neurolinguistic programming (idea)

"NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques." Richard Bandler

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a branch of cognitive and behavioral psychology whose primary concern is to model behavior and cognition. It was developed in the 1970's by Richard Bandler and John Grinder from their work in modeling. They initially modelled family therapist Virginia Satir, Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls, hypnotherapist Milton H. Erickson and Gregory Bateson. They derived much of the theory behind their work from Korzybski's General Semantics and Chomsky's Transformational Generative Grammar. Bandler describes NLP as the "study of the structure of subjective experience." At times it has also been called the study of things that work.

Although NLP started in the field of therapy, it has now been expanded to include such diverse topics as sales, persuasion and even seduction (ladies beware).

NLP Presuppositions:

• The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is more often valuable than changing the content of our experience of reality.
• The meaning of the communication is the response you get.
• All distinctions human beings are able to make concerning our environment and our behavior can be usefully represented through the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory senses.
• The resources an individual needs in order to effect a change are already within them.
• The map is not the territory.
• The positive worth of the individual is held constant, while the value and appropriateness of internal and/or external behavior is questioned.
• There is a positive intention motivating every behavior, and a context in which every behavior has value.
• Feedback vs. Failure - All results and behaviors are achievements, whether they are desired outcomes for a given task/context, or not.

NLP Topics:

• Ambiguity (phonetic, Lexical / Semantic, Syntactic, Punctuation ambiguity)
• Pacing
• Thought Loop
• Nominalization
• Reframing
• Rapport
• Anchoring (classical conditioning, operant conditioning)
• NLP creativity strategy
• Eye accessing cues
• Reality bubble
• Calibration
• TOTE Model
• Synesthesia
• 4-tuple
• the "is" of identity
• uptime
• to be continued...