TRAIN PRINCIPLES— THEN TEACH TECHNIQUES

The poor quality of NLP trainings out there in the world is all too apparent; all you have to do is Google ‘NLP training’ and vast amounts of ‘lone wolf’ “trainers” appear. The quality of the trainers is reflected in the practitioners they put out. Poor practitioners then reflect badly on the field as a whole and anyone associated with it – including us!

Many trainers –even ‘good’ ones – seem to certify practitioners who don’t really ‘get’ what NLP and Neuro-Semantics is all about. The well know Bandler quote “NLP is an attitude of curiosity backed up by a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques” neatly sums it up for me. The NLP Encyclopaedia defines NLP as “the study of the structure of subjective experience”. It contains principles and distinctions which allow us to look past the behavioural content of what people do, and examine what people do unconsciously ‘behind’ those behaviours; to the structures of thought that allow people to perform effectively.