NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming, and is a field dedicated to the study of subjective experience. Beginning in the early 1970s, NLP was co-developed by John Grinder, Richard Bandler, Judith Delozier, Leslie Cameron, David Gordon, Robert Dilts, Frank Pucelik, Terence L. McClendon, and many others.The developers built upon the ideas of some of the most brilliant thinkers of the day, including Alfred Korzybski and Gregory Bateson, and luminaries from the field of General Semantics and many other disciplines.
Many of the early "patterns" of humanistic neuro-linguistic programming came into existence by "modeling" experts in psychology, like Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton Erickson, M.D. (Clinical Hypnotherapy). Many of the early techniques focused on the areas of body language and five-sensory submodalities, the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory building blocks of subjective experience.
Early on, NLP Practitioners operated outside of the purview of academic psychology, and often, alienated leaders within the various branches. Even so, NLP modeled techniques from mainstream psychology, including the cognitive, behavioral, hypnosis fields.
NLP is very pragmatic and seeks to create models that are useful to humans. Classic techniques include developing rapport, anchoring, accessing altered states, reframing, the Meta Model, and changing beliefs.
After well over three decades of development, neuro-linguistic programming includes literally 100s of skills-based techniques, including handling criticism, curing phobias, accelerated learning, persuasion and influence, flirting (yes, flirting…), performance enhancement, motivation, resolving grief, breaking unuseful habits and behaviors, curing allergies, and many more.
Tony Robbins was a student of NLP and utilized many of the classical techniques--especially anchoring, phobia, and state change methods--in his early seminars. As his work progressed, he distanced himself from the fields of NLP and Hypnosis and reframed many of the techniques into his own language and models.
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