Understanding Nlp: Principles and Practice - Softcover

Young, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904424104 ISBN 13: 9781904424109

Publisher: Crown House Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

This completely revised edition unites the many strands of NLP together. By using an elegant paradigm, which the author calls the “Six Perceptual Positions” model, this book opens a doorway into a more imaginative and coherent ways of understanding and using NLP. It provides numerous examples of the paradigm in practice. In addition, many NLP concepts are traced back to their origins, and some of the metaphors used to explain NLP are reinterpreted. New material includes: the NLP Presuppositions, Polarity thinking, Logical Levels, an expanded view of Outcome Setting, and a clarification of Perceptual Positions, The Art of Asking Questions, and Working with Parts and Roles. This practical guide for the NLP practitioner, coach, or therapist has numerous suggestions about good practices and offers many practical tips on actually doing NLP and utilizing the Six Perceptual Positions model. Readers will develop a better understanding of different kinds of clients, and be able to make more effective interventions for creating change.

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About the Author

Peter Young studied Psychology at the University of Hull, researched brain function at Adelaide University and studied Drama at the Flinders University of South Australia. He is an innovative thinker, with a talent for making connections between different forms of knowledge, and identifying underlying patterns, metaphors and stories. Peter is a creative and humorous writer with an extensive knowledge of NLP, psychology and drama, who is able to explain complex ideas in a clear 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 Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1904424104
• ISBN 13: 9781904424109
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320