NLP Training and self development

NLP Training with NLP World: A journey into self development and personal transformation!

If you think that NLP training courses are all similar, then you have to look again. NLP came out of a desire for results; an intention to use what works, not just a prescribed formula to wheel out from a manual.

Yet some NLP training course have become just that. When we ask ourselves, "what is NLP?". If the answer is about the techniques or what's on the curriculum, then that training company has lost its roots of NLP.

NLP training courses have a responsibility to keep looking for questions, to keep opening doors, not shutting them, not pretending to always know answers or trying to become 'respectable' in the eyes of others.

When you decide to become an NLP Practitioner, it should be an exciting adventure into the unknown; a look under the carpet of life itself and a journey that will result in more questions than answers.

One thing is certain: You will arrive at a place that not many others do. You will start an adventure into being/epistemology that may shake your foundations of what you thought was reality.

From this place you can create.

From the studies of Prigogine, we can see that not knowing is a positive place!

Prigogine is known best due to his definition of dissipative structures and their role in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium, a discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977.

Dissipative structure theory led to pioneering research in self-organizing systems, as well as philosophic inquiries into the formation of complexity on biological entities and the quest for a creative and irreversible role of time in the natural sciences.

His work is seen by many as a bridge between natural sciences and social sciences.

That's all very well but what he discovered is something that follows the laws of nature closely. That if you want change, you also have to embrace confusion and not knowing!

Prigogine's postulation is that a "Bifurcation Point" (a point of moving a different way or the same way) is reached in any energy system and at that point either more entropy occurs or a new order.

In other words at this point, it would seem the most confusing, the most unknown, but at the same time a new order is waiting for you.

When you translate this to working with others, a client will more than likely be at this point when they come to see you as a Practitioner of NLP. If you have been trained and are used to this state, you will recognise it immediately. If not you may just roll out some prescribed technique and pretend to know all about the situation.

When my students see me at work, they think that I know a lot and have much skill. The simple truth is that I have all the skills (maybe just a few more) that they have and I have no idea what I am going to do when I start a session with someone.

I just look for clues and keep a good state whilst applying all of the Presuppositions (see Presuppositions of NLP in the glossary) of NLP in the background.

The technique will then show itself to me, rather than me having to apply a formulaic technique on the client.

That is why NLP is known as an art anda science.

NLP may come under scrutiny in the coming years and may be asked for strict guidelines and adherence to one code of ethics.

NLP has grown in popularity over the last 30 years and has become a valuable tool for many to make lives work better. My intention is that it stays as unregulated as is possible. People will find good practitioners and we also know when good work at good value has been applied.

Let this be the start of something valuable for yourselves; yet let that value be found for yourself, in a safe environment. Let your learning and development be as exciting as a child's world, magical and beautiful.

And lastly, let there be confusion and not knowing at times.....there will be something very good that comes from these places!