NLP was developed in the mid-70s by John Grinder a Professor at the UC Santa Cruz and Richard Bandler a Graduate student. NLP as most people use the term today, is a set of models of how communication influences and is impacted by subjective experience.

It is more a collection of a number of models and then techniques based an those models. The major models associated with NLP are:

Sensory acuity and physiology:

Thinking is tied closely to physiology. A person's thought procedure changes their physiological state. Sufficiently sensitive sensory acuity will help communicators fine tune their communication to a person in ways over and above mere linguistics.

The Meta Model:

A set of Linguistic challenges for uncovering 'deep structure' underneath someone's 'surface structure' EG 'what are they really trying to say?

Representational systems:

NLP practitioners believe that individuals communicate in a systemic way that utilizes the senses, Auditory, Visually and Kinesthetically. We also use taste and smell although these are not used as much as the main three.

NLP has several techniques for making sense and intervening in certain situations. There is the fast phobia cure which can tackle phobias in less than one hour. Ways to identify and integrate conflicting belief systems that keep you from doing the things that you are capable of achieving.

The NLP course will show you how to: