Understanding NLP - Softcover

Young, Peter; Young, P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899836667 ISBN 13: 9781899836666

Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Many NLP Practitioners believe that only techniques matter. Their books and trainings present the student with a mass of useful facts, but with little integration of the material – and this is at a time when we are increasingly overwhelmed by more and more information, and have less and less time to digest it. As a result we are piling up and compartmentalising the data we receive, but failing to recognise its underlying principles.

Understanding NLP overcomes this problem by providing a truly coherent model of NLP. Integrating into its structure tools from other change systems, and from drama, story telling and mythology, it utilises the pattern of human learning to produce a completely systematic way of investigating life. In creating a paradigm for understanding change, it examines aspects such as: Rapport; the Meta Mirror; the Four Realities Model; Bateson’s Levels of Learning; the Satir Categories; Outcome Setting; the NLP Language Model; Modal Operators; Beliefs; Modelling. Exploring four archetypal worldviews and three basic theoretical models, Understanding NLP is an essential resource for both NLP beginners and Practitioners, presenting a wealth of practical NLP exercises and applications while revealing their underlying significance.

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About the Author

Peter Young is an innovative thinker, with a talent for making deep connections between different forms of knowledge, and identifying underlying patterns, metaphors and stories. He is a creative and humorous writer with an extensive knowledge of NLP, psychology, and drama, explaining complex ideas in plain language.

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Travel provides opportunities for seeing the world through new eyes, from alternative points of view, from the perspective of those who live different lives, so that we learn to see what was there all the time, but hitherto invisible.

My first encounter with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) came on a trip to New Zealand in 1984 when I read Frogs into Princes, the groundbreaking book by Bandler and Grinder. Briefly, NLP is a way of thinking about human experience that enables us to examine how we process information to create a sense of reality in our mind. Once we know how we mentally represent our experience, we can find effective ways of changing the meaning and affect of that representation.

Exploring NLP was a journey I decided to take . . . This book is a sketch map of my travels. Although there are many blank areas, and some of the details have been drawn with a blunt pencil, there is plenty here for others to follow the tracks and to have their own adventures in this relatively unknown land.

This book unfolds to reveal many layers. However, all is explained by the end . . . Whenever I talk to people about these ideas, I warn them: Make sure you are OK with knowing that you will never be the same again. These ideas will change how you think about NLP and about your life in general. Once you know this stuff there is no going back.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown House Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899836667
• ISBN 13: 9781899836666
• Binding: Paperback