Overview of neuro-linguistic programming
Lewis Walker · 2017
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of the structure of subjective experience. According to NLP everything that we think, say or do – our behaviours of excellence, our talents and skills, our behaviours that we wish we could change, and our troublesome problems, all of this – has an underlying, recurring pattern. NLP is really all about having an attitude of curiosity, intense curiosity. NLP builds cognitive and behavioural models of how successful people do what they do – how they behave, how they say what they say, how they think, and how their beliefs and values fit together in an enabling way. NLP originated in the early to middle 1970s at the University of California in Santa Cruz, when mathematician Richard Bandler and linguistics professor John Grinder become interested in how people change. NLP has uncovered many useful language patterns which we shall meet in due course.