NLP training has become a valued mainstream commodity throughout the western world; yet why does it need to change?
The answer is; it doesn't! NLP training is as good today in it's simplest form as it ever was. I'll give you some insights into why this is later in the article.
NLP has a beginning in experimental research into how the brain and body makes things 'real'; bad and good! How do we make illness and how do we make problems....and how do some people create miracles while others suffer poverty consciousness?
From this experimental approach, techniques came to the fore and these techniques became what we now call NLP. Yet the techniques were the result of experimenting!
So when you take an NLP training, the training should focus on how you go about experimenting with the mind, not showing you xyz techniques. For instance, we all have what's called an internal world, mostly made of sounds, feelings and pictures (plus self talk). We call that the VAKOG for short (Visual , audio, kinesthetic and to a lesser extent, olfactory and gustatory ). This inner world informs you and I what is good bad, valuable, or avoidable. It's in the form of coding and very unconscious .
A good NLP training will teach a delegate how to access this internal world and be able to aid a client to a positive result by moving the inner world or VAKOG to what the client wants inside. I have seen some trainers simply showing their delegates the three techniques (called submodalities ) to change this inner world without showing them the basic understanding of how this all works. The problem being is that if the three techniques don't work, the Practitioner will be stumped!
I once worked with a client who did not visualise anything and had a separation with their inner world, meaning I couldn't do most of the usual techniques. From understanding the basics of how someone puts an inner life together, I could work with their unconscious cues (much like someone like Derren Brown would) and assist them to change. To do that, you don't need techniques, yet a present tense attitude towards observing and responding to clues that happen every second.
So, in my training, awareness, sensory excellence, rapport skills and the ability to respond to present tense clues are much more important than wheeling out xyz every time!
This is why NLP does not need to change much in its essence, ever! You can make new techniques or new ways of working and call them something else, yet NLP is more about the attitude of the practitioner, second to second, than the 'out of the box' techniques it sometimes gets known for.
I learned a huge amount more about NLP when I took a training with John Overdurf in the USA (this was many years after becoming a trainer). He opened my eyes to the beauty of working in this way.
In NLP training, look for the company that endorses your own personal development and trains you in the workings of the inner world, than just a set curriculum that gets you a certificate!
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