Celebrating Virginia Satir

Guiding principles that we use in NLP coaching with kids

Firstly let me explain that Virginia Satir was one of the founders of NLP and was a huge influence in the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming.

‘Neuro’ is all our thoughts, experiences, beliefs, expectations, inner chatter that we use to filter what we experience through our senses. So, just as we have all had different parents and experienced different early years, everyone’s filters will be different. This means that each of us can experience the same event but make it mean something different. 

‘Linguistic’ is how we respond verbally and non-verbally. Our facial expressions, body language and of course the words we use, are based on what we have made the event mean to us: our internal representation of it. The linguistic part is how we then present this version of it to the outside world.  

‘Programming’ is what happens next. We tend to repeat patterns because they are based on our map of the world. So, even when we don’t get the result…