NLP
Why this name ?
Programming: a program is learning that has become automatic. No need to think about what we are doing, our unconscious is in charge (walking, driving, cycling, etc.).
Neuro: we learn and we encode our learning thanks to our nervous system.
Linguistics: verbal and non-verbal language is an important support for communication. It structures our thinking, conveys our culture and influences our model of the world.
NLP is an approach to communication and change, a philosophy, a methodology and a set of techniques applied to personal and professional development. It is a study of subjective human experience. It was in 1975 that these two psychologists, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, met at the University of Santa Cruz, in California. The history of NLP begins when they studied Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls, three great therapists of international renown.
It is from this research that they founded the new discipline. They spot, identify and imitate the techniques of therapists that have worked, then make a model of them in order to be able to transmit it. They invent the art of modeling ideas. They believe that men can all learn the same things, with proper training and a little motivation.
NLP comes from the therapeutic field, it seeks to model excellence in all areas. It is a model and not a theory.
It is from this research that they founded the new discipline. They spot, identify and imitate the techniques of therapists that have worked, then make a model of them in order to be able to transmit it. They invent the art of modeling ideas. They
A theory proposes hypotheses to explain the functioning of a system. Its purpose is to explain why the system works the way it does.
A model describes how the system works. NLP is particularly interested in efficient systems.
From how to why...
NLP is interested in the multiple ways of achieving its objectives; so it makes sense to look for how to change and not why things are the way they are.
NLP does not ignore the “why” but uses it to know how to promote change in a personalized and effective way.
One of the presuppositions of NLP: “the map is not the territory”. We perceive the world, the territory, through our five senses. Then we assimilate this external phenomenon and we make an internal representation of it in our brain, the map. We adapt to the world and the representation we have of it. So what is the world map (model)?
This is all we perceive, think, believe. It is also our education, the mode of operation linked to our professional, socio-cultural class. In short, that’s us! It only belongs to us, it is different from that of our neighbor, spouse, even if they have things in common. Everything that reaches us passes through filters: - neurological (five senses, our species), - cultural (beliefs, customs, values, etc.), - personal (environment, education, childhood, personal development, etc.) Everyone makes their own idea of what life is; each story is unique, our vision of the world is not the world.
