About NLP

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP for short) is the study of how we think and understand our experiences, and how this affects our behaviour.

Neuro; is the mind, the electrical and chemical process’s which combine to make up the patterns of our thinking. We can learn how to shape the patterns to provide ourselves with more positive and helpful ways to think and behave.
Linguistic; the language of our mind and how it uses language to gather, sort and store information. We can learn how we use speech, non verbal communication and our senses to communicate with ourselves and others and to maximise our influence. We can use the processes of language to influence ourselves and others and to make the most of communication.
Programming; the strategies we use to programme our mind, organised ways we practice and develop actions and habits by trial and error to find behaviours which work for us. We can learn to develop new strategies, to adapt existing strategies to integrate patterns of behaviour, and parts of our personality. We can learn to develop for ourselves new choices, and positive behaviours.

As a therapeutic approach and also in coaching we use NLP to find ways to assist people to improve their lives. We use NLP techniques to improve individuals decision making, build positive relationships, improve career and business success, develop strong and effective training delivery, change habits and create balance and improve lives.
The main advantages of NLP for clients is that techniques are often quite quick to use, integrate well with other techniques, such as coaching and hypnotherapy, and can be learned by clients for use on their own.