Neuro
The nervous system and how we use our five senses to translate experiences into thought processes both consciously and unconsciously.

                            Linguistic
                      The use of language to interpret experiences and how
                      we communicate those experiences to others and ourselves.

Programming
How we ‘code’ and utilise our experiences as a series of  steps to achieve a specific outcome.

You can use NLP skills to be clear about what you or your organisation needs, build better relationships and develop powerful and productive approaches to influence yourself and others in ways that are more useful.

Application of NLP

In essence, NLP is the study of our thinking, behaviour and language patterns that generally impact on us at an unconscious level, creating sets of strategies that work for us or, in some cases against us. By understanding these strategies we can be more effective in making decisions, building relationships, starting up a business, coaching a team of people, inspiring and motivating others, creating balance in our lives, negotiating our way through the day and above all learning how we learn.

As stated previously, often the critical pieces of our strategies are outside our conscious awareness. Typically we do not consciously know what we do, or more importantly how we do it.

NLP allows us to explore both the conscious and unconscious elements of the strategies we have, so that we can learn how we do what we do.

NLP then assists us to refine the strategies that we have, learn new ones or discard those that no longer serve us in a productive way.

NLP focuses on the unconscious strategies that we use to achieve our results. These results may be ‘positive’ or ‘negative’, by understanding the strategies that we run, we can choose to change them. NLP provides not only a way of discovering and understanding strategies; it also provides ‘tools’ for change. 

"NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the sixties"
Science Digest

A Brief History of NLP

NLP was developed in the early 1970’s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Bandler an information scientist and Grinder a linguist, were interested in how highly effective communicators got the results they did, particularly, 'what was the difference that made a difference' and once modelled could it be duplicated?

Their approach to the research utilised technology from linguistics and information science, combined with insights from behavioural psychology and general systems theory, to unlock the secrets of highly effective communication.
During their early studies Bandler and Grinder developed a unique system of asking questions and gathering information that was based on the fields of transformational grammar and general semantics. Later they and their colleagues discovered certain minimal cues people give that indicate very specific kinds of thought processes. These include eye movements, certain gestures, breathing patterns, voice tone changes and even very subtle cues such as pupil dilation and skin colour changes.

The field of study, strategies, skills and techniques of NLP continues to be developed by them and many others, to encompass human behaviour in a multitude of areas and disciplines.