Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a personal development system developed in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, in association with Gregory Bateson. It uses a toolbox of strategies, axioms and beliefs about human perception and subjective experience.

NLP's core idea is that an individual's thoughts, gestures and words interact to create one's perception of the world. By changing one's outlook, therefore, a person can improve his attitudes and actions. These observations can be changed by applying a variety of techniques.

NLP teaches that a person can develop successful habits by amplifying helpful behaviors and diminishing negative ones. Positive change can come when one carefully reproduces the behaviors and beliefs of successful people (called 'modeling'). It also states that all human beings have all the resources necessary for success within themselves.

Bandler and Grinder credited three successful therapists Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson as NLP's major inspirations. They 'modeled' the therapists and developed special “patterns” for general communication, rapport-building and self-improvement. NLP author Robert Dilts calls the system "the study of the structure of subjective experience." Curtiss cites Mind Dynamics as forming the initial basis for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. DuMerton and Partridge have referred to Neuro-linguistic programming as a form of Large Group Awareness Training.

NLP is controversial. Some scientists do not accept it as science, since its claims lack scientific validation. It has also been criticized for lacking a defining and regulating body to impose standards and a professional ethical code. Even so, NLP remains popular as an approach to self-help, personal influence and business communication. It is also used as an adjunct by therapists in other therapeutic disciplines.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Yes, neuro linguistic programming is controversial. I think it's one of the most effective self-help systems to people. Your information is really helpful. It is also a personal influence and business communication.

March 26, 2010 at 5:20 AM  

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