THE PURITY OF A SYSTEM
If you don’t have a system, the next best choice is to be eclectic and take a little bit of this from one place, a little bit of that from another, and put them together into a mix and hope that they don’t collide with each other too much or create confusion or chaos for your participants.
If you don’t have a system, the next best choice is to be eclectic and take a little bit of this from one place, a little bit of that from another, and put them together into a mix and hope that they don’t collide with each other too much or create confusion or chaos for your participants. Eclecticism is a great choice when a field is still under construction, when key theorists are still putting theories and possibilities together about how a particular domain works. It is not so good when there is a workable system, especially one that is systemic. And that’s where I have a great message for you, and maybe a shocking one.
The NLP System Is NLP a system? Yes, you bet. Some 10 years ago I put together a page that defined it as a system—a system with a theoretical base (foundation, framework), variables as elements and components within that system, guidelines or heuristics for how to use the variables and apply the theories (even make hypothesis and test them), and then the resulting patterns or processes as practical applications.