Background

Most of us have a better understanding of how a desktop computer works than how ‘we’ as individuals work.

In the mid-70’s, Neuro-Linguistic Programming was developed as a means of identifying how some people were able to excel in various fields, such as communication, business, sports, education, and so on.

By identifying how high-achievers did what they did, the originators of NLP have identified ‘structures’ or methods of human excellence that can easily be learned by any person choosing to do so.

If you're interested in getting more information on Neuro-Linguistic Programming, may we recommend "NLP for Dummies" - the book? It's excellently laid out, easy to follow and understand, and it has proven a great introduction to many. However, reading only gives you a 'conceptual' experience, whereas being part of a training or workshop gives you a more hands-on 'experiential' learning.

If it's business you're interested in, please visit NLP for Business Excellence

If it's on a personal basis, give Orla a call and she will let you know about Open Introductory workshops.

Learning

NLP is a proven technology for personal achievement & human excellence. It helps you to understand yourself and those around you more fully in ways that maximise personal development and more effortless success.

NLP models great achievers, their learning processes, and how they consistently produce excellent results. People from a variety of backgrounds (managers, leaders, salespeople, artists, athletes) all benefit from the technology NLP has to offer.

NLP is a bit like an 'owner’s manual' for your brain! At school and college we learned wonderful things like history and geography and algebra but we did not learn much about how to feel good or to have great relationships. That's where NLP comes in. NLP clarifies and explains the structures as to how you as an individual work, and by learning and integrating these structures into your own life, you can increase your professional and personal effectiveness and satisfaction.

NLP will give you insight and experience about how you and others around you function, providing you with a greater practical understanding of what is happening in your everyday interactions with others, and a greater influence in your interactions with people in both your professional and personal life.

One of the best lessons for me during my NLP training’, writes the author, ‘was just how critical to successful communication rapport is. To communicate without rapport is like speaking with someone in a language foreign to them and usually leads to resistance, miscommunication and bad feelings. Oddly enough, many people have no real idea what rapport is.

Have you ever wondered: How are great communicators able to communicate so effectively? What makes it possible for Olympic and professional athletes to achieve such a high level of excellence? What are the decision and motivation strategies necessary for effective leadership? How do people who are so good at what they do become so good and maintain that level through time? What are the thinking patterns that successful people use in the pursuit of their activities, their passions, and their mission in life?

If you would like to have the skills that make excellence possible, then NLP is for you. Explore for yourself the principles behind the NLP Presupposition: "If one human being can do something, then anyone can."

Definitions

So, what does NLP mean? A simple definition:

N = Neurology: The study of the mind and nervous system – how we think and how we re-present the world to ourselves via our five senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory).

L = Linguistics: The study of language – verbal and non-verbal communications – through which our verbal representations are coded, ordered and given meaning.

P = Programming: The sequence of our coded instructions, the patterns that we run, to create the behaviours that achieve our outcomes.

In other words, NLP shows us how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve our specific and desired outcomes.

NLP is also known as ‘an attitude and methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques’. It’s an attitude of curiosity and wanting to know what is going on behind what is going on. It is a willingness to experiment and experience new things.

The methodology used is modelling which is a way of replicating experience. In other words, if possible for someone else (to do, to be, to have) then also possible for me. Why? Because all experience has a structure and all structures can be modeled, taught and learned.

What the Experts Think

NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communications to emerge since the '60s.

- Science Digest

NLP offers the potential for making changes without the usual agony that accompanies these phenomena... it allows for increasing options, flexibility, creativity and therefore greater freedom of action than most of us know.

- Training & Development Journal

NLP has untapped potentials for treating individual problems.

- Time Magazine

NLP is an incredibly effective and enjoyable way to access more of the true potential of your brain

- Anthony Robbins, Best-selling author & Trainer

Who Is It For & Why?

The skills, techniques and strategies available from NLP are for anyone who is interested in any of the following:

• overcoming problems
• improving performance
• changing behaviour
• achieving outcomes... faster, with less stress and effort!

Also, NLP is for anyone who is in a situation that requires them to both communicate and inspire themselves and others into action –

More and more people are beginning to realise that NLP increases awareness and choice. And choice is better than no choice. Learning NLP offers you a practical way of doing what you do more effectively. When applied to specific areas of your life the results are limitless.

NLP is now seen as one of the most powerful communication tools available. It offers an in-depth understanding of what really happens when we communicate, and the means to use that knowledge to maximise the effectiveness of any interpersonal transaction.

- The Sunday Times