What is NLP?

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NLP was developed in the 1960s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the US who studied models of excellence, that is, people who were successful in all walks of life but particularly in making a difference to other people’s lives through therapy such as Virginia Satir, the family therapist and Milton Erickson, an expert in language patterns. They found that by extracting all the beliefs these people held, they could come up with a code which when used by other people, brought about great and positive change.

This code comprises a number of pre-suppositions or beliefs of excellence.

• If you always do what you’ve always done you will always get what you’ve always got

• The person with the most flexibility has control of the situation

• You have all the skills to do whatever you want to do

• If someone else can do it you can too

• There is no failure only feedback

• If you  only try you won’t succeed

• Everyone's map of the world is different

• There is a positive intention behind every behaviour

• The meaning o…