NLP offers us really practical ways of getting more of what we want in life. To name a few examples, we can use ideas and exercises from NLP to:

• communicate better and have more fulfilling relationships with others
• have more choice in how we respond to challenging situations and relationships
• gain and strengthen our personal resources: for example, increasing confidence, assertiveness, energy, calmness, etc.
• transform emotional baggage into valuable personal learning.
• create powerful and compelling goals for ourselves and others.

NLP originated from modelling people who are particularly good at something.

Modelling involves identifying and copying what these individuals do that makes them successful – “the difference that makes the difference”.

The originators of NLP are Richard Bandler and John Grindler, who modelled three outstanding therapists in the early 1970’s: psychotherapist Fritz Perls, family therapist Virginia Satir and hypnotherapist Milton Erickson.

NLP stands for Neuro-liguistic Programming:

Neuro - our nervous systems: how we receive and process information from the "outside world"

Linguistic- what we say and how we say it, including our body language; how we are influenced by what others say, including their body language!

Programming - how we act to achieve the results we want.

Using NLP involves gaining new experiences, information or insights that cause us to move forward irrevocably from our original standpoint:
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never return to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

For more information on NLP visit:

www.practicaleq.com - www.practicaleq.com is the website of Andy Smith, with whom I trained in 2002 to gain my NLP Practitioner certification.

nlpand.co.uk - Where I trained and gained my certification as a Master Practitioner of NLP in November 2006. This website has lots of information about NLP and offers a range of NLP training courses, coaching and consultancy to suit everyone. For an understanding of what mastery in NLP means, follow http://nlpand.co.uk/training/masteroverview.shtml or http://nlpuniversitypress.com/html2/MaMc10.html

www.coretransformation.org/founder - This link gives you some information about Connirae Andreas. I acknowledge Connirae as a major source of inspiration to me in developing my work in the Parenting field through her book "Heart of the mind" (co-author) and her set of audiotapes called “Successful Parenting”

nlpuniversitypress.com - An encyclopaedia of NLP, written by Robert Dilts and Judith DeLozier. Good for looking up something specific, not for browsing!