People are not broken In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we believe that people are not broken, and they work perfectly. For example, a phobia is normally considered a ‘bad’ thing, someone who has an irrational phobia of envelopes is considered ‘broken’. But the phobia works perfectly, there is never an instance when the phobia doesn’t work. [...]

If I told you that one of the key presuppositions in Neuro-Linguistic Programming was: People are always making the best choices they have you might think I was off my rocker. “Alvin,” you might say, “what about people who abuse their bodies with drugs and alcohol, take it out on their kids, and listen to [...]

I was musing over the last NLP presupposition I talked about; ‘You Cannot Not Communicate‘, when I asked myself this question: ‘what if it was taken to its extreme; “You Cannot Not Change The World” instead?’ Now, I don’t mean this in a kooky, touchy-feely kind of way, but I think it might be an [...]

The obvious follow-up to a post like The Meaning of Your Communication is The Response You Get is this next Neuro-Linguistic Programming presupposition: You Cannot Not Communicate We’re all always communicating, even when we don’t mean to or want to. Remember when I wrote that words only form 7% or so of our communication, the [...]

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP): The Meaning Of Your Communication is The Response You Get Ever have a time when you were sure you were being totally clear, but the other person heard something else? One way to deal with that is to blame: it’s their fault they didn’t get it. But then they didn’t get [...]

The most controversial and easily misunderstood of all the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) presuppositions: Every behaviour has a positive intention Widely contested and misunderstood, until you add in this second half that makes it easier to understand: Every behaviour has a positive intention, just not always for everyone else Every behaviour you, I and everyone else [...]

Continuing with the NLP 101 series, we come to the next presupposition: There is No Failure Only Feedback (I prefer to say Learning Experience) In NLP we say there is no such thing as success, failure, happiness, depression, good taste (accounts for euro-trance). Not that people don’t feel these things, but that they’re convenient labels [...]