N.L.P. is one of the fastest growing fields of applied psychology. It is about creativity, learning and change, and how you construct your reality.

In the 1970s, Tom Peters was looking for strategies for excellence in organizations. At about the same time, John Grinder and Richard Bandler were looking for strategies for excellence at the individual level. Under the influence of Gregory Bateson, John and Richard modeled the skills of some of the leading masters of communication and personal change. They called what they were doing Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

'Neuro' refers to the neurological processes of seeing, hearing, feeling, smell, and taste, which form the basic building blocks of our experience.

'Linguistic' refers to the ways we use language to represent our experience and communicate with others.

'Programming' refers to the strategies we use to organize these inner processes to produce results.

By developing a practical understanding of how we learn, we can in turn learn how to achieve results that often seem magical. Put simply, the world we each live in is not the real world. It is a model of the world that we create unconsciously and live in as though it were real. Most human problems derive from the models in our heads rather than from the world as it really is. As you develop your practical understanding of how these inner models work, so you can learn to change unhelpful habits, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs for more useful ones. N.L.P. skills offer specific and practical ways of making desired changes in your own and others' behavior. N.L.P. is the "know how" that works for human behavior! So now you can ask yourself: how would you like to redesign your life? And what could you achieve in both your personal and professional life if you know how?

Modeling skills lie at the heart of N.L.P. They are the tools of the study of human excellence and from that study, patterns emerge: patterns of similarity and patterns of difference. Modeling enables us to discover the difference between competence and excellence in any given area of human activity. Increasingly, N.L.P. is being used to cultivate the skills of outstanding performance in training, business, management, sales, coaching, counseling, education, sports, and the performing arts. Within each field, the N.L.P. modeling process is producing many skills, techniques, and ways of thinking that significantly improve bottom line results.

N.L.P. increases awareness and choice. The skills offer you a practical way of achieving a highly generative learning ability with which to produce better results in the areas of your choice. Learning how to learn more effectively may be one of the best investments you can make in a changing world.