NLP History & the Field

NLP Practitioners Doing Therapy?!*

by Steve Andreas©2000         Fairly often people object to having newly-minted NLP Practitioners doing therapy (even if they call it “counseling,” or “personal change,” or something else). Typically there are two kinds of concern: 1.    “How well can someone be helped?” and 2.    “What is the danger that someone might be harmed?” by an inappropriate method, or …

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A Brief History of NLP Timelines

by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.first published in The Vak,Volume X, No. 1, Winter 1991-92, p. 1. Seminar participants often ask how a particular NLP pattern evolves. If we can track how new patterns evolve, we can help point the way to further useful discoveries and developments. Every pattern has many antecedents, and most patterns …

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A Consumer’s Guide to Good Training*

by Connirae and Steve Andreas Seminars and training are a way to gain many skills, abilities, and attitudes well worth learning. Since training is a significant investment of your time and money, it’s important to know how to identify excellent training as soon as possible, and to spot mediocre training in advance. We suggest being …

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The Emperor’s New Prose

by Steve Andreas In recent years, Carmen Bostic St. Clair and John Grinder have proposed a number of distinctions and characterizations of modeling. A recent article (38) proposed that their kind of unconscious, second position, behavioral modeling is the only true NLP modeling, and that all other NLP modeling is of lesser value. Their book Whispering …

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