NLP - Understanding and Changing Behavior
NLP is really a different way of thinking, perceiving and behaving.
Have you ever thought, "If only I could be more motivated, energetic, confident, persistent, patient, sensitive or open"?
Or ... "If only I could be less sensitive to criticism, anxious, bad tempered, impatient, emotional"
Have you ever wondered why sometimes people can be:-
- So uncooperative
- So frustrating
- Their own worst enemy
- So selfish
- So ........ whatever?
The founders of NLP, together with many others over the last 30 years have developed techniques, models, and methods to-
- Become more of the person you have always wanted to be.
- Find joy in everyday tasks and events.
- Achieve important outcomes in the most effective way.
- Be able to learn to do just about anything someone else does well (including skills thought to be innate such as "talents").
- Become your own best friend.
- Be able to persuade and influence others.
- Develop and maintain quality relationships.
There are many pieces to the NLP puzzle, lots to cover. This site hopes to create a kind of mentoring relationship to help navigate the sometimes-confusing terrain.
The sites purpose is to go beyond the techniques (the hows). To answer for example
- What's in it for me?
- What can I do when the boss acts like a jerk?
- How can I get myself to cooperate?
- What's the best thing to use for this problem?
- What does this jargon mean?
- Why do I need to know about this model?
- When should I use a particular method rather than a different one?
- What's behind the ideas, techniques and processes?
NLP is about learning to see with fresh eyes. It's about understanding how people work. It's about understanding our own thinking. It's about changing our stories to have a happy ending.
There are hundreds of NLP Techniques or patterns that have been developed since the early 70's. Many are variations of the core techniques created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
What is NLP? The term itself, Neuro Linguistic Programming offers a few clues. It involves our thinking, our use of language and our strategies for getting our outcomes
Since the early 70's, hundreds of NLP books have been written. This list contains summaries and reviews of important NLP, Hypnosis and Neuro Semantics books, both about NLP and its applications from many authors
Although a phobia can take years to cure by conventional methods, the NLP phobia treatment, which involves dissociation, can cure phobias in one session
The Meta model is a model for changing our maps of the world and provides a number of problem solving strategies.
Meta programs determine how we motivate ourselves, make decisions, buy things, what we are interested in, how we manage time, how long we stay in a job or relationship, our effectiveness with tasks and how we solve problems.
The MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) explains differences in behavior resulting from different ways people use their minds.
NLP Reframing is one of the most useful and simple techniques. Our meanings depend on our frames
NLP anchoring establishes an association between a desired state and a reproducible stimulus
NLP Rapport is about being on the same wavelength. It is a vital element in any kind of communication
Accelerate leadership skill development with NLP techniques and strategies
Time Line Therapy enables perceptions of experiences in the past to be changed. Unconscious decisions that we make can have a huge impact on our current and future experiences
List of NLP Training organizations for practitioner and master practitioner certifications as well as coaching and application oriented courses.
The NLP Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the NLP-Mentor.com web site. Get your free subscription here.
Useful NLP Resources and Links
NLP videos of people and processes - if a picture paints a thousand words, then how much more enlightening is a video.
