Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ (NLP™) is
defined as the study of the structure of
subjective experience and what can be
calculated from that and is predicated upon
the belief that all behaviour has structure. Richard Bandler built formal
models of NLP. He then applied these models to
his work.
Because these models are formal they also
allow for prediction and calculation.
Patterns that may not have been available in
any of these people's work could be
calculated from the formal representations
he had created. New techniques and models
were (and still are being) developed.
Since the models that constitute NLP™
describe how the human brain functions
they are used in order to teach them.
NLP™is not a diagnostic tool. It can only be
applied and can therefore only be taught
experientially.
Well trained Neuro-Linguistic
Programmers™ will always teach by
installation, not by teaching technique after
technique. Techniques outdate themselves
too quickly to base the field of NLP™ on a
set of techniques. It is based upon the
attitude, the models and the skills which
allow for constant generation of new
techniques which are more effective and
work faster.
Although many providers make certain
courses prerequisite to the attendance of
other courses, Dr. Bandler has no such
prerequisites for any of his seminars.
Learning does not come in levels. Once the
underlying pattern, by which something can
be learned has been taught, the material
becomes not only easily accessible but a
logical extension. For example, once
somebody has learned how to read it no
longer matters whether a book is five pages
or two-hundred pages long. Similarly, once
someone has been taught the spelling
strategy it does not matter whether the
word is two or five letters long, you just
have to look at the picture. Each seminar is
based upon different sets of knowledge.
Therefore, it is not necessary to do them in
any specific order.
Each seminar that Dr. Bandler teaches is
different. Once someone has attended one
practitioner course it does not mean that
the practitioner material has been learned
and that person should therefore go to a
different course. You have to remember that
the names and certificates are only names
and certificates not the material nor the
knowledge!
Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ was
specifically created in order to allow us to
do magic by creating new ways of
understanding how verbal and non-verbal
communication affect the human brain. As
such it presents us all with the opportunity
to not only communicate better with others,
but also learn how to gain more control over
what we considered to be automatic
functions of our own neurology.
