mapping
Imaginative Metaphor, Unsent letter, Epitaph
Expressing Drama Psychodrama, Role play
emotion Art Art therapy
Music Music therapy
Imaging Rehearsal Mental rehearsal, Good resource
concerns Visualizing Guided fantasy, Active imagination
Contemplative Meditation, Contemplation
Body based Massage Bioenergetics, Biodynamics
Movement Tai Chi, Dance
Invasive Drugs, ECT
Relaxation Biofeedback, Breathing
Stage models of psychological development.
Piaget Kohlberg Loevinger
1. Sensorimotor Hedonism Impulsive
2. Pre-operational
3. Concrete operations Obedience to avoid Self-protective
punishment
4. Bargain for reward Conformist
5. Formal operations Approval conform Self-aware
6. Duty to social order Conscientious
Individualistic
7. Post formal Contract and Autonomous
commitment
8. Conscience or Integrated
principle
Piaget Erikson Maslow
1. Sensorimotor Trust vs. mistrust Physiological
hope
2. Pre-operational Autonomy vs. shame Safety
will
3. Concrete operations Initiative vs. guilt
purpose
Love
4. Industry vs. inferiority
competence
Esteem
5. Formal operations Identity vs. confusion
fidelity
6. Intimacy vs. isolation
love
Self-actualize
7. Post formal Generativity vs.
stagnation care
8. Integrity vs. despair
wisdom
Piaget Wilber
1. Sensorimotor Senses
2. Pre-operational Emotional
3. Concrete operations Representational
4. Rule/Role
5. Formal operations Reflective
6. Existential
7. Post formal Intuitive
8. Spiritual
Note. = resolves to.
Stages of development and corresponding psycho neuroses
Stage Pathology
Sensori physical Psychoses
Phantasmal emotional Narcissistic/Borderline
Representational mind Psycho neuroses
Rule/Role Script pathology
Formal reflective Identity neuroses
Existential Existential pathology
Psychic Psychic disorder
Subtle Subtle pathology
Causal Causal pathology
Stage Treatment
Sensori physical Physiological (pharmacology)
Phantasmal emotional Structure building (Kernberg)
Representational mind Uncovering (psychoanalysis,
psychotherapy)
Rule/Role Script analysis (cognitive, family
therapy)
Formal reflective Introspection (reflection)
Existential Existential therapy (humanistic
therapies)
Psychic Yogic path (yoga)
Subtle Saintly (contemplation)
Causal Sage
Source: After Wilber, Engler & Brown (1986).