NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
What is NLP?
· A complex set of beliefs, skills and behaviours that can help a person communicate more accurately, effectively and respectfully.
· Language is influenced by the way you perceive the world and can be used to influence others.
· Neuro-linguistic Programming is the study of how interaction of your brain (NEURO), your language (LINGUISTIC) and body produce patterns of behaviour (PROGRAMMING).
· In short, NLP is about how to run our brain in a productive way to consistently achieve the results that we want.
· John Grinder and Richard Bandler are the supporters of NLP.
· NLP is based on studying people who displayed excellence in fields including professional communication, psychotherapy, and hypnosis.
· Understanding the influence of language on the brain allows you to use it deliberately to communicate more effectively.
· John Grinder and Richard Bandler together developed NLP as a system of techniques therapist could use in building rapport with clients.
· We all have a model of world in our heads. Our model is updated through our senses. We each take in information through a natural preferred combination of senses: visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and kinaesthetic/tactile.
APPROACH
· The Neuro part of NLP is concerned with how we experience the world through our five senses and represent it in our minds through our neurological processes.
· When learning something difficult use your preferred sense.
· When learning something easy try to develop your weaker senses.
· The Linguistic part is concerned with the way the language we use shapes, as well as reflects our experience of the world.
· We use the language to express ourselves and embody our beliefs about the world and about the life.
· If we change the way we speak, we also change our behaviour. We can also use the language to help the people we want to change.
· Programming part is concerned with training ourselves to think, speak and act in new and positive ways in order to release our potential and reach those heights of achievement which we previously only dreamt of.
· If you match your language to the preferred sense of the person you are talking to, then you communicate more effectively.
DESIGN
4 basic principles of NLP
1. Outcomes: to know what you really want or establish an aim: know it helps you to achieve it.
2. Rapport: establish rapport with yourself and then with the others. Maximizing similarities and minimizing differences between people at a nonconscious level.
3. Sensory Acuity: noticing what another person is communicating consciously and nonverbally. Use your senses. Look at, listen to, and feel what is actually happening.
4. Flexibility: to change your behaviour to reach the desired result if the present method does not work.
13 presuppositions
1. Mind and body are interconnected.
2. The map is not the territory.
3. There is no failure, only feedback.
4. The map becomes the territory.
5. Knowing what you want helps you to get it.
6. The resources we need are within us.
7. Communication is verbal as well as nonverbal.
8. The non-conscious mind is benevolent.
9. Communication is non-conscious as well as conscious.
10. All behaviour has a positive intention.
11. The meaning of my communication is the response I get.
12. Modelling excellent behaviour leads to excellence.
13. In any system, the element with the greatest flexibility will have the most influence on that system.
If you want to be excellent teachers
· Model excellent teachers, look at what they do, how they act, what sort of relationship they have with their students and colleagues, ask then how they feel about what they do what their beliefs are.
· Position them. Imagine what it is like to be them. As you learn techniques and strategies, put them into practice. Share modelling strategies with students. Set the project of modelling good learners. Encourage them to share and try out strategies they learn.
What is rapport in NLP?
Rapport is meeting others in their world, trying to understand their needs, values and their culture and communicating in ways that are congruent with those values.
Sample rapport
S: I hate this stuff. It is such a waste of time.
T: Is a part of you saying that you want to be sure your time is well spent today?
S: Everyone says that. It makes me sick.
T: Who says that?
S: I cannot do it.
T: What specifically cannot you do?
S: This is all theory.
T: Are you saying you want practical suggestions?
· A learner disagrees strongly with the teacher. T: Wanting to have expertise acknowledged.
· A student frequently comes late to school. T: Having other important priorities.
· A student seeks to dominate discussions. T: Needing to vocalize thoughts in order to internalize them.
If you know a person’s personality type, you can make an informed decision of how to communicate with them.
Summary
1. You can find out how someone represents the world in their head by observing the words they use, their psychology and the position of their eyes when thinking.
2. If you match the behaviour of a person you can gain rapport more rapidly and hence connect with them.
3. Understanding a person’s personality type allows you to give them information in a way they are most receptive to.
· NLP is not a language teaching method.
· It does not consist of a set of techniques foe teaching a language.
· Rather, it is a humanistic philosophy and a set of beliefs and suggestions. These are based on popular psychology, designed to convince people that they have the power to control their own and other people’s for the better and practical prescriptions on how to do so.
