This belief which enabled master therapists like Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir to help people whom other people had labeled ‘hopeless’ is also known as: There are no resistant clients, only inflexible coaches/ therapists/ salespeople/ teachers Also phrased sometimes as: Resistance is a sign of lack of rapport When Lack of Rapport Led Me Resistance [...]

Had enough rolling your mind over the Pygmalion effect? Because the next NLP presupposition ties in nicely with it: Everyone already has all the resources they need or the ability to get them which also complements nicely the presupposition that people are not broken. Neuro-Linguistic Programming believes that experience has a structure, and that structure [...]

The next NLP presupposition is a pretty integral one to making things work with Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Experience has a structure Neuro-Linguistic Programming believes that experience has a structure, and that structure is composed out of 5 senses: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory or gustatory. And because every experience is composed out of these same building blocks, [...]

Something came to me so obviously connected with the NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate post that I regret not putting it up. Have you ever heard of the Pygmalion effect? It refers to situations in which people perform better than other people simply because they are expected to do so. In a study conducted [...]

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 [...]